Research On The Character's Metamorphosis In The Folk Tales That The Hero And The Heroine Died For Love In The Literature Of Turkey And Han Nationalities

There are a large number of folk tale texts containing the plots that the characters died for love and metamorphosed in the literature of Turkey and Han nationalities. The general narrative pattern is that the hero and the heroine, who loved each other very much, could not live together for various reasons, thereby choosing to commit suicide. Their parents or people of their clans buried them together according to their last wishes, and afterwards, birds in pairs, plants and trees were found there showing their eternal love. Love and death are universal and timeless themes. The phenomena of the character's metamorphosis in the folk tales that the hero and the heroine died for love contain both love and death. It is of certain academic and aesthetic value to single out these cross-national and cross-cultural literature texts as a specific type of folk tale and to comb, further analyze, explore and study them.In the first chapter of the thesis, the phenomena of the character's metamorphosis in the folk tales that the hero and the heroine died for love in the literature of Turkey and Han nationalities are tabulated for a comparative analysis. Based on the method for studying folk tales in Vladimir·Propp·Ya's"Morphology of the Folk Tale"which studies the folk tales by the functions of roles, the structural law and narrative mode are summarized. The lucky ideas, the primitive religions and their philosophical backgrounds reflected in the metamorphosis and the substitutes for the characters are revealed.The second chapter are analyses and studies of the symbolic significance and cultural meaning of the substitutes for the characters in the literature and culture of Turkey and Han nationalities, the exploring for the origins, the development and the diffusions of Han and Turkish ethnic groups'tree worship, and probing into their aesthetic characteristics, literary meanings, the primitive thinking on immortal soul and esthetics.The third chapter displays the same psychological structure of humankind reflected in the texts based on Maslow's Humanistic Psychology, generalizes the same aesthetic thinking way and unique esthetic tastes of people from different nationalities and different culture, and reveals the laws of literature creation.