Project

Italy’s F

Hailee Boyce, Vanessa Rom

Folklore

mero, and Nicholas Luttrell

Archetypal Characte

Most of Italy’s folklore archetypal characte
villains are apart of the family of the charac

Example: In “The Griffin” the villains were t
brother after the found the griffin feather o

Example: In “The Language of Animals” th
son told people he could speak the langua

ers

ers have a villian of some sort. Most of the
cters.

the brothers who had killed their own
on him.

he father wanted to kill his son after his
age of dogs, frogs, and birds.

Archetypal Characte

The second most repeated character seem
Innocent characters seemed to be the cha
something they didn’t do. While the heros
expected to be

Example: In “The Language of Animals” th
people by talking to animals and helping th

Example: In “In Love with a Statue” the inn
sacrificed in the story

ers

med to be Innocent and Hero. The
aracters that were blamed and hurt for

seemed to be mostly people that weren’t

he son was hero because he had saved
he people by doing so.

nocent was the children that were

Archetypal Narrative

The narrative patterns of most of the storie
quests usually dealt with the King. They w

Example: In the story “Crab”, the King send
ring.

Example: In the story “The Griffin”, the King
feather of a Griffin.

e Patterns

es contained a quest of some sort. The
were sent to find something for the King.
ds an astrologer on a quest to find his

g sends his sons on a quest to find a

Archetypal Narrative

Another narrative pattern is someone is re
by the King or people who cared.

Example: In the story “Crab”, the astrologe
people who really stole the ring.

Example: In the story “In Love with a Statu
coming back to life by the magician.

e Patterns

ewarded. Whether they were rewarded

er is rewarded by the King and the

ue”, the woman is rewarded with her kids

Symbols/Motifs

In italian literature, most of the stories have
something spiritual or religious, a symbol w
the reader. In the story Vardiello, a symbol i
born naturally beautiful but has an ugly pers
something

e a symbol; Either its representing
will always try to make a point across to
in the story is that the main character was

sonality which tries to symbolize

Symbols/Motifs

Example: In the story “The Griffin”, the Kin
was in many of the stories

Example: In the story “Vineyard I was and
vineyard was the chamber.

Example: In the story “Vineyard I was and
the Lions Claw was the King.

ng symbolizes a good man. This symbol
d Vineyard I am”, the symbol was that the
d Vineyard I am”, another symbol was that

Cultural Values

In Italy it appears they value honesty in the

Example: In “The Fool” they value honesty
tolerated

Example: In “The Language of the Animals
becoming the Pope.

eir culture.
y by believing that gossiping isn’t

s” they rewarded honesty by the son

Cultural Values

Also they seem to value Beauty and Love
Example: In the story “Vardiello” they value
Example: In “In Love with a Statue” they se

in their culture
ed her beauty in the story
eemed to value love

Universal Themes

Most of the italian stories we have chosen
universal theme is an idea that applies to a
or geographic location. All of our stories e
for example; the story The Vineyard i Was
theme and the story The Language of Anim

n have a dissimilar universal theme. A
anyone regardless of cultural differences,
either have a religious and spiritual theme
and The Vineyard i Am has a spiritual
mals has a religious theme

Universal Themes

In Italy's themes in the story they seem to
believing in everything

Example: In “The Griffin” is was mostly abo

Example: In the story “ Vineyard I was and
things are not always as they appear.

mainly have Good vs. Evil themes and not

out good vs. evil in this story
d Vineyard I am” the theme was about that