Thursday, March 6, 2008

Bluebeard

Most to all fairytales have a moral taught at the end which is no different in the story King Bluebeard. King Bluebeard is not a common American fairytale but teaches curiosity in spite of its appeal, can lead to regret. Also that when you get something you don’t necessarily need the reward often isn’t long lasted.
The story begins as a young girl and her brother where outside playing a carriage drove up to their home and a man with a bluebeard comes out. He asks the father is he could marry his daughter and with time later weds the young girl.
The man with the bluebeard lived in a castle and had to go away on business for a few days. He gives his wife keys to each door but then hands her a gold key and she is told to never open that door because she is not allowed. She reassures him that she would never, but as time went on she just grew more curious as to what could be behind this locked closet door. She decides to open it to find out but what she sees is not what she had expected.
The young girl then opens the door she sees the corpses of his seven wives before her. She quickly closes the door and is never to mention how she opened it but on the little golden key, there is a blood stain that would not wash off.
When King Bluebeard arrives he asks for the keys, but notices one is missing. He asks for it and with her stalling she later hands it to him without the blood removed from the key. Bluebeard announces to her that he is going to kill her just like the others. She goes upstairs to pray but luckily out the window she sees her brothers coming when she screams and yells for help, they burst down the door and kills Bluebeard just as he had a sword in his hand to kill

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