The fairy tale "The Snow Queen" is an extraordinary story about a boy Kai and a girl Gerda. They were separated by a shard of a broken mirror. The main theme of Andersen's fairy tale "The Snow Queen" is the struggle between good and evil.

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So let's start retelling summary"Snow Queen". One day, an evil troll created a mirror, looking into which all goodness decreased and disappeared, while evil, on the contrary, increased. But, unfortunately, the troll's students broke the mirror in a dispute, and all its fragments scattered around the world. And if at least one tiny piece fell into the human heart, then it froze and became a piece of ice. And if he got into the eye, then the person stopped seeing the good, and in any act he felt only malicious intent.

Kai and Gerda

The summary of the "Snow Queen" should be continued with information that friends lived in one small town: a boy and a girl, Kai and Gerda. They were brother and sister to each other, but only until the moment when the fragments got into the boy's eye and heart. After the accident, the boy became embittered, became rude and lost his brotherly feelings for Gerda. In addition, he stopped seeing good. He began to think that no one loves him and everyone wishes him harm.

And then one not very good day, Kai went sledding. He clung to the sleigh passing by him. But they belonged to the Snow Queen. She kissed the boy, thereby making his heart even colder. The queen took him to her ice palace.

Journey of Gerda

Gerda grieved for the boy for the rest of the winter and waited for his return, and, without waiting, went in search of her brother as soon as spring came.

The first on the way Gerda met a woman-sorceress. She put a spell on the girl that deprived her of her memory. But when she saw the roses, Gerda remembered everything and ran away from her.

After that, on her way she met a raven, who told her that a prince very similar to Kai had wooed the princess of his kingdom. But it wasn't him. The princess and the prince turned out to be very kind people, they gave her clothes and a carriage made of gold.

The girl's path lay through a terrible and dark forest, where a gang of robbers attacked her. Among them was a little girl. She turned out to be kind and gave Gerda a deer. On it, the heroine went further and soon, having met pigeons, found out where her named brother was.

On the way she met two more kind women - a Lapland and a Finn. Each helped the girl in search of Kai.

The Snow Queen's Domain

And so, having reached the possessions of the Snow Queen, she gathered the remnants of her strength and went through the strongest snowstorm and the royal army. Gerda prayed all the way, and angels came to her aid. They helped her reach the ice castle.

Kai was there, but the queen was not. The boy was like a statue, all frozen and cold. He did not even pay attention to Gerda and continued to play the puzzle. Then the girl, unable to cope with her emotions, wept bitterly. Tears thawed Kai's heart. He also began to cry, and the shard fell out along with the tear.

The main characters of the fairy tale "The Snow Queen". Gerda

There are many characters in the story, but they are all secondary. There are only three main ones: Gerda, Kai, the queen. But still, the only truly main character of the fairy tale "The Snow Queen" is only one - little Gerda.

Yes, she is very small, but also selfless and brave. In the fairy tale, all her strength is concentrated in a kind heart, which attracts sympathetic people to the girl, without whom she would not have reached the ice castle. It is kindness that helps Gerda defeat the queen and unfreeze her named brother.

Gerda is ready for anything for the sake of her neighbors and is confident in decisions taken. She does not hesitate for a second and helps everyone who needs it, not counting on help. In a fairy tale, only the most best features character, and she is the embodiment of justice and goodness.

The image of Kai

Kai is a very ambiguous hero. On the one hand, he is kind and sensitive, but on the other, frivolous and stubborn. Even before the fragments hit the eye and heart. After the incident, Kai is completely under the influence of the Snow Queen and follows her orders without saying a word against. But after Gerda frees him, everything is fine again.

Yes, on the one hand, Kai is a positive character, but his inaction and passivity prevent the reader from falling in love with him.

The image of the Snow Queen

The Snow Queen is the embodiment of winter, cold. Her home is an endless ice space. Just like ice, she is very beautiful in appearance, as well as smart. But her heart does not know feelings. That is why she is the prototype of evil in Andersen's fairy tale.

