1853
The following images, graphs, and charts will look at the 1853 version of the Brothers Grimms' Children and Household Tales and discusses the textual analysis of some of the most well-known stories by the Grimms. Since more stories were added each edition, each tab will analyze and look at three different stories and have at least one that is in common with the 1882 edition. The stories being examined for the 1812 edition include "Little Snow White," "King Thrushbeard," and "The Wolf and the Seven Goslings" (shared with the 1882 version.). The 1882 version will look at "The Town Musicians of Bremen" (shared with the 1853 version), "Cat & Mouse Partnership," and "The Wolf and the Seven Goslings" (shared with the 1812 version.) "The Wolf and the Seven Goslings". This page will look at the 1853 edition of the Brothers Grimm and examine "The Two Brothers," "The Seven Crows," and "The Town Musicians of Bremen" (shared with the 1882 version.).
The Word Cloud tools below show the most frequently used words in "The Two Brothers". The number of terms displayed can be edited by the sliding bar on the bottom left of each box. As can be seen, the words dragon, lion, and huntsman are all important to the text. Hovering the mouse over each word shows how many times the word is utilized in the text. Furthermore, the more used the word is in the text the larger it appears in the Word Cloud.
Another tool I used for analysis is Mandala. Like the Word Cloud it shows important words, but instead of seeing the importance of words in relation to size, it simply shows the 10 most connected words in the story. While the brothers are huntsman, the only animal they end up killing is the dragon. The brothers attempt to kill all of the animals being shown in this tool, but each animal is spared and each brother receives an offspring of the animals they used mercy on.
Without reading the story we can assume that animals are integral to the story. However, these tools have their limits. While we can infer the importance of the words, with the term huntsman as one of the most important words we are led to believe that he killed the animals mention in the Word Cloud and Mandala tool.
"The Seven Crows" or "The Seven Ravens" is a story about a man who had seven sons, but wished for a daughter. When his wish came true she was sickly and frail and he tasked the sons to gather some water for him, when they took to long to return he cursed the "godless youths" (Grimm, 144.). Making them turn into crows. Growing up the sister did not know she had brothers, but once she gets older she is determined to find them. The film version of this story is also analyzed on the Nazi Film tab.
The Trends tool application from voyant was utilized to show the most popular words within the corpus. While this shows the five most trending words in the text, by clicking on the drop down menu you are able to see up to ten words. As can be seen from this tool, the word cup does not become significant until the end of the story. Whereas, the term brothers is important throughout the entire document.
Much the same as Trends, the TermsRadio tool provides a glimpse of important word usage and when they become relevant to the story. Either in the beginning, middle, end, or throughout the entire corpus.
This story (also found in the 1882 Edition.) tells the story of four aging domestic animals, who after a lifetime of hard work are neglected and mistreated by their former masters. Eventually, they decide to run away and become town musicians in the city of Bremen. Contrary to the story's title the characters never arrive in Bremen, as they succeed in tricking and scaring off a band of robbers, capturing their spoils, and moving into their house.
The Word Cloud tools below show the most frequently used words in "The Musicians of Bremen". The number of terms displayed can be edited by the sliding bar on the bottom left of each box. Hovering the mouse over each word shows how many times the word is utilized in the text and if you visit the 1882 tab it is possible to see the diffferences in word usage between these two texts.
The Bubbles tool is similiar to the Word Cloud; however, instead of the words being bigger the encapsulating nodes are larger. For instance, the terms ass, cock, and cat are the three most utilized words and are in larger circles than the rest of the terms. If you click on the terms you are able to move them around to help with visuals. Furthermore, the words in the background are also moveable and hovering over the terms give you the number of times they are utilized in the text. For instance, cat is utilized 10 times, but Bremen is only discussed 7 times.
All sources utilized can be found on the Sources Page.
