A farce disguised as a fairy tale, there is some truth behind the shenanigans of “Doctor Knowall”. Many doctors when the Grimm Brother’s lived were quacks. The men practiced medicine because they could read. The practitioner in this narration even tells the peasant to get a book with a rooster on it. This way he can fool the town’s people. Since many peasants can’t read they will simple think Doctor Knowall is carrying around a medicine book. I’m unsure how a rooster on the cover translates to a medical book. The tale turns into a mystery crime and with some accidental misunderstanding some characters get an over zealous guilty conscious. Besides conveying the message that one can achieve anything and just fake it till you make it, the narrative sends the note that a guilty conscious will always make the truth come out. Even when someone is talking about something as irrelevant as to how many courses are in the meal they are having. |
In the end Doctor All-Knowing went from being a poor peasant who couldn’t even afford a one course meal to a doctor who accidentally solved a crime and is able to eat four course meals for the rest of his life. He keeps his word when he promises the servants not to tell who took the rich man’s gold. This might be because they promised him gold or because he wanted to protect his former working class. In the end both parties in the case think he is a wise and honorable man.
Doctor All-Knowing, Doris Orgel's version of the Grimm's tale follows much to the same tune as how the brothers wrote it. The only difference is Doctor Knowall has a daughter in Orgel’s version instead of a wife. The picture book has more details added to it; Grimms’ version is surprisingly not that long. The illustrations done by Alexandra Boiger add to the farce of this tale. The colors are loud and boisterous. The rich men are done up fat and round because of how much they are able to eat. While the servants and Doctor All-Knowing are slim; they have no money to eat and they burn calories by working.
Doctor All-Knowing, Doris Orgel's version of the Grimm's tale follows much to the same tune as how the brothers wrote it. The only difference is Doctor Knowall has a daughter in Orgel’s version instead of a wife. The picture book has more details added to it; Grimms’ version is surprisingly not that long. The illustrations done by Alexandra Boiger add to the farce of this tale. The colors are loud and boisterous. The rich men are done up fat and round because of how much they are able to eat. While the servants and Doctor All-Knowing are slim; they have no money to eat and they burn calories by working.