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23 Versions of Goldilocks and the three bears stories. Read various versions of this classic story. Have fun comparing these fractured fairy tales.
23 Versions of Goldilocks and the Three Bears Story
We all know and love this classic story. It is so fun to read different versions of Goldilocks and the Three Bears story. Whether you’re comparing and contrasting or just reading them for fun, students are sure to enjoy these fractured fairy tales.
#1 Goldie and the Three Hares by Margie Palatini
Goldilocks falls down a rabbit hole while running from the three bears. In the beginning, Mama Hare, Papa Hare, and Little Baby Hare try their hardest to make the “just right” environment for Goldi and her injured foot. Their feelings quickly change and they come up with a plan to get her out of there.
This book is included in this Engaging Readers Unit:
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears Story Unit of Study: Reading Comprehension Unit
#2 Deep in the Forest by Brinton Turkle
A wonderful wordless picture book that tells the story of a little bear that wanders into a country home. He finds his way to the little girl’s bed before he is scared away. Wordless books are great for developing vocabulary and oral language.
#3 Goldy Luck and the Three Pandas by Natasha Yim
A fun Chinese twist about a little girl and three pandas. Goldy visits her panda neighbors to finds them not home. She makes herself comfortable on Little Chan’s futon after eating his rice porridge and breaking his rocking chair.
This book is included in this Engaging Readers Unit:
- ENGAGING READERS FAIRY TALES & FOLK TALES EDITION K-2
#4 Goldilocks and the Three Bears story retold by James Marshall
A naughty Goldilocks takes the shortcut through the forest on her way to buy muffins. Meanwhile, three brown bears take a bicycle ride while their porridge cools. Goldilocks finds her way inside a house and soon discovers who it belongs to.
This book is included in this Engaging Readers Unit:
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears Unit of Study: Reading Comprehension Unit
#5 Goldi Rocks and the Three Bears by Corey Rosen Schwartz & Beth Coulton
A rock-and-roll bear family is looking for a singer for their band.
While they set out to find one, Goldi Rocks finds herself trying out musical instruments inside their home. The bears come home to find Goldi asleep on the piano. She awakes with a scream that is a perfect high C. So of course, she joins the band!
#6 Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Caralyn Buehner
A jump-roping Goldilocks is looking for jump-roping friends. She jumps her way through the bear’s house eating porridge, breaking a chair and lastly, taking a nap.
This book is included in this Engaging Readers Unit:
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears Unit of Study: Reading Comprehension Unit
#7 Me and You by Anthony Browne
This Goldilocks and The Three Bears story is truly a unique version. The story pattern is similar to the traditional Goldilocks and the Three Bears, but the illustrations are so neat and different. One side of the page is about the three bears; whereas, the other side shows only pictures of “Goldilocks” and how she finds her way into the bear’s home.
#8 Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs by Mo Willems
I love that Mo Willems wrote a fractured version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. It does have a bit of a twist, though. Three dinosaurs have a plan to trap Goldilocks inside their home.
This book is included in this Engaging Readers Unit:
- Reading Comprehension: Engaging Readers: JUNE NO PREP ELA Unit for K-1
#9 Goldilocks and Just One Bear by Leigh Hodgkinson
I had to have this book on the my list as it is an interesting version of the Goldilocks and the Three bears story! A bear gets lost in the big, loud city. He finds a quiet apartment and takes a rest. The bear awakes to loud shouting and soon recognizes a special person from his past.
#10 Goldie Socks and the Three Libearians by Jackie Mims Hopkins
Goldie Socks discovers a cottage made of books. She cautiously peeks inside to find a library. She finds a book and a place to read that was just right for her.
Soon after, the three libearians return from lunch and join her for a story.
#11 Leola and the Honeybears by Melodye Benson Rosales
This Goldilocks and the Three Bears story is an African-American retelling. Leola takes a stroll away from her Grandmama’s cottage and gets lost in the woods. She runs away from sly Ol’ Mister Weasel and finds a house with some yummy pie. She soon meets the Honeybear family, who helps Leola find her way back to her Grandmother.
#12 Goldiclucks and the Three Bears by Charlotte Guillan
A small chick named Goldiclucks plays the role of Goldilocks in this fractured fairy tale.
