Versions of Bluebeard







                                       BLUEBEARD







                Bluebeard is a story that the Brothers Grimm, and Charles Perrault wrote about. It is a story about a man that had a great secret. He slowly went through six wives, and we go into the story when he just got married to his seventh. Through a series of events we learn that he actually slit the throats of his six previous wives and was hiding the bodies in a hidden chamber within the palace. 
        
        With all this being said, there is not surprise that there was several different versions of this story. For the Brothers Grimm wrote two different versions, and Perrault wrote his own version. He did his as more of a gruesome and violent version, while the Grimm versions were more mild and less gory. That being said, the Perrault version was probably my favorite due to how it seems like you really are able to get into the story and engage in it. You can see inside the chamber and all the women just hanging there dead. You can see how dismayed the wife was once she dropped the key in the blood and couldn't remove the stain. It's not that the Grimm versions were any less interesting, but the Perrault version just added the extra needed umph. 

        The differences within each story are just of character, and how the husbands went about killing the wives. I don't think there were any huge differences that would make one really superior to another. They all were about husbands that had a killing issue in regards to the women they married. One just used a basket, another chopped them up, and Bluebeard slit their throats. All were uneeded and acts of extreme violence.

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