A Study of the Types & Genderal Culture of Folktales about Marriage Between Human Beings and Non-Human Beings
Date Issued
2007
Date
2007
Author(s)
Tsai, Chi-Jung
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
The purpose of this thesis is to explore types and genderal culture of folktales. The study intends to find folktales about marriage between human beings and non-human beings. The research items are as follows: First, the study collects similar folktales related to the previous topics and categorized them into goodness, fairy, spirit and identify their sources. Second, the study analyzes these stories by using theories in Feminism and tries to interconnect folktales with feminine and psychological perspectives. The study intends to reveal the multi-facets of those folktales.
The content of the study are as follows. The first chapter explains the motivation, the range, and methodologies of this study. At the same time, it identifies the term of goodness, fairy, and spirit. Chapter two – Types of marriages between human beings and goodness – reveals goodness in folktales are much more considerate and active. Through the introduction of several well-known stories, the author finds marriages like these are more multi-faceted and the marriage life forms the images that the goodness would rather be human wives. Chapter three “Types of stories between human and fairy” reveals the kindness of fairies and their capabilities being exposed and used. Furthermore, their “treasures” being given to their husbands makes their wisdom and special identities stand out greatly. Chapter four “Types of stories between human and spirit” also shows the kindness of the spirits but focuses more on spirits’ appearances. As for the “approaching” type, they are mostly in the snake-husband stories in which they force women to marry them. As for marriage life of female spirits, the author still finds their traditional characters of being a Chinese wife and the most difficulties they face would be categorized into two : the first would be antagonist in human society and religious persons; the second would be mutation of human nature. Female spirits have lower social status than human beings and thus their marriage lives would be much more painstaking than goodness and fairies. Moreover, most of them have already eliminated the scary part of image and only maintains the good wife one. Chapter five “genderal cultures in hetero-type marriage stores” discuss sources of those concepts and criticize them from feminine perspectives. This chapter emphasizes three aspects: rules for traditional wives in those stories, female images in those stories, and the communicative patter of the two sex in those stories. This chapter intends to find sexual cultures in the stories, explores discrimination in the patriarchic society and shows sympathy of it.
Subjects
異類婚戀
故事類型
女性研究
人神
人仙
人妖
Types of Folktales
Genderal Culture
Marriage Between Human Beings and Non-Human Beings
SDGs
Type
thesis
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