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Goldilocks and the Three Bears
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Duration 3:15.
Based on the Charming version by the Victorian writer Andrew Lang.
Read by Natasha.
Once upon a time there were three bears, who lived together in a house of their own in a wood. One of them was a little, small wee bear; one was a middle-sized bear, and the other was a great, huge bear.
One day, after they had made porridge for their breakfast, they walked out into the wood while the porridge was cooling. And while they were walking, a little girl came into the house. This little girl had golden curls that tumbled down her back to her waist, and everyone called her by Goldilocks.
Goldilocks went inside. First she tasted the porridge of the great, huge bear, and that was far too hot for her. And then she tasted the porridge of the middle bear, and that was too cold for her. And then she went to the porridge of the little, small wee bear, and tasted that. And that was neither too hot nor too cold, but just right; and she liked it so well, that she ate it all up.
Then Goldilocks went upstairs into the bed chamber and first she lay down upon the bed of the great, huge bear, and then she lay down upon the bed of the middle bear and finally she lay down upon the bed of the little, small wee bear, and that was just right. So she covered herself up comfortably, and lay there until she fell fast asleep.
By this time, the three bears thought their porridge would be cool enough, so they came home to breakfast.
“SOMEBODY HAS BEEN AT MY PORRIDGE!” said the great huge bear, in his great huge voice.
“Somebody has been at my porridge!” said the middle bear, in his middle voice.
Then the little, small wee bear looked at his, and there was the spoon in the porridge pot, but the porridge was all gone.
“Somebody has been at my porridge, and has eaten it all up!” said the little, small wee bear, in his little, small wee voice.
Then the three bears went upstairs into their bedroom.
“SOMEBODY HAS BEEN LYING IN MY BED!” said the great, huge bear, in his great, rough, gruff voice.
“Somebody has been lying in my bed!” said the middle bear, in his middle voice.
And when the little, small, wee bear came to look at his bed, upon the pillow there was a pool of golden curls, and the angelic face of a little girl snoring away, fast asleep.
“Somebody has been lying in my bed, and here she is!” Said the little, small wee bear, in his little, small wee voice.
Goldilocks jumped off the bed and ran downstairs, out of the door and down the garden path. She ran and she ran until she reached the house of her grandmama. When she told her grandmama about the house of the three bears who lived in the wood, her granny said: “My my, what a wild imagination you have, child!”
(Updated with shorter version September, 13, 2016).
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Once upon a time a girl named Goldilocks lived in a house at the edge of the woods. In those days curls of hair were called "locks." She was "Goldilocks" because golden hair ran down her head and shoulders.
One morning Goldilocks was out for a walk when she came across a beautiful bird. She followed that bird right into the woods, where her mother had said many times she must never go. But Goldilocks didn’t think of that.
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Deeper and deeper into the woods she went. But where was the bird? It was nowhere to be seen. Goldilocks looked around. That's when she knew she was lost.
But a house was not far away. “I wonder who lives there,” she thought, "so deep into the woods." She went up and knocked on the door.
No answer. She knocked again. Still no answer. Goldilocks knocked a third time and the door opened. But no one was behind the door.
“Well, the door is already open,” said the girl. “So I may as well go in.”
Goldilocks smelled a wonderful smell, and soon knew why. On the table were three steaming bowls of oatmeal. All of a sudden she realized how very hungry she was.
What Goldilocks did not know, however, is that three bears lived in this house. In fact, that very morning the three bears had sat down to their bowls of oatmeal but the cereal was too hot. So they had decided to take a short walk. They said to each other, "By the time we return home our oatmeal will be perfect."
Gazing at the steaming bowls of oatmeal, Goldilocks thought, “I'm sure whoever lives here won’t mind if I take just one sip.” She sat at the first chair and took a sip. “Ah!” she said, “it is too hot.”
She moved to the next bowl and took a sip. “Ah!” she said, “it is too cold.
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She moved to the third bowl and took a sip. “It is just right!” And before she knew it, the oatmeal was all gone.
Goldilocks rubbed her tummy. “I'm full! I must find somewhere to sit that's more comfortable.”
She went to the living room. Three chairs were lined up in a row – one big chair, one medium-sized chair, and a wee little chair.
“I'm sure whoever lives here will not mind if I sit on just one chair,” said Goldilocks. She sat on the big chair, but it was too hard.
“The next chair looks good,” said Goldilocks. She moved to the medium-sized chair, but it was too soft.
“The wee little chair looks better,” said the girl. She sat on the little chair and it was just right! But when Goldilocks leaned back a bit, the chair broke into a dozen pieces. She plopped right on the floor.
“Oh, no!” Goldilocks wailed. Then she yawned.
There must be somewhere she could lie down for a short nap.
