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A New Probe Of Fantasy In Fairy Tale's Writing

Posted on:2001-10-23Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y HuangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360002952857Subject:Literature and art
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A New Probe of Fantasy in Fairy Tale's Writing(Abstract)In development of the world children's literature, fairy tale is always an important and major variety. It wins many readers' favor for its own unique posture.great and exotic plot, splendid and brilliant scene, humorous language and provoking moral in plain expression. These readers cover from childlike, active and curious children to mature, calm,and childish middle aged, or even aged people.Hereby, it is obvious that fairy tale wins acclaims from readers of all regions, all status ,all ages.In magnificent and beautiful literature palace, undoubtedly, fairy tale is a great and strong comer-stone. Although it comes to the 21st century, yet fairytale with hundred and thousand yearsliistory gives off its unique permanent glamour in the long river of history.Its glamour lies in its fantasy. This article thinksrfairy tale is a writing style,in which image is created, life is reflected mainly based on this artistic means fantasy. Generalized it from the angle of writing study.fairy tale is a writing technique filled with fantasy.To illustrate this,firstly we should probe the basic problem-essence of fairy tale.First, having a textual research of semantics,we can konw that,as a literature model.fantasy goes with fairy tale since its birth.Second, tracing the stylistic changes of fairy tale,we can find that fantasy is more important and strong instead of weaker or even diminshing,Third,analizing the developing process of fairy tale, we can see that the people make inflexible efforts to seek for a safe and peaceful place for fantasy. Today.when science is highly developed, or even in the future, when science is more highly developed, human being still need fairy tale, which is a warm home for fantasy to settle and develop. Fourth, comparing with other literature style, fantasy in fairy tale is more important, but it is only an attaching chatacter existed in other styles instead of embodying an esential characteristic. But in fairy tale, fantasy takes the first place.Clearly,fantasy is the essence of fairy tale.Secondly;this artcle traces and researches the origin of fantasy in fairy tale in order to have a clearer, more comprehensive, further understanding of its essence. In this article, the author attempts to understand fantasy in fairy tale through its origingal psychological process. By researching, the anthropologists ascertain that fairy tale comes in primitive society. At that time,initial fantasy originates from primitive man's innocence of the world. Because of a sense of mystery and cognizance, they endow everthing with color of ingtelligence and humanity. By imbuing thinking method, they link surrounding objects with human life mysteriously, regard human and objects, fantastic dream and original realexistence as one unity.so.initial fairy tale's fantasy is unconscious one.In the late stage of primitive society, totem tokens and taboo customs are all based on the primitive fetishism. At that time, primitive man realizes that they should encourage themselves by gaining strength from some animals and plants, that they can avoid disasters without offending some objects. Although it is impossible to realize the fantasy, yet it becomes fantasy with purpose and attempt.Thirdly.fairy tale's permanent glamour mainly depend on fantasy,which can make writer and reader reach an agreement in creating and understanding.The agreement can bring reader into the fantastic world created by writer, make reader experience a poetic "and harmonious beauty of artitic conception created by fantasy, and this beauty is produced by the empathy in beauty judgement.Fourthly, the author probes the relation between fantasy and other elements. Childlike innocence is the base of fantasy, which must be based on real life. Such artistic techniques as hyperbole, personification and so on are the major means of fairy tale's expression.Fifthly, the development of fairy tale must eflect the development of fantasy. Fairy tale comes to its present from after dev...
Keywords/Search Tags:fairy tale's writing, fantasy, new probe
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