Saint Petersburg State University
Faculty of Philology
Program "Linguistics and Intercultural Communication"
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Heroes of Russian folk tales about animals and their role in the formation of a national character
Saint Petersburg
Introduction
For many centuries, in the process of the formation of the current images of animals in Russian folk tales, literature was created that explored and described the folklore features of the heroes of fairy tales from various regions, countries, etc.
In such works, V.Ya. Propp as "Historical roots of a fairy tale", "Russian fairy tale" and "Morphology of a fairy tale", E.V. Pomerantseva "The Fate of a Russian Fairy Tale", V.P. Anikin "Russian folk tale" gives an idea of the structure of a fairy tale, its types, a large number of different types of heroes of a fairy tale. Books by O.M. Ivanova-Kazas "Mythological Zoology (Dictionary)" and E. A. Kostyukhina "Types and Forms of the Animal Epic" help to consider in detail the most famous heroes of fairy tales about animals and create their collective image based on a comparative analysis of these heroes and their actions.
The heroes of fairy tales very often become animals, personifying people with different characters. Enough attention is paid to the consideration of such characters, but there is not enough literature explaining the role of their existence in fairy tales about animals, which is due to the relevance of the topic of the course work.
Purpose: To describe the heroes of Russian folk tales about animals.
Research of the Russian folk fairy tale and its animal characters.
Creation of a comparative analysis of the data of heroes and their actions.
To prove the educational role of a fairy tale through the necessity of the existence of animal characters.
Subject of study.
Object of study.
Heroes-animals of Russian folk tales.
Theoretical method
Analysis method
Poll/questionnaire method
Comparative method
Research material.
Russian folk tales about animals.
The choice of this literature is due to the fact that in Russian folk tales about animals, the characters of animal heroes and their features are especially pronounced. And such books as A.N. Afanasyeva "Russian Folk Tales: a complete edition in one volume", "Tales about animals", "Tales about hares", "Tales about a fox" give a complete picture of the heroes of fairy tales about animals, describe their character traits, appearance and actions.
Tales about animals, their features and varieties
In fairy tales about animals, certain characters can be traced in different time frames. Therefore, one of the most important issues is the problem of differentiation of fairy tales about animals and fairy tales of other genres in which animals take part.
The key to solving this problem is the definition of fairy tales about animals proposed by V.Ya. Propp: Tales about animals will be understood as such fairy tales in which the animal is the main object or subject of the narrative. On this basis, fairy tales about animals can be distinguished from others, where animals play only an auxiliary role and are not heroes of the story.
Tales about animals, of course, include fairy tales where only animals act ( Fox and crane , Fox, hare and rooster , midwife fox , fox and thrush , fool wolf etc.). Of the tales about the relationship between man and animals, this genre should include those in which animals are the main characters, and people are the objects of their action and the narration in which is conducted from the point of view of animals, and not a person ( Wolf at the hole , dog and wolf , Man, bear and fox, etc.).
Tales about animals bear little resemblance to stories from the life of animals. Animals in fairy tales only to some extent act in accordance with their nature, and to a much greater extent act as carriers of this or that character and producers of these or those actions, which should be attributed primarily to man. Therefore, the world of animals in fairy tales is complemented by human imagination, it is a form of expression of thoughts and feelings of a person, his views on life.
Animals that speak, reason and behave like people are just a poetic convention: "The adventures of animals are projected onto human life - and they are interesting in human terms." Hence the main themes of Russian fairy tales about animals - human characters, virtues and vices of people, types of human relationships in everyday life, in society, sometimes these images even look satirical.
Most researchers note the problem of classification of fairy tales about animals due to their diversity. V.Ya. Propp, noting the following varieties: fairy tales about animals that exist in a cumulative form ( Teremok , Kolobok , Cockerel and bean seed and so on.); fairy tales about animals, close in structure to fairy tales ( The wolf and the seven Young goats , cat, rooster and fox and etc.); fairy tales about animals, close in their structure to the fable ( wolf and fox ); animal tales approaching literary works and taking the form of a political pamphlet ( The Tale of Ersh Ershovich).
