Russian Folklore

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airy Tales

Archetypal

A majority of the Archetypal Characters ar
them but there is always a villain. The villa
and always gets punished. The good guy

Characters

re villains. There is a protagonist in all of
ain is always the bad guy in the stories
always gets rewarded.

Archetypal

An example of the Archetypal Characters
Archetypal Characters were, The emperor
protagonist.

Characters

is in the story “The Good Children”. The
r- villain, the three brother and father -

Archetypal Nar

The narrative patterns of the russian storie
common pattern was a greedy, cruel, or u
behaves unfairly. Stories with this pattern
by an older relative. This narrative pattern
characters in these stories are usually an
relative.

rrative Patterns

es we read were very diverse. The most
unjust relative/person in power who

usually had a young kid getting abused
n is seen in story all across the world. The

innocent protagonist and an evil sibling/

Archetypal Nar

A great example of this narrative pattern is
marries a woman, but the women hates h
whole story and eventually snaps. She tric
house who she believed would kill them.

rrative Patterns

s in “The Witch”. In this story an man
his kids. She treats them horribly the
cks them into going to an evil witch’s

Symbols

Many of the symbolistic characters in the
The character represented by vice is the v
protagonist.

The seven deadly vices/sins are, pride, w
sloth. The most common vices in the russ
Avarice, meaning the obsession of materi
by a character in power. Wrath is almost e

s/Motifs

stories represented a vice or a virtue.
villain and the virtue character is the

wrath, envy, gluttony, avarice, lust, and
sian stories were avarice and wrath.
ial goods, is represented in many stories
every story that has a villain.

Symbols

The 7 virtues are, humility, mercy, kindnes
diligence. The virtues aren’t as repetitive a
represented in a story in some way. There

An example of this is in “Dimian and the P
over to do task for him and when they wou
One day a man actually did the tasks and
represents wrath because he would simpl

s/Motifs

ss, temperance, charity, chastity, and
as the vices. With the virtues everyone is
e are none that are in every story.

Peasant”. Dimian would invite people
uldn’t do them he would beat them up.
d it made Dimian even more mad. Dimian
ly try to hurt for no reason.

Cultural

The majority of the Russian stories had similar cultura
values.

There were some that valued power and wealth.

Examples: “Dimian the peasant”, everyone obeyed him
he would talk with his fist.”Spirit treasure”, the people tha
getting the money valued the money gratelly.

There were also a few that had Trust and Honesty.

Examples: “Father Frost”, The father wasn’t honest about h

daughter but instead hid her. “God and the Devil”, God lost tr
the devil since the devil betrayed him.”Who lived in the Skull”
mouse and other animals trusted each other. They trusted the
too but instead he crushed them.

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Universal

- The universal themes for the stories i
punished”

- Some of them were a little different bu
- Most stories had the exact same them
- Then there was others with themes th

l Themes

is “Good is rewarded and evil is

ut mainly they were the same
mes or there was a very small difference
hat had nothing to do with each other

Universal

Example 1: In God and the Devil the them
punished

Example 2: In Spirit Treasure the theme is
rewarded, do the wrong thing and you will

l Themes

me is that good is rewarded and evil is

s do the right thing and you will be
l be punished