Group 101

Hasan Akhmedov
Activity 2 Comparative Analyses Essay
Comparative Analyses of Russian folktale “МОРОЗКО” by N.A.Nekrasov,
Fairy Tales by the Grimm Brothers “Mother Holle” and “Zumrad va
Qimmat” written by Uzbek folktale.
It is real fact that fairy tales are crucial part of our childhood memories and tools,
which can help our parents so as to bring youngsters up. As Aaron Sorkin says as
long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that
fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable. It is undeniable true that a fairy tale is
a story, often intended for children, that features fanciful and wondrous characters
such as elves, goblins, wizards, and even, but not necessarily, fairies. The term
“fairy” tale seems to refer more to the fantastic and magical setting or magical
influences within a story, rather than the presence of the character of a fairy within
that story. Fairy tales are often traditional and many were passed down from story-
teller to story-teller before being recorded in books. They belong to no one and
have been adapted and retold countless times. Fairy tales do not need to be written
down to be legitimate. Many fairy tales that our parents or grandparents may have
told us off the top of their heads are also fairy tales. For example, stories of the
Grimm Brothers, Zumrad and Qimmat , Morozko and so on. If a story takes place
in a magical land, with fantastical creatures who perform wondrous tasks, it is very
likely a fairy tale. Fairy tales always teach us be able to differentiate kindness from
evil and impel us to find our right way in our career. Actually, fairy tales are based
on the country’s culture and history, which many characteristics are not really
existed in real life. They are just symbolic examples of indigenous people, who
live in that society. All the following three tales have similar points and consist of
nearly same characters like an old man with his beautiful, charming, polite
daughter and cruel woman with her lazy, impolite daughter.
According to the first fairy tale, namely Father Frost (Morozko), an evil
stepmother and her daughter lived in Russia with her husband and his daughter.
The stepmother neglects and mistreats her stepdaughter until one day she says to
her husband, now old man, I want you to take thy daughter away from my eyes,
away from my ears. The old man could not take her into a warm house (izba). An
izba is a Russian country home. His father had to take her into the forest, which is
wide fields to the crackling frost. While this saddens the man, he follows his wife's
commands and takes his daughter in a sleigh to the woods where he leaves her.
When Father Frost approaches her, the girl is so polite that instead of freezing her,
he brings her a trunk filled with fines clothing, including a warm coat (schouba),
which is an overcoat lined in fur, silk quilts, and a blue satin, which is a beautiful
pinafore that is decorated with silver and pearls. Filled with greediness an old lady
ordered her husband to take her daughter to the same place, where her stepdaughter
stayed and gained precious coat. An old man did as she wanted and came back
home immediately. After a few hours the gates creaked, the old woman rushed to
meet her daughter and her daughter lies in a sleigh dead, because of being impolite
with Father Frost she was turned in ice, as a result the old woman screamed, but
had already been late. Similar with Russian fairy tale the events took place in a
small village and there were and old man with his kind, pretty daughter and his evil
wife with her mean daughter. Their names were Zumrad, who did every house-
working, while her stepsister did not do anything by complaining about work, that
done by Zumrad. In contrast to Morozko and Mother Holle Zumrad’s father did
not intent to leave her in the forest alone, he initially planned to live with her
daughter but unfortunately Zumrad was taken by an old wise women to her small
house, where she made an old woman be pleased by helping her with all
housework and took a cache with full of the jewelries. By seeing Zumrad with gift
her stepsister insisted on getting such kind of cache, so her father left her in the
middle of the forest alone and she went with that wise woman, but she was given a
small cache, that was filled with only single ring. When she came home, with her
mother, Qimmat were locked in the cache and it disappeared in a short time. The
last fairy tale, called Mother Holle in contrast to Uzbek tale was written by Grimm
Brothers. The event of the tale is nearly similar to other two tales, while characters
less than the others. According to the tale a cruel mother makes her stepdaughter
jump into the well after the girl accidentally drops her shuttle into the well. The
girl wakes in a large meadow where she does work that needs to be done. Finally,
she comes to the house of a little old woman. The girl stays and works for this
woman until realizes she is sad and missing her home. Mother Holle leads the girl
to a large door, hands her the shuttle, and then showers the girl with a gold
covering. The mother's daughter wants to be blessed as well, so she jumps into the
well also. This girl, however, does not do the work that needs to be done, and in
the end Mother Holle showers this girl with pitch instead of gold.
To sum up all the following three national fairy tales are based on the cultural and
historical background of the nation. Every fairy tale has their own educational and
features of modesty. Furthermore, such kind of useful fairy tales are not only
absolutely vital sources for upbringing young generation, but also are very
dependable facts, that play an important role in the process of impel young learners
be able to differentiate positive and negative aspects of the life and get them to
appreciate older people in their society.