Fairy tales are very important for developing the worldview of children. In many cultures, they are used as an early method of teaching kids the difference between good and bad, courage and cowardice, love and hatred, and many other basic concepts a human must be able to differentiate. To examine the very essence of the Fairy Tale, its history, morphology, and structure, specialists have been trying to classify it in many different ways. However, modern scientists conclude that none of the existing methods of classification can be considered absolutely accurate. For instance, the approach offered Wundt supposes division of tails into 7 groups, but the definition of each group is vague and actual classification becomes a hard task, because a single fairy tale may possess characteristics intrinsic to several groups at once. The ten categories proposed by Volkov also do not stand up to criticism due to mix up arising, since one tale might contain elements allowing to attribute it to several categories at the same time. Aarne Thompson classification or Vladimir Propps functions are also not exhaustive as some scholars note. Kadirova Nargiza Arifovna "Uzbek Folktalemislabu: Motifs and Applicability of Propp’s Functions" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Special Issue | Innovative Development of Modern Research , April 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd39884.pdf Paper URL : https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/other/39884/uzbek-folktalemislabu-motifs-and-applicability-of-propp’s-functions/kadirova-nargiza-arifovna
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Special Issue on Innovative Development of Modern Research
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Uzbek Folktalemislabu: Motifs and
Applicability of Propp’s Functions
Kadirova Nargiza Arifovna
Senior Teacher, PhD at the Department of English Language in Humanities,
Bukhara State University, Bukhara, Uzbekistan
Fairy Tale - a traditional story written for children that usually involves imaginary creatures and magic.1
ABSTRACT
Fairy tales are very important for developing the worldview
of children. In many cultures, they are used as an early
method of teaching kids the difference between good and
bad, courage and cowardice, love and hatred, and many
other basic concepts a human must be able to differentiate.
To examine the very essence of the Fairy Tale, its history,
morphology, and structure, specialists have been trying to
classify it in many different ways. However, modern
scientists conclude that none of the existing methods of
classification can be considered absolutely accurate. For
instance, the approach offered Wundt2supposes division of
tails into 7 groups, but the definition of each group is vague
and actual classification becomes a hard task, because a
single fairy tale may possess characteristics intrinsic to
several groups at once. The ten categories proposed by
Volkov3 also do not stand up to criticism due to mix-up
arising, since one tale might contain elements allowing to
attribute it to several categories at the same time. Aarne-
Thompson classification or Vladimir Propp's functions are
also not exhaustive as some scholars note.
KEYWORDS: function, motif, fairy tale, classification
One of the basic causes of the classification problems is the
extremely vast variety of fairy tale types, elements, motifs
and plots. Analyzing the fairy tales of different nations
readers can notice th