Why are Andersen's fairy tales so sad? Why do Andersen have such scary fairy tales Essay why people read Andersen's fairy tales

Preview:

To use the preview, create a Google account and log in to it: https://accounts.google.com

Preview:

______________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

1. (answer honestly)

______________________________________________________________________

1. Why?

______________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________

Thank you!

Please answer the questions in my questionnaire:

1. What fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen have you read?

______________________________________________________________________

1. Which fairy tale did you like best?

______________________________________________________________________

1. What tales of G.-H. Do your parents like Andersen?

______________________________________________________________________

1. What do you think Andersen's fairy tales are about?

______________________________________________________________________

1. Which Andersen tales would you recommend that I read?

______________________________________________________________________

1. What do you like more, reading or playing computer games?(answer honestly)

______________________________________________________________________

1. Why?

______________________________________________________________________

1. Why do you think children are reading less?

______________________________________________________________________

1. If Andersen lived in our time, what would he write a fairy tale about?

______________________________________________________________________

1. Which Andersen fairy tale would make a good computer game?

______________________________________________________________________

Thank you!

Preview:

Oral presentation within the framework of the project “Andersen’s Fairytale Dreams”

student of 4th grade “B” of secondary school No. 15 Kink Yan

Slide 1. I would like to present to your attention my project - “Andersen's Fairytale Dreams”!

Slide 2. Nowadays, children are increasingly addicted to computer games and television programs and spend less and less time reading books. But amazing, exciting and extraordinary adventures can await you not only in the world of virtual games, but also on the pages of books!

Slide 3. But no matter how the computer age influences us, children all over the world love fairy tales! I chose the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen because they teach goodness, ridicule stupidity and greed, they are like a box with a secret bottom - you read a fairy tale, but you think about very important issues, they make children think.

Slide 4. The purpose of my project It was important to understand how Andersen’s fairy tales differ from other fairy tales, why children and adults all over the world love them so much. And also find out what the guys in my class prefer: playing computer games or reading, and why?

Slide 5. I became acquainted with the biography of Hans Christian Andersen; I re-read fairy tales that were familiar to me from childhood, and also read many works that were new to me, such as “The Spruce Tree”, “The Elf of the Rose Bush”, “Buckwheat”, “The Bad Boy”, “A Drop of Water”, “The Little Match Girl” . While reading fairy tales, I tried to understand what exactly was hidden behind the fairy-tale events of the plot, what the author wanted to tell his little readers, what to teach.

Slide 6. While working on the project, I made a panoramic book with illustrations for the most memorable moments of fairy tales, made a layout based on Andersen's fairy tales, and even tried to write fairy tales myself!

Slide 7. Andersen himself said this about the fairy tale: “A fairy tale is the gold that sparkles in children’s eyes.”

Slide 8. Andersen wrote about 170 fairy tales.

Slide 9. I wondered how the great storyteller and wizard spent his childhood, why did his fairy tales become so bizarre and unique?

Hans Christian Andersen was born on September 2, 1805 in the small Danish town of Odense on the island of Funen into the family of a shoemaker.

Slide 10. His parents were not very rich people, but they loved their son very much.

Slide 11. The city of Odense, where Andersen was born, looked like a magical wooden casket. Skilled craftsmen and woodcarvers lived there. They also carved figures for ships - Mermaids, Neptune, Sirens, and fairy-tale flowers on the windows of houses. Andersen's grandfather was also a carver. In his free time, he carved brooding cows with wings and people with bird heads for the children.

Slide 12. “My homeland is Denmark,” Andersen said in his autobiography, “a poetic country, rich in folk tales, old songs, historical past...” Many fairy tales, such as “Flint”, “Little Claus and Big Claus” were retellings of those heard once in childhood folk tales.

Slide 13. The boy heard his first fairy tales from his father and old women from a neighboring almshouse. He also loved to listen to simple stories of sailors.

