miércoles, 31 de octubre de 2012




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characters according to Propp


Vladimir Propp: Characters in The little mermaid

Vladimir Propp concluded that all the characters could be resolved into 8 broadCharacter types in the 100 tales he analyzed
The villain: isthe Sea Witch, a malicious person who wants revenge against the Sea King and
·         find a perfect occasion when she knows little mermaid´s purposes. She produces harm on the Sea King who loses his daughter, on the little mermaid who suffers great changes and on little mermaid´s sisters who lose her hair in an attempt to help her. The villain is also who apparently helps the heroine with magical elements. We think that in this story the donor is the witch, since sue is the one who gives the heroine the possibility to have two feet instead of her tail.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
·         The Heroine: is The Little Mermaid, a beautiful creature whose main treasure is her voice. He wants to live her proper experiences and is overwhelmed by her emotions. She fell I love with the prince but is unable to marry him because of a terrible misunderstanding. As she represents. She struggles against her society, her family and her culture to demonstrate that she is an individual with proper emotions necessities and wishes. She suffers a lot of changes along the story but finally she recovers her essence and lives happy for ever
 
 
 
 
 
 
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·         The false heroine: is the princess who marries the prince, since she is usurping the place of little mermaid because of a terrible mistake.
  •  The Sea King: warns the mermaid about all the dangers of the other world, but he     cannot convince her. He suffers his daughter´s absence but he is unable to do anything against the curses of the witch







The Little Mermaid according to Propp


Analysis ofThe Little Mermaidaccording to Propp taxonomy:

 


 
 
 
 
 
Propp begins with the problem of classifying and organizing tales. In    comparing the functions of tale after tale, he discovers that his total number of functions is 31, and that however a tale may not contain all of them, those that it has, always appears in the same order.

In “The Little Mermaid” we discover that one of the members of the family absents herself from the family, and in this particular tale, she leaves home twice. Once when she is fifteen and she has permission to rise up out of the sea. At that time, she falls in love with the prince, she saves him, and she is always dreaming of going back again. The second one, when she decides to leave behind her life, her family and her world, to live her proper experience, following her feelings.


 
Although the heroine is prevented from the dangers of the other world by her grandmother, her grandfather and the witch, the little mermaid decides to forget all the warnings and does her best to reach her wishes. To make this possible, she knows that she needs to have two legs instead of her tail. On the other hand, the villain, represented by the sea witch, wants revenge against the Sea King and to succeed on her purpose, she asks for information about little mermaid in order to be sure about what she must offer her, to be able to take possession of  Little mermaid´s treasure, her voice. The witch knows that doing this, she will cause a great sadness to the Sea King.


Little Mermaid is approached with a requirement:  if she cannot succeed in making the prince love her, she will die. Her feelings are so deep that she accepts it, she drinks the magical agent given by the witch and she leaves home to become a human dumb.

 

              
 
The heroine is pursued by the shadow of her misfortune when the prince decides to marry another girl and her hearth breaks into pieces since. she knows it is the final for her. When she is dying of sadness, a difficult possibility is presented to her by her sisters. If she wants to be saved, she has to .kill the prince. Although the little mermaid cannot kill him, the task is solved, since her soul is saved because of her correct decision.

 

                                                                               

 

 
Although she cannot return home, at least she returns to her essence and she recovers her tail and ascends to the heaven to live with the sisters of the air. On the other hand, the witch failed in her purposes as she cannot destroy the little mermaid´s soul.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Types of tales


Types of tales
 
African.

·         Hand down traditions passed from one generation to another

·        Validates culture

·        Use of nature

·        Prepares young people for life

·        Animals with human characteristics.

·        Learning lessons

·        Principal theme slavery

·        Educate about geography


 
 
 
Amnerican tales:

·        Passed from generation to generation

·        Convey a message

·        Use exaggeration

·        Fictional character

·        The story emerges from experience time of people who lived at a certain and place.


Latinamerican

·         Hand down traditions passed from one generation to another.

·         Validates culture

·         Prepares young people for life

·true events

·         Universal and timeless themes        Common people with supernatural elements

· Animals with human trials

· Stories based on

 







Asian tales
 
  •       Hand down traditions passed from one generation to another

·         Tales become proverbs

·         Validates culture and traditions.

·         Animals are known by their abilities.

·         Reflect real life, heroicic figures, animals.

·         Marriadge between humans and no humans.

·         Themes:Causes of everything that affeceaches values and filial piety

·         Mixture of inmortals,  spirits and ghosts with mortal people.

·         Combine history and mythology

·         Teachsloyalty, justice,morality and conscience





Australian tales

·         Storetelling  passed From generation to generation

·         Help to understand culture, history and people

·         Themes : aborigen culture, life and death, gumtree hollow.

·         Reveals how the aborigens think of creation

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 
      
 
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