#13 Dusty Locks and the Three Bears by Susan Lowell
A fun western twist! Three grizzly bears get an unwelcome visit from a dirty little girl that ran away from home. Dusty Locks ate the bear cub’s red-hot beans, broke his stool, and slept on his little straw mattress.
#14 Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Gerda Muller
Goldilocks’ family worked in a circus.
One day, the traveling caravan stopped at the edge of a forest. Goldilocks went to pick some flowers and she stumbled upon a house in the woods.
#15 The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett
Aloo-ki finds the biggest igloo she’s ever seen. She looks inside and smells the delicious smell of soup. She goes in and tries on boots and finds a nice cozy place to sleep. The three polar bears return and Aloo-ki takes off to find her snow dogs.
#16 Rubia and the Three Osos by Susan Middleton Elya
A fun, Spanish flair in this fractured fairy tale. Little Miss Rubia gets away from the three bears but decides to do a good deed. She comes back to visit with some soup and glue to fix the chair.
#17 Tackylocks and the Three Bears by Helen Lester
Tacky and his penguin companions put on a play about the three bears for Mrs. Beakly’s school.
#18 Goldie and the Three Bears by Diane Stanley
Goldie was a picky little girl and knew exactly what she liked.
She had a hard time finding a “just right” friend until she got off the bus at the wrong stop and found someone new.
#19 Goldilocks and the Three Bears retold by Jan Brett
This book is full of beautiful illustrations and follows the original story pretty closely.
#20 Goatilocks and the Three Bears by Erica S. Perl
Goatilocks lived down the road from the family of bears. When the bears went for a walk, she decided to explore their house. After eating the porridge (and spoon), the chair, and the little bed she fell asleep on the floor. She felt bad and wanted to make things right, so she brought the bear family a gift they could all eat together.
#21 Believe Me, Goldilocks Rocks! by Nancy Loewen
Baby bear tells his version of Goldilocks and The Three Bears story. A cool modern twist in this fun story.
#22 Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Gennady Spirin
This book follows the traditional pattern and adds a Renaissance flair to the Goldilocks and The Three Bears story.
#23 Goldilocks Returns by Lisa Ernst
Goldilocks returns to the bears’ cabin several years later and does a little fixing up to make amends for her past behavior.
I hope you enjoyed these versions of Goldilocks and the Three Bears story!
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Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Goldilocks and the Three Bears was originally titled The Story of the Three Bears, published in the collection English Fairytales, retold by Flora Annie Steel (1922), illustrated by Arthur Rackham. We hope you think it's not too hot, not too cold, but JUST RIGHT!
This story is featured in our Favorite Fairy Tales.
Once upon a time there were three Bears, who lived together in a house of their own, in a wood.
One of them was a Little Wee Bear, and one was a Middle-sized Bear, and the other was a Great Big Bear. They had each a bowl for their porridge; a little bowl for the Little Wee Bear; and a middle-sized bowl for the Middle-sized Bear; and a great bowl for the Great Big Bear. And they had each a chair to sit in; a little chair for the Little Wee Bear; and a middle-sized chair for the Middle-sized Bear; and a great chair for the Great Big Bear. And they had each a bed to sleep in; a little bed for the Little Wee Bear; and a middle-sized bed for the Middle-sized Bear; and a great bed for the Great Big Bear.
One day, after they had made the porridge for their breakfast, and poured it into their porridge-bowls, they walked out into the wood while the porridge was cooling, that they might not burn their mouths by beginning too soon, for they were polite, well-brought-up Bears. And while they were away a little girl called Goldilocks, who lived at the other side of the wood and had been sent on an errand by her mother, passed by the house, and looked in at the window.
And then she peeped in at the keyhole, for she was not at all a well-brought-up little girl. Then seeing nobody in the house she lifted the latch. The door was not fastened, because the Bears were good Bears, who did nobody any harm, and never suspected that anybody would harm them. So Goldilocks opened the door and went in; and well pleased was she when she saw the porridge on the table. If she had been a well-brought-up little girl she would have waited till the Bears came home, and then, perhaps, they would have asked her to breakfast; for they were good Bears—a little rough or so, as the manner of Bears is, but for all that very good-natured and hospitable. But she was an impudent, rude little girl, and so she set about helping herself.
