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Fairy tale - one of the most popular and favorite genres of folklore and literature of the world.
Folk tale - the kind oral histories with a fantastic invention, the content and forms of which were originally connected with the myths and artistically transformed, became part of folk prose. It is generally accepted division of the tale to fairy tales about animals, magic and everyday life, although this division is conditional: there are anecdotal, legendary, fables, etc.
Tales also classified by the features of poetry (mostly - song) on cumulative (repetition of similar events), the narrative, the nature of imagery - the allegorical, the characters - animals, people, etc., in style - humorous, satirical, etc.
In fairy tales about animals, all the characters attributed to the properties of people. At the stage of separation of art from an unconscious mythology humanization of animals, birds and insects has become a literary technique, and the object image is done for the most part people and their relationships. Tales of animals, usually humorous or satirical work. They are edifying. Their favorite character - a rogue, trickster and deceiver (fox, hare, raven, spider, etc.) - The brutal struggle for existence among animals and birds play as allegorical image of sharp social conflicts. In fairy tales about animals by their own ethics and style (for example, is often used compositional technique unexpected meeting animals, singing and paste, etc.). Conventionality of fiction corresponds to the latitude of artistic generalization. So the thought and imagery from fairy tales about animals and birds can easily become proverbs. Thus, the greedy wolf from fairy tales turned into a proverb: "No wolf luggage fingers in his mouth" - and saying: "Wolf in the shepherds set" (of fools, carelessly dispose of his or another's good). Over time, stories about animals are mostly children. They take into account peculiarities of perception of the age of fiction: to clearly delineate the positive and negative characters, the plot abruptly give way situation - from light to dark and joyful and sad and back again, obligatory victory of good over evil. |