Chapter 3 Introduction
Andersen was born in April 1805 in Odense on the Danish island of Funen to a poor family. His creative career began in 1822, with his early days mainly writing poetry and plays. After entering university, he matured in his creative work, publishing travelogues and song-and-dance comedies, as well as poetry collections and poetry plays.
In 1835, Hans Christian Andersen published "A Collection of Stories for Children", and later published many books, reflecting the hard life of lower-class laborers such as washerwomen and shoemakers, expressing the profound social contradictions in Denmark, and having a distinct reality and people's character.
In 1835, at the age of 30, Hans Christian Andersen began to write fairy tales and published his first collection of fairy tales, which was a 61-page booklet containing four chapters: "The Lighter", "Little Claus and Big Claus", "The Princess on the Pea", and "The Flowers of Little Ida". The work did not receive unanimous praise, and some people even suggested that he had no talent for writing fairy tales, but Andersen said: "This is my immortal work!" ”
In 1844, he wrote his autobiographical work, The Ugly Duckling. In 1846, he wrote The Little Match Girl.
Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales have a wide range of themes, are exceptionally rich in content, full of democratic and humanitarian spirit, and have an enlightening and educational effect on children and **.
Hans Christian Andersen's early fairy tales are full of beautiful fantasy and optimism, and embody the characteristics of a combination of realism and romanticism. His representative works include "The Lighter", "Little Ida's Flowers", "Thumbelina", "The Daughter of the Sea", "The Wild Swan", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Emperor's New Clothes" and so on.
In Hans Christian Andersen's middle fairy tales, the fantasy component is weakened and the reality component is relatively enhanced. In lashing out at the ugly and praising the good, it shows his persistent pursuit of a better life, and also reveals his melancholy of lack of confidence in the real society. His representative works include "The Little Match Girl", "The Snow Queen", "A Drop of Water", "Mother's Story", "The Puppeteer" and so on.
Hans Christian Andersen's 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, and the tone of his works is gloomy. Representative works include "A Dream Under the Willow Tree", "She's a Waste", "The Bachelor's Nightcap", "Lucky Belle" and so on.
Andersen wrote a total of 168 fairy tales and stories in his lifetime, and his works shocked the world literary world with their extraordinary artistic charm.
This book is a selection of many famous stories from Hans Christian Andersen and tells many popular stories:
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"Little Match Girl" tells the story of a little match girl who froze to death on the street on Chinese New Year's Eve, where the rich family was happy and toasted together.
The Ugly Duckling tells the story of the ugly duckling who turns into a white swan after going through a lot of hardships and tribulations.
The Emperor's New Clothes tells the story of a lavish king who only cares about wearing clothes every day, regardless of anything else, and finally gets deceived and goes to parade without wearing anything. No one debunked the lie, even boasted about him, and finally ended the farce with the child's innocent words.
Thumbelina tells the adventures of a little girl the size of a thumb whose heart is forever yearning for the sun and not succumbing to the darkness.
"Strong Tin Soldier" tells the story of a one-legged little tin soldier in life, describes the devil's ** and scoundrel, shows the little tin soldier's disability and determination, and the deep affection between him and the little girl.
Judging from the ideological content of the fairy tales created by Hans Christian Andersen, it probably includes the following aspects:
1.Warmly praise the working people, sympathize with the unfortunate poor people, and praise their noble qualities such as kindness and purity.
2.Lash out at the brutal, greedy, weak and stupid reactionary ruling class and exploiters, expose the ugly deeds of the church monks and the bad habits of the people, and deeply criticize the evils of society.
3.It expresses people's pursuit of an ideal society and the belief that "truth, goodness, and beauty will eventually triumph".
4.Focus on shaping the nationalists, reflecting the unswerving spirit of patriotism.
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