First she tasted the porridge of the Great Big Bear, and that was too hot for her. Next she tasted the porridge of the Middle-sized Bear, but that was too cold for her. And then she went to the porridge of the Little Wee Bear, and tasted it, and that was neither too hot nor too cold, but just right, and she liked it so well that she ate it all up, every bit!
Then Goldilocks, who was tired, for she had been catching butterflies instead of running on her errand, sate down in the chair of the Great Big Bear, but that was too hard for her.
And then she sate down in the chair of the Middle-sized Bear, and that was too soft for her. But when she sat down in the chair of the Little Wee Bear, that was neither too hard nor too soft, but just right. So she seated herself in it, and there she sate till the bottom of the chair came out, and down she came, plump upon the ground; and that made her very cross, for she was a bad-tempered little girl.
Now, being determined to rest, Goldilocks went upstairs into the bedchamber in which the Three Bears slept. And first she lay down upon the bed of the Great Big Bear, but that was too high at the head for her. And next she lay down upon the bed of the Middle-sized Bear, and that was too high at the foot for her. And then she lay down upon the bed of the Little Wee Bear, and that was neither too high at the head nor at the foot, but just right. So she covered herself up comfortably, and lay there till she fell fast asleep.
By this time the Three Bears thought their porridge would be cool enough for them to eat it properly; so they came home to breakfast.
Now careless Goldilocks had left the spoon of the Great Big Bear standing in his porridge.
"SOMEBODY HAS BEEN AT MY PORRIDGE!"
said the Great Big Bear in his great, rough, gruff voice.
Then the Middle-sized Bear looked at his porridge and saw the spoon was standing in it too.
"SOMEBODY HAS BEEN AT MY PORRIDGE!"
said the Middle-sized Bear in his middle-sized voice.
Then the Little Wee Bear looked at his, and there was the spoon in the porridge-bowl, but the porridge was all gone!
"SOMEBODY HAS BEEN AT MY PORRIDGE, AND HAS EATEN IT ALL UP!"
said the Little Wee Bear in his little wee voice.
Upon this the Three Bears, seeing that some one had entered their house, and eaten up the Little Wee Bear's breakfast, began to look about them. Now the careless Goldilocks had not put the hard cushion straight when she rose from the chair of the Great Big Bear.
"SOMEBODY HAS BEEN SITTING IN MY CHAIR!"
said the Great Big Bear in his great, rough, gruff voice.
And the careless Goldilocks had squatted down the soft cushion of the Middle-sized Bear.
"SOMEBODY HAS BEEN SITTING IN MY CHAIR!"
said the Middle-sized Bear in his middle-sized voice.
"SOMEBODY HAS BEEN SITTING IN MY CHAIR, AND HAS SATE THE BOTTOM THROUGH!"
said the Little Wee Bear in his little wee voice.
Then the Three Bears thought they had better make further search in case it was a burglar, so they went upstairs into their bedchamber. Now Goldilocks had pulled the pillow of the Great Big Bear out of its place.
"SOMEBODY HAS BEEN LYING IN MY BED!"
said the Great Big Bear in his great, rough, gruff voice.
And Goldilocks had pulled the bolster of the Middle-sized Bear out of its place.
"SOMEBODY HAS BEEN LYING IN MY BED!"
said the Middle-sized Bear in his middle-sized voice.
But when the Little Wee Bear came to look at his bed, there was the bolster in its place! And the pillow was in its place upon the bolster!
And upon the pillow——?
There was Goldilocks's yellow head—which was not in its place, for she had no business there.
"SOMEBODY HAS BEEN LYING IN MY BED,—AND HERE SHE IS STILL!"
said the Little Wee Bear in his little wee voice.
