What is a fairy tale? What image types does it have?

1. Fairy tales are a kind of children's literature. This kind of work shapes images, reflects life and educates children ideologically through rich imagination, fantasy and exaggeration.

the language is popular and vivid, and the story is often bizarre and fascinating. Fairy tales often adopt anthropomorphic methods, such as birds, animals, insects, fish, flowers and trees, the whole nature, furniture and toys, which can give life, inject people's thoughts and feelings and make them personalized.

2. Type:

Arne-Thompson classification: animal stories, ordinary folk stories, jokes and anecdotes, and program stories.

classification of role ability: fairy tales imitating human body, super-human body, normal human body and knowledge body.

Extended materials:

1. Charm of Absurdity

In novels, reportage and other realistic styles, people pursue a sense of reality, and the closer they are to life itself, the more they can stimulate readers' enthusiasm.

Fairy tales are just the opposite. The closer you get to life itself, the less interesting it becomes. Evaluation: It's too short of imagination. Fairy tales should be magical and magnificent fantasy colors. The more bizarre, absurd and strange the imagination is, the more it can stimulate the reading enthusiasm of young readers.

strangeness and absurdity are the most important aesthetic qualities of fairy tales. The Travel Notes of Min Hao Sheng Qi became a world famous book because of its absurdity. Pinocchio, The Adventures of a Lying Country, etc. have all won young readers from generation to generation with their fantastic charm.

2. The beauty of comedy

At first, the aesthetic meaning of comedy was characterized by exposing ugly ridicule, which burned all worthless, hypocritical and ugly things in laughter. But with the development of literature and art, comedy has richer content.

for example, there is a laugh that exposes criticism and ridicule; There are also well-meaning sarcastic smiles; And laughter that is purely entertaining and humorous, etc. However, the comedy in fairy tales usually shows more aesthetic characteristics of childlike interest and humor. This is determined by the age characteristics of the specific readers of fairy tales.

3. The Beauty of Tragedy

Although the general style of children's literature tends to be cheerful and clear, it does not exclude reflecting the tragic side of life, because there are always various unsatisfactory aspects in life, and tragedy is inevitable, even in children's life. The key is how to express tragedy and how to express tragedy.

For children's literature and fairy tales, perhaps more is not to "destroy the valuable things in life for people to see", but mainly to show a noble and tragic beauty and reflect a spiritual strength through tragedy.

So it is more inclined to Aristotle's annotation of tragic beauty. Moreover, to show the fate of tragic characters, we should try our best to adopt a means of weakening or diluting tragedy. Don't try to strengthen the fierce conflict of tragedy like adult literature.

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