The Culture Implication And Narrative Function Of Princess Role In Folk Tales

The princess is a familiar role in the folk tales, which contains abundant culture implication and has important function of narrative. This article takes princess role as the research object, studying the connection between the culture implication of the role with the function of narrative.Chapter 1 combs the role theories of folk tales and the structuralism narratology.Chapter 2 statistics the princess roles in the Chinese folk tales gather and other story books to discover that princess role mainly distributes in the types of shoes down from clouds, cobbler of princess husband, frog to marry etc. In these stories, the majority role that princess acted is a supporting role.Chapter 3 combs various culture implication of princess from the sociology, history, folklore and feminist angles .The princess acts the supporting role of sacrifice in history and reality because of her special culture implication, therefore, the princess becomes a supporting role inevitably in folk tales.Chapter 4 analyzes the narrative function of princess role in folk tales. Princess role acted as a supporting role in the story affects on other roles enactment and controls the narrating rhythm, these narrative functions of princess all have the deep connection with the special cultural implication that princess contains.