Pinocchio

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Pinocchio
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Outline

• Introduction
• Part I. Carlo Collodi
• a. His life
• b. His work
• Part II. Pinocchio
• a. The plot
• b. The characters
• Conclusion
• References

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Introduction

• The Adventures of Pinocchio (Le Avventure di
  Pinocchio) is a novel for children by Italian
  author Carlo Collodi
• The first half was published in serial form
  between 1881 and 1883, and then completed as a
  book for children in February 1883
• It is considered a classic of children's
  literature and has spawned many derivative works
  of art, such as Disney's classic 1940 animated
  movie of the same name, and commonplace ideas,
  such as a liar's long nose

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Part I. Carlo Collodi

• a. His life
• Carlo Lorenzini born in Tuscany, Italy, in 1826
• In 1856, he took the pseudonym of Carlo Collodi
  (name of the village where his mother was born)
• In 1848 and 1860 he served in the Tuscan army
• Lorenzini had won fame as early as 1856 with his
  novel In vapore and had also begun intense
  activity on other political newspapers
• He died in Florence in 1890, unaware of the fame
  and popularity that awaited his work

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• Pinocchio is the second animated feature produced
  by Walt Disney (1940)
• In 2005 Time.com named it one of the 100 best
  movies of the last 80 years

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Part I. Carlo Collodi

• b. His work
• In 1856, his first novel In vapore he composed
  various satirical sketches and stories, including
  Occhi e nasi (1881), Storie allegre (1887)
• In 1875 he entered the domain of children's
  literature with Racconti delle fate, a
  translation of French fairy tales by Perrault
• In 1880 he began writing Storia di un burattino
  ("The story of a marionette"), also called Le
  avventure di Pinocchio, published weekly in Il
  Giornale dei Bambini (the first Italian newspaper
  for children)

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Part II. Pinocchio

• a. The plot
• The adventures of Pinocchio, an animated
  marionette, and his poor father, a woodcarver
  named Geppetto
• In the original serialized version Pinocchio dies
  a gruesome death, hanged for his innumerable
  faults at the end of chapter 15
• At the request of his editor, Collodi added
  chapters 1636, in which the Blue Fairy
  resurrects Pinocchio and eventually turns him
  into a real boy, making it more suitable for
  children

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Part II. Pinocchio

• b. The characters
• The world of Pinocchio is dark and full of
  deceptive creatures

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Part II. Pinocchio

• Pinocchio
• He commits many errors because of his immature
  and naïve character 
• When he is in regrettable situations, he defends
  himself by telling lies
• He is resurrected in chapter 16 and turned into a
  real boy at the end by the Blue Fairy
• In the book, he is a wooden puppet (a piece of
  wood), then he is transformed into a donkey, and
  finally into a real boy after he saves his father

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PinocchioMovie by and with Roberto Benigni
2002Nicoletta Braschi, Benignis wife is the
Blue Fairy
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Part II. Pinocchio

• The Blue Fairy
• The Blue Fairy resurrects Pinocchio and
  eventually turns him into a real boy
• Female motherly figure, plays the dominant role
  in the second half of the book, versus the
  fatherly figure of Geppetto in the first part
• She repeatedly appears at critical moments in
  Pinocchio's wanderings to admonish the little
  wooden puppet to avoid bad or risky behavior

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Part II. Pinocchio

• The cat and the fox
• At the beginning of the story, the fox and the
  cat seem quite nice and friendly
• When they hear that Pinocchio has five gold
  pieces, they become vicious and brutal
• The fox proposes to double Pinocchios gold
  pieces and offers him to go to the City of Simple
  Simons
• If Pinocchio buries his money in the ground and
  water it in the Field of Wonders, one day later
  he will find a tree loaded with gold pieces
• Disguised as the Assassins, they try to stab and
  to hang Pinocchio to the branch of a big oak

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Conclusion

• Pinocchio, in addition to a children's tale, is a
  novel of education, with values expressed through
  allegory
• One is that they mirror the values of the middle
  class of the 19th century, in particular Italy as
  it became a nation state
• Steven Spielberg's film, A.I. Artificial
  Intelligence (2001), based on a Stanley Kubrick
  project that was cut short by Kubrick's death,
  recasts the Pinocchio theme, in which an android
  with emotions longs to become a real boy

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Screenshot from Steven Spielberg's A.I.
Artificial Intelligence (2001)
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References

• http//en.wikipedia.org
• http//www.bartleby.com
• http//www.answers.com
• http//www.fortuneart.net/store/TD_fairy_tales.htm
  
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children27s_literatu
  re
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageArtificial_inte
  lligence_bluefairy.jpg
• http//www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/youth
  /classic/TheAdventuresofPinocchio/toc.html

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