Saturday, January 15, 2011
Morphology of the folktale
A very interesting point of view by V. Propp. I love fairy tales, but I had never thought of their structure until I read this piece. It makes perfect sense that the fairy tales consist of the same sequence of identical functions of the caracters. The events are very predictable, but we still enjoy the colorfullness of the stories. It's amazing that hundreds of tales from different cultures can be analized according to Propp's structure.
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I also thought it was amazing that the structure of the folktale has been repeated all around the world, regardless of culture or time period. It's funny how every culture can be so different yet in the end we all go through the same types of things: leaving home, facing obstacles and the other characteristics that Propp talks about. We're all different but yet we're all utterly the same aren't we?
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