Applying Vladimir Propp’s Theory (Functions of Dramatis Personae) in “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”

A. Introduction
This paper presents the functions of dramatis personae in folktale under the title Snow White. Snow White is Fairy tale which is an interesting genre that has been freely translated and illustrated by Wanda Ga’g (2004: 9-49). To analyze a fairy tale’s meaning seems to be a task almost impossible to fulfill, though. In this case, the theory that is used to analyze the tale is taken from folkloristic morphological viewpoint using the structural analysis advanced by Vladimir Propp. In Vladimir Propp morphology of folktale, Propp presents a structural analysis of Russian fairy tales in terms of functions, an analysis he implied should be applicable to all tales of the fairy tale category anywhere in the world. Thus, all fairy tales can be analyzed by using this theory. Morphology of the Folktale gives a scheme for the structure of fairy tales; it will be described in the following chapter. B. The Theory of Morphology by Vladimir Propp
An overall description for better understanding first: Propp’s scheme contains a list of functions of characters in a certain order, each function designated by a sign. A sequence of these functions represents a fairy tale’s structure. Such a sequence might look as the following, taken from one of Propp’s examples: “β 3 δ 1 A 1 B 1 C H 1 - I 1 K 4 w°” (1968: 128). This is kind of sequence order in a certain story.
Propp even gives a definition of the word “morphology” out of botany: Here, “the term ‘morphology’ means the study of the component parts of a plant, of their relationship to each other and to the whole—in other words, the study of a plant’s structure” (Propp 1968: xxv). This is similar to his way of studying fairy tales. The definition of a fairy tale remains unclear in the beginning of Propp’s Morphology, since Propp first defines fairy tales as “those tales classified by Aarne under numbers 300 to