VARIOUS GIANTS EXPRESSED AS ONE THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK FAIRY TALES
Abstract
In this article It is written and informed that the great deal of differences and similarities of English and Uzbek fairy tales related to the plots of magical giants and their living places . It is depicted that magical places and giants are the main species of magic fairy tales’ features. It seems that in English magical fairy tales, there are motifs of the transformation of a person into a creature, a creature turning a person into something, a two- or three-headed giants giving riddles to its age, images of a man-eating, large (giant) or small, bearded, black giants.As a result of this comparative analisis all folk tales have their similarities about magical tales ,giants live in the castles, in the huge mauntains, they have their own extraordinary power which could be only win by the magic power of magical heros. Furthermore in most of the magical fairy tales giants defeat because of their awful intentions.
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