Now Goldilocks had heard in her sleep the great, rough, gruff voice of the Great Big Bear; but she was so fast asleep that it was no more to her than the roaring of wind, or the rumbling of thunder. And she had heard the middle-sized voice of the Middle-sized Bear, but it was only as if she had heard some one speaking in a dream. But when she heard the little wee voice of the Little Wee Bear, it was so sharp, and so shrill, that it awakened her at once. Up she started, and when she saw the Three Bears on one side of the bed, she tumbled herself out at the other, and ran to the window. Now the window was open, because the Bears, like good, tidy Bears, as they were, always opened their bedchamber window when they got up in the morning. So naughty, frightened little Goldilocks jumped; and whether she broke her neck in the fall, or ran into the wood and was lost there, or found her way out of the wood and got whipped for being a bad girl and playing truant, no one can say.
But the Three Bears never saw anything more of her.
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Goldilocks and the Three Bears: aneitis — LiveJournal
"As Carl Levi-Strauss wrote: 'Let's start with the facts'"Let's follow this motto.
In his article, Leonid Chernov writes: "The fairy tale "Three Bears" today is perceived and presented as a folk tale, but meanwhile, it was invented by Tolstoy and is purely his author's work. Tolstoy's talent and the irony of time do their job in relation to this particular fairy tale - this tale is perceived as a folk tale" .
He is right about one thing - the fairy tale is really perceived as a folk tale. True, Tolstoy's talent has nothing to do with it, because it is popular. After looking through the collections of "Russian Folk Tales" by A. N. Afanasyev and not finding anything similar to the plot of "The Three Bears", Chernov, with his characteristic courage, comes to the conclusion: "there must be a primary source, and since it was not possible to find it, we believe, that it simply does not exist, and we consider this tale to be the work of Tolstoy" .
He believes so in vain - just in those blessed times of a careless attitude towards copyright, Tolstoy did not consider it necessary to mention the original source, and how could one guess that one should look for it not in Russian folklore, but in English. Now Wikipedia will tell anyone who is interested that this is a popular English fairy tale, well known since at least the beginning of 19centuries. However, in the pre-Internet era, it was probably not so easy to find out about this, and even now few people are interested, and therefore few people know. At best, they will remember that Tolstoy wrote it, but usually they continue to consider it Russian folk.
I also thought so and was quite surprised by this discovery when G. Spirin's book "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" fell into my hands:
The Three Bears is really an English fairy tale? - no one knew, and everyone was also very surprised)
But unexpectedly, the overseas origin is not the most surprising thing in the history of this tale.
She is amazing in itself, if you look closely, here Leonid Chernov is right again, and how right.
This fairy tale really stands out from the series of fairy tales about a girl who ended up in the forest, and there are many such: about Masha and the bear, about Snegurushka, about Snow White, about the dead princess, about Morozko, etc.
Firstly, the heroine impersonal. Nothing is said about her, she doesn't even have a name. It is not known how she got into the forest. That is, it is mentioned that she “left home for the forest” and got lost there, but we don’t know why she left - did her evil stepmother kick her out, did she run away herself, or simply went into the forest “for mushrooms, for berries”, but Why was she alone then? Such an ontogenetic gap is completely uncharacteristic of fairy tales - some description of the initial situation and motivation for the actions of the heroine is always given.
Secondly, having got into a strange house in a dense forest, the girl again behaves completely uncharacteristically.
That is, it is not typical for a positive heroine, who in such a situation must show all her best sides: be modest, show housekeeping and care - tidy up, cook dinner (and not eat someone else's) and wait for the owners to return. The girl in The Three Bears behaves exactly like a "bad sister", whose repulsive behavior in such tales is only intended to shade the virtues of the main character. But the bad sister at the end of the tale will certainly be punished.
However, thirdly, there is no punishment for wrong behavior at the end of the tale. The girl, who has pissed on a cute bear family for nothing, just jumps out the window and runs away - "and the bears did not catch up with her." It is not clear whether the girl is a positive heroine or a negative one.
It is pointless to look for answers to all these questions from Tolstoy, since he only made a slightly adapted translation without making any significant changes, so you have to turn to the original version. To begin with, to the same Russian translation of an English fairy tale made by G.
Spirin (you can see it in full here).
And then the first surprise awaited me. The tale of Goldilocks and the three bears does not begin with Goldilocks at all, but with bears!
