"The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" (German: Nussknacker und MausekÃÆ'¶nig ) is a story written in 1816 by German writer ETA Hoffmann, in which young favorite Marie Stahlbaum's Christmas toys, Nutcracker, came to life and, having defeated the evil King of Mice in battle, made her go to a magical kingdom inhabited by dolls. In 1892, Russian composers Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and choreographer Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov altered the Alexandre Dumas pÃÆ'¨re adaptation of the story into The Nutcracker ballet.
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Summary
The story begins on Christmas Eve, at Stahlbaum's house. Marie, seven, and her brother, Fritz, eight years, sitting outside the living room speculate about the kind of gift their godfather, Drosselmeier, who is the watchmaker and inventor, made for them. They were eventually allowed in, where they received many beautiful gifts, including Drosselmeier's, which turned out to be a working hour palace with mechanical people moving inside. However, since they can only do the same thing over and over without variation, children get tired quickly. At this point, Marie sees a nutcracker, and asks who he is from. His father tells him that he belongs to them all, but because he is very fond of him, he will be his special steward. He, Fritz, and their sister, Louise, passed it among them, breaking the beans, until Fritz tried to solve one that was too big and hard, and the nutcracker jaw broke. Marie, annoyed, took her away and bandaged her with a ribbon from her shirt.
When it's time to sleep, kids put their Christmas presents in a special cabinet where they keep their toys. Fritz and Louise got into bed, but Marie begged to be allowed to live with the nutcracker a little while longer, and she was allowed to do so. She puts him into bed and tells him that Drosselmeier will fix his jaw as well as new. Right now, his face seemed briefly to be alive, and Marie was frightened, but he then decided it was just his imagination.
Grandfather clocks began to chime, and Marie was sure she saw Drosselmeier sitting on top of him, preventing him from attacking. Rats began to come out from under the floorboards, including the seven-headed Rat King. The dolls in the toy cabinet came to life and began to move, the bean breakers took command and led them into battle after placing the Marie ribbon as a token. The fight went to the dolls at first, but they were eventually overwhelmed by rats. Marie, saw the pea-bean to be taken captive, took off her sandals and tossed them into the Rat King. She then collapsed into the glass door of the toy closet, cutting her arm badly.
Marie wakes up in her bed the next morning with her arms wrapped and tries to tell her parents about the battle between rats and dolls, but they do not believe it, thinking that she has had a fever dream caused by her injuries. of broken glass. A few days later, Drosselmeier arrives with a nutcracker, whose jaws have been fixed, and tells the story of Princess Pirlipat and Madam Mouserinks to Marie, also known as the Rat Rat, which explains how nutcrackers occur and why they look like they do.
The Rat Queen deceives Pirlipat's mother to allow her and her children to eat pork fat that should go into the sausage the King will eat at dinner. The King, who is angry at Queen Rat for spoiling his dinner and harassing his wife, has the inventor of his palace, whose name is Drosselmeier, making a trap for the Rat Rat and his sons.
Queen Rat, angry at the death of her children, swears that she will take revenge on Pirlipat. Mother Pirlipat surrounds her with a cat that should be kept awake by the caress, but the nurses who do so fall asleep and the Rat Rat miraculously change the ugly Pirlipat, giving her a big head, wide grinning mouth, and a beard cotton like a nut breaker. The king blames Drosselmeier and gives him four weeks to find the cure. In the end, he has no medicine but goes to his friend, the fortune-teller.
They read the Pirlipat prophecy and tell the King that the only way to cure him is by eating Crackatook beans (Krakatuk), which must be broken and handed to him by a man who has never been shaved or put on boots since birth, and who should, without opening his eyes, give the kernel and step back seven steps without tripping. The king sent Drosselmeier and the fortuneteller to search for both, demanding them with the pain of death not to return until they found them.
The two men traveled for years without finding the madman or man until they returned home to Nuremberg and found the bean in the possession of Drosselmeier's cousin, a doll maker. His son turned out to be the young man needed to crack the Crackatook beans. The King, once the bean is found, promises a Pirlipat hand to anyone who can solve it. Many men broke their teeth before Drosselmeier's niece finally appeared. He broke it easily and handed it over to Pirlipat, who swallowed it and soon became beautiful again, but Drosselmeier's nephew, in the seventh step back, stepped on the Queen Mouse and tripped, and the curse fell on him, gave him a big head, wide-grinning mouth, and a bobble beard; in short, make it a nut breaker. An ungrateful and unsympathetic patcher, seeing how bad he is, refusing to marry her and kicking her out of the castle.