Since childhood, the future writer loved to dream and write stories, and organize home performances. When Andersen's father died, the boy had to work for food. In his early childhood, Hans Christian was a withdrawn child whose favorite game waspuppet theater.

Slide 14. The theater was the most Andersen’s strong passion, which he carried throughout his life.

Hans graduated from high school and then university. Started publishing books.

Slide 15. With the help of his friends, Andersen goes on a trip abroad with his first royalties. Hugo, Dickens, Goethe, the Brothers Grimm, Dumas, Wagner, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Liszt - Andersen met and became friends with all these people during the trip.

Slide 16. They were all fascinated by his tales and admired his talent.

Did you know that Hans Christian Andersen met with the great Russian storyteller Pushkin? He even had his autograph!

Slide 17. And Andersen’s fairy tale “The King’s New Clothes” was placed in the first primerL. N. Tolstoy.

Slide 18. At home, in Denmark, recognition came to Andersen later. When Andersen turned fifty years old, a monument was erected to him in his homeland.

Slide 19. Today, any person’s childhood is unthinkable without his fairy tales. His name became a symbol of everything real, pure, high.

Slide 20. It is no coincidence that the highest international award for the best children's book bears his name - the Hans Christian Andersen Gold Medal, which is awarded every two years to the most talented writers and artists.

Slide 21. Do you know that a monument to the heroine of the fairy tale “The Little Mermaid” was erected in Copenhagen; it was she who became the symbol of the capital of Denmark.

Slide 22. Who are the heroes of Andersen's fairy tales?

Simple household things: kitchen utensils, children's toys, items of clothing, plants, flowers that can be found in the field, in the garden; The very ordinary animals and poultry that surround us are all Andersen’s favorite fairy-tale characters. Each with their own history, character, speech, their own humor, whims and quirks. Andersen himself said this: “It often seems to me as if the smallest flower is telling me: “Just look at me, and the story of my whole life will be revealed to you!”

In Andersen's fairy tales, tears and laughter, grief and joy live side by side - just like in real life. He was a great storyteller and understood that even the most magical fairy tale should reflect life. (H.H. Andersen became a good advisor for all children).

Slide 23. Do you know that Translated from Danish, Ole Lukoje means Ole Close Your Eyes. Andersen did not invent this character; the creator of dreams has existed in Danish folklore for a long time, but Andersen glorified him throughout the world by putting the most beautiful fairy tales into the mouth of this character.

Slide 24. So what can Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales teach us?

Why do we believe his fairy tales so much, why do we worry so much about his heroes?

Andersen knew how to enjoy everything interesting and good that came across on every path and at every step. He had a talent, a rare ability to notice what eludes lazy human eyes.

Reading the fairy tale “The Piggy Bank,” we imagine a greedy rich man; we call the pampered young lady “The Princess and the Pea.”

Slide 25. Love in Andersen's fairy tales overcomes grief and separation, it brings you back to life. But it also forces you to sacrifice your life, as in the fairy tales “The Little Mermaid” and “The Steadfast Tin Soldier”. Very often love in Andersen's fairy tales is selfless, faithful to the end. But how often his fairy tales end with the death of the main characters!

Slide 26. In the fairy tale “The Nightingale,” Andersen talks about the greatness of true art. The song of a real, living nightingale conquers even death! Andersen's mechanical nightingale is pitiful and insignificant.

Slide 27. The famous fairy tale “The Snow Queen” tells us about courage, perseverance, and kindness. This is what the wise Finnish woman answers to the deer when he asks to give Gerda unprecedented strength: “I cannot make her stronger than she is. Don't you yourself see how great her power is? Think about it, both people and animals serve her! She walked around half the world barefoot! And this power is hidden in her heart!”

Slide 28, 29. And in many other fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen one can always find a secret, hidden meaning.

Slide 30. I came to the conclusion:

Andersen's fairy tales teach us great human feelings!

They teach you to pay attention to ordinary things (that surround you in real life); follow the path of your dreams and don’t despair; (think about the consequences of your words and actions). There are not many children in Andersen's fairy tales, but they live in the world of adults independently, often not very joyfully, but for real. And that’s why you believe such fairy tales as if they were real life stories.

