Character History
Goldfish is a popular folklore character with whom the Russian reader gets acquainted from Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin's fairy tales. The image of a magic animal who knows how to speak and fulfill desires, is found not only at the classic, but also in the literary works and the legends of other countries.Goldfish in fairy tales of different countries
Plots of stories in which a person crawls fish and faces magic, arose in remote corners of the planet, and completely apart. For the most part, the moral of each parable comes down to the fact that the irrepressive needs of the main characters lead to the "broken trough."
Malaysia has a legend that is consonant with Pushkin fairy tale. Unlike the Russian work, the heroes become a young couple - a fisherman with his wife. The guy pulls out fish from the water, which reports that she is the queen of the sea. For salvation, the magic character promises the fulfillment of three desires with one by the reservation: if it comes in the fourth, then all the reasoned will disappear.
As usual, the wife of a fisherman knows the measures. Wealth, servants, a new home - she quickly uses a permitted resource, but after a high position in society wishes. The fisherman asks for the queen of the sea another desire, and, as was predetermined, the magic dissipates.
Unlike the old man and the old women, the youngs made conclusions from the situation. They began to work hard and were able to achieve what was given to them in the manual "magic wand."
In the Abkhaz folk tales, too, there is a place for this character. Tsarevich becomes the main character who caught fish for the father-king. The networks turned out to be a small fish. But the guy regretted the animal and released it back.
The king was angry with this and kicked the son from home. Wandering in the light, Tsarevich met a guy, very similar to him. He promised to become a true friend and help him in all matters.
Once, Tsarevich heard that a princess lives in a neighboring state, which has already married 300 times. Her spouses did not live up to the morning for an unknown reason. The hero went to torture happiness and wonder for the daughter of the king. The mysterious friend solved the mystery: at night, the snakes get out of the mouth. Having bangs to them the head, he eliminates the comrade from the inevitable death.
Of course, thereby the Savior and there was a once saved animal. Tolding Tsarevich the truth, the guy explained that he now "returned the debt" and, turned, disappeared into the waves.
In the Chinese parable, Guan's fisherman has been fishing all day, but only in the evening on his rod, surprisingly beautiful fish with three golden feathers got. In exchange for freedom, she said to take her feathers to burrow one on the site of the house, the second to throw in the pond, and the third put next to his wife. The magic animal promised a great happiness to fisherman, but everything will change if the gold light ends his eyes.
Guan performed the covenant. The next morning, waking up, discovered a newborn girl with golden eyes. In the courtyard grew by the unprecedented beauty of Lily, and a goldfish gilded in the pond. The spouses healed happily, and his daughter grew and became even more beautiful.
Soon to her daughter, Guan began to wove the groom. Parents refused to give daughter. But then an unknown man sailed from the sea, who gave a fisherman with a bag with gold. The light of the precious metal blinded the old fisherman, and he agreed to give her daughter to marry.
The king of the sea, who hid his wife in the castle deep under water. Guan realized that he made a mistake, and the inhabitant of the pond came to his help to save her daughter. Happy father returns a girl home, and a bag with gold turns into the sand.
An even more similar to the story of the book "Tale of Fisherman and Fish" Pushkin Indian folk tale. Heroes lived poorly and fed only at the expense of the catch. But the happy occasion - and the fisherman's network was caught by the golden god Jala Kaman himself. He promised food and clothes if the old man goes to hesitate.
God kept the promise, but there was little old woman. Required a friend's wife more, servants and whole barn rice, and that her husband becomes an old-year in the village. A month later, and this greedy woman seemed a little. She requested so that the old man became Maharaj and the whole earth. But the golden God no longer appeared, and after took all the gifts.
Returning to the Russian character, it is worth saying, there is an opinion that Pushkin borrowed the plot from the Brothers Grimm. These authors perform the wishes of the magic flabble. The rest of the situation is identical.
But such judgments have no official confirmation. Moreover, similar plots arose around the world and were transmitted from mouth to mouth. Therefore, it is inclined to assume that the stories of Arina Rodionovna became the source of Pushkin's fairy tale.
Thanks to the project "Fairy Map of Russia", you can find out what a place to consider the birthplace of the magic character. Great Boldino was officially called the exact place of origin, where Alexander Sergeevich and composed the immortal work.
Goldfish in cartoons
The image of the magic character did not once be used in animation. The earliest picture was lifted by Alexander Ptushko in 1937. In 2010, the Restorers of the State Film Fund restored the cartoon with a color picture, only a black and white version was available before that.In 1950, Soyuzmultfilm shields a Pushkin fairy tale under the directory Mikhail Czechanovsky. A cartoon in a year received a premium at the VI International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary. In 2001, the video was renovated, and also renounced. But critics perceived such changes negatively.
In 1965, there is a cartoon "Vovka in the Tridekha Kingdom", where a magic fish is one of the main characters. Later, the image is popularized in other pictures, for example, in the Cat Leopold Cathedral series.
Bibliography
- 1812 - "About fisherman and his wife"
- 1833 - "Tale of fisherman and fish"
- "Gold Fish"
- "Talking Fish"
Filmography
- 1937 - "Tale of fisherman and fish"
- 1950 - "Tale of fisherman and fish"
- 1965 - "Vovka in the trident kingdom"
- 1975 - "Leopold and Goldfish"
- 1976 - "Dad, Mom and Goldfish"