Wadim Aristow
One of the most popular heroes of Russian tales Ivan represents the anti-social ideal and reflects diseases of the Russian mentality. Moreover, the tale should be prohibited in Ukraine because it shows both discrimination of a person with special needs and disrespect to ordinary well-socialized business executives.
Firstly, Ivan is called “the fool” or “stupid” for he is seemingly lazy and cannot do house work. But we see here age discrimination because Ivan is the youngest among the three brothers. Going further, we are not sure that he cannot do his work. It may be not because he is lazy but because nobody taught him. Everybody laughs at his mistakes and through that violates his weak child’s soul. People do not consider his special needs and do not provide him with corresponding conditions.
Secondly, it is not clear why Ivan behaves asocially. Instead of trying to defend his rights in a legal way, he turns to such a dangerous and scientifically unidentified phenomenon as the Fire-bird. Instead of winning over others in a honest competition, he makes success from magic and other criminal practices.
Finally, Ivan gets everything while his brothers, calm people and industrious business executives, earn nothing.
As a last feature it should be noted that there is implicit gender discrimination: there are only brothers, no sisters. And a pretty girl becomes only an award of Ivan’s aspirations.
So, this tale could not be adopted by our society.
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