The details differ in each tale, but in most of 'em, the good guys win and the bad guys are punished. There was once a man who had fine houses, both in town and country, a deal of silver and gold plate, embroidered furniture, and coaches gilded all over with gold. Grimms' Fairy Tales Summary.
That being said, a lot of the better-known tales are clustered in the beginning, so keep that in mind as you poke around.
Though she does not say anything, Bluebeard learns of her discovery. Grimm Fairy Tales #11 - Bluebeard by razzatazz on April 17, 2012. Bluebeard is an aristocrat who has been married several times to women who have all mysteriously vanished. About the legend. Return to D. L. Ashliman's folktexts, a library of folktales, folklore, fairy tales, and mythology.
FYI, the tales don't go in any particular order, so feel free to skip around. After hosting a wonderful banquet, he persuades her to marry him, which she does. Just enough time for a quickie 0 . One day, his current wife enters a room off-limits to her as she is so overtaken with curiosity. Sentences are phrased so that one believes that it was set at the time, but there is no language that could not be understood by those of the Modern English era. The original tale tells of a wealthy aristocrat, Bluebeard, who has married many times, yet all of his wives disappear. Bluebeard Language The language used is sophisticated but, unlike other fairy tales, it is not written in Old English.
Although best known as a fairy tale, the character of Bluebeard is believed to have been based on the 15th-century Breton nobleman and serial killer, Gilles de Rais.
Ms. Breillat’s film moves between a re-enactment of the centuries-old fairy tale and the 1950s, when a girl reads Perrault’s tale aloud to her older sister, as Ms. Breillat did in her youth. True to fairy-tale form, the sisters cannot save themselves, but must wait for their brothers, who arrive at the last possible moment and dispatch Bluebeard.
Summary. In the room, she uncovers the dead bodies of his past wives whom Bluebeard killed for entering the room.
When Bluebeard visits his neighbor and asks to marry one of his children, the girls are terrified and get their younger sister to marry him. A rewrite of several fairy tales by Perrault, to make them fit into a universe/society where everyone has the name of their soulmate appear on their left wrist when they are sixteen. Bluebeard Charles Perrault. Plot summary.