Developing a classification of Russian fairy tales about animals based on texts collected by A.N. Afanasiev, V.Ya. Propp distinguishes the following groups: Tales about wild animals ( Animals in the pit , Fox and wolf , midwife fox , Fox and crane , Fox Confessor and etc.); Tales of wild and domestic animals dog and wolf , The wolf and the seven Young goats , cat, fox and rooster and etc.); Tales of man and wild animals Fox and her tail , man and bear , Old bread and salt is forgotten , Bear - fake foot , Fox with a rolling pin and etc.); Pet Tales ( goat shelled , Horse and dog and etc.); Tales of Birds and Fishes Crane and heron , Cockerel and bean seed , Hen Ryaba and etc.); Tales about other animals, plants, mushrooms and elements ( fox and cancer , Teremok , Kolobok , Sun, frost and wind , War of mushrooms, etc.).
The characters of the Russian folk tale about animals are usually represented by images of wild and domestic animals. The images of wild animals clearly predominate over the images of domestic animals: these are the fox, wolf, bear, hare, birds - crane, heron, thrush, woodpecker, sparrow, raven, etc. Domestic animals are much less common, and they do not appear as independent or leading characters, but only in conjunction with the forest: a dog, a cat, a goat, a ram, a horse, a pig, a bull, from domestic birds - a goose, a duck and a rooster. There are no fairy tales only about domestic animals in Russian folklore. Each of the characters is an image of a very specific animal or bird, behind which there is one or another human character, therefore, the characterization of the characters is based on observing the habits, demeanor of the beast, and its appearance. The difference in characters is especially clearly and definitely expressed in the images of wild animals: for example, the fox is drawn primarily as a flattering, cunning deceiver, charming robber; wolf - how greedy and slow-witted gray fool , always getting into a mess; bear - like a stupid ruler, forest oppression who uses his strength not according to reason; a hare, a frog, a mouse, forest birds - like weak, harmless creatures, always serving on parcels. The ambiguity of assessments is also preserved in the description of domestic animals: for example, a dog is depicted as an intelligent animal devoted to man; a paradoxical combination of courage with laziness is noted in the cat; the rooster is noisy, self-confident and curious.
To understand the meaning of Russian folk tales about animals, it is necessary to work on their plot organization and composition. The plot of animalistic tales is characterized by clarity, clarity and simplicity: “Fairy tales about animals are built on elementary actions that underlie the narrative, representing a more or less expected or unexpected end, prepared in a certain way. These simplest actions are phenomena of a psychological order ... ". Animalistic tales are notable for their small volume, persistence of the plot scheme and laconism of artistic means of expression.
The composition of Russian fairy tales about animals is also distinguished by simplicity and transparency. Often they are one-episode (“The Fox and the Crane”, “The Crane and the Heron”, etc.). In this case, they are characterized by hyperbolization of the main properties and traits of the character, which determines the unusual, fantastic nature of their actions. However, fairy tales with plots based on the sequential linking of single-theme plot links-motifs are much more common. The events in them are connected by similar actions of through characters: for example, in the fairy tale "The Fox and the Wolf" there are three plot motifs - "The fox steals fish from the sleigh", "The wolf at the hole", "The beaten unbeaten one is lucky". The multi-episode nature, as a rule, does not complicate the compositions, since we are usually talking about the same type of actions of characters performed in different plot situations.
