7/25/2019 Grimm Fairy Tale Analysis

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Class

The Little Peasant and The Six Servants tell of the property-less class, as

described by Weber. The little peasant doesnt even own a cow, and the six servants all

seem to be va abonds. The Six Servants does a ood !ob of representin different

"inds of labor within this class. They all can perform speciali#ed, s"illed labor as

opposed to $ns"illed labor.

Little %ne &ye is a bit stran e. They wo$ld seem to be in a lower class b$t we

arent certain $ntil the "ni ht shows $p. &ven tho$ h the sisters have property, the

"ni ht clearly has more. The royalty thro$ ho$t the tales is always the hi hest class.

Little %ne &ye also shows Webers theory of comm$nal action, '( comm$nal action is

oriented on the basis of a shared belief of affiliation.) %ne &ye and Three &yes thin" that

Two &yes is the o$tlier and treat her poorly beca$se of it, b$t it is simply beca$se they

"now nothin else. *n the reater scheme of thin s, Two &yes is act$ally the normal

one.

+ans the +ed eho shows a middle class. There is property and money b$t no

royalty in +ans ori inal ho$sehold. There are royals in the story b$t the class lines are

somewhat distorted by +ans power. +is social actions ive him an advanta e and allow

him to have what he needs. +ans event$ally become royalty.