The three versions of the story “Bluebeard” have various similarities and differences, although, “Fitcher’s Bird” and the Perrault version of Bluebeard shared more commonalities. In all of the tales, the female character uses her wits to escape the dangerous situation she is put in or to seek justice for the crime that takes place. In the Grimm version of “Bluebeard” the woman uses her story telling skills to inform the people at the party of Bluebeard’s mischievous activities which consist of cutting women up and eating them. In the “Fitcher’s Bird” the woman actually covers herself up in honey and feathers to disguise herself as a bird. She convinces the sorcerer she is intended to marry, along with his friends, to go up to the attic of the house. When they are all inside she sets it aflame, killing them instantly. In the Charles Perrault version of the story, after the woman was caught going into the room she was explicitly forbidden from entering, Bluebeard threatens to kill her. She asks for time to pray before he ends her life and she calls for help outside of the attic window. I enjoyed “Fitcher’s Bird” the most because the woman is actively the hero of her own story. This tale was different, in the way she disguised herself and used her own cleverness, she did not require the assistance of a man in order to be rescued.
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