Research on Transformation of Man and Beast in Grimm's Fairy Tales

Abstract

Based on the fantasy of the fairy tale itself, the animality of children's thinking, and the closeness of the relationship between man and beast, human-animal transformation appears in Grimm's Fairy Tales. These fairy tales of human-animal transformation have common characteristics such as human-animal transformation mode and growth-oriented transformation type, reflecting the miracle of life achieved by human beings through the mode of "transformation-tribulation-redemption", and implied the intention of punishing evil and promoting good, the idea of equality of all things and other ideological connotation.