KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -Gretel, sensing the witch’s intent, pretends she does not understand what the witch means. Infuriated, the witch demonstrates, and Gretel instantly shoves her into the hot oven, slams and bolts the door shut, killing the witch.

Detailed explanation-2: -Just look, I can get in myself, and she crept up and thrust her head into the oven. Then Gretel gave her a push that drove her far into it, and shut the iron door, and fastened the bolt. Oh. Then she began to howl quite horribly, but Gretel ran away, and the godless witch was miserably burnt to death.

Detailed explanation-3: -After being imprisoned for some time, Gretel is able to push the witch into the oven and escape along with Hansel. The children steal the witch’s treasure and return to the cottage where they find out that their stepmother is dead.

Detailed explanation-4: -The oven is a representation of a womb. It offers a possibility of birth (or in this case rebirth), but also death if an already born person gets back in (refuses to grow up). It is a representation of a womb.

Detailed explanation-5: -However, after the witch’s death, the children will not return to their family: Hansel will join the community of foresters, and Gretel will stay where she is and live as a witch.