The girl saw a ladder and climbed it to an attic. In a row, three beds were lined up – one big bed, one medium-sized bed, and a wee little bed.
“I'm sure whoever lives here won’t mind if I lay down for just a short nap,” she said. She laid down on the big bed but it was too hard. She laid down on the medium-sized bed but it was too soft. The girl laid down on the wee little bed, and it was just right! As her head hit the pillow, Goldilocks was fast asleep.
Just then, the three bears came home from their walk. "Oh, my!" said Mama Bear. “Did either of you leave the front door open?”
“Not I,” said Papa Bear.
"Not I," said Little Bear.
Slowly the three bears stepped inside and looked around.
“Most odd!” said Papa Bear, seeing his spoon in his bowl. “Someone has been eating my oatmeal!”
“Most odd indeed!” said Mama Bear, also seeing her spoon in her bowl.
“Someone has been eating my oatmeal!”
“This is the most odd of all!” said Little Bear. “Someone has been eating my oatmeal and they ate it all up!”
The three bears were very surprised, as you can imagine. With care, they stepped into their living room.
“Do you think someone was sitting in my chair?” said Papa Bear.
“I know someone was sitting in my chair,” said Mama Bear, “because I can see the seat cushion is pushed down.”
“And I know someone was sitting in my chair!” said Little Bear. “Because it’s all broken!”
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The three bears were even more surprised at that! They climbed the ladder to their attic.
“Someone has been sleeping on my bed,” said Papa Bear, who could see that his blankets were moved.
“Someone has been sleeping on my bed, too,” said Mama Bear, who could also see that her blankets were moved.
“Someone has been sleeping on my bed,” said Little Bear.
“And look - she is still there!”
Goldilocks bolted awake. Three bears were looming over her, and they did not look happy.
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“Oh my!” said Goldilocks, jumping out of bed. As quick as she could, she climbed down the ladder and ran out the front door.
Little Bear chased after her. "Wait, please!"
Goldilocks stopped and turned around.
"Tell me," said Little Bear, “Why did you come inside our house?”
“I guess I didn’t think–,“ said Goldilocks.
“And why did you eat my oatmeal?” said Little Bear.
“Well I guess I didn’t think–,“ said Goldilocks.
“And why did you break my chair and sleep in my bed?” said Little Bear.
“Well I guess I didn’t think about that, either,” said Goldilocks.
They were silent.
Goldilocks said, “I suppose I could have waited outside your door.”
“We were coming right home,” said Mama Bear.
"We might have invited you in if we knew you were hungry."
“I’m sorry about the chair,” said Goldilocks. “I guess you saw it broke.”
"Yep," said Mama Bear with a frown.
“I’m good at fixing things,” said Goldilocks, “If you have glue.”
“Of course we have glue!” said Papa Bear. “What kind of bears do you think we are?”
“I will make it up to you!” said Goldilocks.
“Come on in then, dear,” said Mama Bear.
“We'll start over,” said Papa Bear with a nod.
“Come in, come in!” said Little Bear, jumping up and down.
With smiles, they skipped together inside the Bear’s house.
Three Bears
This term has other meanings, see Three Bears (meanings).
Masha (still "one girl") runs away from three bears.
Illustration by Yuri Vasnetsov for the 1935 edition of Leo Tolstoy's fairy tale.
The Three Bears (also Goldilocks and the Three Bears in English and Masha and the Three Bears in Russian) is a popular English children's fairy tale translated into many languages of the world.
In Russian, it was widely used in the retelling of Leo Tolstoy. In the most common English version, the girl's name is Goldilocks (eng. Goldilocks, literally "Golden-haired"). For Tolstoy, the heroine initially had no name and was simply called “one girl” [1] . Later, in the Russian version of the fairy tale, the name Masha (a diminutive of Maria) was assigned to the girl due to contamination with the heroine of the popular Russian fairy tale "Masha and the Bear" [2] .
Contents
- 1 History of
- 2 Plot
- 3 Interesting facts
- 4 Screen versions
- 5 See also
- 6 Notes
- 7 Links
History of Creation
Goldilocks is running away from three bears.
1912 American edition.
Modern folklorists trace the roots of the English version of the tale to the similar Scottish tale of three bears and a cunning fox [3] .
Having climbed into the house of bears and played pranks there, the fox fell asleep in the bed of the smallest bear, was caught there by the returning owners and was forced to flee. In the tale, his name is simply "sly fox." In John D. Batten's [en] "returned to the roots" version of the tale 1894 years old fox named Scrapefoot [4] .
The tale was introduced into literary tradition in 1837 by Robert Southey as The Story of the Three Bears [5] . In his version, the protagonist is not a fox, but a “little old woman” with a hooligan character. There is an assumption [3] that Southey heard this story in childhood from his uncle William Tuller and as a child understood the word vixen not in its basic meaning ("fox"), but figuratively ("extremely grumpy woman"). This, however, does not explain why he made her an old woman.
