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Examples of narrative reversal rejecting this figure include The Paperbag Princess by Robert Munsch , a picture book aimed at children in which a princess rescues a prince, and Angela Carter 's The Bloody Chamber , which retells a number of fairy tales from a female point of view. There are also many contemporary erotic retellings of fairy tales, which explicitly draw upon the original spirit of the tales, and are specifically for adults. It may be hard to lay down the rule between fairy tales and fantasies that use fairy tale motifs, or even whole plots, but the distinction is commonly made, even within the works of a single author: The most notable distinction is that fairytale fantasies, like other fantasies, make use of novelistic writing conventions of prose, characterization, or setting.

Fairy tales have been enacted dramatically; records exist of this in commedia dell'arte , [86] and later in pantomime. The Walt Disney Company has had a significant impact on the evolution of the fairy tale film. Some of the earliest short silent films from the Disney studio were based on fairy tales, and some fairy tales were adapted into shorts in the musical comedy series " Silly Symphony ", such as Three Little Pigs.

Walt Disney 's first feature-length film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , released in , was a ground-breaking film for fairy tales and, indeed, fantasy in general. Many filmed fairy tales have been made primarily for children, from Disney's later works to Aleksandr Rou's retelling of Vasilissa the Beautiful , the first Soviet film to use Russian folk tales in a big-budget feature.

Other works have retold familiar fairy tales in a darker, more horrific or psychological variant aimed primarily at adults. A more modern cinematic fairy tale would be Luchino Visconti's Le Notti Bianche , starring Marcello Mastroianni before he became a superstar. It involves many of the romantic conventions of fairy tales, yet it takes place in post- World War II Italy , and it ends realistically. Any comparison of fairy tales quickly discovers that many fairy tales have features in common with each other. This system groups fairy and folk tales according to their overall plot.

Common, identifying features are picked out to decide which tales are grouped together. Much therefore depends on what features are regarded as decisive. Further analysis of the tales shows that in Cinderella , The Wonderful Birch , The Story of Tam and Cam , Ye Xian , and Aschenputtel , the heroine is persecuted by her stepmother and refused permission to go to the ball or other event, and in Fair, Brown and Trembling and Finette Cendron by her sisters and other female figures, and these are grouped as A; while in Cap O' Rushes , Catskin , and Allerleirauh , the heroine is driven from home by her father's persecutions, and must take work in a kitchen elsewhere, and these are grouped as B.

But in Katie Woodencloak , she is driven from home by her stepmother's persecutions and must take service in a kitchen elsewhere, and in Tattercoats , she is refused permission to go to the ball by her grandfather. Given these features common with both types of , Katie Woodencloak is classified as A because the villain is the stepmother, and Tattercoats as B because the grandfather fills the father's role. This system has its weaknesses in the difficulty of having no way to classify subportions of a tale as motifs. Rapunzel is type The Maiden in the Tower , but it opens with a child being demanded in return for stolen food, as does Puddocky ; but Puddocky is not a Maiden in the Tower tale, while The Canary Prince , which opens with a jealous stepmother, is.

It also lends itself to emphasis on the common elements, to the extent that the folklorist describes The Black Bull of Norroway as the same story as Beauty and the Beast. This can be useful as a shorthand but can also erase the coloring and details of a story. Vladimir Propp specifically studied a collection of Russian fairy tales , but his analysis has been found useful for the tales of other countries. One such element is the donor who gives the hero magical assistance, often after testing him.

The roles can be more complicated. Characters who are not always the donor can act like the donor. Analogies have been drawn between this and the analysis of myths into the hero's journey. Many fairy tales have been interpreted for their purported significance. One mythological interpretation saw many fairy tales, including Hansel and Gretel , Sleeping Beauty , and The Frog King , as solar myths ; this mode of interpretation subsequently became rather less popular.

Specific analyses have often been criticized [ by whom? Other folklorists have interpreted tales as historical documents. Many [ quantify ] German folklorists, believing the tales to have preserved details from ancient times, have used the Grimms' tales to explain ancient customs. In a lecture, Jack Zipes reads fairy tales as examples of what he calls "childism".

He suggests that there are terrible aspects to the tales, which among other things have conditioned children to accept mistreatment and even abuse. Even contemporary fairy tales have been written for the purpose of inspiration in the music world. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see Fairy tale disambiguation. For a comparison of fairy tale with other kinds of stories, such as myths, legends and fable, see Traditional story.

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