Hansel and Gretel: Difference between revisions

The next day, Hansel is in a fattening pen, and Gretel is a servant. It seems that the witch [[I'm a Humanitarian|eats children, once they are properly prepared.]] There is a [[Happy Ending]] for Hansel and Gretel, of course... the witch asks Gretel to light the oven and Gretel pretends she can't. When the witch bends over to do it, Gretel [[Hoist By His Own Petard|kicks her into her own oven.]]

 

 

The 19th century composer Engelbert Humperdinck adapted the fairy tale into an [[Opera]] (premiered 1893). The opera in turn was adapted into a 1954 stop-motion animation film.

=== "Hansel and Gretel" contains the following tropes: ===

* [[Baba Yaga]]: The witch has many similarities with the Baba Yaga of Russian fairy tales.

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: The [[Newgrounds]] series [http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/515322 Gretel] [[Gretel and Hansel|and Hansel]] is [[Nightmare Fuel|very, very creepy]].

** Another popular subversion, notably used by [[Sound Horizon]] and a vocaloid video, is to have the Witch be perfectly innocent, and Hansel and Gretel simply too [[Genre Savvy]] for their own good.

* [[Distressed Dude]]: Hansel is locked up in a cage and fattened up to be eaten, and it's left to his sister to bail him out.

* [[Gingerbread House]]

* [[Happily Ever After]]

* [[Trail of Bread Crumbs]]: [[Trope Namer]], [[Trope Maker]] ''and'' [[Trope Codifier]], and possible [[Ur Example]], together with ''[[Hop O My Thumb]]''.

* [[Wealthy Ever After]]: They return with the witch's treasure.

* [[Wicked Stepmother]]: In most versions of the tale. It's worth mentioning however that in the first version recorded by the Grimm brothers, it's the kids' actual biological mother. Apparently some people found that too shocking, [[Bowdlerise|so they changed it]].

** Averted in Humperdinck's opera.