Análise das características morais de personagens de contos de fadas.

Abstract

On the one hand, literature is important not only for developing specific reading and comprehension skills, but also for helping to understand aspects of life. On the other hand, the area of Moral Psychology helps in the understanding of how the human being incorporates in his personality aspects related to morality. Thus, this research aims to analyze the stories "Cinderella", "Joaozinho and Margarida", "Rapunzel", all written by the Brothers Grimm, verifying the moral characteristics of their characters. For this, we used exploratory and qualitative methodology, producing analytical categories based on the singularities of moral personality developed by Piaget. As results the characters were grouped by moral characteristics, namely anomie, heteronomy and autonomy, allowing a differentiated reading of the stories, with deepening of the psychological peculiarities. Such a result can help teachers in the understanding of human development and in the use of short stories in order to stimulate cognitive and affective factors.