Brothers Grimm conflict

1) Describe the primary conflict in your novel. Who (or what) is the conflict between (think man vs. self, man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. machine, etc.)?

A little bit of each example of conflict is used in the Brothers Grimm stories. First example, man vs self, the story of Little Red Riding Hood, a little girl is torn between the decision to stop, talk, and trust the stranger in the forest, or continue her walk over to her grandmother's house. Man vs man is shown in at least two stories. These main two are from Cinderella, in which she is being forced into a type of slavery by her stepfamily, which thwarts her opportunity to marry someone who could rescue her from her "kitchen maid" lifestyle. The other, being Rapunzel. Rapunzel is locked away by an evil enchantress and is forbidden from seeing the world, but, when a prince finds her, she has to either risk falling into a forbidden relationship with the prince, or continue living as a captive. Man vs nature was a main form of conflict in the Grimm tales. At the end of Cinderella, Cinderella's bird companions swoop down and attack the stepsisters when they come to the marriage of Cinderella and the prince. The birds then claw the sisters' eyes from their sockets, leaving them blind. Two stories, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, involve the main characters, which are both protagonists, involved in some battle with nature. In Snow White, the princess has to brave the dark forests until she finds shelter in the dwarve's house. Simmilar situations happen in Hansel and Gretel, when the siblings travel through the forest after being ditched by their stepmother, and find the witche's gingerbread house. In Sleeping Beauty, the princess pricks her finger on the spinning wheel spindle, and falls into a deep sleep. This somehow causes a multitude of briar branches to wrap around the palace which prevents her hero to come rescue her. The princes try to slash through the briars, but end up getting stuck, and dying an agonizing death. Lastly, there is man vs machine. The machines one may think people refer to in stories are not the ones in this book. This is only because this book was written in a time where electronic anythings did not exist. So, fathering the technology of the time, which mainly consisted of carts, dangled, and cottages, this is what I have come up with. In Rapunzel, the prince has to climb up a tower to get to the beautiful woman that lives inside. The tower old, and dangerously high off of the ground. The story of Sleeping Beauty involves a prince trying to get passed all of the shut parts of the castle to get to his bride as well.