As per the language of science and technology, an object's weight is linked to just the force accelerating on the object, either by gravity or by a force of reaction that maintains it in location. Some traditional textbooks describe weight mostly as vector number, the force of gravitational pull on the material.
Thus, from the above we can conclude that the downward pull is due to the force of weight.
No because there is heavy rehtoric alluding to communist propaganda and ways of governing. especially the use of the word "comrade," in its essence, the entire story is just a parallel to the system of government during the Russian Revolution
The real version of Rapunzel is different from the one's that we get to see nowadays for example tangled. In the real fairy-tale version the mother was pregnant when she demanded for a plant to eat named Rapunzel from a witch's garden.