THE REPRESENTATION OF THE NEGATIVE NATURE (TRAIT) ON THE CHARACTERS AND OBJECTS IN THE FOLK TALES GATHERED BY I. G. SBIERA
THE REPRESENTATION OF THE NEGATIVE NATURE (TRAIT) ON THE CHARACTERS AND OBJECTS IN THE FOLK TALES GATHERED BY I. G. SBIERA

Summary/Abstract: The negative character represents an essential narrative compositional element in folk fairy tales, being in opposition to the positive one. The two narrative instances may or may not tend towards a certain goal, sometimes common, sometimes different. In most cases, the destiny of the future hero, who has gone through the initiation stage, is decided by the negative character, with whom he must confront in the end. What are the reference points that guide us to consider a character, at a certain moment, the antagonist of the action? Is the presence of the antagonist in folk fairy tales singular or doubled, sometimes tripled depending on the situations and obstacles encountered by the hero during his initiatory journey. These are some of the premises from which we start to reveal the mythical-symbolic values of negative characters in fairy tales collected by I. G. Sbiera.

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