The Grimm Tale
El Tiempo
Along the story we are
given some tracks to discover the time that passes although I must say that the
tracks are rather few and sometimes if you are not very attentive may pass
unnoticed.
As
it happened with the space the author
didn’t deal with details very much so everything related with time in here it’s
what I deduced from the text.
The references that the author gives us
it’s the time between night and day and the three days that the main character
passes in the castle of the king.
Taking into account that, we can say that the
time that passes between he leaves home
and marries is about one month or two but if we look closer when the main
character is in the castle and sees the body of his cousin in the
coffin says that it only passed a couple of days, which may lead us t a
confusion, but if we look closer we will notice that it’s impossible to do all
that our main character did in only a couple of days.
In this text we don’ts know
if it’s summer , autumn or something else.or where the sorry is situated.
Despite everything the author tells us about the existence of a king,
who lives in a castle so we may say that we are close to the time of the
feudalism. We almost can assure that because of the existence of the king, the
castle, the hanged corps and the pubs. It’s not very common in the feudalism to
a commoner to marry a princess but in all the stories if the commoner does
something heroic the king permits to the commoner to marry his daughter.
Regretfully the author only focus herself in the dialogues and in the
action and not in the description of the time and spaces.
Academic year 2008/2009
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Roxana Purdea
ropur@alumni.uv.es
Universitat de València Press