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And this is not a trifle - after all, in this case, according to the logic of a fairy tale, the main characters are bears, and not a girl. And the initial situation turns out to be in place - it describes the life of bears:
True, no clear explanations of the reason for the appearance of Goldilocks in the forest are given here either: she invades the narrative just as unexpectedly as in the house of bears:
A little girl walks alone in the forest, wanders to an unfamiliar house and climbs in the window! Where are her parents and what are they thinking? This question remains as yet unanswered.
On the other hand, it becomes clear that the same initial situation is actually preserved in Tolstoy's fairy tale, albeit in a truncated form. He simply removed her from her rightful place at the beginning of the tale, which is why she was no longer perceived by readers as the original one.
Why did he do it? Obviously, in order to make the main character a girl, not bears. And this is logical: it is the girl who is the only active character here. Bears, in the English version, formally occupying the place of the main characters, behave passively throughout the story: they are only indignant, discovering new traces of intrusion into their home, and only the most injured baby bear cub tries to bite the girl, who, however, manages to escape with impunity from angry bears.
A strange picture emerges: the adults in this tale are completely passive and helpless. The girl's absent parents neglect her upbringing and safety concerns, leaving her free to roam where she pleases, behave inappropriately and get herself into dangerous situations; the bear cub's parents do not try to protect him: the baby, who has experienced a real shock - his dinner is eaten, his high chair is broken, his bed is occupied by an alien - is forced to independently defend his place in his home. Children do not receive instructions, support, or evaluation of their behavior from anyone.
Finally, the girl disappears into the forest as mysteriously as she appeared: it is not known whether she got home (and whether she has one at all) and whether she (and the child-listener with her) made the conclusion from what happened that it is possible encroach on someone else's property with impunity and you won't get anything for it, the main thing is to run away in time. However, it is quite possible that a prosperous child will associate himself more with a bear cub who has parents, a house, a blue cup, a high chair with a blue pillow and his own bed, than with a homeless girl who has arisen out of nowhere and violates all established rules, and in this case he will be left wondering why her misbehavior had no consequences.
The result of the tale is so unsatisfactory that parents and educators feel obliged to complete the "correct" beginning and end - or at least conduct an educational conversation after reading to make sure that the child does not draw undesirable conclusions.
This often manifests itself when transferring a fairy tale to the screen. In our 1958 cartoon, the girl gets a name and a grandmother, who gives her granddaughter the necessary instructions at the beginning and the necessary teachings at the end:
However, we have another, not so straightforward version 1984 years old - in it the original interpretation is achieved by other methods:
In numerous English cartoons at the end it is always emphasized that Goldilocks was very scared and never went into the forest again.
However, it is worth mentioning that not always everything ended so happily for Goldilocks: in some early versions, the bears ate her. However, now the girl simply explains that she was hungry and tired, repents and asks for forgiveness, and the softened bears send the bear cub to accompany her home.
In one variation, Goldilocks and the bear cub then play together and become friends.
In another, mom is shown pouring porridge out of her bowl for a baby bear, while dad is fixing his chair.
The girl has a house and a mother who reminds her that she should not go into the forest (or at least go far), and it is noteworthy that often the story begins with a show not of the bear's house, but of Goldilocks, that is, she moves to her the rightful place of the main character.
It remains unclear why the original story exists in such an "unfinished" form, clearly in need of improvement.
Leonid Chernov, who considers Tolstoy the author of the tale, believes that Tolstoy “trimmed” it deliberately, prompting parents to invent the missing elements on their own. I don’t know why Tolstoy would have this, who even included multi-page explanations and teachings in his works for adults, not trusting the reader to draw conclusions on his own, but we already know that Tolstoy only translated a folk tale (and it’s rather surprising that he didn’t add anything from myself). And for folklore, such semi-finished products are completely uncharacteristic.
I had to dig further - the explanation could be found in older versions of the tale, because sometimes the story undergoes significant changes over time.
And then a second surprise awaited.
Comparison of two fairy tales, the English "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" and the Russian "Mashenka and the Three Bears"
The relevance of the work
Nowadays, English has become an international language of communication. Knowledge of English is becoming an integral part of modern life. Therefore, at present, the subject of English is chosen for study by the majority of students. In order to master English, it is not enough to know grammar alone. It is necessary to constantly replenish your vocabulary and apply new words in practice. Therefore, reading English-language literature is one of the most important aspects of effective learning. It is through him that we learn new words and expressions that we need for free communication. Reading books, texts in English without a translator, with an intuitive understanding of unfamiliar words, simplifies the learning process.