In Southey's tale, three anthropomorphic male bears, "a small bear, a medium bear and a huge bear", live together in a house in the woods.
Southey describes them as good-natured, trusting, harmless, neat and hospitable. Each of them has their own bowl of porridge, a chair and a bed. They went for a walk in the forest while the porridge was cooling. The woman was kicked out of her family because she was a disgrace to them. She is described at various points in the story as a brazen, bad, foul-mouthed, ugly, dirty vagrant who deserves to be in a penitentiary. A woman in the woods stumbles upon a house of bears, looks through the window, peeks through the keyhole, lifts the latch and, making sure no one is home, enters.
As early as 1813 (before publication in 1837) Southey was telling his version of the tale to friends and acquaintances. In 1831, Eleanor Mure transcribed the tale she heard into verse and presented it in a handwritten album to her nephew Horace Brock for his birthday. Southey's and Muir's variants differ in details. Southey's bears eat oatmeal, while Muir's bears drink milk. Southey's old woman has no reason to break into the house, and Muir's old woman was offended when she was denied a courtesy visit.
Eleanor Muir's version turned out and remained the most bloodthirsty in the history of the plot. In all other versions, a fox, an old woman or a girl flees through the window and nothing is said about their further fate. In Muir, an old woman jumps out the window of a high-rise building in Rome and impales herself on the spire of St. Paul's Cathedral [6] .
Folklorists Iona and Peter Opie [en] (Iona and Peter Opie) point out in their 1999 book The Classic Fairy Tales that the tale of the three bears is a partial analogue of Snow White: the lost princess enters the house of the dwarves, tastes their food and falls asleep in one of the beds. In a manner similar to three bears, the gnomes cry: "Someone was sitting in my chair!", "Someone ate from my plate!" and "Someone was sleeping in my bed!". The opies also point to similarities with the Norwegian tale of a princess who takes refuge in a cave inhabited by three Russian princes dressed in bearskins. She eats their food and hides under the bed.
An important step in bringing the fairy tale to a modern look was made by the English writer Joseph Candall [en] . In 1850 his Treasury of Pleasure Books for Young Children [7] was published. In his version of The Three Bears, a little girl becomes the hero, and any motive of hooliganism is removed: the girl tries to eat and sleep, simply because she got lost in the forest, tired and hungry. True, the girl's name is not Goldilocks yet, but Silver-Hair. In the preface, Candall explained his choice as follows [6] :
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After the appearance in a new form, the heroine often changed names depending on the publications.
At first, her hair color was silver: Silver-Hair (1850), Silver-Locks (1858), Silverhair (1867). Since the 1868 edition, the hair color has changed and the girl became Goldilocks (Golden Hair) in the 19 edition that was finally established04 years of the Goldilocks variant (literally Golden-haired , or, keeping the diminutive from the original, Golden Curls ) [8] .
In Russia, the tale appeared and quickly became popular in the retelling and adaptation of Leo Tolstoy (the first edition is the "New ABC" of 1875, the fairy tale "Three Bears" [ source not specified 2037 days ] [9] ). His name is simply “one girl”, however, in the English versions at the end of the 19th century, the final name has not yet been settled. But all three bears get names: the father's name is Mikhail Ivanovich, his wife is Nastasya Petrovna, and their little son is Mishutka.
Plot
A little girl, lost in the forest, finds an empty dwelling and enters it.
She discovers three items of different sizes - plates, chairs, beds - and tries to use them, while two items from each set turn out to be unacceptable for her for one reason or another, and the third is “just right”. After she falls asleep, the owners return to the dwelling - a bear, a bear and a bear cub, who are outraged that someone touched their things, and the awakened girl flees through the window.
Interesting facts
- By analogy with the plot of a fairy tale, English-speaking astronomers came up with the term "Goldilocks Zone" - a zone around a star where life is possible, that is, not too close to the star and hot, but not too far it's cold from him. Also similar in meaning to it, the term "Goldilocks Stars" is found to refer to K-class stars.
- A parody and modernized presentation of the plot of the tale is contained in the poetry collection 1982 years old "Revolting Rhymes" by Roald Dahl.
- American children's writer Jan Brett [en] (English Jan Brett) in 2007 published the fairy tale "The Three Snow Bears" (The Three Snow Bears), based on the plot of the fairy tale about Goldilocks.
The main character is the Eskimo girl Alu-Ki (English Aloo-ki), the action of the tale takes place in the north, and the bears are white [10] .
Screen adaptations
- The 'Teddy' Bears - American film 1907 directed by Edwin Porter based on the English fairy tale "Goldilocks and the Three Bears".
- "Three Bears" - a Soviet cartoon of 1937 based on a fairy tale retelling by Leo Tolstoy.
