샤를 페로와 그림 형제 동화의 비교 - 「잠자는 숲 속의 미녀La belle au bois dormant」와 「가시장미공주Dornröschen」
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Comparison of the fairy tales by Charles Perrot and the Grimm Brothers
‐ A Focus on <La belle au bois dormant> and <Dornröschen>
Park, Ji-whe
Fairy tale, in a broad sense, is a form of adaptation since it often originates from folktale that had been transferred from mouth to mouth among people over time. Such is the case for the two fairy tale stories we chose to analyze in this paper, <The Sleeping beauty> by Charles Perrault and <Dornröschen> by the Grimm Brothers. Having a similar storyline, these two fairy tales are believed to both originate from <The Sun, The Moon and Thalia> in <Pentamerone Ⅱ> written by Basile of Italy in the 16th century. However, significant differences are found between the texts of Perrault and the Grimm brothers and that of Basile, due to the differences in the basic notions of fairy tales, the purpose of writing fairy tales, and the political and cultural environment of different eras. Perrault used fairy tale as a tool for victory in the power battle with the Académie Française in the 17th century. He recognized fairy tales as prototypical french stories and regarded them as a model for didactic literature for both children and adults. The Grimm Brothers, on the other hand, collected folktales in order to preserve German ethnic culture and limited fairy tales to stories only for the children. Accordingly, compared to the Perrault's, the Grimm brothers' fairy tales tend to have many obscene or cruel parts removed from the original folktales and become more sentimental in the contents. Such patterns are confirmed in our semiotic analysis of <Dornröschen> and <The Sleeping beauty> in Chapter 3 of this paper. For example, <Dornröschen> finishes with happy ending in Part 1, without the cruel "ogresse plot" in the Part 2 of <The Sleeping beauty>. Also in the <Dornröschen>, the fairy's character is largely reduced compared to Perrault's text, which enhances the mysterious, magical, and romantic mood..
<Dornröschen> also perfectly realizes the intemporality an original feature of fairy tale, by unifying the flow of the objective time with the subjective time of the characters who fall asleep for 100 years. In comparison, the Perrault's text alerts a reader to the flow of the objective time, and hence it does not intend a reader to completely immerse into the world of fiction.
The Perrault's text, in contrast to the Grimm brothers', also realizes the punishment of evil by setting up the appearance of the "Ogresse plot" that has no presence in the Basile's text. This is related with Perrault's view on literature, which takes morality to be more important than anything else in the literature.
