The stories are broadly similar, although Hoffman gives Marie's family the name "Stahlbaum", or "Steel Tree," and depicts the parents as perhaps somewhat more rigid in the sort of conformity they want, and Dumas gives them the lighter name "Silberhaus," or "Silver House." The Hoffman version presents Drosselmeyer as a perhaps more subversive figure, less willing to help Marie until he is convinced that she is going to persist in believing what she believes, and not meekly conform to her parent's wish for her to curb her imagination. Hoffman's version is generally considered to be somewhat darker. It was the Dumas version that inspired the ballet.ĭumas explicitly acknowledged Hoffman within the text of his version of the story. Hoffman's version of the story was the original, and was adapted by Dumas.
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