Grow up in tears and be strong in tragedy.
_ On the tragic elements in Andersen's fairy tales
I accidentally opened my brother's Chinese self-study textbook and saw an article "The Daughter of the Sea", so I casually asked: "Do you like Andersen's fairy tales?" The boy after 00 curled his mouth and pretended to be sad: "Many of Andersen's fairy tales are ... cats barking ... I prefer Grimm's fairy tales." He wiped his tears as he spoke.
Andersen's fairy tales and Grimm's fairy tales should be two partners who accompany every child to grow up. I don't know how many times I read these two fairy tales when I was a child, but I have compared them in my mind countless times. Personally, I prefer Andersen's fairy tales. Grimm's fairy tales are a collection of folk stories collected, arranged and processed by Brothers Grimm. Compared with Andersen's fairy tales, Grimm's fairy tales are full of mystery, adventure and fantasy, and the plot is more tortuous and fascinating, which is why many children prefer Grimm.
I have already passed the age of being immersed in fairy tales, and two classic works of children's literature have gradually faded out of my life. For the classic characters in Grimm's fairy tales, such as Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood, their intelligence, beauty and kindness have long been fixed in their hearts. But the little match girl, the nightingale and the little mermaid described by Andersen are eternal and often read and updated. I don't have time to reread Andersen's original fairy tales, but those classic characters often arouse a burst of emotion and kindness in my mind.
There is an abused saying-"Don't always live in fairy tales". But fairy tales are not completely beautiful. I have read about suffering, deep suffering and heavy suffering in Andersen's fairy tales. Most of the characters in Andersen's novels have tragic life experiences, and the endings of many fairy tales are not perfect. The author has integrated his life into fairy tales, which has its cruel and dark side, but it is precisely because of this that the surviving beauty is more real and more vital.
Some people may think that it is unreasonable for innocent children to be exposed to the cruelty of suffering and feel the pain of suffering, but I believe that children who have really experienced Andersen will not fall into negativity in their future growth, no matter what setbacks and difficulties they encounter, because they have deep feelings and thoughts about the suffering between the lines of fairy tale masters since childhood.
In my opinion, the most valuable of Andersen's fairy tales is not only to expose darkness, but to be full of warmth in suffering.
The little girl selling matches not only exposed the social phenomenon that "the wine in Zhumen smells bad and the bones are frozen from the road". Before the little girl died, she saw a warm stove, a beautiful Christmas tree, and her only grandmother who loved her. So this little fairy tale doesn't look too bitter. We can feel that love and warmth can transcend suffering. No matter how bad the environment is, there is always a ray of warmth in my heart. Even in the darkest corner, there can be sunshine in your heart.
The little mermaid didn't get the prince's love and became the foam of the sea, but because of her kindness, she got an eternal soul. Bi Shumin wrote "The Mermaid Princess", which is often read and updated. It can be seen that the ideas expressed in The Daughter of the Sea are actually very profound and rich. From my point of view, what I see is loneliness, pain and persistence in pursuing a sincere belief (becoming a person and getting an immortal soul like a person). The little mermaid never gave up this pursuit until her death. She gave everything for the prince and her pursuit of faith.
The nightingale is one of my favorite stories. This is the only fairy tale set in China by Andersen. Someone gave the emperor a nightingale, and the wonderful singing moved him. The emperor put his whole heart on the nightingale, and then Japan sent a delicate artificial nightingale. The real nightingale fell out of favor and flew away. When the emperor was dying, the nightingale came, sang away the death and awakened the emperor. The nightingale said, "You have repaid me! When I first sang, I got your tears from your eyes-I will never forget it. Every tear is a gem-it can make the singer's heart bloom. " Every time I see this, I will be moved inexplicably. This may be a story about a bosom friend, just like the Boya period. Glittering tears are true feelings, without any impurities, and they are the light of love in the humanity of an enlightened monarch with dual personality in the East. The clear voice is a willing dedication, without a trace of utility, and it is a sincere and selfless return to the bosom friend. The nightingale is not a sad story, but it is not easy and happy. Singing for the emperor, the nightingale lost her nature and freedom; If you leave the emperor, you will lose people who know and appreciate it. Fairy tales have a happy ending, but I never feel happy. Always give me a faint unspeakable sadness. The nightingale finally flew away. Is the emperor more lonely? The nightingale will never forget the heart that shed tears for her singing in the magnificent palace, and the emperor will never forget the warmth brought by her beautiful singing.
Lucky Belle is said to have 70,000 words, which is the author's autobiographical fairy tale. I didn't show my enthusiasm for reading david copperfield, but I just read a condensed version of several thousand words. This work gives me the feeling that it is "not very interesting". To tell the truth, Belle was born in poverty, and her short bumpy, struggling and successful life didn't give me much impression. On the contrary, the suffering in fairy tales makes me unforgettable. Belle is very lucky. After all, he succeeded, but in the process, he experienced too much. Success is only a moment for him, and then his life is gone. Therefore, this work has always left me with a lingering tragic color, which made me unable to put it down for a long time when I picked it up in middle school. David described by Dickens has suffered a lot, but his feelings are far from complicated. Andersen's Belle gave me a feeling of "smiling with tears". Lucky or unlucky, the protagonist is lonely, sensitive, unyielding and fragile, so deep melancholy permeates the text. Belle pursues the artistic realm of beauty all her life, which is also the pursuit of Andersen all her life.