The easiest texts to read are fairy tales, without complex words, phrases, interesting and entertaining, they are easy to read. It is much easier to understand a fairy tale without knowing some words than other literature. Thus, reading fairy tales in English is much more effective than memorizing complex words. At all times it was interesting to study the creativity of different countries. Comparing three tales of Russian and English folklore, one can find many interesting facts. This, of course, helps in studying the culture of countries, and also makes it possible to replenish vocabulary.
Purpose
To study the Russian folk tale "The Three Bears" and the English folk tale for children "Goldilocks and the Three Bears".
Tasks:
- Study the Russian folk tale "The Three Bears" and the English folk tale "Goldilocks and the Three Bears".
- Analyze the features of Russian and English folk tales.
- Find common and distinctive features of these fairy tales
The subject of the research is the common and distinctive features of Russian folk and English folk tales.
Object of study: Russian and English folk tales.
Hypothesis:
I suppose that if you know the comparative features of Russian and English fairy tales, then you can better understand the composition of the fairy tale, the artistic means of the language.
Research methods
- Study of literature
- Working with Internet resources
- Comparison of the role, plot, structure, morality, characteristics of the main characters
Introduction
A fairy tale is a genre of literary creativity, there are folk and literary tales
A folk tale is an epic genre of written and oral folk art, a prosaic oral story about fictitious events in the folklore of different peoples. A type of narrative, mostly prose folklore, which includes works of various genres, the texts of which are based on fiction. Fairy tale folklore opposes “authentic” folklore narrative
A literary fairy tale is an epic genre: a work oriented towards fiction, closely related to a folk tale, but, unlike it, belonging to a specific author, which did not exist before publication in oral form and had no variants .
A literary fairy tale either imitates a folklore one (a literary fairy tale written in a folk poetic style), or creates a didactic work based on non-folklore plots. The folk tale historically precedes the literary one.
Funny and sad, scary and funny, they are familiar to us from childhood. Our first ideas about the world, good and evil, about justice are connected with them.
Fairy tales are loved by both children and adults. They inspire writers and poets, composers and artists. Based on fairy tales, performances and films are staged, operas and ballets are created. Fairy tales have come to us from ancient times. They were told by poor wanderers, tailors, retired soldiers.
Folk tales are divided into three groups:
- fairy tales about animals - the most ancient kind of fairy tale. They have their own circle of heroes. Animals talk and act like people. The fox is always cunning, the wolf is stupid and greedy, the hare is cowardly.
- household tales - the heroes of these tales - a peasant, a soldier, a shoemaker - live in the real world and usually fight with a gentleman, priest, general.
They win thanks to resourcefulness, intelligence and courage. - fairy tales - heroes of fairy tales fight for life and death, defeat enemies, save friends, encountering evil spirits. Most of these tales are connected with the search for a bride or a kidnapped wife.
A fairy tale has a strong effect on the subconscious of a person, and not only children, but also adults. In the fairy tale, in a symbolic form, many problems and conflicts are worked out through which every person goes through or will have to go through in his life. A fairy tale can be remotely compared with an instruction. Each manual has a troubleshooting section at the end. And from a fairy tale you can understand how the inhabitants of different nations would have acted in a given situation. After all, it is not for nothing that the word "fairy tale" has one root with the word "skaz". Tell, retell - all these words have the root "skaz". But if you go a little deeper, then we can assume that “skaz” = “kaz”, indicate, show, mandate.
But the word "punish", "punishment"? Here, too, it can be assumed that a person, through punishment, receives an instigation that it is impossible to do this in the future. Now we return and get: a fairy tale - a fairy tale - a kaz - a mandate. The etymology of this word confirms that the fairy tale was created as a mandate, a lesson, a help in life. And the English have fairy tales - fairy stories. The good fairy tells stories, and the children learn how to act in a given situation.
First, a little digression into history. Probably, when you used to sit down to read the Russian folk tale "Three Bears", you could not even imagine that the fairy tale "Three Bears" is an English fairy tale. And yet, this is true. In the English original "Goldilocks and the Three Bears". And in Russian, the most common version appeared in the translation of L. N. Tolstoy. And we had a chance to read a literary translation. True, the main character of Tolstoy does not have a name, they simply say “girl”.
