- Title
- An analysis of the characterisation and transformation of the evil queen as depicted through traditional folklore narrative in comparison to contemporary television storytelling
- Creator
- Le Clue,Natalie
- Subject
- Storytelling in literature Folk literature-- History and criticism Digital Storytelling
- Date Issued
- 2017
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/44493
- Identifier
- vital:37851
- Description
- In 1812 The Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published a recorded folklore narrative of a young princess named Snow White and her evil stepmother, the queen.Through the decades and centuries that followed this first introduction the character of the Evil Queen has been portrayed and presented in a plethora of narrative structures and media. This paper has sought to analyse the characterization and transformation of Snow White’s Evil Queen as she has been depicted from traditional folklore narrative through to contemporary television storytelling. Following an in-depth literature review that sought to establish the origin of folklore, the first presentations of the Evil Queen character, a motif of the character, and the fan’s perception of the character in contemporary form, the findings of the paper were established through a detailed content analysis of character. It is evident that the modes of storytelling have evolved and changed significantly through time since Propp introduced character theory. However, the contemporary fairy tale character and narrative has not yet completely redefined his theory. Instead it has restructured and modernized the theory and made it more relevant to the 21st century method of television storytelling.
- Format
- viii,159 leaves
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Arts
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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