Marie learns the long and complicated story behind the nutcracker from Drosselmeyer. In the morning, she tells her parents of the battle but they do not believe her, and insist that she was only dreaming.Īn illustration from The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by Vladimir Makovsky, 1882 The mice overwhelm the nutcracker’s toy army until Marie throws her slipper at the Mouse King, then promptly faints. As an army of mice, lead by the seven-headed Mouse King, invade the house, the nutcracker leads the toys into battle. Later that night, as Marie stays with the nutcracker after her bed time, it comes to life along with other toys from the cabinet. She takes a ribbon from her dress and uses it as a bandage to treat her broken toy. When her brother breaks the nutcracker, by trying to crack a nut that is too hard, Marie is upset. While Drosselmeyer gifts many ingenious clockwork toys to Marie and her siblings, Marie is most fond of a traditional toy nutcracker in the shape of a soldier. The story begins on Christmas eve and tells of a young girl called Marie, godchild of the brilliant clockmaker Drosselmeyer. However, it is said that the ballet is more closely based on the French adaptation of Hoffmann’s story by Alexandre Dumas, which was altered somewhat to make it less frightning and lighter in tone. Hoffmann, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, which was featured in a collection of German-language children’s stories first published in 1816. The Nutcracker ballet is based on a story by Prussian author E. Cover illustration for the original story
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