The Sleeping Beauty Fairy Tale: An Analysis on Propp’s the Functions of Dramatis Personae
Abstract
ABSTRACT
This paper is aimed at analyzing the sleeping beauty fairy tale using Vladimir Propp’sfunctions of dramatis personae. The analysis utilizes thirty one functions, however, not all that functions occur in a tale. These functions create a main framework in the story (Propp, 1968:25—65). The analysis reveals similarity between The Sleeping Beauty with any other folktale which came from Rusia. There are thirty one functions of dramatis personae which can be distributed into seven spheres of actions. From these seven spheres of actions, there are seven characters that usually appear in the fairy tales. But in The Sleeping Beauty there are only five characters since there is no helper and false hero in this story.
Keywords: Sleeping Beauty, functions of dramatis personae, seven spheres of actions
Full text article
References
Grimm, Jacob L.C dan Wilhelm C.(1993). The Sleeping Beauty in The Complete I llustrated Fairy Tales of The Brothers Grimm. 2nd published. Wordsworth Editions.
Propp, Vladimir. 1968. Morphology of the Folktale. University of Texas Press.
(http://
Authors
Copyright (c) 2016 TELL
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work