History of creation

It's time to tell the story of the creation of Andersen's fairy tale "The Snow Queen". It was first published in 1844. The tale is the longest in the author's bibliography, and Andersen claimed that it was connected with the story of his life.

Andersen said that the "Snow Queen", a summary of which is contained in the article, appeared in his head even when he was little and played with his white-headed neighbor friend Lisbeth. To him, she was practically a sister. The girl was always next to Hans, supported in all games and listened to his first fairy tales. Many researchers claim that she became the prototype of Gerda.

But not only Gerda had a prototype. Singer Jenny Lind has become the living embodiment of the Queen. The author was in love with her, but the girl did not share his feelings, and Andersen made her cold heart the embodiment of the beauty and soullessness of the Snow Queen.

In addition, Andersen was fascinated by Scandinavian myths, and there death was called an ice maiden. Before he died, his father said that the maiden had come for him. Perhaps the Snow Queen has the same prototype as the Scandinavian winter and death. She also has no feelings, and the kiss of death can freeze forever.

The image of a girl made of ice attracted the storyteller, and in his legacy there is another tale about the Snow Queen, who stole her lover from his bride.

Andersen wrote the fairy tale in a very difficult time, when religion and science were at odds. Therefore, there is an opinion that the confrontation between Gerda and the queen describes the events that took place.

In the USSR, the tale was remade, since censorship did not allow the mention of Christ and the reading of the Gospel at night.

"The Snow Queen": analysis of the work

Andersen in his fairy tales creates an opposition - the opposition of good and evil, summer and winter, external and internal, death and life.

So, the Snow Queen has become a classic character of folklore. Dark and cold mistress of winter and death. She is opposed to the warm and kind Gerda, the embodiment of life and summer.

According to Schelling's natural philosophy, Kai and Gerda are androgynes, that is, the opposition of death and life, summer and winter. Children are together in summer, but in winter they suffer separation.

The first half of the tale talks about the creation of a magic mirror that can distort good, turning it into evil. A person injured by its fragment acts as an enemy of culture. On the one hand, it is a myth that affects culture and breaks the connection between man and nature. So Kai becomes soulless and rejects the love of summer and the beauty of nature. But he begins to love the creations of the mind with all his heart.

The fragment that ended up in the boy's eye allows him to think rationally, cynically, to show interest in the geometric structure of snowflakes.

In a fairy tale, as you know, there can be no bad ending, so Andersen contrasted Christian values ​​with the world of technology. That is why the children in the fairy tale sing psalms to the rose. Although the rose fades, but the memory of it remains. So memory is a mediator between the world of the living and the dead. This is how Gerda, having got into the garden of the sorceress, forgets Kai, and then her memory returns to her again, and she runs away. It is roses that help her in this.

The scene in the castle with the false prince and princess is very symbolic. At this dark moment, Gerda is helped by ravens, symbolizing the powers of the night and wisdom. Climbing the stairs is a tribute to the Platonic myth of the cave, in which non-existent shadows create a representation of a false reality. Gerda needs a lot of strength in order to distinguish between lies and truth.

The further the fairy tale "The Snow Queen" advances, the summary of which you already know, the more often peasant symbols are found. Gerda, with the help of prayer, copes with the storm and falls into the domain of the queen. The atmosphere of the castle was created by the author himself. It emphasizes all the complexes and failures of the poor writer. According to biographers, the Andresenov family had some mental disorders.

So the powers of the queen can symbolize actions that can drive you crazy. The castle is motionless and cold, crystal.

So Kai's injury leads to his seriousness and intellectual development, and attitudes towards loved ones change dramatically. Soon he is completely alone in the ice halls. These features characterize schizophrenia.

Kai meditates over the ice, showing his loneliness. Gerda's coming to Kai suggests his salvation from the world of the dead, from the world of madness. He returns to the world of love and kindness, eternal summer. The couple is reunited again, and the person gains integrity through a difficult path and overcoming himself.