Slide 31. “Life itself is the most beautiful fairy tale,” said Andersen.

In most of them, the author forces kind and defenseless characters to go through terrible trials.

This plot is also typical for folk tales, but what is atypical for them is that Andersen’s good heroes are often defeated, and many fairy tales have a sad ending.

Psychologists explain this by the neurotic personality type of the writer, who was lonely all his life and suffered from many phobias.

Famous Danish writer.

Psychologists say that Andersen was neurotic and suffered from various phobias. This is partly explained by severe heredity - his grandfather was mentally ill, his mother drank a lot and died of delirium tremens.

Biographers characterize Andersen as a depressed, unbalanced, restless and irritable person, and also a hypochondriac - he was constantly afraid of getting sick and groundlessly found symptoms of various diseases.

The writer really had many phobias. He was afraid of being buried alive and during his illness he always left a note on the table by his bed to remind him that he was not really dead, even if it might seem so.

The writer was also afraid of burning in a fire and being poisoned. Over the years, his suspicion increased.

One day, fans of his work gave him a box of chocolates. He did not eat them, fearing that the candies were poisoned, but treated them... to the neighbor's children. Convinced the next morning that they had survived, I tried the candy myself.

As a child, Andersen often played with dolls and was very soft and indecisive. Later, he himself admitted the duality of his nature and the lack of masculine fortitude.

At school, boys teased him for constantly telling made-up stories about himself. Andersen admitted: “I was often carried away in my dreams to God knows where, unconsciously looking at the wall hung with paintings, and I got a lot of punishment from the teacher for this.

I really loved telling other boys amazing stories in which the main character was, of course, myself. I was often laughed at for this.”

The love stories in his life were as sad as in fairy tales. Andersen was unrequitedly in love with the daughter of his patron, who was married off to a more successful admirer - a lawyer.

His love for the famous Swedish singer and actress Jenny Lind also turned out to be non-reciprocal. He dedicated poems and fairy tales to her (“The Nightingale”, “The Snow Queen”), but she remained indifferent.

All his life Andersen remained single and, according to biographers, he died a virgin. One of them writes: “His need for women was great, but his fear of them was even stronger.”

That is why, according to psychologists, in his fairy tales he constantly tortures women: he either drowns them, then leaves them in the cold, or burns them in the fireplace. Andersen was called "a sad storyteller running away from love."

Andersen died completely alone after a long illness. Shortly before his death, he said: “I paid a large, exorbitant price for my fairy tales.

I gave up my personal happiness for their sake and missed the time when imagination should have given way to reality.”

Andersen, despite his worldwide fame, considered himself a failure - analysis of fairy tales through the eyes of journalist Anastasia Belousova and writer Alexei Kurilko.

What else should I read? Vladimir Vysotsky and fans: “He is like the first cigarette”

Andersen's fairy tale "Flint" through the eyes of his mother

You know, Alexey, when it comes to Andersen, some kind of depressive fuss begins inside me. On the one hand, I understand: Hans Christian Andersen is an undeniably brilliant man. His tales are understandable, imaginative, simple, but most of them are incredibly tragic!

When my child grew up to listen to fairy tales with interest, of course, the first thing I did was pull out Andersen. And so I opened Flint and began to read. We laughed at the description of the witch who approached the main character:

“On the road he met an old witch - ugly, disgusting: her lower lip hung down to her chest.”

Both funny and scary. Further - more: the witch asks the soldier to climb into the hollow of the tree and get her a flint, and in exchange promises to enrich him. In the hollow there are three doors, behind each there is a huge dog, which, if you tame it - put it in a witch's apron - then the dog will become tame, and you can take silver or gold.

“The soldier then went into the third room. Wow, you're abyss! This dog had eyes like two round towers and spun like wheels. “My respect!” said the soldier and lifted his visor. He had never seen such a dog before.”

