Three Bears

[benlehman]

Man, I just can't figure this one out.

I think it's about class struggle, or maybe about guilt of conquest. But then, why the hot/cold/just right business?

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Re: The Turnip, as told by the Brüder Grimm

[nikotesla.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmmaybe this is about not trusting people who are likely to be jealous of you? But obviously the king liked the turnip and may have taken the farmer's land in the hopes of finding a bigger one. Kings are sort of a force of nature in these stories, though; their administrators might be corrupt, but the kings aren't. So maybe the king represents God, and God helps those who help themselves?

I really think that they tend not to be morality plays. Advice, perhaps, but not moral instruction.