Chapter 437: A Man in a Fairy Tale World

Who hasn't read a fairy tale?

Who doesn't have a childhood?

There are some things, whether they are beautiful, ordinary, or unbearable...... It was all childhood......

The Legend of Cinderella......

The Ugly Duckling's Fairy Tale ......

Little match sellers, ah no, little match girls......

Aren't these all stories familiar to Ye Chao's generation?

It's funny, Ye Chao, a big devil, went to the first place in Denmark first, and it turned out to be

Hans Christian Andersen Museum!

Hans Christian Andersen, a Danish 19th-century fairy tale writer, is known as the "sun of the world's children's literature". [This chapter debuted-love-have-sound-,Please remember the URL ()]???. Hans Christian Andersen's representative works include "Little Tin Soldier", "Daughter of the Sea", "Thumbelina", "The Little Match Girl", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Emperor's New Clothes" and so on.

Andersen was born into a poor shoemaker family in the city of Odense and had a poor childhood. His father was a shoemaker and his mother was a servant.

In his early years, he studied at a charity school and worked as an apprentice. Influenced by his father and folk oral literature, he loved literature from an early age. When he was 11 years old, his father died of illness and his mother remarried. In pursuit of art, he moved to the capital Copenhagen alone at the age of 14.

After 8 years of struggle, he finally showed his talent in the poetry drama "Alfsol". As a result, he was admitted to the Slughersey Grammar School and the Helsinou School for free by the Royal Theatre of Art. It lasted 5 years. In 1828, he entered the University of Copenhagen.

After graduation, he never had a job, and he mainly relied on manuscript fees to make a living. In 1838, he received a writer's bonus, and the state allocated him an annual allowance of 200 yuan for non-public service.

Hans Christian Andersen's literary career began in 1822 when he wrote plays.

After entering university, his creative work became more and more mature. He has published travelogues and comedies, poetry collections and poetry plays. In 1833, he published the novel The Improvisational Poet, which won him international fame and was his masterpiece.

His book Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales has been translated into more than 150 languages and distributed and published around the world.

The Danish fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen never married.

He spent his whole life on fairy tales, he was reluctant to contact outsiders, he was very inferior, thinking that he was not only ugly, but also poor.

In terms of love, he is a tragic figure.

His ugly duckling is probably based on himself, and in the fairy tale, the ugly duckling eventually becomes a swan......

However, the author of reality, Hans Christian Andersen, did not become a swan while he was alive. Perhaps even he himself did not know that after his death, his fairy tales could be spread all over the world......

Shortly before his death, Andersen said to a young writer: "I have paid a great, if not incalculable, price for my fairy tales." For the sake of fairy tales, I rejected my own happiness and missed a time when imagination should give way to reality, no matter how powerful and brilliant it may be. ”

Hans Christian Andersen himself believes that the reason why he has repeatedly failed to fall in love is because of his ugly appearance and because he is poor.

He said many times in his diary and letters, "Because I am ugly and will be poor forever, no one will want to marry me" and "If I am beautiful, or rich, and have a small decent office, then I will get married and start a family".

Some Hans Christian Andersen researchers believe that, in addition to the above two reasons, "the deep-seated inferiority complex in his personality makes it impossible for him to enter into a romantic relationship with the opposite sex, whether legal or illegal."

Hans Christian Andersen's autobiography was written at the age of 27, and the book mentions that "there will always be an indescribable dislike for girls over the age of 20, and I really tremble with them" is supposed to be something from his childhood and adolescence.

But as an adult, the memory of the "terrible madwoman who was the substitute for all adult women" in his subconscious remained, and became a powerful unconscious force for his fear of coming into contact with any woman.

This is the real reason why Andersen's love is always unsuccessful, while pursuing women, he always subconsciously avoids women.

Ye Chao feels that Andersen will always be a "child who doesn't grow up" psychologically, so the real world is not suitable for him, he is a person who lives in a fairy tale world.

Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales are divided into three periods: early, middle and late.

Most of the early fairy tales were full of beautiful fantasies and optimistic spirits, reflecting the characteristics of combining realism and romanticism. His representative works include "Lighter Box", "Little Ida's Flowers", "Thumbelina", "Daughter of the Sea", "Wild Swan", "Ugly Duckling" and "The Emperor's New Clothes".

In the middle fairy tale, the fantasy component is weakened, and the reality component is relatively enhanced.

In the whipping of ugliness and praise of goodness, it shows the persistent pursuit of a better life, and also reveals the melancholy of lack of confidence. His representative works include "The Little Match Girl", "The Snow Queen", "Shadow", "A Drop of Water", "Mother's Story", and "The Puppeteer".

Late fairy tales are more realistic than those of the middle period, focusing on depicting the tragic fate of the people at the bottom, exposing the coldness, darkness and injustice of social life.

The tone of the work is somber. Representative works include "Under the Willows", "She's a Waste", "The Bachelor's Nightcap", and "Lucky Belle".

Some fairy tales, such as "The Little Match Girl", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Gatekeeper's Son", etc., not only realistically depict the miserable life of the poor, but also permeate the mood and fantasy of romanticism.

