- Alternative Character Interpretation: Adaptations tend to give the serving maid different motivations for ordering such a cruel execution:
- She is too stupid to realize the king is talking about her.
- She realizes the situation but is trying to play dumb, possibly to trick the king.
- She believes the real princess came forward with her story but wasn't believed, and is hoping to finally get rid of her once and for all.
- Moral Event Horizon: The maid crosses this by having Falada slaughtered.
- Values Dissonance: The story's portrayal of royalty (the widowed queen, princess, king, and prince) as the "good guys" while the servants are the antagonists (the chambermaid and goose boy) can seem a bit iffy to modern audiences, with the
Unfortunate Implications that the upper classes are inherently kinder and more moral than the common folk.note Shannon Hale's 2003 YA retelling rectifies this not only by adding sympathetic, invaluably helpful servant characters to the story, but by making them the protagonists of the sequels.
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