In this work, we will study two negative heroes of Russian folk tales about animals - the fox and the wolf. This choice is due not only to their popularity, but also to the fact that on the example of these heroes one can clearly see what vices are ridiculed and condemned in fairy tales, thereby influencing the formation of the national character of readers. Both characters are found both in different fairy tales separately, and in one together. And despite the fact that both the wolf and the fox are negative characters, and it seems that they have a lot in common: they live in the same forests, attack the same animals, are also afraid of the same opponents, in fairy tales they endowed with different human qualities, which is quite interesting. It is also interesting that one negative male character and, it turns out, he is endowed with male negative character traits, and the other female hero, endowed with female traits, respectively, from which the methods of achieving their goals are different, despite the fact that these goals are the same. Thus, based on the analysis of various Russian folk tales about animals, one can consider these heroes from the same positions: their appearance, features, actions, determine which of them is smarter, smarter or more cunning, and who is stupid and naive. A comparative analysis of the wolf and the fox will also help to identify the main human vices ridiculed in society and find out how the presence of these heroes in Russian folk tales affects the formation of a national character, which is the purpose of this work.
Fox in fairy tales about animals
One of the most famous fox tales is the Tale of the Fox and the Wolf.
It begins with the fact that the fox wants to eat fish, but does not know where to get it. And, to achieve her goal, she decides to lie down on the road. On the road, a man notices her and puts her in a cart with fish. While the man is riding and enjoying a good find, the fox gnaws a hole in the sleigh and lowers the fish down to the ground. The fox fishes out almost all the fish, and she runs away into the forest. When the peasant saw that there was neither a fox nor a fish, he was very upset. And the fox, meanwhile, runs to collect fish and feast on it. On the road she meets a wolf who asks her where the fish came from, how she fished it and where. In order to get rid of the wolf and not share prey with him, she tells him that the tail should be lowered into the hole and special words should be pronounced so that the fish can be better caught. So the stupid wolf ran into the hole. While he was sitting and waiting for the fish, the tail froze in the hole so that there was no way to pull it out. I saw a wolf woman with a yoke. At first she drove him, and when she realized that he was frozen, she began to beat him so that the tail of the wolf came off. And the fox at this time comes running to the hut where the woman lived, and begins to knead the dough. While she was kneading, she got dirty all over in the dough, went and lay down on the road. The wolf met her again, said that nothing came of it, and noticing that the fox was all white, he got scared, began to ask what had happened to her. The fox told him that her head was broken with a yoke. The wolf took pity on her, put her on his back and took her home. And the fox rode on his back and said smiling: “The beaten unbeaten one is lucky!”.
In Russian folk tales about animals, the fox often acts as an opponent of the wolf. This "gossip-dove" often arouses our sympathy for its dexterity, courage and resourcefulness in fooling the wolf. And in the tale presented above, the fiction and resourcefulness of the fox has no boundaries. For the sake of its own benefit, the fox deceives the wolf, the peasant, and, most likely, would be ready to deceive and substitute anyone for the sake of its own goal - food and warm housing. And, therefore, despite all the sympathy for her, it would still be a mistake to talk about her as a positive character. Cunning and ingenuity coexist with the fox with unbridled arrogance, hypocrisy and betrayal.
Among the tales about animals there are also those in which not only human, but also social vices are condemned, although there are not many of them. For example, the fairy tale "The Fox and Kotofey Ivanovich." Reverence and bribery are depicted in it with inimitable brilliance. The cat, expelled from the house, thanks to the quirky fox who allegedly marries him, becomes Kotofey Ivanych - the "boss" over all forest animals, because the fox, by deceit, gives him to everyone as a terrible beast. Even the strongest inhabitants of the forest - the bear and the wolf are forced to serve him, and the cat freely robs and presses everyone.
In Russian folk tales about animals, the fox also appears before us in the form of a sweet-voiced red-haired beauty who can speak to anyone. So, in the fairy tale "The Fox Confessor", before eating a rooster, she convinces him to confess his sins; at the same time, the hypocrisy of the clergy is wittily ridiculed. The fox addresses the rooster: “Oh, my dear child, the rooster!” She tells him a biblical parable about the publican and the Pharisee, and then eats him.
Another fairy tale, the plot of which is known to everyone - Kolobok. The tale is a chain of homogeneous episodes depicting Kolobok's meetings with various talking animals intending to eat him, but Kolobok leaves everyone except the fox. With each animal, the bun enters into a discussion, in which each time he explains his departure: "I left my grandmother, I left my grandfather, and I will leave you, bear (wolf, hare)." The fox, as usual, with the help of deceit, pretending to be partially deaf, catches Kolobok on vanity and, taking advantage of his kindness, which is expressed in the readiness to repeat the song closer to the ear and mouth of the fox, eats him.