- "Three Bears" - Soviet cartoon of 1958, also based on the fairy tale by Leo Tolstoy. The main character is called, oddly enough, Varvarushka.
- In 1962 and 1971 filmstrips based on this tale (also based on Leo Tolstoy's version) were produced in the USSR.
- In 1983, the program "Alarm Clock" showed a musical interpretation of the fairy tale "Three Bears" with the participation of Sergei and Nastya Prokhanov, the dance group of the Big Children's Choir, trainers Ibragimovs and three circus bears. The music for the soundtracks was written by Grigory Gladkov, the lyrics were written by Leonid Yakhnin.
- "Three Bears" - Soviet cartoon-opera.
- In the children's media franchise Ever After High, one of the recurring characters is the daughter of the now-grown-up Goldilocks, her name is Blondie Lockes. In her name, the full homonymy of lock is used both as a “curl of hair” and as a “castle”. Therefore, her name can be translated as "Blond Curls", and her main talent is the ability to open any locks.
- In Grimm, the episode "Bears Remain Bears" in the second episode of the first season is based on the fairy tale "The Three Bears".
- Animated series-crossover "Goldie and Bear".
- In a cat in boots 2, it appears as a gang
cm. Also
- Zlatovlask (values)
Notes
- ↑ Tolstoy L. N. Three Bear (neopr.) . Magazine "Bonfire". Retrieved 30 March 2013. Archived 27 June 2013.
- ↑ Masha and the Bear / Under revision M.
1 2 Graham Seal. Goldilocks // Encyclopedia of folk heroes. - US: ABC-CLIO, 2001. - S. 90-92. — ISBN 1576072169. - ↑ "Scrapefoot" in Wikisource
- ↑ "The Story of the Three Bears" in Wikisource
- ↑ 1 2 Iona Opie, Peter Opie. The Classic fairy tales . - UK: Oxford University Press, 1992. - P. 200. - ISBN 0192115596.
- ↑ Joseph Cundall. A treasury of pleasure books for young children (undefined) . Retrieved 30 March 2013. Archived April 18, 2013.
- ↑ Maria Tatar. The annotated classic fairy tales. - US: WW Norton & Company, 2002. - P. 245. - ISBN 0393051633.
- ↑ FEB: Gusev. Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy: Materials for a biography from 1870 to 1881.
- 1963 (text) (unspecified) . feb-web.ru. Retrieved 8 May 2017. Archived 16 September 2014. - ↑ Summary/reviews: The three snow bears (undefined) . Retrieved 26 March 2017. Archived from the original on 26 March 2017.
Links
- The tale "Three Bears" in the retelling of Leo Tolstoy (neopr.) . RVB. Date of access: March 30, 2013.
- Emelyanova O. V. Three bears. Scenario for staging the fairy tale by L. N. Tolstoy in the puppet theater (neopr.) . Date of access: March 30, 2013.
Three Bears - Russian folk tale, read online
One girl left home for the forest. She got lost in the forest and began to look for her way home, but she did not find it, but came to the house in the forest.
The door was open; she looked at the door, sees: there is no one in the house, and entered. Three bears lived in this house. One bear was a father, his name was Mikhailo Ivanovich. He was big and shaggy. The other was a bear. She was smaller, and her name was Nastasya Petrovna. The third was a little bear cub, and his name was Mishutka. The bears were not at home, they went for a walk in the forest.
There were two rooms in the house: one was a dining room, the other was a bedroom. The girl entered the dining room and saw three cups of stew on the table. The first cup, a very large one, was Mikhail Ivanovich's. The second cup, smaller, was Nastasya Petrovnina; the third, little blue cup, was Mishutkin. Beside each cup lay a spoon: large, medium and small.
The girl took the biggest spoon and drank from the biggest cup; then she took the middle spoon and drank from the middle cup; then she took a small spoon and drank from a little blue cup; and Mishutkin's stew seemed to her the best.
The girl wants to sit down and sees three chairs by the table: one large one is for Mikhail Ivanych; the other is smaller - Nastasya Petrovnin, and the third, small, with a blue little pillow - Mishutkin. She climbed onto a large chair and fell; then she sat down on the middle chair, it was awkward on it; then she sat down on a small chair and laughed—it was so good.
She took the little blue cup into her lap and began to eat. She ate all the stew and began to swing on a chair.
The chair broke and she fell to the floor.
She got up, picked up a chair and went to another room. There were three beds: one big bed for Mikhail Ivanovich; the other middle one is Nastasya Petrovnina; the third small one is Mishenkina.
The girl lay down in the big bed, it was too spacious for her; lay down in the middle - it was too high; she lay down in the little one - the bed fit her just right, and she fell asleep.
And the bears came home hungry and wanted to have dinner.
