Master's thesis of Arts (Creative writing): The nature of human animal relationships in three modern literary fairy tales

Humans and animals have formed powerful bonds across cultures and throughout history, in real life and in storytelling. Forming relationships with animals has been a fundamental part of the human experience around the globe and literature is filled with descriptions and imaginings of human and animal interaction. Human animal relationships appear in a wide range of literary genres, and the nature of the bonds formed between human and animal characters in literature is intriguingly diverse. This exegesis aims to identify and discuss the nature of human animal relationships in three modern literary fairy tales.