Fairy tale plot
Folk tales with a similar fairy tale plotare found among the Slavs living on the shores of the Baltic Sea and the Scandinavians. Ershov's tale consists of three parts, it is written in verse. The first part of the work tells how three peasant sons guard a field of wheat in turns to find out who is trampling it. Only the youngest - Ivan the Fool - manages to catch a magic mare that has been ruining the crops. The mare begs for freedom, and in return promises to give three horses - two golden-maned beauties and one small, humpbacked, with big ears. She does not order Ivan to sell the Little Humpbacked Horse to anyone. Together with his older brothers, Vanya goes to the market, where the tsar buys the golden-maned horses, but no one can cope with them. Then the tsar takes Ivan into service as a groom.
In the fairy tale of Ershov, the hunchbacked horse is all in troubleIvana began when he took the feather of the FirebirdPhoto: Getty The action of the second and third parts of the tale is dedicated to the royal service of Ivan. First, the king asks him to get a firebird, then the Tsar-maiden, her ring from the bottom of the sea and swim in boiling milk. Thanks to his faithful friend Skate-Gorbunok, Ivan does all the tasks and, after bathing in boiling milk, becomes a handsome man. The king perishes, and the king maiden becomes Ivan's wife.
What does the tale "The Little Humpbacked Horse" teach
The tale was banned from publication many times.At first, the tsarist authorities saw it as satire against the tsar and the church, then the Soviet censorship called the fairy tale the career story of a village kulak's son. But "The Little Humpbacked Horse" was still published. Children and adults loved the fairy tale. It became a classic of Russian literature. Unlike the powers that be, ordinary people find comfort in its content. The happy ending of the fairy tale teaches that good always triumphs over evil. Ivan's patience and obedience are rewarded, he wants to imitate, to be kind, honest, hardworking. The greed and unbridled desires of the tsar are ridiculed, leading him to death. The fairy tale teaches faith in miracles, that a faithful friend will always come to the rescue, and his friendship is more precious than all the treasures of the Earth. A cartoon and a children's film were created based on the fairy tale.
