The Adventures of Pinocchio-Brief Comment

The Adventures of Pinocchio-Brief Comment

The Adventures of Pinocchio-Brief Comment

The Adventures of Pinocchio-Brief Comment

‘The Adventures of Pinocchio” is a novel for children written by Carlo Collodi (1826-1890), an Italian writer. It is a highly imaginative novel written with a view to give a lesson to children that they should avoid wickedness and obstinacy and should obey the advice of their parents and elders. The novel is allegorical.

The novelist takes a puppet called ‘Pinocchio’ made of a piece of wood by Geppetto and imputes human characteristics to it and metaphorically represents him as a type of average boy. While Geppetto made him out of a piece of wood, it got life like a human child and began to be obstinate to his childish nature and thus disobeyed all the devices of his father, Geppetto. When Pinocchio was sent to school he sold his book and went to a ‘puppet show’ and then he met a fox and a cat who took him to the land of Miracles and thus the cat and fox defrauded him. After then, he met a fairy, whom he took as his sister, but later on, he disobeyed her advice and suffered a lot.  At last, he met his father Geppetto and since then he began to live happily obeying his father’s advice word by word.

The novel is though written from imagination, yet it has the basis of reality pertaining to the deductive purpose of life. It reminds us of the classical Sanskrit storybook ‘Panchatantra’ which is deductive and teaches lessons to the children through allegorical stories.

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The Adventures of Pinocchio-Brief Comment