Ogre

A ogre (fem. ogress ) is, in the Tradition S and popular Conte S, a monstrous man who nourishes fresh flesh and devours the children.

Etymology

It was claimed a long time that the term ogre was a creation either of Charles Perrault (1628-1703), or of Madam d' Aulnoy (1650-1705). According to certain sources, it would be about a deformation of Hungarian , in reference to the destruction made by the Huns at the end of the Antiquité. This proposal for summer has disputed, the Romance term to indicate the latter not being able to lead to this transformation.

It is more commonly allowed nowadays than the term is inspired by the work of Giambattista Basile (1575-1632), which uses the term Napolitain of uerco (or orco in Italian), him even derived from the Latin orcus (hell, god of the hell).

The word “Ogre” in his French form appears for the first time in the work of Perrault in the Tales of my mother Oye in 1697. The countess of Aulnoy takes it again on her account the following year, in 1698, in her account the Orange tree and the Bee .

Folklore and tales

The Ogres are depicted like rough cruel giants, hirsutes, inintelligentes and. So in the imaginary Breton one, the giant Ogre is manufacturer of Mégalithe S and of Dolmen S, its figure was popularized by Charles Perrault in the tales of my Mother Oye:

  • one of the most famous Ogres is that of the tale there Tom Thumb .

  • another Ogre appears in the Cat boot . It has the capacity, such Protée, to take an arbitrary form. The Cat boot eats it after having put it at the challenge to transform itself into mouse.
  • one of the alternatives of the Ogre is the character of the blue Beard, which kills the women that he marries without however eating them.

Portrait of Ogres

Perrault does not misuse the figure of the ogre and has there recourse only to three recoveries, with two male ogres and a ogress. In the three cases, the ogres occupy a high social position and are rich:

  • the Ogre of Tom Thumb has quantity of gold and of money whose hero ends up seizing

  • that of the Cat boot is Master of a castle surrounded by vast grounds and lives in opulence
  • as for Ogresse of Sleeping Beauty, it is not nothing less than the queen.

The cannibalism, which fattens their body and increases them until making giants of them, is accompanied thus by a profusion of richnesses and capacities exceptional: extreme mobility for the first thanks to the Boots of seven miles, metamorphosis for the second and regency for the last.

The Ogres have only one obsession: to eat fresh flesh. Their mets of predilection are the small children. With the difference of the Wolf, which devours its believed victims, the Ogre likes that the meat is cooked and adapted.

The friendly good Ogres are seen. That of Tom Thumb prepares to level his/her Ogres friends of fresh flesh. It is described like “good husband” and father of seven little girls whom it raises like princesses. It ends however up disappearing, not by the demise, but in its sleep since his boots of seven miles are removed to him, as if it then lost any capacity with the disappearance of this sign external of fortune and power.

In spite of their size, their appetite, their richnesses and their high social position all the more returning them to fear, the Ogres leave berner easily: one by a kid, the other by a cat, the last by its Master of hotel, even if it ends up discovering trickery: the Cat boot convinces without evil the Ogre to transform itself into mouse, as for Tom Thumb, it exchanges its night-cap and that of his/her brothers against the crowns of the girls of the Ogre, which will lead this last to kill its offspring.

Ogresses

In the tales, the character of Ogresse is in turn during female of the character of the Ogre, i.e. a being deploying a wild appetite for the fresh flesh (mother of the prince in Sleeping Beauty, witch in Hänsel and Gretel of the brothers Grimm), or more simply the woman or the girls of an Ogre (Tom Thumb).

Beautiful with dormant wood

The character of Ogresse appears in the second part of the tale of Perrault, very often ignored and given up in the posterior adaptations. It is the wife of the king and mother of the prince. Even if this woman is of a normal access, some indices put the reader on the track: it seems too curious, of the rumors run on are account and his/her son even is wary of it:

“the prince feared it though he liked it, because it was of Ogresse race, and the King had married it only for his large goods; one even low said to the Court that it had the slopes of the Ogres, and that while seeing passing small children, it had all the sorrows of the world to be retained to throw itself on them”.

