Buckle of gold and the three bears

Loop of gold and the three bears , or the Three Bears , is a Conte for Enfant S. Souvent considered as a folk history anonymous, or like one of creations of the collection of the brothers Grimm, he is discovered at the time of his first edition in 1837 in the shape of a text in Prose composed by Robert Southey and published in his work The Doctor . Probably based on an older version, although it is by no means certain, it profited from a great notoriety after being published by Southey, and was so much often told thereafter that the bond with its author was lost.

Synopsis

The history tells the meeting between three anthropomorphic Ours S and small a girl called gold Boucle because of its fair hair .

A family of three Bear made up of a dad, a mom and their child lives in a small house in wood. One day, waiting until their pudding cools, the bear family leaves to walk. Buckle of gold discovers the empty house then. Curious, it enters and mixes with the businesses with the family. Having Hunger, Gold Boucle tastes the bowls of hulled grain, and regales that of the bear cub, neither too hot, nor too cold. Wanting then to rest, it tests each of the three armchairs, but break-in that of the bear cub, neither too hard, nor too marrowy. Having finally Sleep, Gold Boucle decides to go to sleep, and, after having tested the three beds, calms down finally in that of the bear cub, just with its size.

The three bears return to the house whereas Gold Boucle always sleeps. They awake it, and according to the version of the history, kill it or frighten it before putting it in escape. In the most recent versions, the three bears frighten Gold Boucle involuntarily, whereas they do not want any evil to him. She flees then while running; the bear family takes again her stopped breakfast, after the dad-bear repaired the chair. In certain versions, the bears go until indicating to Gold Boucle the good way to return to it. The Morale of the history can also differ, but can be summarized with the idea that the intimacy of the others should be respected.

Interpretation

The American pedagog Bruno Bettelheim studied the psychoanalytical implications of Boucles of gold and the three bears in its work Psychanalyse of the fairy tales . According to him, it misses with this history some the most important characteristics of the fairy tales which it in addition observes in its test: “when it finishes, there is neither cure nor comfort; no Conflit is solved; and there is no happy conclusion. ” In fact, he considers nevertheless Boucles of gold and the three bears as a very significant history because certain main issues of the Enfance are tackled there: the fight within the situations œdipiennes, the search for a identity and the fraternal Jealousy .

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