The original meaning of the Pentamerone is five days’ story.It is the first collection of fairy tales in Europe, two centuries before the Grimm Brothers fairy tale collection.These stories use the first story as a frame story, and then a group of people tell a story in a five-day period to tell the story.The prototype of many current literary fairy tales comes from this work. For example, the modern sleeping beauty and the cursed sleeping prince in the Pentamerone can only wake him up by filling the cans in front of the prince's tomb with tears in three days. "The Young Slave" is a variant of Snow White.
These stories seem to be more abstract and incomprehensible than the current fairy tales, and the logical relationship between each story is not very clear. It seems to be continuous but irrelevant. This is the charm of the Pentamerone.
I learned through the movie tale of tales that this literary work is the prototype of the film.This movie is really amazing： the character design, story arrangement, and clothing accessories are very good.
A queen who does not laugh all the year round and cannot be pregnant. The king killed the sea monster for her and sacrificed.The Queen ate the heart of the sea monster and gave birth to a child on the same day.
This is the king of the story who is not doing business. He caught a flea one day and raised the flea in a sick state. The flea was growing bigger than a pig. One day, the flea was sick when he was eating. The king was very worried and called the doctor. The doctor didn't know what creature it was, but it was certain that the animal was about to die. The king told the doctor that it was a flea, but he had to keep a secret and could not tell others. Finally the flea is dead. The king peeled its skin and hung it on the wall.
The king's daughter grew up and she wanted to find someone who would marry her. The king said to the whole world, who can guess what the creature of the skin hanging on the wall is, and the king will give him the princess. People all over the world have guessed, no one said what creature it is. Finally, a giant from the cave came to the palace. He smelled the skin and said the correct answer, flea. The princess almost jumped from the top of the palace and suicide. She don't want to go to the cave to live, but she was finally taken away.
The giant is ugly and rude but he just
never try to hurt the princess.I feels like he is
a good man inside but just ugly outside. The princess finally murdered the giant.Every story has an unexpected ending.
The stories of three different kingdoms
are interspersed and closely arranged, and the parallel world seems to be unrelated but reveals similar meanings.
In another country, there is another king who is arrogant and extravagant, and is addicted to beauty.He has been looking for beautiful young women in the country. One day he heard that someone in the forest was singing very well and chased it up. As a result, the singer quickly hid in the room when he heard the voice of the king.
It was a very old lady. She lives with her sister and is poor and old.
She lied to her sister and said that she had peeled off her skin.
This sad old woman listened to her words, strolling on the street and asking who could peel off its skin. Everyone was terrified, and the last butcher helped her. Without skin, she looks bloody and more ugly.
Because she deceived her own sister, she was also cursed. In the end, she not only did not marry the king, but also changed back to the ugly and old woman. It is as if beauty has never existed before.
