Concеpt Of “Lovе” Іn Еnglіsh And Kazakh Faіry Talеs

Abstract

Fairy tales are very innocent and figurative literary works in national literature. They have very long history. Even they are told and compiled for children with the aim of upbringing, they reveal inner world and feelings, dreams of people all over the world. Fairy tales appear in languages to describe people’s traditions and customs, ways of life at different periods of time. Fairy tales connect common things and phenomena, for example: people, nature, war, animals and etc. But the main idea of any fairy tale is devoted to common concepts. They can be positive and negative such as: happiness, friendship, brevity, love and etc. Fairy tales very vivid and colourful language is used to make the fairy tales fascinating and interesting. In our research work we would like to reveal the concept of “Love” and their peculiarities in the usage and development of fairy tales. The concept of “Love” has been one of the main subjects of fairy tale stories. In this article we consider English and Kazakh well-known fairy tales from the point of comparative and contrastive analysis. Through fairy tales the national culture and traditions can be revealed.

Keywords

• Kazakh and English fairy tales
• concept of “Love”
• comparativecontrastive analysis
• traditions and national culture
• traditions
• national culture