# Rapunzel — Household Tales character guide

> Rapunzel in Household Tales by Jacob Grimm.

**Role:** major

**First appearance:** 0011-rapunzel

## Snapshot

Shut in a tower with her unbound hair as the only stair, Rapunzel waits for a voice from below that is not always the one she expects.

## Who they are

Rapunzel lives sealed in a windowless tower, her long hair the single rope by which her captor climbs to her. Isolated and unknowing, she becomes the object of a prince's nightly visits, and her innocence is both her vulnerability and the story's quiet engine. Her confinement and the secret she keeps from her keeper drive the early arc toward the moment the tower's arrangement can no longer hold.

## In the story

### [Rapunzel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/household_tales_se/chapters/rapunzel)

The beautiful child taken by the enchantress, imprisoned in a tower, and later banished to a desert after her secret visits with the prince are discovered.

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