The Folktale and its Utopian Function in "As Easy As A.B.C.'' By Rudyard Kipling

Abstract

The present research gives a survey of the development of the folk tale from old times until the nineteenth century. It studies first how the adverse circumstances in the Victorian age encouraged some writers to share in reviving the originated folk tales and second it examines the way those writers used their literary folk tales to draw portraits of the ideal worlds they yearned for. These utopias usually contained the correction of what those writers considered false in their real world and the writer chosen for this research is Rudyard Kipling who examines closely the utopian tendency in his fantasy tale ‘As Easy as A.B.C