Reading Notes
Herr Korbes
All I could imagine with this fable is a tim burton short film with this story as the baseline. At first I assumed the story would be a charming and sweet story about helpful creatures but as I read on the story took a darker turn which is just as charming, only more dark than sweet. What would be funny is to maybe show how wicked Herr Korbes was to deserve such a wicked death? Or maybe make him the pillar of misfortune much like the Series of Unfortunate Events
Old Sultan
Old Sultan
The story of Count Ugolino is a captivating one to say the least. For all intents and purposes, Ugolino was just a naive noble who paid for his foolishness in famine. Funnily Enough, I heard the story of Count Ugolino in an episode of a podcast called Lore; being slightly familiar with the piece allowed for a renewed pleasure in the reading for me. Instead of hearing a third party, Count Ugolino was able to describe his own demise which provided a fun, delicious (excuse the morbid pun) twist.
Rumpelstiltskin
The personification of Satan over time has evolved and twisted itself into a product of media culture. At first it was in the medium of books and novels, such as the bible and Dante's Inferno but with tv shows and movies the Devil has been shaped into a whole new beast of its own right. For me, it was intriguing to see and understand one of the first elaborate depictions of the Christian Satan. While every culture has their from of the Devil, Dante's Inferno's description is a thing of nightmares and maybe that is the key to his writing in general: to being people's sins and nightmares to the forefrront.
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All reading notes are based off of excerpts from The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales translated by D. L. Ashliman (1998-2013).
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