The stupidity of the fox is described in the fairy tale The Fox and the Thrush. The thrush built a nest and brought out the chicks. The fox found out about this and began to frighten the thrush by destroying its nest. First, the fox asked the thrush to feed her. The thrush fed the fox with pies and honey. The fox then asked the thrush to give her water. The thrush made the fox drink beer. Again the fox came to the thrush and demanded to make her laugh. The thrush made the fox laugh. Again the fox came to the thrush and demanded to scare her. So the blackbird brought the fox to the pack of dogs. The fox got scared, rushed to run away from the dogs, climbed into the hole, and started talking to herself. She quarreled with the tail, stuck it out of the hole. So the dogs grabbed her by the tail and ate her. So stupidity and greed are always punished in Russian folk tales about animals.
Having considered several fairy tales with the participation of a fox, we can conclude that in most cases the fox is a negative hero, personifying cunning, deceit, deceit, cunning and selfishness. But you can also notice that if she, together with other animals, opposes the wolf, she receives a positive assessment, and if she harms others, she gets a negative one. It is quite common to see tales of the cunning fox and the stupid wolf in which the fox deceives the wolf for his own benefit. But the fox is just as predatory as the wolf. She drives the bunny out of his hut, eats thrush chicks, deceives other animals, for example, a bear, or even people, she also always wants to eat a rooster, a black grouse, a bun, a hare. And she pays dearly for her actions. After all, cunning, bordering on betrayal, cannot be justified. Even the appearance of a fox is deceiving: it is usually described as very attractive, red, with eyes that speak of its cunning.
Wolf in fairy tales about animals
fairy tale animal moral teaching
The wolf is a fairly popular character in Russian folk tales, but in the minds of Russian people, his image is endowed with mostly negative characteristics. Most often, in Russian folk tales, a wolf is a silly and rustic beast, which everyone constantly deceives and substitutes (Sister Chanterelle and Wolf, Wolf and Goat, Fool Wolf, Wintering of animals). But it should be noted that even when the wolf in fairy tales is represented as a fool, he is never vile and low, unlike a fox.
It has already been said earlier that fairy tales about animals were created not only for the edification of the little ones. Many of them, with the help of funny fiction, jokes, make fun of vices. And, for example, the embodiment of stupidity in fairy tales is often a wolf. His stupidity is the stupidity of a cruel and greedy beast. Storytellers seem to deliberately put the wolf in conditions that justify his actions, which should cause the listener to feel pity for him, but this does not happen, because there is no place in life for stupidity, cruelty and greed - this is the main thesis of fairy tales.
One of the most famous tales about the wolf is the tale of the Wolf and the seven kids. The mother goat, leaving the house, warns her kids to beware of the wolf that roams nearby. Meanwhile, the wolf, taking advantage of a good moment, knocks on the goats and declares that he is their mother. And the kids say in response that their mother's voice is soft, while his voice is rough. To soften his voice, the wolf eats a piece of honey, but the goats still do not let it in, because their mother's paws are white, not black, like those of a wolf. Then he goes to the mill and soils his paws in flour. The kids let the wolf in, who immediately eats them all, except for the smallest one, who hid in the stove. Returning home, the mother goat sees the devastation that the wolf arranged and the smallest goat that escaped, who tells her about what happened. She goes after the wolf and finds him sleeping with a full stomach, in which something is stirring. The mother goat rips open the belly of the wolf, and six kids come out alive. Instead of kids, their mother fills the belly of the wolf with stones. The next morning, the goat met the wolf and invited him to compete in jumping over the fire, the goat jumped over, the wolf also jumped, but the stones pulled him down. So the wolf burned down. Another version of the ending - the wolf, waking up with stones in his stomach, wanted to drink, went to the stream, slipped, fell into the water and drowned from the weight.
