COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN THE CULT FAIRY TALE AND THE FOLK FAIRY TALE
COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN THE CULT FAIRY TALE AND THE FOLK FAIRY TALE

Summary/Abstract: Fairy tales arose out of people's need to connect to realities they didn't explain logically, from the need to tell, especially to children, in a very pleasant way, what is the difference between right and wrong, from the need to fill hearts with joy in the evenings when the light came from a lamp, a lamp or a candle, or just from the stars and the moon. In the world of stories, anything is possible; in the world of stories evil is almost always punished; in the world of stories people take wings and fly with thought with winged horses, fairies and birds; a fairy tale always leaves in the soul of the one who listens to it (or reads it) a taste as sweet as honey. The fairy tale must be distinguished from story, which is more realistic, from legend, which seeks to explain natural phenomena or historical phenomena, and snooze, which is a short anecdotal narrative. Every nation has its fairy tales, so just as every man has his fairy tale. Fairy tales have great appeal, they have shaped the childhoods of many generations, they have fed the imagination, opening up access to countless mysteries of the universe. In this paper we will refer to two of the best-known fairy tales from literature and we will follow in parallel the whole process of maturation of the main characters: The strong-armed Prâslea and Harap-Alb.

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