Marie, as she recovers from her wound, hears the Rat King, the son of dead Madam Mouserinks, whispering to her in the middle of the night, threatening to bite the nutcracker until it is destroyed unless she gives her candy and dolls. For the sake of the nutcracker, he sacrificed them, but then he wanted more and eventually the bean-breaker told him that if he would just give him a sword, he would finish off the Rat King. She asks Fritz for one, and she gives him one of one of his hussars toys. The next night, the nut breaker came into Marie's room with seven crowns of the Rat King, and took her away to the puppet empire, where she saw many beautiful things. He finally drifted off to sleep in a peanut-breaking palace and was brought home. She tries to tell her mother what happened, but again she does not believe, even when she shows her parents seven crowns, and she is forbidden to talk about her "dream" anymore.
Marie sat in front of the toy closet one day while Drosselmeier was fixing one of her father's hours. While looking at the nutcracker and thinking about all the amazing things that happen, he can not sit back and swear to him that if he is real he will never behave like a Pipipat, and will love him as he looks. Right now, there is a bang and she fainted and fell off the chair. Her mother came to tell her that Drosselmeier's nephew had arrived from Nuremberg. She takes him aside and tells him that by swearing that he will love her regardless of his appearance, he breaks his curse and makes him human again. He asked her to marry him. He accepted, and in a year and a day he came for him and took him away to the puppet empire, where he married her and was crowned queen.
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Adaptations
- The Nutcracker ( Histoire d'un casse-noisette , 1844) is a recast by Alexandre Dumas, pÃÆ'¨re Hoffmann's story, almost identical inside aircraft. This is the version used as the basis for the Tchaikovsky 1892 ballet The Nutcracker , but in ballet, Marie's name is usually converted into Clara.
- The story was adapted for BBC Radio in four episodes of 30 minutes by Brian Sibley, with original music by David Houston and aired December 27 through December 30, 2010. The film stars Tony Robinson as "The Nutcracker", Edward de Souza as "Drosselmeier" , Eric Allen as "The Mouse King" and Angela Shafto as "Mary".
- The story is published as a storybook and a recording in the fairy tale Once Upon a Time .
- The Nutcracker (1967 film) (Polish: Dziadek do orzechÃÆ'³w) is a 1967 Polish fantasy film directed by Halina Bieli? ska.
- It was also adapted into the 1979 stop motion film Nutcracker Fantasy , traditional animated films Schelkunchik (Russia, 1973) and The Nutcracker Prince Canada, 1990) and the 2010 film The Nutcracker in 3D .
- There is a live-to-video German animation version of the story, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King , released in 2004, dubbed into English for American performances. It uses only a fraction of Tchaikovsky's music and adapts Hoffmann's story very loosely. The English version is the latest project of veteran voice actor, Tony Pope, before his death in 2004.
- The Mickey Mouse Nutcracker is an adaptation of this story, with Minnie Mouse playing Marie, Mickey playing Nutcracker, Ludwig Von Drake playing Drosselmeier, albeit very short, and Donald Duck playing Mouse King.
- The Enchanted Nutcracker (1961) is an adaptation made for TV, written in Broadway musical style, starring Robert Goulet and Carol Lawrence. It was shown once as a special Christmas, and never repeated.
- In 2001, the live-to-DVD CGI animated film Barbie in the Nutcracker was made by Mattel Entertainment, starring Barbie in her first film and featuring Kelly Sheridan's voice as Barbie/Clara/Sugarplum Princess and Kirby Morrow as Nutcracker/Prince Eric.
- The Nutcracker (2013) is a live-action version of New Line that is rearranged as a drama with action and love story. It was directed by Adam Shankman and written by Darren Lemke.
- Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale , an animated movie-to-video animation themed 2007 holiday produced by Warner Bros. Animation
- In 2012, Big Fish Games publishes a computer game called Christmas Stories: The Nutcracker inspired by the story.
- Care Bears Nutcracker Suite is based on the story.
- The 2018 live-action movie from Disney
Nutcracker and the Four Realms is based on the story. It was directed by Lasse HallstrÃÆ'¶m.
References
External links
- Media related to The Nutcracker and Mouse King on Wikimedia Commons
- Picture book by Peter Carl Geissler from Bamberg State Library (in German)
- Nutcracker and Mouse King public domain audiobooks on LibriVox
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