HUMA 2680 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Red Riding
4 Apr 2016
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Hans andersen was not only a writer but he was also a performer. Andersen writes these stories himself there are no adaptations or different versions like. His language is different his characters are given a sense of personality. In fairytales many characters are just names (evil step mother, step sister) however andersen gives characteristics and personality to his characters which gives a sense of who these people are as individuals. He uses inanimate objects and gives them a sense of life. Some of his stories are only about inanimate objects coming to life (characters like china objects, tin soldier, paper. He even uses animals in a very different way in comparison to other stories by giving them characteristics (ugly duckling is a well defined character rather than the birds in one version of cinderella). Folktales serve a different kind of purpose depending on the authors.