What else should I read? The film “The Shape of Water” - an amphibious man from the iconic Guillermo del Toro

Andersen and his Hellhounds

How do you like the image, Alexey: the dog’s eyes are “like tea cups”! Or even not so: the dog’s eyes are “like two round towers, and they were spinning like wheels”! Class! Both my son and I are delighted.

But then the soldier crawls out of the hollow with gold and flint, but instead of thanking the witch and giving her what she asked for, he... kills her! We’ve arrived... I read further - and I feel bad. The soldier squanders all his money at balls, falls in love with the princess and, with the help of a flint, marries her!

“The king did not dare refuse this request, and the soldier pulled out his flint. He hit the flint once, twice, three times - and all three dogs appeared before him: a dog with eyes like teacups, a dog with eyes like mill wheels, and a dog with eyes like a round tower.”

What, Lesh, do you think this fairy tale teaches? If this amused me as a child, now that I am a parent and am shaping my child’s attitude towards the world, teaching him to live correctly, such fairy tales only give rise to anger in me!

Well, what are they about, what is the main message? Kill the witch who showed and told you everything - and live happily? That's how Andersen is! Will we raise the Raskolnikovs? It’s a pity that Dostoevsky didn’t indicate: maybe Raskolnikov’s parents also read Flint to him as a little boy at night? Then it’s clear why he chopped the old woman under the motto: “Am I a trembling creature or do I have the right?”

“Flint” through the eyes of a child

Stop, Anastasia. Let's figure it out. Yes, in “Ogniv” the main character is a real soldier, brave, cheerful, strong, but at the same time poor, similar to thousands of similar soldiers. And the kids love it from the start! They admire him, are ready to empathize with him, and they really want the soldier to be lucky and finally become happy.

And here you have a terrible witch, especially in the eyes of children of that time, she was disgusting from the very beginning. Expect nothing but misfortune from a witch.

She asks the soldier to go down for gold and flint into the very abyss, where the terrible hellish dogs that frighten children live. Not only is she a witch, but she’s also mean and insidious: she wants to rake in the heat with someone else’s hands. She herself does not take risks - she sends a soldier, wants to destroy him or deceive him. The sympathy of the children here is completely on the side of the naive soldier.

After all, a witch is an unconditional evil, especially for children, just as for us some kind of murderous maniac or sadist. The fact that a homicidal maniac put you on the bus or told you the right stop does not make him a good person. He still remains a serial killer.

“- Hello, serviceman! — she said. - What a nice saber you have! And what a big backpack! What a brave soldier! Well, now you will get as much money as your heart desires.”

Children on the soldier's side

Andersen knew that in the eyes of children, witches are not only ugly, but also cunning, ruthless and, by the way, even eat children, roasting them alive in the oven. An elementary stereotype comes into play.

That's why the kids are worried about the soldier: be careful! This, as it turns out, is just a bait. And with the help of flint you can control these hellish dogs. Just imagine what this witch would do if she got hold of the flint! Yes, it’s like giving a maniac a suitcase with controls for a nuclear bomb!

“Come on, where is my flint?” And he hit the flint once - at the same moment a dog with eyes like teacups stood in front of him."

However, I repeat: children do not analyze a fairy tale in such detail. They embrace it entirely. Andersen knew this.

But overall the story is simple. There was a poor soldier. After a series of different adventures, barely surviving, miraculously escaping death, he also marries a beautiful princess, and even becomes a king! The children are completely satisfied with this ending. And, happy, they fall asleep.

What else should I read? How to open a business school for children - business plan and expert advice

"The Steadfast Tin Soldier"

In justification, I will say that I once again tried to read Andersen to my son and opened The Steadfast Tin Soldier. It would seem: about love. There is a little soldier, though he is one-legged. There is a beautiful ballerina princess who loves a soldier despite his disability. There is a snuff-box troll who is trying to seduce the ballerina.

