Sunday, November 13, 2011

Bluebeard, The Robber Bridegroom and  Fitcher’s Bird have similarities and differences. In all of the versions the main villain is an evil man  trying to lure the innocent girl into his home.  The Robber Bridegroom doesn’t have a room of dead women, but the innocent bride to be sees her bridegroom murder a maiden first hand.  The three are also similair in that in the end all three of the villains are punished by death. In Bluebeard and Fitcher’s Bird the girls are told not to go into a specific room. They do not listen in either version and both drop an object that gets covered in blood.
Differences between the three is that the evil man in Bluebeard actually has a blue beard. The man from The Robber Bridegroom is a robber and in Fitcher’s Bird the bad guy is a sorcerer.  In Bluebeard the man and girl actually get married. My favorite is probably the Bluebeard version. Im not sure why but I enjoyed that one the most.