2. The roots of animal tales are very ancient indeed,
stretching back to the pre-Christian era and surviving in
local customs and taboos event today,the importance of
them and their messages being so high as to allow them
to find an audience even today.The topic “A Reflection of existential notions in the
Fairy Tales about Animals” could be divided into three
main parts:
1) The main features of Russian Tales about Animals
2) The main Heroes
3. Animal tales have no discernible common structure
Animal tales are structured around a trick, verbal or physical.
One major difference between the animal tale and the wonder tale
is that, in the latter, the crucial episode tends to occur precisely in the
middle of the narrative while in the animal tale it is the final episode that is
decisive in determining the outcome.
4. is not a
dominant feature of animal
tales and plays little or no role in
structuring them.
The animals in Russian tales
behave in many ways as real
animals do. Wild animals are
dangerous. They
may attack or
5. Animal tales are differentiated by
the specific actions of the
characters:
■ dissembling or shamming;
■ imitation and copying;
■ falsifying the voice; and failing to
recognize the antagonist,
■ a kind of disguising of the
6. There is a predominance of wild animals in Russian tales. Domestic
animals are not so popular. Most of the time, they appear in tales as
secondary characters and helpers or enemies of the wild ones.
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7. Among the wild beasts, the bear, the wolf, the hare and the fox
are the principal ones.
8. It must be said that this is one of the
most ancient folklore types.
Some of the Russian animal tales are
so archaic that their relationship to
myths seems obvious.
9. of the people who
composed stories.
The tightness of life spaces of humans and
animals and
their frequent
contacts.
10. Among ancient people, nature
in general was believed to be
something animated.
being
represented by animals is
treated as something you can
make a dialogue with.
11. Russian fairy tales are very different from other types of tales due to
a number of peculiarities in their structure and character list that
enable them to pass on from generation to generation old ideas of
the nature and its workings, of the development of the world,
reflecting totemism and mythical idea of the world, and also to
convey basic ideas of good and evil and of human relations.
