ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Tricksters portray both the good and bad characteristics, such as intelligence, carelessness, and cunning. The trickster is intelligent because he creates these devious plans that tricks his opponent.

Detailed explanation-2: -Tricksters can be cunning or foolish or both. The trickster openly questions, disrupts or mocks authority. Many cultures have tales of the trickster, a crafty being who uses tricks to get food, steal precious possessions, or simply cause mischief.

Detailed explanation-3: -Often the trickster serves as a transformer and culture hero who creates order out of chaos. He may teach humans the skills of survival, such as how to make fire, procreate, or catch or raise food, usually through negative examples that end with his utter failure to accomplish these tasks.

Detailed explanation-4: -Jabuti the Tortoise: A Trickster Tale from the Amazon Vulture is sick and tired of Jabuti’s trickery. He gets his revenge when he flies the tortoise high in the air, then drops him, breaking his shell. But Jabuti puts himself together and comes out on top-with the help of the birds of the rainforest.