It has only one idea at the head, to appease its impulse cannibal by devouring small the Dawn and the small Day, i.e. its own grandchildren and their mother. She will help herself for that of the complicity of her Master of hotel while benefitting from the absence from the father from the children:

“I want to eat tomorrow with my dinner small the Dawn. - Ah! Madam, known as the Master-D' Hotel. - I want it, known as the Queen (and she says it of a tone of Ogresse which wants to eat fresh flesh), and I want to eat it with the Sauce Robert. ”

It is enough as its competition of Marâtre with a too beautiful daughter-in-law is reinforced by the capacities of regent whom to the absence of the king his son gives him so that its instincts break out. Roof of all, its perversion is exerted within its own family. The Master of tenderized hotel takes the precaution however to put the children and the princess at the shelter in his own hearth and to adapt a small lamb to replace Dawn, a small kid in the place of Day and a young hind instead of the young queen.

Hänsel and Gretel

The two children, lost by their parents, gain, after having wandered in the forest, a maisonnette of bread and cake, remains of the Ogresse witch. This one wants to fatten the small boy and uses the young girl as servant. Gretel the growth in the furnace, lit to cook Hänsel. The two children end up regaining the house of their father while travelling to duck back, not without to have before put the hand on the pearls and invaluable stones of Ogresse.

Tom Thumb

The seven girls of the Ogre are qualified “small Ogresses” and are introduced in these terms in the tale of Charles Perrault:

“the Ogre had seven girls, who were yet only children. These small Ogresses had all the extremely beautiful dye, because they ate fresh flesh like their father; but they had small gray eyes and any rounds, the hooked nose and a fort large mouth with long teeth extremely acute and extremely distant one from the other. They were not yet extremely malicious; but they promised much, because they bit already the small children to suck blood of it”.

The woman of the Ogre is also introduced like Ogresse, but only its marriage is worth this statute to him. Far from nourishing fresh flesh and to want to eat the children, it is made their accomplice while trying to hide them with her husband.

Symbolic range

In its Psychoanalysis of the fairy tales , Bruno Bettelheim sees in the Ogre an echo with frights of the infants, at the moment when plays the oral impulse. This impulse, which pushes the children to carry any object to the mouth (the Oral stage describes by Freud), is perceived like a destroying power, which should be succeeded in surmounting. It is what the tales propose, by offering to the children a scenario victory over the Ogre.

Shrek

The character of Shrek is a case with share. If it with the appearance of an Ogre, does not have the practices of them nor manners: he only saw, insulated, in a hut at the bottom of wood, and does not eat the children. People are afraid of him all the same, only because of appearances: it resembles an ogre, therefore it must inevitably be one about it, with all that involves.

The range of the tale of Shrek holds in what one should not trust with appearances. The message has all its value in our modern society of the image: the Ogre has thus actually good heart and suffers from his insulation, the Princess has a public side (beautiful the day) and private (deformed the night), the Prince charming is actually conceited, egoistic and unbearable, the king owes his majesty only with the love and with the kiss of his wife, itself is only one frog etc

Video games

In Warcraft , an ogre is a creature humanoïde, monstrous and enormous, with a head for the warlike ogres or two heads for the ogres Mages or Shamans. They are divided into Clan (of which most known is that of Mok' Natal) and were formerly joined the Horde.

In Everquest, the ogres are born in Oggok and can be Belluaire, Berserker, Chaman, Fléau of shade or Warrior. They are even more powerful and solid masses that the Trolls. They constutuent the strongest race of all and are thus of very good warriors.

In Oblivion, an ogre is a humanoïde disproportionate gray with small head which lives in cold and wet places, such as Scandinavian mediums and keeps.

In Battle Ogre: The March off the Black Queen, the ogre is the dark side of the human being. It is described like a normal person and is avid of being able.

History

  • This character, to some extent, was personified in reality, by Gilles de Rais or, more close to us, by sadistic criminals and cannibals such Albert Fish.

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