Harry Potter and the Convention fairy
If Harry is quite fashionable in contemporary English
literature for children and young people mixing phenomenon of literary convention. In Harry
Potter can be traced back so many influences and references to various types of
and subtypes of the novel, and deserving special attention are three main streams in which
the author seems to prefer to look for both inspiration and a source of numerous references
and analogy.
So noticeable is primarily rooted Harry Potter
the fairy-tale conventions, including the mythical, which is, after all fairy tales. Naturally, references to ancient myths, legends or stories of famous
There are no fairy a clear demarcation, but a mixture of very
numerous, more or less clear and recognized by the receiver thread
and themes. Other species, for which the Harry Potter series in a clear and visible
as follows, is a novel architecture and a fantastic school.
By Stephanie Wortman, “so it is tempting to attempt to scratch it
the most characteristic literary relationships, ie relationships linking
Harry Potter with the circle of mythical-fairytale, with a fantastic convention
and a novel describing the realities of school ’27 In another article bearing the title of a fairy tale
something more than entertainment, the author acknowledges that the tale is “an introduction to literature” 28
Before proceeding to further discuss the roots of fairy Harry
Potter, to be a bit closer to issues of fairy tales and fantasy, which
are often identified and collectively termed fantastic literature.
Of the different types of fairy tales, fairy-tale in search of roots
Harry Potter and the analogy between this convention and the songs just by JK Rowling, we pay special attention to two basic types.
The first is the folk tale (fantastic), the oldest, and therefore the longest tradition,
intended for adults, the uneducated public, stemming mostly from the crowd, emerged from the world of imagination, these very simple, poor people,
for which the phenomena occurring in the surrounding world were often
dark secret.
In this type of morality tale is often ambiguous, the present is cruelty,
often shown in a spectacular, although quite substantial poverty niewyszukanego form and language. Nature, the element closest to the people of the world, plays a huge role, as well as feelings – in the folk tales, there is little room for intellectual or psychological depth. This fable, as an expression of desires and fears, and just simple people who know the hard work and poverty, usually presents the life of this particular perspective – describing the harm the poor, trying to find a cure and satisfaction in the fantasy.
Notwithstanding this, the definition and systematization of what fairy tales assume
relationship between the series of Harry Potter and the fairy-tale convention is striking.
Rowling’s novel, written at the turn of the second and the third millennium, and thus for
modern reader, of course, are not pure fairy tale, it is difficult even
classify
some specific to its type – is here and the magic and wonder,
and unusual character, but the characters are more fully outlined, enriched
the psychological and emotional depth, and the cruelty and bloodshed are not engaged
too much space.
Undoubtedly, the Harry Potter series is deeply bound up
convention was fabulous (and thus the mythical), born on the ground
the processed threads and characters drawn from the stories about gods, heroes
and monsters. Often these stories, over time absorbed by the tale, gave
start new threads and themes, Confluent with the original, in the minds of
readers generally associating with the fairy tale more than the mythical origin.
Therefore, in many cases it is difficult to clearly draw a dividing line between myth or origin of a fairytale theme. However this does not, for the reader to hear a distant echo of my own childhood – an echo of his well-known fairy tales and stories, written in the recesses of memory and has always been associated with children’s years of joy and faith in miracles and wonders.
So Harry Potter is a wealth of references to those very close to us
stories, often forming a link between our adult present
both the country of his childhood years and the tradition of our cultural circle.
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