In this tale, the wolf is cruel and merciless; for the sake of his prey, he is able to deceive the little goats who were left alone at home. By deception (he speaks in the voice of a mother-goat), he tells the kids that he is their mother and asks to let him go home. And when they let him in, the wolf eats all the goats except for one, which he did not notice. It is thanks to the little goat in this tale that evil, greed and ruthlessness are punished.
In the Tale of the Wolf and the Fox, the wolf appears to readers in a slightly different way - a stupid and naive beast that is easy to deceive. The fox in his house manipulates and controls the wolf, deftly talking to him. At the very beginning of the tale, it is said that the fox lived in an ice hut, and the wolf lived in a brushwood one, and when spring came, the fox's hut melted, and she began to ask the wolf to live in the house. The wolf took pity on her and foolishly let her in. Every day the fox managed to deceive the wolf: she said that guests were coming to her and went out to them to eat his sour cream, butter, slowly changed her sleeping place so that it was closer to the stove. So, the fox moved to sleep on the stove, and the wolf moved under the stove. The tale ended with the fact that, continuing to deceive the wolf, the fox remained to live in his house forever, becoming the mistress there, and making the wolf a servant.
The stupidity of the wolf is also described in the fairy tale How the fox sewed a fur coat for the wolf. The stupid wolf asked the cunning fox to sew a fur coat for him. The fox received sheep from the wolf: she ate meat and sold wool. And when the wolf ran out of patience, and he asked for his fur coat, the fox ruined him by deceit.
So, from the tales discussed above, we can conclude that the wolf is often stupid, but this is not its main feature: it is cruel, ferocious, angry, greedy - these are its main qualities. He eats the poor old man's horse, breaks into the winter quarters of the animals and disturbs their peaceful life, wants to eat the goats, deceiving them with a song. But such qualities are never encouraged in fairy tales, so the wolf always gets what he deserves.
The role of fairy tales about animals in the formation of a national character
Russian folk tales about animals show what the people condemned in society, their enemies, and even in themselves. Cruelty, boasting, flattery, venality and much more were ridiculed. And, often, therefore, in fairy tales, it is precisely due to the presence of animals, in simple content, that ideas are hidden that make up the essence of the moral code of the people. Those plots that unfold in fairy tales about animals are a kind of staging of real life situations. It is not without reason that such tales have a moral and instructive role, because their heroes personify certain human qualities, and that is why they call a cunning person a fox, a cowardly hare, a stupid wolf. Tales about animals are parables that show the reader what is held in high esteem and what is not.
The character of each person is made up of emotional, strong-willed and moral traits, the foundations of which are laid in early childhood. Parents read fairy tales to their children, with the help of which they learn about the world. Therefore, it is fairy tales that have an educational role, because a fairy tale is a centuries-old folk wisdom. Through it, the child learns the world around him and his place in this world, receives the first ideas about good and evil, friendship and betrayal, courage and cowardice. These representations appear precisely through the images of the heroes of fairy tales, including animals, because sometimes animals at the end of a fairy tale become more moral, passing through certain moral tests, and sometimes it is animals who are those “moral teachers” in a fairy tale, with the help of which morality is determined. . In Russian folk tales, there are many similar characters, the consideration of which led to very interesting results. The identification of similar features in animals and humans (speech - cry, behavior - habits) served as the basis for combining their qualities in animal images with human qualities: animals speak and behave like people. This combination led to the typification of the characters of animals, which became the embodiment of certain qualities: the fox - cunning, the wolf - stupidity and greed, the bear - gullibility, and the hare - cowardice. So fairy tales acquired an allegorical meaning: animals began to mean people of certain characters. Images of animals became a means of moral teaching, and then social satire, which led to the development of a national character, because in fairy tales about animals, not only negative qualities (stupidity, laziness, talkativeness) are ridiculed, but oppression of the weak, greed, and deceit for profit are also condemned. .