And only later, when the fairy tale really came out to the people, did the Russian name Mashenka appear.
Goldilocks, Papa Bear Father; Mama Bear - Mother Bear; Baby Bear - Bear cub.
Actors
They think and talk.
Masha went into the forest and got lost, she was hungry and saw a house.
They think and talk.
Goldilocks went to the forest to play, saw a house and went into it.
The beginning of a fairy tale
Once upon a time there was a girl named Masha
Beginning no
Ending
Masha opened her eyes, rushed to the window and ran away.
Goldilocks was so frightened that she ran out of the house and never came back.
Magic numbers
Triple situations: three plates, three spoons, three chairs, three beds, three bears.
Triple situations: three plates, three beds, three bears.
Suffixation
The use of words with suffixes that express a diminutive - pet meaning (-ushk-, -echk-, -enk-, -ok-).
Location
House in the forest where bears live.
A house in the forest where bears live.
Artistic means of language
Epithets (adjectives)
Big and shaggy, roared in a terrible voice, squeaked in a thin voice.
Large, small, average
Folk colloquial words and expressions
Moarse, cup
There is no morality in folk tales, since a fairy tale is a fiction, a tale, a fiction. The Russian fairy tale, despite the external similarity of the plot and characters with the English fairy tale, is more lively, bright, and imaginative.
It has more epithets, onomatopoeia, songs. This is due to the ancient tradition of telling a fairy tale to music and its theatricalization.
Conclusion
Fairy tales are the most ancient creations of the human spirit. The fairy tale is one of the most popular and beloved genres in folklore and literature.
We didn't know how to walk yet, but we already heard fairy tales from our mothers and grandmothers.
How many fairy tales we have already heard and read from early childhood! Russian and English, French and Polish, Danish, Swedish and Spanish. And there are none among them that we do not like. There were fairy tales, similar to each other and not similar, there were funny and sad, long and short. But boring and stupid never came across!
As adults, we read fairy tales ourselves and will read and study them for a long time to come. And while reading, we always plunge into their fantastic, magical and at the same time so alive and real world. Each fabulous image comes to life in the imagination brighter than film or television footage.
And this is no coincidence. After all, a fairy tale is a perfect product of the national spirit, honed over centuries or even millennia.
Any internal movement of a fairy tale, any of its characters, any word in a sentence was weighed and verified many times before becoming what we see them now.
There is nothing superfluous in a fairy tale. Everything is in its right place, precisely fitted. And so the fairy tale is eternal.
The outstanding Russian fairy tale researcher V.Ya. Propp in his book "Russian Fairy Tale" noted: "The universality of the fairy tale, its, so to speak, ubiquity, is as striking as its immortality."
Absolutely everyone understands the fairy tale. It freely crosses all linguistic boundaries, from one people to another, and remains alive for thousands of years.
The form of a fairy tale, compact, capacious, and the manner of presenting a fairy tale, unedifying, seemingly so unpretentious, usually illuminated by the narrator's soft smile, allows us to convey not only the most characteristic qualities of a person, but also to snatch out the deepest, most hidden features of him in a publicly accessible form for any listener or reader to show what is good and what is bad.
Justice, which is so lacking in life, almost always triumphs in fairy tales.
Fairy tales are one of the richest and brightest forms of folk art. A fairy tale is the soul of the people, eternally seeking truth and justice, love and happiness, embodied in the word.
Based on the studied material, it is clear that the goals and tasks set before us were solved, we received answers to all the questions that interest us. In our work, we compared Russian folk and English folk tales about animals and saw that they have a lot in common, since the peoples of the world live on the same planet, develop according to the general laws of history. But fairy tales at the same time demonstrate the national identity of the folklore of each people. And animals - the heroes of fairy tales - remind both their speech and the behavior of the people of the country where these fairy tales exist. It cannot be otherwise, since a fairy tale has always been a reflection of folk life.
As long as humanity exists, it needs a dream, and therefore, it cannot do without a fairy tale that inspires, gives hope, amuses and consoles.
