# Herr Korbes explained — Household Tales

> Chapter companion for Household Tales by Jacob Grimm.

## What happens

A cock and a hen build a carriage and set off for the house of Herr Korbes, picking up a cat, millstone, egg, duck, pin, and needle along the way. When they arrive, Herr Korbes is absent, and each object hides in a specific spot. Upon his return, the objects attack him one by one, culminating in the millstone falling on him and killing him, suggesting he was a wicked man.

## Themes in this chapter

### Virtue Rewarded and Vice Punished

Herr Korbes, implied to be wicked, is punished by the collective action of the objects and animals.

## Character check-ins

### Herr Korbes

The antagonist who is killed by the objects' coordinated attack.

## Key lines

> Herr Korbes must have been a very wicked man!

The narrator concludes that Herr Korbes deserved his fate due to his evil nature.

_This moralizing statement frames the entire story as a punishment for wickedness._

## Links

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