The original Nutcracker and the Mouse King christmas story was first written in 1816 by E.T.A. Hoffman. It starts out as a magical christmas party that turns into a scary nightmare. Despite the fact that there used to be only one version there are now various versions, but the plot stays very similar throughout all of them. The nutcracker story starts out as a christmas party in Clara's house. Then, her uncle which is a toy maker gives her a toy nutcracker that he made. Soon after that, her brother Fritz takes it and breaks it, luckily her uncle was able to fix it with the tools he brought with him. Later on that night Clara had a nightmare caused by Fritz. It took place under the christmas tree where she fell asleep. In the nightmare her
