Statement of problem
nowadays, fairy tales are often related to the genre of fantasy. Fairy tales are popular in the world. The stories have good and bad characters in the story. In the end of the stories are also happy ending that people expect in stories. All story has many life lessons that reading fairy tale can teach children to open their mind to a vast endless world life. Learning the fairy tale is significant because fairy tale plays a strong role in helping as understand and value our cultural heritage as well. It can Develop positive attitudes toward our own and other culture is necessary for both social and personal development . All in all, reading a fairy tale can create imagination on their mind and the reader will see how the character face their problem with the stories.
However, The fairy tale is an important part of Literature. The Fairy tales explain idea what’s possible in the world. Fairy tales have a bad character which various types of stories and narrative motifs in culture for example, the tale of a girl who loses her mother, acquires a jealous or evil step-mother, the stem mother uses power. When the study the oppressive power in villain is difficult to learn character because the character has more detail. This study could unaware importance of an analysis the oppressive power that the villain use in the stories. This study will help the readers describe the meaning of the bad character and discussion of the power often avenues through which people may seek to affect power. Therefore, interpreting of the oppressive power is difficult to study.
The study about oppressive power in the villain in the fairy tale is an important thing that process to learn literature. To study the villain in fairytale to analysis oppressive power that use in the story related to the system of oppression and advantage for the learner. It is the best way to understand the significance of character and concept of the stories. Especially, when the readers study the literature, it is a tool for learning English literature and also help interpret the person in power that the villain use in the fairy tale understand and it can know background in the stories. Therefore, learning the villain in the Cinderella, snow white ,and Hassel and Gretel can help the students to understand the meaning of oppressive power that use in the stories.