A study on the role of animals in Naoko Awa’s literary fairy tales

• Main Authors: Liu Lien Yin, 劉廉英
• Other Authors: Yu Pei Yun
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/225935

碩士 === 國立臺東大學 === 兒童文學研究所 === 98 === In Naoko Awa's literary fairy tales, there are most of special characteristics that much like a fiction is featured impressively in the plot in which portrayed her characters to the life; human and animals well up with friendly affection and fullness of heart for each other and express it with kindness; The human touch remains throughout as well as warmth. The object of this paper is based on five fairy tales that published by China Times Publishing Co. are 《Song of Wind and Trees》、《The story of the sea at dusk》、《Forests of white parrot》、《Silver Peacock》、《Wild Rose Village distant》(《風と木の歌》、《日暮れの海の物語》、《白いおうむの森》、《銀のくじゃく》、《遠い野ばらの村》). In this paper, by textual analysis we explore what the meanings those animals are on behalf of in Naoko Awa's literary fairy tales; Also, we would like to know what the technique author used to describe the role of animals and what function the role of animals played with. Expect to sum up the meaning of the role of animals in fairy tales from those works. Through an analysis of how Naoko Awa's use the role of animals to occur across contexts, we learn the works deeply and consider the question from different point of view. The content consists of five chapters. Chapter one is a preface. Three verses are in Chapter two that covers a biography of Naoko Awa and whose creative ideas, an introduction to works of Naoko Awa and a brief sketch of the role of animals in her fairy tales. Chapter three discloses Naoko Awa’s portrait techniques for the role of animals in fairy tales. Chapter four describes what the function of the role of animals Naoko Awa gives in fairy tales. Chapter five is a conclusion as below. A. In Naoko Awa's portrait techniques, the animal are bestowed on the sentient in nature a status of individual humanness, supernatural power and mission, and are described with the remaining animal form, which enables the role of animals have a key function in helping mankind with warning against impending natural or man-made disasters, depressed person to get treatment, well function in culture medium and the elimination of confusion and frustration like a wise elder. B. The new mission that the animals were bestowed upon in Naoko Awa's literary fairy tales is only to only to get along with the whole creation so that the meaning and the worth of life is discoverable via experience. C. Naoko Awa makes fairy tales in the field of children's literature a new style and features. A single motif of this children’s literature, Fairy Tales, is here presented to create the subject matters. This presentation may serve as a reference point in writing.