Fairy tale plot
Folk tales with a similar fairy storyfound in the Slavs living on the shores of the Baltic Sea and Scandinavians. Tale Ershov consists of three parts, it is written in verse. The first part of the work tells about how three peasant sons guard the wheat field in turn to find out who tramples it. Only the youngest, Ivan the Fool, succeeds in catching the magical mare who spoiled his crops. A mare prays for freedom, and in return promises to give three horses - two golden-maned beauties and one small, humpbacked one, with big ears. Humpbacked Horse, she does not order Ivan to sell to anyone. Together with his elder brothers, Vanya goes to the market, where the king buys the gold-maned horses, but no one can cope with them. Then the king takes on the service in the grooms of Ivan.
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 has been banned for printing many times. At first, the tsarist government saw in it a satire about the tsar and the church, then the Soviet censorship called the tale a story of the career of the son of a village fist. But the Little Humpbacked Horse was still printed. Tale loved children and adults. She became a classic of Russian literature. Unlike the powerful of this world, ordinary people find comfort in its content. The happy end of the tale teaches that good always triumphs over evil. Patience and obedience Ivan rewarded, he wants to imitate, to be kind, honest, hardworking. Greed and unbridled desires of the king mocked, lead him to death. The tale teaches faith in miracles, in that a faithful friend will always come to help, and his friendship is more precious than all the treasures of the Earth. Based on the fairy tale created a cartoon and children's film.
