You know that every fairy tale teaches something. What can teach the fairy tale "Thumbelina" by Hans Christian Andersen?
Imagine a lot!A child, getting acquainted with a little pre-girl, learns to live in this huge and sometimes terrible world. Let's go on a trip to a magical land, created by the fantasy of a genius storyteller, and take out the lessons of life from it.
One woman, a witch and Thumbelina
One woman dreamed of having a baby and went towitch. Why did not she give birth to a child herself, did not adopt an orphan? After all, those who dream of children do so usually. However, there is a category of people who can not cope with their own problems. They resorted to the services of sorcerers, magicians, witches, psychics. The point here is that such a person has desires, but there are no abilities, creative imagination, vital energy. This poor woman can not even come up with a normal name for the girl, she is not able to provide the baby with safety, carelessly leaving the nut shell with the sleeping girl at the open window. It is only natural that she lost her happiness.
Witch - the image of a person, on the contrary, possessescreativity. In her power from something ordinary, for example from barley grains, to create something fantastic, spiritual and animated. But still a witch is a simple man, not an almighty God, so a wonderful creature turned out to be a little pre-malenkoye.
Thumbelina, born of the power of creative imagination,has beauty and talent. She is able to give all living beings joy and happiness. But it is so small that it can not exist independently in the material world. Its charm extends only to the spiritual component of reality. This is her salvation and at the same time a test - she always needs someone and at the same time is dependent on someone. Thumbelina is a symbolic character, it is something beautiful, but unattainable in real life, because no one has managed to possess it in this world. Only in a faraway country did this come from the king of elves, a creature as fantastic as Thumbelina herself.
Toad, her son and Thumbelina
Toad, stealing Thumbelina, had severalmore prudent than the former mistress, she put the treasure on a leaf, away from the shore, to prevent the escape of a potential daughter-in-law. And yet, with stereotypical thinking, she could not assume that there are other forces that can interfere with her plans: floating fish for example. Even the thought that someone is ready to help an unhappy creature does not occur to the toad. In addition, she does not think that her son as a husband can make anyone unhappy. And the most terrible thing - a toad bothers about the arrangement of a family nest in a marshy swamp, in which Thumbelina does not survive. But the old toad is unable to understand all this. What can you learn here? Even if the fact that every act is complicated by a multitude of circumstances, some can be envisaged and prevented, while others, because of human limitations, are impossible. There are people who do not have an adequate idea of the world, about themselves and others. Everything that they do, sooner or later ends in failure.
Son of a toad - a creature absolutely spineless.Have found to it the bride - marries, if have not found - would not marry. It is the image of a person who does not have any personality at all. He was hardly disappointed after the loss of the bride. His wife does not need him at all. Are there few families that have emerged from the active efforts of outside parties? Are they happy? And maybe somewhere in the marsh mud of a cozy family nest, arranged by a "caring" mother-in-law, "inch" dies, which no one helped.
Our heroine was on a piece of water lily in the middleriver and terribly frightened. How can a person behave in this situation? She could throw a scandal to a toad and her son, could rush hysterically on a sheet and loudly call for help, dispersing her screams of fearful fish, could rush into the river in a fit of despair and drown. Usually people behave this way, being in a desperate situation. But Thumbelina behaves differently: completely reconciled to her fate, she bitterly and quietly mourns for her ruined life. Fish, seeing this, took pity on her and perekryzli stalk, holding the flower Thumbelina. And the leaf took the beautiful captive away from the ugly toads. They say that pity humiliates a person, as we see, does not humiliate, but saves. Meek is usually lucky - they are willingly helped.
And they help the beautiful.So it was with a white moth, fascinated by the beauty of Thumbelina. He allowed her to tie herself with a girdle to a leaf, for which she paid with her life. What can we talk about here? Probably, about the fact that one can not be attached to something so that it would be impossible to get free.
Beetle and Thumbelina
The May bug became the culprit of the moth's death. But he did not even think about the edge of his consciousness about the fact that someone was killed because of his fault, and he does not have much grief.
Майский жук был не лишён эстетического вкуса, и he liked the little beauty. But here came the other May beetles and expressed their opinion: "She only has two legs!", "She does not even have tentacles!" And the beetle refused Thumbelina. Why did this happen?
Secondly, the beetle is not the one thatSuitable for husbands Thumbelina. He has stereotyped thinking, and this prevents him from being independent, even in being happy. Even a hundred thousand May beetles could not give him a small fraction of the spiritual joy that one Thumbelina could give. The inner state of happiness and love, he prefers his external position among worthless and near relatives.
The Thumbelina, thrown by the beetle, formeda sense of inferiority. How often does this happen in life when a beautiful, dear, very good man considers himself to be defective only because he is rejected by insignificant creatures who, for some reason alone, are confident of their superiority. And that they are biased in relation to her, even Thumbelina does not think. This character admires his inability to think badly about others. She blames only herself.
Mouse, Mole and Thumbelina
Rejected by the beetle, Thumbelina lived alone all summer and autumn. But winter came, and the poor girl was forced to seek shelter.
She was taken to live by a field mouse.This kind being loves Thumbelina, takes care of her and wishes her only happiness. Therefore, she bothers to marry Thumbelina for a mole. To her, this marriage seems to be the height of a prosperous life, since the mole is rich and has a luxurious fur coat. For a mouse, these arguments are enough to regard the mole as an enviable bridegroom. In this case, she takes upon herself the right to decide someone else’s fate, guided solely by good intentions, and does so completely disinterestedly. By the example of a mouse, it is shown how some people can make other people miserable, wanting only good things for them, showing sincere concern for a loved one. Truly, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
The mole is the personification of a rich man.His character is given in a few words: "important, sedate and taciturn." He considers himself the height of every girl's dream, but he does not like the sun, flowers and birds - all that Thumbelina loves - a character opposed to a mole in its very essence. This marriage is initially doomed.
Thumbelina in this situation is true to herself:She unquestioningly obeys her adoptive mother, considering her to be her benefactress. Only at the last moment is he decided to escape, because he cannot imagine his life without sunlight.
Swallow, King of the Elves and Thumbelina
Избавление от жалкого существования в кротовом the dungeon was made possible thanks to the swallow that Thumbelina had warmed and saved from starvation. The character in the image of a swallow is a link between the heroine of a fairy tale and another world, opposed to ordinary and boring reality. The mole and the mouse, which devote their lives to accumulating material wealth, unanimously accuse the bird of a useless existence. For them, the singing of birds is a completely empty occupation. And for Thumbelina - a great joy. She takes care of the bird as a sign of gratitude for the minutes of pleasure that had been delivered. A swallow saved Thumbelina, knowing full well that escape is salvation, and life with a mole is death.
Мир, в который перенеслись ласточка и её A small passenger is a celebration of warmth, light and beauty. There Thumbelina meets her fate - the king of the elves. Finally, she feels at home with her family. Born out of a flower, she becomes the queen of flowers. She achieved her happiness, deserving him by overcoming all obstacles, while not causing anyone harm.
The king of the elves is Thumbelina's first bridegroom, who asks her consent to marry. It alone occurred to him to ask her opinion.
And when the elves surrounded Thumbelina and sawthe lack of wings, they just gave her their without further ado. This is how all problems should be solved in an ideal society that the elves embody, it is customary for them to respect each other, to take care of the personality of another being. This example is the main lesson of life, which can be taken from the fairy tale "Thumbelina".
Thumbelina, the character until this moment is nameless,it is impossible to consider the name of this definition of growth, gets its real name - Maya. Thus, a new symbol is born - the embodiment of spring, heat and light.