“I wish I had such a wife! - thought the tin soldier. “But she’s probably of a noble family.” Look at what a beautiful palace he lives in!.. And my house is a simple box.”

But the soldier protects her, while miraculously he himself does not die, overcomes a sea of ​​obstacles and returns to his beloved. Finds out that she still loves him. It would seem that everything is fine.

And then... Andersen burns the soldier and the ballerina in the stove! Yes, of course, the snuff-box troll also dies, but what is the conclusion of the tale? Is there no such thing as happiness? Happy lovers don't live long?

You finish reading and understand: Andersen is a monster, dissatisfied and disappointed with life, an unhappy person. Only such a person can spoil his own beautiful fairy tale.

What else should I read? Thirteenth angel. Smartphone for an angel. Chapter 3. Christian fantasy

A fairy tale with a sad ending

Yes, Anastasia, “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” is one of the few fairy tales that really ends badly and sadly. But this is a fairy tale not only for children, but also for adults, and one can also see philosophical implications in it.

Look: the main character is the only one of the 25 soldiers for whom there was not enough tin, so he is one-legged, suffering and complex. But, I assure you, this hero is initially attractive to every child!

Do you think all children have complexes?

One way or another, at a certain period of time, every child feels lonely and unclaimed. Therefore, any normal child dreams that the hero of a fairy tale will be lucky.

Moreover, if he deserves respect, he is such a wonderful, persistent tin soldier who is in love with a paper princess and protects her, despite all the threats of the terrible troll.

“She still stood on one leg, stretching both arms forward, and he froze with a gun in his hands, like a sentry, and did not take his eyes off the beauty.”

Villainous fate first sends him outside, in bad weather, then he ends up on a boat, fights with a rat, is eaten by a fish, which ends up in the kitchen... But such a miracle must happen - he ends up in the kitchen of the house where his love lives!

Do fairy tales teach?

In The Steadfast Tin Soldier, fate united loving hearts, but, unfortunately, it was too late. They met, but both fell into a fire that killed them. The ballerina burned instantly, and the tin soldier was still tormented, seeing his beloved die, and suffering and tormenting himself.

Okay, Alexey. But what can this fairy tale teach?

Probably because if you really want something, sooner or later you will achieve it and meet that one soul mate. And let it be only for a moment, but it will be the main moment in your life.

The main thing is not to lose calm and fortitude, to be a steadfast tin soldier - who, for all his “tin”, has a kind, loving heart.

“She clicked her teeth fiercely and shouted to the chips and straws floating towards her:
- Hold him! Hold it! He doesn’t have a passport!”

What else should I read? Edgar Poe and his last love

Thanks to cartoons

I don’t know, Alexey, I have a different opinion. That’s why I decided not to read Andersen to my child until a certain age. And this age dragged on. Now he is 10, and of all the fairy tales of the great Hans Christian, he knows only “The Snow Queen” and “The Little Mermaid”. And that’s thanks to cartoons.

No, from the point of view of the beauty of style, imagery, fabulous turns - there is no doubt, Andersen is a genius! But fairy tales, like any art, should bring light to the heads and souls of people, especially if these are still children's heads and souls! Isn't it?! Yes, whatever fairy tale you take from him...

Maybe this is why we are such an unhappy generation that our parents and grandmothers read Andersen to us at night? Which was difficult to obtain in bookstores or waste paper collection points.

Without edification

Who told you that fairy tales should teach you something? A fairy tale is a genre that initially does not at all imply edification. Look, those same novels or ballads are fairy tales for adults. They tell about the life of one or another character - a well-known historical one or a fictional one, born from the imagination of the author.

Did novels or ancient ballads, or the adventures of pirates, adventurers or noble robbers teach anything? Not at all! They entertained the listening or reading public.

What else should I read? Lewis Carroll and his "Alice in Wonderland" - quotes, secrets and Jack the Ripper

Fairy tales fill the soul with emotions

They brought variety to their drab, wretched life. They made us forget about our own problems, empathize with the heroes of novels and ballads, sympathize and rejoice at the successful outcome. That is, novels are fairy tales for adults, and fairy tales are exciting novels for children.

