Hansel & Gretel

The overall sweet tooth feeling that this tale gives me is overwhelming. Although there's a darker side to this story, I always thought it was very aesthetically pleasing. Another Grimm Brothers story that had deeper meanings than most of us wouldn't have even noticed when we read it as children. The thought of being abandonded by one's own's parents is a horrid but very real topic that still goes on far too much in today's scoiety. The main character's parents try to get rid of them not once, but twice. Mainly down to their lack of money. Which was a reoccuring tragedy throughout the time period in which this was written in. Not much has changed and it is a heartbreaking and brutal reality that the world we live in contains so much poverty. For this I wanted to exclude the witch character entirely and play on the fact that the children were so devastated by their parent's actions and hungry from being lost in the woods that they start to hallucinate. Being deprived of certain things can cause weird chemical reactions in our brains, it can take us to some of the darkest and evil places that were never there in the first place. The nice part to this version is that through all of the turmoil and upset, they still have each other and remain holding hands until the end.