In Rapunzel, the reoccurring theme here resembles a Disney fairytale story. The story began with “Once upon a time,” which is the normal words that begin Disney stories that we all grew up with. This story also included a tower, where a beautiful girl was trapped, and the prince went to save her. Usually in Disney stories, the prince saves the women, and there is usually an evil lady, in this scenario the witch. The beautiful women always stays in the highest tower, trapped without much hope, until a handsome young prince comes to rescue her. The witch tried tricking the prince, and pretended she was Rapunzel, but the prince still ended up finding Rapunzel in the end. The Disney story usually has an evil character to set up some kind of conflict of the prince trying to save Rapunzel. It would not have considered a Disney story if the Prince did not find his wife that he loved at the end. One that always concludes the story is the Happy Ever After. The Prince saves the “Princess” and they live happily ever after.
This was also a reoccurring theme of a Disney fairytale story in True Bride. Again it started off with “Once upon a time,” and ended with a “happily ever after.” This story starts off by introducing the “beautiful young girl” who had a stepmother. In all these Disney stories, the Stepmother is the evil one. She said she would beat her up if she doesn’t finish what her Stepmother wanted her to do. Of course in a fairytale, there has to be someone to help out the main character, which in this case was the old women who completed everything the Stepmother wanted the princess to do. It was “love at first sight”, and the story wouldn’t be complete without the prince magically finding the princess after the three chances he had, and they lived happily ever after.
In the Thumbling fairytale as well as The Travels of Thumbling, a reoccurring theme here is violence of getting eaten by an animal, and still ended up surviving. In Thumbling, he was eaten by a cow who got cut up, and the Wolf just happened to be there and eat Thumbling too. In order to get Thumbling out of the cow, his father used an ax to cut up the body. There is no way Thumbling could have really survived, and he could magically talk inside of the animal. In Travels of Thumbling, once again Thumbling was eaten by a cow. Maybe it was related to the cow who ate Thumbling in the other story. Once again Thumbling was able to talk to the animal while inside the body.
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