碩士 / 國立臺東大學 / 兒童文學研究所 / 101 / Among the various genres that Hans Christian Andersen composed, fairy tale is the one that best expresses his creative values. He integrated his observation of social phenomena and his comprehension of life into his fairy tales among which “The Little Mermaid”, “The Hardy Tin Soldier” and “Under the Willow Tree” take the mute personality of the characters as the leading thread and employ all kinds of symbols and metaphors to represent the evolution of the author’s ideology and spiritual life under constructed systems.
Firstly, the essay explores the author’s values delivered through the mute manner of writing. The values emphasize the spiritual more than the material. Through comparisons between the rich and the poor as well as the antagonism among social classes, the author illustrates the inequalities in the positions of lovers, implying an objection to the inequality within the social system as well as to the mainstream values.
Secondly, by exploring symbolic meanings implied in all kinds of objects as well as identities and appearances of the characters, the essay looks deeply into the author’s mental discipline and stages of growth in his psyche. In addition, by referring to interpretations of related symbolic signs by different schools of psychology, the essay advances to reason that the author wanted to put his inner confusion and chaos into order. It is a journey of returning to one’s self through the unconscious instincts, i.e. the individuation process proposed by Carl G. Jung.
Last, the essay concludes by a discourse around the tragic ends of Anderson’s tales that indicate the author’s own values about love. The object of Anderson’s projection of love is not a woman and love represents something that the author employs in order to simply release his artistic impulse. For the author, love in its ideal state is perhaps to be as one with God.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/101NTTU0638028 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | Li Fang Hung, 洪麗芳 |
| Contributors | Ming Cherng Duh, 杜明城 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 123 |
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