Since the author came from a poor background and felt deeply about the phenomenon of inequality between the rich and the poor in society, and the phenomenon of the law of the jungle eating the strong, on the one hand, he warmly praised the working people with sincere strokes, sympathized with the unfortunate poor, and praised their kindness, purity and other noble qualities.

On the other hand, he angrily whipped the brutal, greedy, weak, and stupid reactionary ruling class and exploiters, exposed the ugly deeds of the church monks and the bad habits of the people, and spared no effort to criticize the evils of society.

"The Emperor's New Clothes" poignantly satirizes the emperor's incompetence and courtiers' sycophancy, while "The Nightingale" and "The Princess on the Pea" mock the ignorance and vulnerability of the aristocracy.

In his last work, The Gardener and the Master, he also focused on creating the image of a true patriot, reflecting the author's unswerving patriotism.

Hans Christian Andersen was the first writer in the history of Western literature to write fairy tales as serious literature. With a deep understanding of Western traditions, he uses ingenious artistic techniques to apply a large number of biblical archetypes and metaphors to his works, making his works thicker than traditional fairy tales.

On the other hand, Andersen was rich in creativity, did not engage in rigid preaching, nor did he copy the plot and logic of the Bible, so he did not become a diagram of the catechesis, but a work of art with independent value.

This allows Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales to reconcile the "either/or" contradiction between "aesthetics" and "morality" that may exist in literature.

Andersen was weak and kind.

He believed in a fully "God of love."

Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales are more based on the New Testament than from the Old Testament. In his works, as in life, in the face of the suffering and misfortune of the world, Andersen did not choose hatred, violence and resistance, but only drew hope and hope from his affection.

As one of his poems says, "You don't know the fiercest struggle in the world, you only know love."

There is no despair in Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, and although they are often sentimental, they are full of hope.

This hope gives his work a comforting power that transcends time and space. In his autobiography, Hans Christian Andersen said, "I am full of love, both to God and to all men!" and he believes that his life is proof that "there is a dear and lovely God who guides Che to perfection."

This commitment is fully reflected in his fairy tales.

In the fairy tale "The last one comes the words: "There can be nothing good in our evil nature".

This bad thing is "original sin".

In the Christian doctrine, man is born with sin because there are some weaknesses and faults in human nature that can never be overcome, and sin is born at the same time as life.

If human beings ignore the fact that they are born sinful and indulge themselves in all kinds of pursuits, they will sink deeper and deeper into the mire of sin and will be punished even greater.

Just as in "God", many people can't sleep because of their ugly behavior, and in "Snow White", the devil drops the mirror he makes into countless pieces and falls into people's hearts and eyes, and people become unkind and unhappy from then on.

Therefore, humanity needs salvation.

Since original sin is not equal to specific sin, it is a fate that human beings cannot get rid of, it is an insurmountable weakness in human nature, and it is impossible to save oneself by relying solely on one's own strength, but requires faith in God to save.

Therefore, when Hans Christian Andersen integrated the Christian ideas of "kindness, fraternity, and dedication" into the fairy tale world, he did not forget to convey the Christian idea of original sin and the salvation of the soul to the children.

In "The Red Shoes", the lovely and beautiful little girl can't restrain herself from wanting to wear red shoes and forgets to sing hymns and prayers, and in "A Story", the walls of all the houses are lit with flames and the names of several great sins are written.

Hull in "The Swamp King's Daughter" is beautiful by day but cruel at heart, a frog by night but gentle and charitable, the prince in "The Vicious Prince" loves war, and Ingel walks on bread for fear of soiling her shoes and clothes in "The Girl Who Walks on Bread".

The mother in "Anne Lisby" is greedy for vanity and goes to the aristocratic family to be a nurse and abandon her own children.

Through these characters, Andersen tells the children about the insurmountable shortcomings of human nature: selfishness, vanity, arrogance, greed, evil, cruelty, etc.

This is the original sin inherent in human nature, and only through the salvation of the soul can we have childlike purity, so as to approach God and enter heaven.

As a result, the characters in the story are punished for disobeying God's divine teachings, just as God's prophecy in the Bible is verified: in "The Wicked Prince," the prince is driven mad by a small mosquito that burrows into his ear.

Ingrid, who walked on bread, fell into a swamp because of her arrogance and vanity, and was in the company of cold and ugly toads, fiery snakes, and flies, and even the little girl in "The Red Shoes" did not escape severe punishment, and the red dancing shoes clamped her legs, so that she danced incessantly, and there was no way to stop, so that the executioner had to cut off the feet in the red shoes.

The reason why Andersen rebukes the protagonist of the story so harshly is to let the children face up to the evil thoughts and ugly deeds in human nature, introspect and self-discipline, stay away from evil, and realize the salvation of the soul.

This man who "never grows up" and voluntarily lives in a fairy tale world is so sincere in his intentions.

Ye Chao's childhood sorrow made him fall in love with the stories in the fairy tale world......

Now, he is here, and although he can't see the man who wrote the fairy tale, it's always okay to remember him. [This chapter was first published.love.have.sound.,Please remember the URL ()]