Thumbelina is a character of the same tale by Hans Christian Andersen

You know that every fairy tale teaches something. What can teach the fairy tale "Thumbelina" Hans Christian Andersen?

Imagine a lot! The child, getting acquainted with the little pre-malenkoy 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 brilliant 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 to the witch. Why did not she give birth to a child herself, did not adopt an orphan? After all, those who dream of children usually do so. 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 quite natural that she lost her happiness.

A witch is an image of a person, on the contrary, possessing the capacity for creativity. 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 person, 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. Her 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, was somewhat more 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 imagine that there are other forces capable of interfering 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 takes care of 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? If only 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 completely spineless creature. Have found to it the bride - marries, if have not found - would not marry. This is the image of a person who does not have any personality at all. He was hardly upset after the loss of the bride. His wife does not need him at all. Are there such families that have emerged from the active efforts of outside parties? Are they happy? Or 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 leaf of a water lily in the middle of the river and was 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: fully accepting her fate, she grieves bitterly and quietly about her ruined life. Fish, seeing this, took pity on her and peregryzli stalk, holding the flower Thumbelina. And the leaf carried away 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, enchanted by the beauty of Thumbelina. He allowed her to tie herself with a girdle to the leaf, for which she paid with her life. What can we talk about here? Probably, about the fact that you can not be attached to something so that it would be impossible to get free.

Beetle and Thumbelina

The culprit of the moth's death was the May bug. 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.

The May bug was not devoid of aesthetic taste, and he liked the little beauty. But here came other May beetles and expressed their opinion: "She only has two legs!", "She does not even have tentacles!" And the beetle refused from Thumbelina. Why did this happen?

Firstly, the May beetle is an egoist who considers himself worthy of all the best, he takes from life all that he likes, while depending on someone else's opinion. This is a representative of fashionable parties, for which the worst thing to be different from "their own", to be not like everyone else. The value of anything for such people is measured not by one's own ideas, but by the way others evaluate it. The fairy tale "Thumbelina" gives us an understanding of the terrible evil, which consists in the rejection of love to please the public opinion.

Secondly, the beetle is not the version that suits Thumbelina's husbands. 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 useless and close relatives.

At Thumbelina, thrown by the beetle, a feeling of inferiority was formed. How often is it 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 against 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 then came winter, and the poor girl is compelled to seek shelter.

She took a field mouse to live with her . This kind creature loves Thumbelina, cares about her and wishes her only happiness. So she bothers to give Thumbelina a mole. She herself seems to be married to a happy life, because the mole is rich and he has a luxurious fur coat. For the mouse, these arguments are sufficient to treat the mole as an enviable groom. She in this case takes upon herself the right to decide someone else's destiny, guided solely by good intentions, and does it completely unselfishly. The example of a mouse shows how some people can make other people unhappy by wanting for them only good, showing sincere care for a close person. Indeed, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions."

Mole is the personification of a rich man. His character is given in a few words: "important, sedate and taciturn." He considers himself the top of every girl's dreams, while he does not like the sun, flowers and birds - everything that Thumbelina adores - a character opposed to the mole in its very essence. This marriage is doomed from the beginning.

Thumbelina in this situation is true to herself: she unquestioningly obeys her adoptive mother, considering her a benefactress. Only at the last moment it is decided to escape, because it does not represent its life without sunlight.

Swallow, King of Elves and Thumbelina

Getting rid of a miserable existence in a mole dungeon became possible thanks to the swallow, which was warmed and saved from hungry death by Thumbelina. A character in the image of a swallow is the connecting link between the heroine of a fairy tale and another world, opposed to everyday and boring reality. Mole and mouse, who devote their lives to the accumulation of material wealth, unanimously accuse the bird of useless existence. For them singing birds is a completely empty occupation. And for Thumbelina - a great joy. She takes care of the bird as a token of gratitude for the once-delivered moments of pleasure. A swallow saved Thumbelina, knowing full well that escape is salvation, and life with a mole is death.

The world in which the swallow was transported and her little passenger was a holiday of warmth, light and beauty. There Thumbelina meets her fate - the king of elves. Finally, she feels at home, with her family. Born from a flower, she becomes the queen of flowers. She achieved her happiness by deserving him by overcoming all obstacles, without harming anyone at all.

The king of the elves is the first groom of Thumbelina, who asks her for consent to a marriage. It occurred to him alone to ask her opinion.

And when the elves surrounded Thumbelina and saw the absence of wings, they simply gave her them without unnecessary conversations. So all the problems in the ideal society, which the elves embody, must be solved, they are supposed to respect each other, take care of the personality of another being. This example - the main lesson of life, which can be taken from the fairy tale "Thumbelina".

Thumbelina, a character until now unnamed, you can not consider this definition by its name for growth, gets its real name - Maya. Thus, a new symbol is born - the embodiment of spring, heat and light.