Some entry points for writing hindsight

Isai 2022-03-28 09:01:02

1. At the beginning, everyone sang "i wish", which is that some ordinary people have an expectation for the future, and it also indicates that what happens next is started by everyone's expectations.

2. The witch grew old because the baker's father stole the beans, expressing that one person's mistakes may cause others to suffer, and should be punished.

3. Rapunzel was dissatisfied with the witch who kept her imprisoned in the tower for a long time. After meeting the prince, she ran away with the prince without looking back at the witch who raised her. Expressing that parents sometimes overprotect their children is not a good way of education, and children sometimes cannot understand the painstaking efforts of their parents, and they often trust others easily when they first enter the society.

4. On the surface, the baker wants to protect his wife, but in fact he is a very cowardly person. He has been listening to his wife's arrangements. He wants to become stronger but is not confident. In the end, his wife died, and he finally became strong and dared to face him. to danger.

5. The baker's wife loves her home very much, but there is a kind of admiration for the royal family in her heart, so that she can't control herself when facing the seduction of the prince. This is a vanity that everyone has, but Her sanity made her finally wake up.

6. When the enemy appears, everyone blames each other instead of trying to find a way. This is the weakness of human nature.

7. The witch sees the situation clearly and guides everyone, but everyone doesn't believe her, she says that she is not a good person or a bad person, she just does the right thing. This is everyone's misunderstanding of witches. Maybe sometimes bad people are not bad, they just have their own difficulties and their own views of right and wrong.

8. When the two children were very afraid, the two adults comforted them, saying that no one would be alone, and everyone felt the warmth of company, so they united and defeated the giant.

9. The prince who has been chasing Cinderella actually just wants to get what he can't get, and he doesn't cherish it so much after getting it. What you can't get is always in turmoil.

10. A lot of things happen in this black forest, because of people's desire, they come to the black forest, it is dangerous, but also wild, they are here to find love, money, courage, scenery, vanity, and make mistakes here , also here atonement. In this forest, they experienced things they had not experienced before, and these things were not in the ordinary environment of their life outside the forest. They also can't get everything they want in this forest, and always have to give up something. They admit it's charming, but they know they can't reminisce about their time in the forest, and they'll never forget it.

11. There are also some deep meanings of adapting fairy tales.

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Into the Woods quotes

  • Baker: As the Prince anxiously waited, the stepmother took matters, and Florinda's foot, into her own hands.

    Florinda: Careful, my toe!

    Stepmother: Darling, I know!

    Florinda: What will we do?

    Stepmother: It'll have to go/but when you're his bride/you can sit or ride/you'll never need to walk!

    [cuts off Florinda's toe and Florinda screams in pain]

    Baker: Minus one toe, Florinda mounted the Prince's horse, unaware of the blood dripping from the slipper. Lucinda was next...

    Lucinda: Why won't it fit?

    Stepmother: Darling, be still/cut off a bit of the heel and it will/and when you're his wife/you'll have such a life/you'll never need to walk!

    [cuts of Lucinda's heel and Lucinda screams in pain]

    Baker: Minus a heel, Lucinda did her best to swallow the pain.

    Stepmother: It's a perfect fit your highness!

    [Lucinda faints]

  • Jack: Magic what type of magic?

    Baker's Wife: Tell him.

    Baker: Magic that, uh, defies description.