1. The genre of “The Twelve Dancing Princesses” is fairy-tale. It could also be describes as a short story or plainly, fiction.
2. The exposition of the tale is when the aspects of the 12 princesses and their shoes are described to the readers. How the princesses, “were shut and locked up” but, “their shoes were found to be quite worn” and the king's challenge, “if any person could discover the secret…[they] should be king after his death” (Grimm 1). Meaning there is a clear goal laid out to set up the rest of the book.
3. The rising action of the tale is when the wounded soldier passes through the land and learns the secret to finding out the princesses dancing. The climax of the story is when the soldier finds the girls going underground …show more content…
Depending on the perspective followed in the story the protagonist could either be the soldier, or the twelve sisters. The soldier is the one who is focused on in the tale, and while he may not be the hero of the tale or a good person, he is the protagonist. The princesses, while right in there goal, are preventing the protagonist from reaching his goal, and therefore, are the antagonists of the tale. While the story does have traditional story elements they seem to be out of place due to the nature of the tale. For instance, the soldier being who the story keeps perspective, would make a great hero to the story, but due to his intentions being to become king and marry one of the daughters out of desire soils …show more content…
The static characters are the two sisters focused on in the tale, the eldest and the youngest. The youngest, who plays the innocent, scared girl role states, “I don’t know how it is, while you are so happy I feel very uneasy” and at the end of the story it is again stated, “the youngest sister was terribly frightened” meaning that the younger sister kept her same character role the whole tale (Grimm 2, 4). The same can be said for the eldest, as in the beginning she makes fun of the soldier, saying, “this fellow too might have done a wiser thing than lose his life in this way!” and again toward the end it is said, “the eldest always silenced [her sister]” from the fears (Grimm 2, 4). Both sisters keep their natures to themselves throughout the
2. The exposition of the tale is when the aspects of the 12 princesses and their shoes are described to the readers. How the princesses, “were shut and locked up” but, “their shoes were found to be quite worn” and the king's challenge, “if any person could discover the secret…[they] should be king after his death” (Grimm 1). Meaning there is a clear goal laid out to set up the rest of the book.
3. The rising action of the tale is when the wounded soldier passes through the land and learns the secret to finding out the princesses dancing. The climax of the story is when the soldier finds the girls going underground …show more content…
Depending on the perspective followed in the story the protagonist could either be the soldier, or the twelve sisters. The soldier is the one who is focused on in the tale, and while he may not be the hero of the tale or a good person, he is the protagonist. The princesses, while right in there goal, are preventing the protagonist from reaching his goal, and therefore, are the antagonists of the tale. While the story does have traditional story elements they seem to be out of place due to the nature of the tale. For instance, the soldier being who the story keeps perspective, would make a great hero to the story, but due to his intentions being to become king and marry one of the daughters out of desire soils …show more content…
The static characters are the two sisters focused on in the tale, the eldest and the youngest. The youngest, who plays the innocent, scared girl role states, “I don’t know how it is, while you are so happy I feel very uneasy” and at the end of the story it is again stated, “the youngest sister was terribly frightened” meaning that the younger sister kept her same character role the whole tale (Grimm 2, 4). The same can be said for the eldest, as in the beginning she makes fun of the soldier, saying, “this fellow too might have done a wiser thing than lose his life in this way!” and again toward the end it is said, “the eldest always silenced [her sister]” from the fears (Grimm 2, 4). Both sisters keep their natures to themselves throughout the