Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Grimm. (2012). "Goose-Girl." Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales. New York: Fall River Press.

This fairytale is about a bride who is set off with the blood of her mom. The maid played the princess and did not get her drink when the princess requested. The princess calmly accepted that, but the maid continued to defy the princess by riding Falada (the princess's horse) and trading clothes with the princess. The maid tricked the man into thinking that she was the princess and marrying her. Meanwhile, the real princess tended to the geese with Conrad and spoke to the dead horse's beloved head. Eventually the king found out that he was tricked and that the goose girl was in fact the real princess, so he married her.
This fairytale could be used to talk about lying.
This fairytale could also be used to compare to the other deceitful fairy tales, and students could discuss more moral ways the characters could have solved their problems.

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