If you really want to teach a child something, it’s stupid to do it with the help of original fairy tales by Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, or, even worse, Hoffmann. Children go to school, and from fairy tales they expect miracles, exciting and scary adventures.

When a child follows a poignant plot, he is sometimes happy, sometimes frightened, sometimes moved, sometimes sad, after which he finally falls asleep blissfully, filling his soul with different emotions. This is the first thing.

And secondly, you look at Andersen’s fairy tales from the perspective of a modern adult, while children either do not pay attention to such details or details, or look from a completely different perspective.

What else should I read? Nina Ricci - the daughter of a shoemaker who went bankrupt in Monte Carlo

Andersen loved selfies

But my suspicions of some inadequacy of Andersen are also quite justified. Andersen was indeed a very strange person. For example, I was fascinated by the fact that he loved to be photographed, choosing angles from which he looked as good as possible.

Although it was very difficult to choose: Andersen was extremely ugly. His long, hooked nose was especially embarrassing. But the writer loved himself this way! Today they would say that Andersen loved taking selfies, and was even a selfie addict. And this is already a sign of some kind of inadequacy, as for me...

Moreover, having succeeded in selfies, Andersen never bothered to learn to read and write throughout his life - and until his death he wrote with grammatical errors. Which, in general, is not a reason not to be a genius, but still! I could have mastered it in so many years. But why? After all, he loved himself as such, an illiterate dreamer...

Andersen's heroes are outsiders

From early childhood, Andersen felt like a kind of ugly duckling, so he felt sympathy for this kind of heroes. He suffered a lot and experienced a lot, but he never became happy! Despite your, as you claim, narcissism!

In general, all of Andersen's main characters - if you notice the general trend - are outsiders, losers, people who have no place in society, or even if there is, then on the sidelines.

Remember "The Ugly Duckling"! At first he was expelled and despised by everyone, but in the end, after much ordeal and misfortune, he turned into a beautiful swan. Any boy or girl will empathize with such a character.

Everyone persecuted the poor thing, even his brothers and sisters angrily told him:
“If only the cat would drag you away, you obnoxious freak!”

Or take Thumbelina: at best, she could count on loneliness, and at worst, she could become the wife of a toad or a blind mole. But thanks to happy circumstances, she ends up in a wonderful land of little people and marries a prince! Here's your happy ending.

What else should I read? Charles Perrault - who was his Little Red Riding Hood and why his son was imprisoned

Andersen's tragedy

On the other hand, if you look at fairy tales from the perspective of an adult (or psychology), then Thumbelina makes many unhappy: the toad, the beetle, and the mole. But for children, all these characters are initially disgusting! For Thumbelina they want only one thing: the best prince.

“She was so tender, small, only an inch tall, and they called her Thumbelina.”

The tragedy of Hans Christian Andersen is that all of his literary works remained unclaimed.

And yet Andersen never managed to become a serious writer for adults. He suffered so much and was irritated when he was called a “children’s writer”! He insisted that even his fairy tales were for both children and adults. And this is true.

Andersen was not flirting. He really wrote them for the general public. Even now, after several centuries, we see that his tales are interesting to both children and adults. And everyone sees something different in them.

Do fairy tales teach?

In general, I’ll be honest: Andersen has never been one of my favorites. Even the Brothers Grimm with their horror fairy tales seemed sweeter to me... Hans Christian, for all his fabulousness, evokes melancholy and hopelessness. I just want to say after reading: “Well, okay. Everyone died."

It’s interesting: if Andersen himself had children, would he read them his bedtime stories??? Or that’s why he didn’t have children, so that, God forbid, they wouldn’t have to read their own fairy tales and be responsible for them! And not answer the questions: “What, dad, is it really possible to kill a person just because he is a witch with a lip right up to his chest?”

