Abstract
"Safe Haven" is one of Nicholas Sparks excellent novels. It was published in 2010. It is basically about women's abuse. According to Vladimir Propp's "Morphology of the Folktale," no researcher has studied this novel. Propp's theory was formerly found to analyze Russian folktales. However, some researchers apply it to English fairytales and stories, such as Sundari (2014), who used it to "Sleeping Beauty"; Nursantia (2003) to Joseph Conrad's novel "Heart of Darkness"; and Salmah (2004) to Charles Dickens's "Our Mutual Friend". Thus, the gap of not applying Propp's "Morphology of the Folktale" to novels in general and modern text in specific with Wodak’s (2001; 2009) discourse-historical approach inspires researchers inspire the researchers to fulfill this gap by addressing the following academic questions: 1) Is it possible to apply Vladimir Propp’s “Morphology of the Folktale” (1968) to Nicholas Spark’s novel “Safe Haven”? 2) What good and bad morals are portrayed by the main characters in "Safe Haven”? 3) How many features of Propp’s thirty-one features can be found in Nickola Spark’s “Safe Haven”? 4) What are the main macro-topics in the novel? After a deep analysis of the entire novel, the researchers find that Sparks uses twenty-five features in this novel among Propp's thirty-one features. Propp did not state that all the thirty-one features should exist in a single text. Additionally, the researchers conclude that in Sparks’s "Safe Haven," Alex represents good morals, while Kevin depicts bad ones. Accordingly, even though Propp's theory is comparatively old and intended to be applied to Russian fairytales. The researchers find that it can be used on modern English novels.
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Doaa Taher Matrood AL-dihaymawee, Jabir ibn Hayyan Medical University, Iraq
Yousif Ali Yousif Salman, Diyala University, Iraq
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Conference: PCAH2024
Stream: Literature/Literary Studies
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AL-dihaymawee D., & Salman Y. (2024) Applying CDA and Vladimir Propp’s “Morphology of the Folktale” on Nicholas Sparks’s “Safe Haven” ISSN: 2758-0970 The Paris Conference on Arts & Humanities 2024 Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 37-47) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2758-0970.2024.4
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