The Research Of Roald Dahl’s Death Narrative In His Fairy Tales

Death is the affair that nobody can avoid. There must appearthe death scene in most literatures. Roald Dahl is a famous fairy taleauthor who has a great influence on children. Death narrative is theone big characteristic of Roald Dahl’s fairy tales, he opens a directdescription of terrorist violence in fairy tales of death. However,thestudy of the death narration of Roald Dahl’s fairy tales israre.Therefore, this article intends to combine close reading, usingthe theory of death narrative, from three aspects---a variety oftypes of death narrative, unique way of death narrative, as well asthe unique narrative of death cause---analysis the Roald Dahl’s fairytales. The author wishes to make a clear analysis to the variety oftypes of death narrative, unique way of death narrative and therelationship between Roald Dahl’s unique death types and RoaldDahl’s special personal relationships. The unique narrative of deathof fairy tale has positive effects on children.The body could be divided into three parts. Chapter one isvarieties of death narrative types. This chapter includings threeparts. The first part analyses that death narrative of punishing evilman and praising kind people in R.D’s fairy tales.This part can bedivided three species: death due to hurt others,death due to hurt other living being and death for abusing families. By this manner ofspecial death narrative in his fairy tales helps children to foster acorrect view of social ethic, family ethic and nature ethic.Part twodescribes the characters who death for temptation, to help childrento establish the correct values.The last part is the death forantiviolence, the young hero death for against witches in Witch. Thespirit of resisting the violence let children experience the sublimeof the spirit that although physical body is dead, the nobility of spiritlives forever. The second chapter analyses the unique narrativestyle of Roald Dahl.On one hand, Roald Dahl uses the writing styleto narrates the terror directly, describes the violence death secnesand builds the terrible death. On the other hand, because of thespecialty of the receiver, he adopts the strategy of the non-voliantdeath narrative. The ending of Roald Dahl is not like a traditionalfairy tale which has a happy ending,he gives it the beauty ofimperfect, although the ending is not perfect, compared with otherhappy ending, this kind of imperfect ending gives us a steady andheavy happiness. In the third part of this chapter, the author focuson how Roald Dahl deconstructs the murder to games, anddiscusses that the reason and the influence of the unique deathnarrative in Roald Dahl’s fairy tales. This chapter analyses how thespecial experience of Roald Dahl influence the death narrative---the special family background, the death of his father and eldersister, the experience of joining the2nd World War----these speciallife experience leads to his writing style of describe the deathdirectly. On the other hand, considering the special readers’acceptable limits, when Roald Dahl writes death in his fairy tales, he takes the children’s appreciation of beauty into account, anduses conceptuational plot of death, weakening the fear of death.This kind of death narrative writing style will have a profoundinfluence on children’s growing up, help the children to release theanxiety of death and bad emotion, and help them to cultivate acorrect outlook on life.