The Tinderbox is not the regular fairy tale brought to children and community by Hans Christian Anderson, nevertheless, this story still has the regular princess in a tower saved by a regular town man. This fairy tale is about a soldier who has just finished his duties in the war and is on his way to find a town where he may be able to settle down in. On the path he is taking he finds a witch that needs a tinderbox found inside of a hollow tree. The witch sent the soldier who gladly goes, for his reward is all the gold he can carry back which is also found in the tree. In the end, the soldier has possession of the tinderbox which holds magical powers. The attitude and actions of the soldier portrayed throughout the story proves to show the soldier is a curious man, a good soldier and gentleman known by the town and a man who likes to have status and attention.
Firstly, the soldier shows he is a curious man in the story when he tells the witch, “ I tell you what, if you don’t tell me what you are going to do with it, I will draw my sword and cut of your head.”(Andersen 2). This happened right after the soldier did the job of getting the tinderbox for the witch. The soldier had only known the witch for a very short time and he already wanted to get into her business. The soldier never settled for an unsatisfactory answer. He was such a curious man that he threatened the witch to get a satisfying answer from her. Another way the soldier shows he is a curious man is when he thought to himself, “ Everyone says she is beautiful…Can I by any means see her? Stop! Where is my tinderbox?”(Andersen 3). After being told the Princess was forbidden to be seen by anyone outside the castle, the soldier was very curious to know what she looked like because everyone said she was very beautiful. Since the soldier was told he could not see the Princess, it pursued his curiosity even more to be able to even just catch a glimpse of the Princess.
Secondly, the soldier proved to be...