Tale "The Robber and His Term Paper

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[1] However, in his greed he puts on his finger a ring that had belonged to the giant, and this ring forces the man to cry out, "Here I am! Here I am!" In order to save himself from being discovered, he bites off his own finger to make the magic stop. Then, lost in the wilderness, the ex-robber tells of frightening forest-entitities, including a woman who is going to commit infanticide and feed her own child to a group of men. The man makes her instead cook a hanged robber for dinner, and, having hung himself in a tree in the place of the robber, has a chunk of his flesh removed from his side to be eaten. In the last story, Giants are frightened away by thunder. The Queen is pleased by the stories and released the man's children. (Grimm)

In the Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales, Bruno Bettelheim reveals a model by which the deeper meaning and metamorphosis of characters in Grimm's stories can be interpreted as psychological allegories when examining the plot and characterization. Taking the story in Freudian terms, one can see the Robber's sons as a projected representation of the inner child of the main character himself.

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Writers such as Marie-Louise Vonfranz have also revealed the Jungian elements in Grimm tales, and with this in mind one can see that the sons are also representative of the Robber's shadow; although the robber wishes to become an honest man, this part of himself remains a thief. When the children steal the Queen's horse, the father must free them as a way of overcoming his own shadow self and becoming a truly pure man. The introduction of the Queen is, of course, a sexual reference. "Whatever comes up is explained in the 'nothing but' terms of rational theory. Freud has very little recognition of the feminine element and therefore always explained it as sex." (VonFranz, 85) the basic Freudian assumption is that every son has a Oedipus complex, meaning that he has a sexual fixation with his mother, and is threatened by his father's place in his mother's life. [2] the child also finds, according to Frued, that there is a struggle to both accept that he is not one with his mother, and finding freedom from mother's control is often a difficult task. Therefore, the Queen is representative of the Robber's mother, and the tales he brings to her are a symbol of the efforts.....

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