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Young children are usually attracted to the world of animals, so they really like fairy tales in which animals and birds act. Animal Tales- this is the most common type of fairy tales, which becomes known to the child early.
Tales about animals, having the most archaic roots, have now almost completely lost their original mythological and magical significance. The youngest children are usually told “childish tales” specially designed for them (“Turnip”, “Kolobok”, “Teremok”, “Wolf and Goats”). They are small in volume, simple in composition. A large role here is given to dialogue, the repetition of one and the same episode. Often this is an episode of the meeting of the protagonist with other characters. In the fairy tale “The Fox and the Hare”, the bunny complains to every animal it meets: “How can I not cry? I had a bast hut, and the fox had an icy one; she asked me to come, and she kicked me out.
In some fairy tales, the episodes are repeated with an increase, in a chain-like manner, and are successfully resolved in the end. (This is how cumulative tales are constructed.) The tale “The Goat” from the collection of A.N. Afanasyev is especially expressive in this regard:
Water went to pour fire.
The fire went to burn the stone.
The stone went to put out the axe.
The ax went to chop the oak,
Dubye went to beat people.
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The bear went to fight the wolves,
The wolves went to chase the goat:
Here is a goat with nuts
Here is a goat with red-hot!
Repeating episodes, dialogues are often rhymed and rhythmic, accompanied by songs (for example, Kolobok's songs). The goat, and then the Wolf in the fairy tale "The Wolf and the Kids" sing in different voices:
Goats, kids!
Open up, open up.
The performance of such fairy tales is akin to a theatrical performance with the active participation of the audience. The fairy tale is approaching the game, which corresponds to the peculiarities of the perception of a work of art by children aged two to five - “assistance and complicity”, as the psychologist A. V. Zaporozhets defined it.
The younger the child, the more literally he perceives the events and heroes of the fairy tale. Fairy-tale characters are close to children just like real living creatures: a dog, a cat, a cockerel, kids. In a fairy tale animals take on human traits- think, speak and act like people: they build their own dwellings, chop wood, carry water. In essence, such images bring the child knowledge about the world of people, not animals.
Animals, birds in them are both similar and not similar to real ones. A rooster walks in boots, carries a scythe on his shoulder and shouts at the top of his voice that the goat should go out of the hare's hut, otherwise it will be hacked to death (“Goat-dereza”). The wolf catches fish - he lowered his tail into the hole and says: “Catch, fish, both small and large! (“The Fox and the Wolf”). The fox informs the black grouse about a new "decree" - the black grouses are not afraid to walk in the meadows, but the black grouse does not believe ("The Fox and the black grouse").
It is easy to see implausibility in all these tales: where has it been seen that a rooster walked with a scythe, a wolf caught fish, and a fox persuaded a black grouse to descend to the ground? The child takes fiction for fiction, like an adult, but she attracts with unusualness, dissimilarity to what he knows about real birds and animals. Most of all, the children are interested in the story itself: will the dereza goat be expelled from the hare's hut, how will the obvious absurdity of catching fish with its tail end, will the cunning intent of the fox succeed. Most elementary and in the same time the most important performances- about wit and stupidity, O cunning and honesty, O good and evil, O heroism and cowardice, O kindness and greed- fall into consciousness and set standards of behavior for the child.
In fairy tales about animals, representatives of the animal world embody certain qualities: fox - cunning, flattery, wolf - treacherous strength and stupidity, hare - cowardice. Moreover, in this type of fairy tales there is usually no clear division of characters into positive and negative. Each of them is endowed any one feature, an inherent feature of his character, which is played out in the plot. So, traditionally the main feature of the fox is cunning, so it's usually about how she fools other animals. Wolf greedy and stupid; in a relationship with a fox, he will certainly get into a mess. The bear has a not so unambiguous image, bear sometimes evil and sometimes good, but at the same time always remains a klutz. If a person appears in such a fairy tale, then he invariably turns out to be smarter than the fox, and the wolf, and the bear. Reason helps him to win over any opponent.
