Research Article
The Fairy Tales’ Stepmothers: They are not Evil, They are just Insecure (Portraying the Character of Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, and Snow White’s Stepmothers from the Appraisal Framework)
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.8-9-2020.2301319, author={Dyah Ayu Nila Khrisna}, title={The Fairy Tales’ Stepmothers: They are not Evil, They are just Insecure (Portraying the Character of Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, and Snow White’s Stepmothers from the Appraisal Framework)}, proceedings={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Communication, Language, Literature, and Culture, ICCoLLiC 2020, 8-9 September 2020, Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ICCOLLIC}, year={2020}, month={10}, keywords={stepmothers fairy tales characterization appraisal translation}, doi={10.4108/eai.8-9-2020.2301319} }- Dyah Ayu Nila Khrisna
Year: 2020
The Fairy Tales’ Stepmothers: They are not Evil, They are just Insecure (Portraying the Character of Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, and Snow White’s Stepmothers from the Appraisal Framework)
ICCOLLIC
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.8-9-2020.2301319
Abstract
The wicked stepmother 's character is prevalent in fairy tales. Stepmother reflects qualities that we associate with evil deeds and is always interesting to be examined. Their Characterizations are mostly disclosed with a feminist approach in literature and psychology framework, but rarely seen from a linguistic point of view. This article aimed at portraying the character of stepmothers in the most famous fairy tale Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, and Snow White and investigating the characterization from a different standpoint. The application of the Appraisal theory yields a new finding revealing the insecurity of the stepmothers despite their iniquity. This analysis also concerns the translation equivalence. The results of the assessment demonstrate the translator's quality in portraying nearly the same personality of the stepmothers in the original version.