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"How and to what effect does Elementals rewrite traditional forms of fairytale, myth and Biblical tale?"
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"How and to what effect does Elementals rewrite traditional forms of fairytale, myth and Biblical tale?" There are many ways in which A.S. Byatt's collection of short stories modify and seem to change the conventional fashion of fairytales, as well as myths, legends and religious or biblical tales. Every story has an element of old fashioned folklore but at the same time, telling it in a new and modernised way, and each self contained story creates its own atmosphere in relation to this. As fairytales are in fact dark and that of the Grimm's tales, these stories relate more then, as within the narrative there is some factor of surrounding destructive power but also beauty, which rewrites the conventional fairytale, for example Cold. However, the myth which connects back to the epic Greek tragedies or love stories also plays its part, for example A Lamia in the Cevennes. Finally, as for...
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