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Vladimir Propp is a formalist who developed an analysis for stories to find whether they are fairy tales or not. In order to obtain this theory he studied the narrative of folk tales and observed that they have similar characters and struggles. Because of these, in his theory, Propp says that all fairy tales must share some basic elements, which he called funtions and to be a fairy tale, a story must contain all of these and also they must be used orderly. At the same time, he says that there are seven roles in a fairy story and he describes them not with people’s name but with their duties in the fairy tale. In this situation, some people can still say that Michael Curtiz’s romantic melodram Casablanca about two men, Rick and Laszlo, a woman, Ilsa, and their love triangle, how their lives changed when they went to Casablanca and how Nazis had ruined people’s lives by fighting and taking their motherland and forcing them to leave from there, is a fairy tale and some of them say it cannot be a fairy tale. In this essay what I will clarify is that Casablanca is not a fairy tale according to Propp and his theory by making character analysis and examining where the function are used or not used.
First to understand whether Casablanca is a fairy tale or not the characters should be analysed and fit with the characters in Propp’s theory.
Approximate Word count = 1121
Approximate Pages = 4.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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