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Fantasy, Fairy Tale, or Both, That Is the Question: A Case Study of Diana Wynne Jones's Howl's Moving Castle

The first pages of Diane Wynne Jones’s Howl’s Moving Castle introduce the readers to the magical land of Ingary whose inhabitants live amongst wizards, witches, and magical items, but also warn them about Sophie Hatter’s gloomy fate, her being the eldest of three sisters and most unlikely to succeed in life. With the unfolding of the plot, Sophie embarks on a journey paved with challenges that she overcomes superbly, failing to fulfil her initial destiny. As Howl’s Moving Castle reveals a certain hybridity of genres, the paper has attempted to examine the elements of fairy tale and fantasy in Jones’s novel. While the analysis of the novel’s fairy tale elements has been based on Vladimir Propp’s Morphology of the Folktale and focused on the functions of dramatis personae and other fairy tale elements, the exploration of the novel’s fantasy elements has showed that the novel’s protagonists, Sophie Hatter and Howl Jenkins Pendragon, challenge, through their atypical transformation, both the modern social context and their expected fairy tale destiny.

Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle, fantasy, fairy tale, Vladimir Propp

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