Professional paper

Nature in Fairy Tales by H.Ch. Andersen and Sunčana Škrinjarić

Edita Medić

Abstract

This paper aims to present common characteristics of work of H. Ch. Andersen and Sunčana Škrinjarić by means of parrarel analysis of their fairy tales and stories. Special emphasis has been put on motifs and characters taken from nature; nature is the source of inspiration, a scene of magical events and the main character. Both of them speak through the characters of plants, animals, wind, snow and a snowman, seasons and months, through allegory and anthropomorphization about people, human charasteristics, sufferings and joys, putting forward their own life experiences and projecting human relations in society. Formulaic beginnings and endings are frequent. They both tend to repeat characters and motifs in more stories. Both of them have a sense of didacticism and sentimentality but still they differ in their understanding of life and life cycles as well as in distinctive and recognizable style.

Keywords

Hans Christian Andersen; Sunčana Škrinjarić; fairies and stories; characters and motifs from nature

Hrčak ID:

195767

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/195767

Publication date:

16.3.2018.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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