The Brave Little Tailor

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"The Brave Little Tailor" or " The Valiant Little Tailor " or " The Gallant Tailor" (German: Das tapfere Schneiderlein >) is a German tale collected by Brothers Grimm, number 20 tale. Joseph Jacobs collects another variant "A Dozen at One Blow" in Europe and Fairy Tales. Andrew Lang put it in the The Blue Fairy Book . Another version of many of these stories appears in the Giant Book by Ruth Manning-Sanders.

In the Aarne-Thompson-Uther system grouping folklore, it is type 1640, with elements from several other types of stories.

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Sinopsis

A tailor is preparing to eat jam, but when the flies settle on it, he kills seven of them with a single blow from his hand. He creates a belt that describes deed, reading "Seven at One Blow". Inspired, he went to the world to seek his fortune. Tailor meets a giant who thinks that "Seven at One Blow" refers to seven people. The giant challenged the tailor. When the giant squeezes water from a large rock, the tailor squeezes milk, or whey, from the cheese. The giant throws stones deep into the air, and finally lands. Tailor offset accomplishments by throwing birds flying into the sky; the giant believes little birds are "stones" thrown so far so never landed. Then, the giant asks the tailor to help him carry the tree. The tailor directs the giant to carry the luggage, while the tailor will carry the twigs. Instead, the tailor climbs, so the giant takes it too, but it seems as if tailors support the branches.

Impressed, the giant brought tailors to the giant house, where other giants live as well. At night, the giant tried to kill the tailor by hitting the bed. However, the tailor, after finding the bed is too big, sleeps in the corner. After returning and seeing the tailor alive, the other giants flee for fear of the little man.

The tailor entered the royal service, but the other soldiers feared that he would lose his temper someday, and then seven of them would die with every blow. They told the king that the tailors had left the military or they would. Afraid of being killed for sending him away, the king is trying to get rid of the tailor by sending him to defeat two giants along with a hundred horsemen, offering him half his kingdom and his daughter in marriage if the tailor can kill the giant. By throwing stones at the two giants as they slept, the tailor provoked the couple to fight each other until they killed each other, at that moment the tailor stabbed the hearts of the giants.

The king, surprising the tailor has succeeded, balked at his promise, and needed more tailors before he could claim his reward. The next king sent him after the unicorn, another seemingly impossible task, but the tailor set him up by standing in front of the tree, so when the unicorn struck, he stepped aside and pushed his horn into the trunk. The king then sent him after the boar, but the tailor trapped him in the chapel with the same enchanting technique.

Really impressed, the king succumbed, married the tailor with the princess, and made the tailor the ruler of the original kingdom. The tailor's new wife heard him talking in his sleep and realized with anger that he was only a tailor and not a noble hero. At the request of the princess, the king promised to kill her or be taken away. A guard warned the tailor of the king's plans. While the king's servants are outside the door, the little tailor who pretends to speak in his sleep and says, "Boy, make a jacket for me, and attach his trousers, or I'll hit you in your ear with a measuring stick I have hit seven people with one blow, killed two giants, took away a unicorn, and caught a boar, and I should have been afraid of those standing outside the bedroom! "Fear, the king's servants leave. The king did not try to kill the tailor again and the tailor spent his days as king in himself.

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Characterization

• Tailor - this character is smart, smart, and confident. She uses heresy and other ingenuity to deceive other characters. For example, various forms of psychological manipulation to influence the behavior of others, such as turning a giant couple against each other, and playing on the assumptions and fears of murderers and previous giants. Similarly, he uses bait tactics to lure search animals (unicorns, wild pigs) into his trap, and to avoid getting killed in the first giant bed. Dependence on deceit and manipulation by the protagonist is a feature of the antihero stock character.
• King - this character is very suspicious and judgmental, who uses a half-royal promise to persuade the protagonist to take on seemingly lethal tasks. The king is one dimensional as a character, and is basically a plot device, a source of challenge for the protagonist to overcome to achieve the desired goal.
• The princess - the prize for solving all these challenges is the hand in the princess's marriage, and at the same time, the half-kingdom. He made a good store by the social class of royalty, so when he found out that the man he married was nothing more than a bad tailor, he was very angry, and tried to get him killed. His self-absorbed hatred, and his easy defeat, is consistent with the clever bridal stock character.

