Once upon a time, there was a little princess playing with her golden ball by the well. She threw the ball into the air, but failed to catch it with her hand. The golden ball fell into the well and she was very sad. She looked around, hoping that someone could help her. At this moment, a frog came to her. The frog said, "Little Princess, why are you crying?" The little princess said, "My golden ball fell into the well." The frog said, "If you are willing to share a bowl of rice with me, sleep in the same bed and make friends with me, I can help you get the golden ball back." The little princess doesn't care. The frog helped her get the golden ball back, but she turned and ran back to the palace. The little frog had to jump back into the well.
The next morning, the little princess was having breakfast at the table, and the little frog knocked on the door of the palace. The little princess opened the door and saw that it was the annoying frog. She quickly closed the door and panted back to the table. The king asked her, "What happened?" The little princess told the king what happened yesterday. After listening to this, the king said angrily, "How can you break your word when others have helped you?" The little princess had to open the door to let the little frog in and barely ate and slept with the little frog. Finally, the little princess got angry, grabbed the little frog and threw it on the wall. As soon as the frog landed, he suddenly became a handsome prince. The prince confided his terrible experience to the little princess: "an evil witch turned me into an ugly frog, so I had to stay at the bottom of the well." Only you can save me. " The little princess sympathized with the prince and agreed to be good friends with him.
Later, they got married and lived happily.
Appreciation of works:
In The Frog Prince, the handsome prince was enchanted by a vicious witch and turned into an ugly frog, living in a dirty deep pool. Compared with the luxurious life in the past, it is certainly not an exaggeration to describe the life in the deep pool with "hell". But even though the prince suffered a lot, the story never mentioned what the prince was cursed for. We may think that this is a reflection of the consciousness of "original sin" in western religions in literary creation, that is, Wang Zisheng came to be guilty, so the witch punished him for leaving the palace and the Garden of Eden and coming to the human world represented by the deep water pool to suffer.
The frog prince provides readers with a story pattern in Grimm's fairy tales, that is, the prince and princess suffer, and then a kind person breaks the spell for them and sets them free. The emergence of this model is closely related to the way of eliminating evil advocated by Christianity.
Christianity believes that man, driven by free will, violates God's forbidden law, that is, he has committed a crime and can't get rid of it all his life. Only death can dispel it. In order to save mankind, God sent his only son, Jesus, to be punished for mankind and free man from the bondage of sin and death.
About the author:
Jacob green and william green are German fairy tale collectors and language and culture researchers. Because of their similar interests and experiences, the two men cooperated in studying linguistics and collecting folk fairy tales, so they were called "Brothers Grimm". They were born in a family of lawyers with many children in Kazakhstan. They studied in Kassel, studied law in Marburg, worked in Kassel Library, and served as professors at the University of G? ttingen from 65438 to 0830. 1837, he was dismissed as a professor together with five other professors for protesting the arbitrary violation of the Constitution by the King of Hanover. From 65438 to 0840, he was an academician of Berlin Academy of Sciences and a professor of Berlin University until their death. The brothers Grimm have a wide range of interests and dabbles in a wide range. From 18 12 to 18 15, they published their children's and family fairy tales. This book has laid a fascinating "Green Style" narrative style in folk fairy tales, and has had a far-reaching impact on the world children's literature since19th century.