Monday, 7 October 2013

Synopsis

The Tinderbox

The Tinderbox is a short novel/fairy-tale written by Hans Andersen. It follows the events of a wicked minded soldier as he discovers a magical tinderbox via the aid of an ugly witch. After looting gold and silver from the secret hollowed tree he steals the tinderbox and later discovers it has powers to make him rich. He uses the box to summon 3 dogs to steal a princess from the bronze palace, just so he could admire her beauty. His actions are later discovered by the King and Queen, he is sentenced to death, but before he was executed he used the tinderbox to help him escape and the 3 dogs killed the people of the town out to kill the soldier, and then he married the princess.

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