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IN big city there lived a boy and a girl who loved each other very much, like brother and sister. The boy's name was Kai, and the girl's name was Gerda. Their parents, who lived under the very roof of the house, had a large wooden box each, where rose bushes grew. Kai and Gerda visited each other and played among the roses.

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They came to each other in winter, and the old grandmother told them about the queen of white snowflakes, often flying through the streets of the city at night and covering the windows of houses with frosty patterns. Gerda was afraid that the Snow Queen might enter their house, but Kai promised: "I will put her on a warm stove, so she will melt."

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Going to sleep, Kai looked out the window and saw "a woman wrapped in the thinnest white tulle, woven, it seemed, from millions of snow stars." She beckoned Kai with her hand, but he got scared and moved away from the window.

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Gerda instantly noticed the changes that had taken place in her friend: the roses that he used to love, now he began to call ugly ...

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One day, Kai went to ride in the square with other boys. Suddenly, a large sleigh appeared on the square white color to which Kai tied his sled. Finally, the woman sitting in the sleigh looked around, and the boy recognized her as the Snow Queen.

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She put the boy in her sleigh, kissed him on the forehead, and Kai forgot all his relatives and Gerda. Kai decided that he had not seen anyone smarter and more beautiful than this woman. The Snow Queen, having picked up the boy, soared into the black sky.

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The girl put on her new red shoes and went to the river to ask about Kai. She decided to give her shoes to the river, if only she would return her friend to her.

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The old woman treated Gerda with cherries and combed her hair with a golden comb. The longer she combed her guest's curls, the more she forgot Kai.

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Gerda sank to the ground and wept, and her tears fell right on the spot where the rose bush had once been. As soon as the tears moistened the earth, the rose bush in an instant grew as blooming as before. Gerda remembered Kai and that he needed to be found.

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Gerda sat down to rest. A large raven jumped in the snow beside her. Suddenly, the bird said hello in human language to the girl

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The raven brought Gerda to the palace to his bride, who found Gerda's story very touching. She told Gerda to take the lamp and follow her forward.

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The next day, they dressed Gerda in beautiful clothes - shoes, a muff, a wonderful dress, put her in a carriage made of pure gold and wished her a happy journey.

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“She will play with me,” said the little robber. “She will give me her muff, her pretty dress, and sleep with me in my bed.

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When the little robber fell asleep, the pigeons told Gerda that they saw Kai sitting in the Snow Queen's sleigh and that they were probably heading to Lapland.

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The little robber took pity on the girl, helped her escape and even released the reindeer in exchange for taking Gerda to the Snow Queen's palace. The reindeer set off at full speed towards North Pole, and very soon they found themselves in Lapland.

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The Lapland woman said that they needed to get to Finland, and wrote a message on dried cod addressed to a Finnish woman living there. Deer and Gerda quickly found the Finns' accommodation.

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... The deer did not dare to stop until he ran to a bush with red berries. Then he lowered the girl, kissed her on the lips, and large, shiny tears rolled down his cheeks. Then he shot back like an arrow. The poor girl was left alone in the bitter cold, without shoes, without mittens.

GERDA

GERDA (Dan. Gerda) is the heroine of H.K. Andersen's fairy tale "The Snow Queen" (1843). G. is a normal, "natural" girl in captivity of the myth, unlike her named brother Kai, who defeated evil forces. True, Kai is a victim of the intrigues of a troll, with whom it would seem impossible to fight. Both heroes, each in their own way, fell into the myth. Perhaps this was the main machinations of the troll who broke the mirror, which, as you know, inevitably brings misfortune, and since it was also an evil, crooked mirror, the world in which the heroes lived staggered, distorted and collapsed. Two tiny fragments hit Kai's eye and heart, and he became the prey of the Snow Queen, "fell out of reality", forgetting everything in the world. In this story, it was the boy, Kai, who turned out to be the more accessible object of the experiment of evil forces. The heroine had to become a girl who decided to go to the kingdom to the Snow Queen herself. We learn that while G. was looking for Kai, some heroes grew up (Little Robber), others died (forest raven), and the heroes themselves, Kai and G., became adults during this time. G. is a very important heroine in Andersen's world: she proves the possibility of fighting evil - mystical, omnipotent, ugly. At the same time, G. does not act alone: ​​in a semi-fairytale world, where quite everyday, even realistic heroes (like a Lapland woman or a Finnish woman) coexist with talking crows and deer, everyone is drawn to her, there is not a single character who would not try to help her. And it's not just about kindness, triumphant, despite the machinations of the troll. G. has the gift of attracting all that is good and repelling the bad.

