Read the last act of the play and write a commentary in a Word document, post here on assignments. Be sure to include a short summary, in your own words, of the action. What are your thoughts on this fictionalized version of a event that actually happened in the early years of this country? Do you think, after reading this and the article in Common Lit. about the Salem Witchcraft trials that this is something that could happen again? Not ecessarily involving charges of witchcraft, but can you imagine a situation where citizens and neighbors accuse each other of crimes in order to get revenge or for another purpose? Finally, what are your thoughts on the people of Salem--their behavior, their belief in the girls' stories, etc.?

In 1808, their friend, the romantic poet clemens brentano, asked them to collect all types of folk tales so he could use them in a book of literary fairy tales. in 1810, they sent him fifty-four texts, which they fortunately copied. fortunately, because brentano then lost the manuscript in the ölenberg monastery in alsace and never used the grimms’ texts. when they realized that brentano was not going to use the tales, they decided, upon the advice of another romantic writer and mutual friend, achim von arnim, to publish their collection. it had grown to eighty-six tales, which they published in 1812, and then another seventy, which they published in 1815. –“how the grimm brothers saved the fairy tale,” jack zipes what structural technique does the writer use in this passage? the writer describes events in chronological order. the writer describes events in their order of importance. the writer provides a central idea and then lists examples. the writer shows how the grimms made mistakes and then solved them.