Lecture 8

The Grimm Brothers

• Grimm brothers wanted a united utopian nation, not a bunch of nation states.
• People who wanted a united German nation wanted to collect old tales because they thought that they contained essential truths about German culture.
  • German people will be brought together!!

Concepts

• Bourgeoisie
  • Educated middle-class people
  • Not born with land/titles
  • National, family-focused, industrious, moral
  • More of them than any other class
    • Control society with culture
  • Not like the nobility
• Appropriation
  • Higher classes integrate elements of lower class culture

Grimms’ Tales

• They packaged them up for bourgeoisie consumption.
  • Now people think that’s the way they should be.