COMIC SITUATIONS AS A COMPOSITIONAL DEVICE IN FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD EVERYDAY HUMOROUS FAIRY TALES OF DARGIN FOLKLORE

Abstract

The article deals with the compositional features of family and household humorous fairy tales in the folklore of the Dargins, one of the ethnic nationalities of Dagestan. The purpose of the article is to analyze nature and features of using comic situations, positions, and actions of the characters in fairy tales, to identify their functions in the plot and the connection with the ideological setting of the fairy tale, thereby revealing their funny side. The subject of the study is previously not introduced into science and is about family and household humorous fairy tales, in which such shortcomings and vices as laziness, stubbornness, ignorance, stupidity, greed, adultery, etc. are ridiculed. As a result of the analysis, it is shown that a number of family and household humorous fairy tales is based on a compositional technique, which is expressed in the creation of characteristic comic situations, their deliberate adaptations, in the description of the comic actions, speech of the characters themselves and serves to reveal the ideological intent of the work. The authors substantiate the idea that by ridiculing universal shortcomings, fairy tales thereby affirm the high moral qualities of the people.