What else should I read? Mark Twain - humor-sermon and wife's prohibitions

Andersen and children

By the way, it cannot be said that Andersen loved children. Vice versa. According to the memoirs of his contemporaries, children irritated him. Once the writer was shown a sketch of a future monument to him - in this sketch, children stuck around him from all sides, one even climbed onto the storyteller’s shoulders.

On April 2, 1805, in the small Danish town of Odense, Hans Christian Andersen was born into the family of a poor shoemaker, who later gained immortal, unfading fame as the author of wonderful fairy tales.

Critics about Andersen's work

Andersen's first experiments in writing poetry, stories and dramatic works were met by the literary circles of Copenhagen, arrogant and arrogant people, with undisguised anger. They contemptuously called him an upstart, an arrogant, ridiculous son of a shoemaker, from whom no good in literature could be expected. Finding fault with the purely external roughness of Andersen’s language and not delving into his essence creativity and works, critics sought to protect the “noble” society of Denmark from the penetration of people from the people. The gross partiality and insensitivity of literary judges prompted Aedersen to leave his native country and travel extensively throughout Europe. He received recognition abroad earlier than in his homeland. But the time came when literary nobles in Denmark were unable to resist world public opinion, which placed Andersen on the pedestal of a wonderful writer and storyteller.

Life of Christian Andersen

Andersen's life, according to him, is very similar to the fate of the hero of one of his best fairy tales, “The Ugly Duckling.” Life was hard for this “ugly” duckling, who was so unlike other ducklings. “Everyone chased the poor duckling, even his brothers and sisters angrily told him: “If only the cat would drag you away, you obnoxious freak.” And the mother added: “My eyes wouldn’t see you!” The ducks nibbled him, the chickens pecked him, and the girl who gave food to the birds kicked him away.” The poor duckling had to run away from his “home,” but wherever he ran, he was met with ridicule. He endured hunger and cold, and no one sympathized with him or pitied him. With bitterness in his heart, the duckling swam to the majestic swans so that they would peck him to death.

So he bows his head and sees his reflection in the water, but the reflection is no longer of an ugly duckling, but of a beautiful swan. Large swans caressed him, children and adults called him the most beautiful of swans. “He recalled the time when everyone laughed at him and persecuted him. And now everyone says that he is the most beautiful among the beautiful swans. The lilac bent its fragrant branches into the water towards him, and the sun shone so warmly, so brightly... And then its wings rustled, its slender neck straightened, and a jubilant cry burst from its chest: “No, I never dreamed of such happiness when I was still ugly duckling!

Reading this wonderful fairy tale, our children are imbued with a feeling of love and responsiveness to all those who are oppressed and offended, and a feeling of hatred for rapists; They see through a living, figurative example how to treat people with care, how to cruelly and imprudently humiliate another, who, perhaps in appearance, resembles an ugly duckling, but in his heart and talent will turn out to be a beautiful swan. It should be explained to children that Andersen portrayed himself in this fairy tale, and then they will condemn that arrogant, soulless society that persecuted the shoemaker’s son, as everyone around them persecuted the ugly duckling, and will be imbued with love and respect for the famous storyteller, who managed to find life despite all the difficulties mighty swan wings of creativity, beautiful artistic skill.

Images, characters, heroes of Andersen's fairy tales

Rich and varied the world of fairy-tale images, characters, heroes of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. In this world, a significant place is occupied by fantastic characters, such as the beautiful and gloomy snow queen, the fairy Fata Morgana with her ghostly, ever-changing castle, Ole Lukoje, who closes the eyes of children going to bed.

But more often the heroes of Andersen's fairy tales are children, animals and birds, plants and often inanimate objects, such as toy shepherdesses and a chimney sweep, a simple darning needle, an old street lamp, a bottleneck. Andersen found material for an interesting and instructive tale in the simplest and most inconspicuous object. “It often seems to me,” Andersen writes in one of his letters, “that every fence, every flower tells me: “Look at me, and you will have my story.”

