Essays on Fairy Tale

In 1928, Russian folklorist Vladamir Propp published Morphology of the Tale – his seminal work; in it, he sought to break down Russian folk tales into their basic plot components in order to identify their simplest narrative elements. He determined that there were thirty-one story...

A fairytale named The Story of Grandmother written by Paul Delarue in 1951, is about a naïve little girl who meets a wolf at crossroads on her way to her grandmothers house. The wolf asks many questions about where her grandmother lives, not realizing what...

A fairytale named The Story of Grandmother written by Paul Delarue in 1951, is about a naive little girl who meets a wolf at crossroads on her way to her grandmothers house. The wolf asks many questions about where her grandmother lives, not realizing what...

The narrator in “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children” consists of using characters logic for crucial determinants, creating false assumption, misleading who the angel really is. The false interpretation implied by characters redefines and shapes the overall view of the...

“A very Old Man with Enormous Wings” is a story that was written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This tale is about an elderly man with very huge and unusual wings who appears into the village courtyard and was found by a man named Pelayo. This...

Tale as old as time, true as it can be barely even friends, then somebody bends unexpectedly, is the infamous beginning of the opening song that introduces the classic love story of Beauty and the Beast. Beauty and the Beast is a tale about a...

Do you ever think about what determines the exact moment your childhood has come to an end? Most likely you do not know because the end of childhood and beginning of adulthood is something that happens overtime. A big part of childhood is all of...

In “The Tale of Mr. Tod,” Beatrix Potter uses mundane spaces to create and entice emotions and reactions from the reader. She uses a rabbit hole and bed to convey violations of personal space and finding safety in unlikely places. Throughout the stories characters are...

First there is Alexander Taylor, the main character of this book he is a wizard from earth who is brave courageous and has a good heart (“he has a very strong hart and will make a great wizard someday”). He has had many adventures that...

Parents have always been able to teach their children about their perception of the world and society by introducing fairy tales to them. Fairy tales are filled with many symbols and themes pertaining to these specific world views and perceptions of society or gender. In...