Author: Mariana Oros

Hello! My name is Mariana Oros and I am an MA student at KidLit. Since I started studying literature, reading has become my favourite passion – a passion that has roots in my childhood as I grew up with fairy tales. So, my advice for my fellows (and for myself) is this: find a magical place and write your own fairy tale.

To Flutter Through Adventures

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There were many cater­pil­lars in that tree, and each of them had its own leaf. Some of them were eat­ing, bit­ing and scrunch­ing pieces of leaves un­til they had to move to an­other one. Oth­ers rolled their leaf as if it was time for a good nap to be taken after a well-de­served meal. It seemed that noth­ing could have dis­turbed them from that job, ex­cept a… Read on …

Symbolism in Oscar Wilde’s fairy tale “The Selfish Giant”

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Through­out time, myth­o­logy and folk­lore have served as in­spir­a­tion for lit­er­at­ure due to their them­atic com­plex­ity and rich­ness in char­ac­ters. There are vari­ous au­thors who have in­tro­duced myth­o­lo­gical ele­ments within their lit­er­ary works in or­der to point out the hid­den mean­ings and uni­ver­sal truths. Some of the most well-known char­ac­ters who are used to con­vey Read on …