What distinguishes a literary tale from the folk

Kids love listening to fairy tales. In them, good punishes evil. Thanks to fairy tales, children learn to understand the world.Russian folk tales develop children's imaginationPhoto: Getty But there is a difference between literary and folk tales:

• In folk tales, the plot is based on the traditional pattern, and the narrator must adhere to it. A fairy tale written by the author, can have an arbitrary version of the story.
• In a literary tale, character andappearance of heroes. The scene and events are endowed with more details. A writer has his own attitude to each hero, and this is noticeable when reading the story. While the folk tale reflects the ideals of an entire people.
• Folk tales appeared in ancient times. They reflect a person's ideas about good and evil, about moral norms. The tales of different nations show their cultural traditions and beliefs. Literary tales appeared much later than the folk.
• Folk tale was born in the people. Such tales knew everything, thanks to an oral retelling. They were not recorded anywhere. They did not have a specific author. A literary tale is a figment of the imagination of one person, written down on paper.

With the development of writing, the authors began to process folklore tales, making them artistic additions. So they lived to this day.

What are the similarities of Russian folk and literary tales?

Literary tales repeat folklore, fairy-tale attributes, pagan rituals from folk tales. In addition, these types of fairy tales combine the following features:

• Authors in their works bestow charactersanimal human qualities, as originally applied in oral folklore. Often proverbs, sayings, common folk expressions taken from Russian folklore appear in author’s fairy tales.
• Both those and other fairy tales tell about fictional events.
• And in those and other tales heroes are divided intopositive and negative. At the same time, the positive heroes embody the people's perception of good, justice, beauty. And the negative characters - the embodiment of evil for man.
• In many folk and literary tales, the main character is assisted by an animal endowed with supernatural abilities.

Many authors, relying on the simple plot of the folkfairy tales, write a more vivid and intricate story. Folk tales in a creative form reflect the consciousness of the people of the time when they were invented. A literary tale, though continues the cultural traditions of the people, but more is an element of adventure or fantastic literature.

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