Pre-Critical:

A move is made by the good side, with the entrance of a protagonist, the knight. He is looking for something, that beating the witch may offer, love.

Formalist:

Beautiful sounds intrepret Rapunzel as a beautiful girl fit for a prince.

Rapunzel was a mystery why the prince so intrigued and returned.

Rapunzel's way out of the tower was always right there with her.

Mythological/Archetypal:

Rapunzel's beautiful singing calls the prince to her. This is similar to the sirens of Greek mythology calling to sailors. The sirens usually led the ships to their doom, and Rapunzel's singing leads to the prince being blinded, a sort of downfall.

Psychological:

Rapunzel was very lonely in the tower. She sang to pass the time. The king's son heard her singing and became entranced; the song had entered his heart. The king's son tricked Rapunzel into thinking he was the witch so he could get in her tower.

Feminist:

The King's son heard Rapunzel singing in her castle and immediately fell in love with her voice. He had to get into the castle to see her. The way women look mean a lot to men. They have to be attractive to fall in love.

Marxist:

The King's son longs to see Rapunzel just as the woman longed for the rampion. He went back for days to try and find a way up to his fortune. This fortune represents the class he is in. And this fortune is Rapunzel.

Historical:

This scene talks about how the prince was seduced by Rapunzel’s singing voice. Badly he wanted to enter the tower and talk to her, but since there was no door or stairs he had no way to do such a thing. Eventually, he found the way up to see her. The pursuit of happiness, this scene’s main theme, appears in Beethoven’s life throughout his childhood. He was born into a poor family and became the head of it in 1787 when his mother died and his father, traumatised by it, lapsed into a deep alcohol struggle. He had to find a source of income to keep the family afloat because it wasn’t for until 1793 that he actually established his reputation as a composer, and the income he earned from that paid his family’s expenses--namely his father’s addiction--for a year.

Analyses for Part Four