"Stone flower" Bazhov - an example of true folk art

A fairy tale is a unique phenomenon of folk art. Folklore tales reflect the experience and wisdom of the people who created them.
The modern person of real folk tales practically does not know, children read the works in processing. Folk tales were once passed from person to person, but in the last two centuries the society has changed so much that now such a transfer is impossible. Fortunately, in almost every nation there were lovers who collected tales and recorded them.

True, these collections do not include all the tales collected by Platonov, Bazhov or the Brothers Grimm. You can see collections of fairy tales, published for students of philology in very small editions, and see this.

Fairy tales in processing lose their "flavor" and originality, but they are suitable for reading to children. Bazhov's tales are perhaps closest to the original. "Stone flower" Bazhov - a fairy tale very interesting, unusual and somewhat scary. She is the first of a series of tales about Danil-master. The fairy tale describes the life and problems of the common people of the Urals. This life is different from the ordinary life of the peasants.

Not a single fairy tale collected by Platonov describes the relations of the peasants with the master, the clerk, the question of paying dowries or performing work at the corvee is not covered. Fairy tales are quite different, they can be called dreams of the people. This fantasy is not even about a better life, but simply about the life of another.

"Stone flower" Bazhov most actively includes a story about all social relations. Here and the clerk, and master, and master, a man with a complex character. In fairy tales, everything is ambiguous, as in life. It is this that these tales are interesting.

Bazhov, "The Stone Flower". Content

The fairy tale begins with a story about the talented master Prokopic, who could not find a helper. Finally, he got an orphan Danilo - a dreamy and thoughtful child. This dreaminess, attention to the surrounding is a manifestation of talent, Danilo becomes a real continuer of the business of his teacher.

In fairy tales, Danila's future fate, his life, his marriage, an attempt to create a stone flower is described. Bazhov is interested not only in adventure, but in the inner world of heroes. He has no villains and definitely positive characters.

Danilo is a positive hero. But he leaves his bride, he does not live the quiet life of the famous master, the Mistress of the Copper Mountain is not a villain, not Baba Yaga, she is fair, stands up for the workers ("Prikazchikov's soles", collection "Stone flower" Bazhov). But this is not a good sorceress, the Mistress of the Copper Mountain is dangerous, interesting, beautiful, seductive. It is in these stories that the soul of the people is felt, it is possible to guess from them what all Russian folk tales were like before the treatment, because they were intended not only for children, but also for adults.

Unfortunately, now in the course of shortened versions of the book with the titles: "Bazhov. "Stone Flower". Summary ". In these collections, tales appear in a refined, truncated form. As a result, all their dignities are lost, and they appear as emasculated stories from a children's book.