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Motifs and themes

In the Aarne-Thompson-Uther folk classification system, the core of the story is the 1640 motif type, named The Brave Tailor for this story. It also includes episodes of type 1060, Squeezing Water from a Stone; type 1062, A Contest in Throwing Stone; type 1052, A Contest in Bringing Trees; type 1051, Springing with a Bent Tree; and type 1115, Trying to Kill Heroes in Her Bed.

The story features some of the more common general themes for folklore and more formal literature:

• Class, or "birth" - the tailor overcame the social class system and exceeded his birthright as a tailor, going from peasant to king.
• New smart - using anything but ingenuity, tailors use the killing of seven flies in a single blow to gradually improve their social status.
• Danger - regardless of the immense risk of bodily harm, the tailor continues his quest to spread the news of his conquest and claim his fortune. He proved himself without fear.
• Defeat the tailor repeatedly outwit the people, the giants, and the animals he contacts. Just using his brain and a little skill, he manages to overcome many obstacles.

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Relationships with other stories

"The Brave Little Tailor" has a close resemblance to other folk tales gathered throughout Europe, including "Boys Together with Trolls" (Norway) and "Stan Bolovan" (Romania). It also shares many elements with "Jack the Giant Killer" (Cornwall and England, with ties to "Bluebeard" Brittany folk tales, and Arthurian's earlier stories from Wales), although the protagonist in the story uses his trickery to truly- really killing the giant. Both Scandinavian and English variants feature the heroic character characters of recurring characters, respectively: Jack (also related to other giant-related stories, such as "Jack and the Beanstalk"), and Askeladden, also known as Boots. It is also similar to the Greek myth of Hercules where Hercules is promised the ability to become a god if he kills monsters, such as the main character in "The Brave Little Tailor" promised the ability to become king through marrying the king of daughters if he kills the animals inside the story.

The technique of tricking the giants and then fighting each other is identical to the techniques used by Cadmus, in Greek mythology and related surviving Greek folklore, to deal with the emerging soldiers in which he sprinkled dragon teeth into the ground. In the twentieth-century fantasy novel The Hobbit, the same strategy is also used by Gandalf magicians to make three trolls fight among themselves, until the rising sun turns them into stone.

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Adaptations

• Mickey Mouse appeared in Disney's 1938 short cartoon, Brave Little Tailor , based on this story.
• Tibor HarsÃÆ'¡nyi composed a suite, L'histoire du petit tailleur , for narrator, seven instruments, and percussion in 1950. One of the most famous records of this work was performed by Orchester de la SociÃÆ' tà © tÃÆ' © des Concerts du Conservatoire hosted by Georges PrÃÆ'ªtre, with Peter Ustinov as a reading of narrators in English (Angel Records, 1966) and France (EMI Classics France, 2002) ).
• This story forms the second season episode of the Fairy Tale Classics Grimm , the anime television series 1987-1989.
• The Valiant Little Tailor is featured in the first season Happily Ever After: The Tale for Every Child , the animated TV series HBO 1995-2000, where it is installed in Sahel West Africa. The tailor is called Bongo and voiced by David Alan Grier and also features James Earl Jones sound talent as King Dakkar, Mark Curry as Giant, Dawnn Lewis as Princess Songe, and Zakes Mokae as an exclusive character named Mr. Barbooska.
• Le vaillant petit tailleur is a French-language novel in 2004 by ÃÆ'â € ° ric Chevillard which retells the tale in a postmodernist way.
• "Satmaar Palowan" ("The Wrestler Who Kills Seven"), a short story by leading Bengali writer Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury was inspired by this story.
• A Soviet cartoon based on a fairy tale was produced in 1964, directed by Brumberg sisters.

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References

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External links

• Full text from The Valiant Little Tailor on Wikisource
• Media related to The Valiant Little Tailor on Wikimedia Commons
• The Brave Little Tailor , annotated
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