Word: hansel
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...this holiday season, TIME takes a look at the myths and legends of childhood that have managed to survive even into this electronic age. We examine the ways in which those cartoon dolls He-Man and She-Ra are descended from Hansel and Gretel, and how the dragons and tin soldiers of old have evolved into today's plastic dinosaurs and G.I. Joes. But it is not only the myths that endure: often, traces of childhood still lurk beneath the tough hide of adults. This holds true, we found last week, even when those grownups work for TIME. Editors, writers...
...from shelves in nearly every toy store in the nation. In other times the wandering children have been differently named and more modestly dressed. Observes Roger Sale, a professor of English at the University of Washington: "A girl is in a wood. Give her a brother, and one has Hansel and Gretel . . . send the girl to dwarfs, and one has Snow White. Make the girl a boy, and one might have Jack, either the one who climbs beanstalks or the one who kills giants." Make the wood the reaches of space, and they are Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker, GoBots...
...child mortality rather than our contemporary dilemmas of how to keep kids quiet in the classroom and fair on the playground was the main problem. Consequently, children were taught differently. Death appeared often in rhymes and stories. "Ring Around the Rosy," for example, is about the Black Death, and "Hansel and Gretel" contains images of infanticide and immolation...
Newton Opera Workshop: Hansel and Gretel and other scenes, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second St, Cambridge, Saturday...
Newton Opera Workshop: Hansel and Gretel, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second St, Cambridge...