Animals in a fairy tale observe the principle of hierarchy: everyone recognizes the strongest and the main one. Is it a lion or a bear. They are always at the top of the social ladder. This brings animal tales closer to fables, which is especially evident from the presence in both of them of similar moral conclusions - social and universal. Children easy to digest: That, that the wolf is strong does not at all make him fair(for example, in a fairy tale story about seven kids). Sympathy listeners always on the side of the righteous, not strong.
Tales claim the child in the right relationship with the world. The grandfather, and the grandmother, and the granddaughter, and the Bug, and the cat are pulling the turnip - pulling, pulling, and not pulling the turnips for them. And only when the mouse came to the rescue, they pulled out a turnip. Of course, the capacious artistic meaning of this ironic tale will become completely understandable to a small person only when he grows up. Then the fairy tale will turn to him with many facets. The child can only think that no, even the smallest force is superfluous in work: how many forces are in the mouse, and without it they could not pull out the turnip.
“Rocked Hen” in the folk version, well represented, for example, in the processing of the writer A. N. Tolstoy, bears in yourself as well important thought for education. A chicken laid an egg, a mouse ran, wagged its tail, the egg fell and broke. The grandfather began to cry, the grandmother began to sob, the gates creaked, the hens flew up, the doors squinted, the tyn crumbled, the top of the hut staggered. And the whole commotion is from a broken egg. Much ado about nothing! The tale laughs at the trifling cause of so many absurd consequences.
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It has been observed that children easily memorize fairy tales about animals. This is explained by folk pedagogical experience correctly captured the features of children's perception. Fairy tales “Turnip”, “Rocked Hen”, “Gingerbread Man”, “Teremok” and some others keep the child’s attention special composition: episode clings to episode, often they are repeated with the addition of some new detail. These repetitions promote memory and understanding.
Animal tales can be called children's and because they have a lot of action, movement, energy- that is inherent in the child. The plot unfolds rapidly: quickly, headlong, a chicken runs to the hostess for butter, - the rooster swallowed the grain and choked, she sends her to the cow for milk. The hen goes to the cow, she asks the owner to give her fresh grass, etc. In the end, the hen brought butter, the rooster was saved, but how much he owes salvation! (“The Cockerel and the Beanstalk.”) The irony of a fairy tale is understandable to a child, he also likes the fact that the hen managed to overcome so many difficult obstacles so that the cockerel remained alive. happy endings I correspond to fairy tales tons of cheerfulness child , his confidence in the successful outcome of the struggle between good and evil.
In fairy tales about animals a lot of humor. This is their wonderful property. develops in children a sense of reality and simply amuses, entertains, pleases, sets in motion spiritual forces. However, fairy tales are known sadness. How the transitions from sadness to fun are sharply contrasted here! The feelings that are spoken of in fairy tales are as vivid as children's emotions. It is easy to console a child, but it is also easy to upset. A hare is crying at the threshold of his hut. The goat kicked him out. The rooster chased away the goat - there is no end to the joy of the hare. Fun and listener fairy tales.
A sharp distinction between positive and negative in the nature of fairy tales. The child has there is never any doubt in, how to relate to a particular fairy-tale character. The rooster is a hero, the fox is a cunning liar, the wolf is greedy, the bear is stupid, the goat is deceitful. This is not primitive, but necessary simplicity, which must be learned by the child before he is ready to accept difficult things.
The system of characters in Russian folk tales about animals is represented, as a rule, by images of wild and domestic animals. The images of wild animals clearly predominate over the images of domestic animals: fox, wolf, bear, hare, and among birds - crane, heron, thrush, woodpecker, sparrow, raven, etc. Domestic animals are much less common, and appear not as independent or leading characters, but only in conjunction with forest: dog, cat, goat, ram, horse, pig, bull, from domestic birds - goose, duck and rooster. There are no fairy tales only about domestic animals in Russian folklore.
As mentioned a little earlier, in fairy tales about animals, fish, animals, birds act; they talk to each other, declare war on each other, make peace. Such tales are based on totemism (belief in a totem beast, the patron of the family.)
