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Rumpelstiltskin: Language & Styles
Idioms
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A meal fit for a king.
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Scrumptious delicious.
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I’ve had people searching the country side for every last wisp of straw
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Something right out of the ordinary
Rhyme & Music
Sit and cuddle your darling son,
For tomorrow you’ll have none.
Riddle and tricks are my game,
You won’t ever guess my name.
Wife and family I have none,
But tomorrow I’ll have the King’s own son.
Tricks and riddles are my game.
Rumpelstiltskin is my name.
Symbolism
1. Turning Straw to Gold:
The miller is poor, so his claim that his daughter can spin straw into gold represents his desire to get-rich-quick without earning his money. It also foreshadows the overnight transformation of the girl from the poor miller's daughter to the queen.
2. The Number Three:
The number three appears several times throughout this fairy tale. "(The little man) sat down before the spinning wheel, and whir, whir, whir, three times pulled, and the spool was full."
The king insists the girl spin all the straw in a total of three rooms, therefore giving her three chances to prove her talent.
After the birth of the queen's first child, the little man returns to collect what she owes him. He gives her three days to figure out his name or he will take the child.
"The number three is a very mystical and spiritual number featured in many folktales (three wishes, three guesses, three little pigs, three bears, three billy goats gruff)" - (Britannica Online Encyclopedia).
3. 'If by then you know my name, then you shall keep your child.'
Many German fairy tales, like Rumpelstiltskin, include the challenge of finding out the antagonist's name. It may be that superstitious people felt unnamed evil was more powerful or dangerous than evil you could put a name to.
When the Queen reveals that she has figured out Rumpelstiltskin's name, he screams, "The devil told you that!" He stomps his right foot so hard that the ground swallows him up to his waist. His demise comes when he takes hold of his left foot and rips himself up the middle in two. This, demonstrates how he/evil cannot exist once it has been named.