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Death Consciousness In Andersen's Fairy Tales

Posted on:2009-04-02Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:G J RongFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360242996361Subject:Literature and art
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Andersen's fairy tales in which about 40 works written about the death, " Death" is one part of Andersen's fairy tales, we can not avoid the issue. For Hans Christian Andersen, Facing death because love life,death is written based on the thinking about life ,and this is a important factor for classic Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale character generate of.This paper will focus on about 40 texts, children's understanding of the death emerged Implications of the aesthetic. Author with slim feelings understand the live's incredible subtle.The personnel's passing away have been full of sorrow. 19th-century German Romanticism impact Andersen to define the life and death by soul, life's vaule is only on the pursuiting of life's poetic. As a result, death to life as a poem of the pursuit of self-selection, get the beyond aesthetic. at the same time, Andersen also write about the humble people's death, death can not be reversed under the power of the fate and nature, and death about someone with spirit's loss, no sense of belonging to. While those works reflect Andersen's thinking on the situation of human existence. At the same time, the death of some fairy tales also reflects the Hans Christian Andersen's religious feelings. some titles of Andersen is almost full of purely Christian benevolence, fraternity, the fear of God and the teachings of the interpretation. In response, author will specially discuss it. Then, author will after the source of death consciousness,form died in the traditional fairy tales, the Nordic cultural and geographical environment and century Denmark 's background in 19th. Finally, discuss the significance of death in Andersen's fairy tales. Death to life is a higher form of existence ,death is a bridge to the love of God, and is a reimbursement for life by the lack of love in the society.In this paper, Andersen's Fairy Tales's awareness of death, is to show the rich substance of Andersen's Fairy Tales, and glimpse into the inner spirit of a fairy-tale generation master's temperment.
Keywords/Search Tags:Andersen, Fairy Tales, death aesthetic, religious sentiments, significance
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