Let's take for example fairy tale "Bottleneck" . What, it would seem, can be said about such an insignificant subject? But under the magic pen of the storyteller, a poetic and instructive story unfolds, a kind of biography of the bottle from the day it was born in a molten furnace until the moment when only the neck of the bottle remained, replacing the poor girl with a flower vase.

The neck remembers how the bottle got its life in the furnace at the glass factory, how the wine sparkled in it when it was a festive, joyful day of the bride and groom, how the bottle traveled across the sea with the groom on the ship, how during a storm the sailor sent in his bottle last greetings to the bride, how she rose high on an airship and was thrown out of there and crashed. But the remainder of it - the bottleneck - still benefits people.

The girl does not have the opportunity to buy a flower vase, she does not even have a lush bouquet - a small flower in a bottle neck brightens up her lonely life.

In a short fairy tale "Five from One Pod" The fate of five peas is told. Each of them wanted to quickly escape from the walls of the pod and do something useful. But, as soon as they were born, three of them were swallowed by pigeons, the fourth fell into a ditch and lay in moldy water, and only the fate of the fifth pea, which rolled into a crack under the window of the attic closet, turned out to be quite happy.

In the crack there was moss and loose soil, allowing the pea to sprout. A sick girl was lying in the closet, and a modest pea flower was a great joy for her. When the girl began to recover, she leaned out of the window and kissed the thin petals of a blooming white and pink flower.

What do Andersen's fairy tales teach?

Andersen's tales imbued with genuine humanism, love for the people, for the simple and especially for the poor, downtrodden and suffering people. These fairy tales teach sensitivity and kindness in dealing with people. The kind and pure heart of a simple person is contrasted in them with the callousness of the proud nobility.

The little heart of the poetic heroine is full of sensitivity, responsiveness, the need to help all the weak fairy tales "Thumbelina" .

Widely known satirical tale "The King's New Clothes" by Andersen . The king ordered an unusual outfit from two deceiving weavers. Every day they demanded the finest silk and pure gold for their work and hid it all. They told the king that they would weave such an outfit that would be visible only to smart people. All the king's entourage, fearing that they would be considered fools, pretended to find wonderful fabric in an empty loom. The king himself agreed with them, because he did not want to be branded a fool. But the deceivers began to “dress up” the king, or rather, pretend that they were dressing him up, since in reality there was no outfit. On the street, noble people feigned admiration: “Oh, what an outfit! What a luxurious robe! How this dress suits a king!” Suddenly some boy shouted: “The king is naked!”, and everyone among the people began to repeat his words, making sure that the king really had no clothes on.

This tale very graphically and sharply ridicules the empty grandeur and arrogance of high-ranking nonentities and the hypocrisy and servility of their associates. The tale also has a broader meaning as an exposure of all kinds of arrogant narcissism, the arrogance of some people and the sycophancy of others. When a person boasts of his non-existent merits, and his close people, out of servility, agree and flatter him, but in reality it turns out that this person has no special merits; in such cases, they say: “But the king was naked!”

Andersen's fairy tales teach also vigor, cheerfulness and firmness in the fight against difficulties. Hero fairy tales "Flint" The soldier under no circumstances lost his composure. The hero of one of the children's favorites bravely endured many disasters. Andersen's fairy tales "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" .

Andersen's fairy tales provide great food for children's imagination, teach children to observe life, pay attention to unnoticed objects and phenomena and comprehend them.

Andersen's fairy tales are also of great importance for the aesthetic education of children. In fairy tales, the beautiful is not contrived, but taken from life, even if the plot of the fairy tale itself was fantastic.

Many of Andersen's fairy tales are such that they require some explanation for children from adults. This is best done by accompanying the reading of a fairy tale with a brief educational conversation.

Speaking about the merits of Andersen's fairy tales, Chekhov pointed out that they are interesting for both children and adults. Many teachers and parents repeatedly reread Andersen's best fairy tales and experience great pleasure every time.

Conversations with children about Andersen and his fairy tales are always interesting for both children and parents.

Based on materials from an old Soviet magazine...