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Books

• Gerda. The story of a mongrel, Vladimir Valerievich Zemsha. The focus of the story is an ordinary mongrel named Gerda. The reader has the opportunity to look at the world and perhaps himself, dog eyes. By the will of the human...

Go around almost the entire Earth in search of best friend? For the heroine of a fairy tale, this is not at all difficult. Bold and courageous Gerda will overcome any trials in order to save loved one. And what kind of obstacles can we talk about if a sincere faith in goodness lives in the heart.

History of creation

In 1844, the collection New Tales. Volume one." The book included a story about the adventures of a girl named Gerda, who was desperately looking for her missing friend.

Scientists claim that "The Snow Queen" is the longest fairy tale of the writer. Hans Christian Andersen himself called the work "the fairy tale of my life." Such a statement is justified. Majority acting heroes fascinating stories are not fictional - it is real people who accompanied Andersen on his life path.

The prototype of the brave Gerda was a girl named Lisbeta. The future heroine of the fairy tale lived not far from little Hans and often came to visit. Over time, the children became so friendly that they began to call each other "sister" and "brother". Lisbeta is the first listener of Andersen's still uncertain, but already interesting stories.

There is a theory that in the confrontation between Gerda and the Danish writer displayed the struggle between religion and science. This idea did not take root in the Soviet Union. It is not surprising, because the fairy tale reached the USSR in a stripped-down version. Mandatory censorship, through which foreign works passed, crossed out religious motifs from the fairy tale - in the original version, memories of.

Biography

Gerda was born into a poor family. Despite the difficult financial situation, parents and grandmother tried to give the child a happy childhood. The family lives under the roof of an apartment building. The young heroine has an attractive appearance:

“The hair curled, and the curls surrounded the girl’s fresh, round, like a rose, face of the girl with a golden glow.”

Mom and dad built a flower garden for Gerda, which the girl looked after with the neighbor boy Kai. The guys have been friends since childhood and spent a lot of time together.

The relationship changed when Kai became a hostage to the fragments of the magic mirror, distorting the perception of the world. Having hit the boy in the eye and in the heart, the fragments turned Kai against Gerda.

The girl's best friend goes missing, the adults decide that the boy is dead. Only Gerda does not accept such a truth and, with the onset of spring, goes in search. The first person the girl addresses is the local river. Gerda offers the elements an exchange: the river returns Kai to her, and the heroine gives her the only value - new red shoes. The river does not help the girl, but takes her to the old witch's house.

The naive Gerda allows herself to be bewitched and carelessly lives in the old woman's house at the end of spring and all summer. Randomness reminds the girl of the goal of her journey. After consulting with local flowers and finding out that Kai is not buried in the ground, Gerda returns to the search.

The road leads the brave girl to a beautiful castle. The questions of the talking raven confirm the guess - Kai lives in the palace and is quite happy with the local princess. The girl persuades the raven to lead her inside. Alas, another boy turns out to be the princess' fiancé.

Kind rulers listen to the sad story and give the girl warm clothes and a golden carriage. The gifts came in very handy. Gerda again sets off on a difficult journey. Bandits attack an expensive carriage in the nearby forest.

Gerda is saved from death by a little robber who decided to take the girl into her collection of curiosities. At night, when the robber falls asleep, white doves tell the girl where to look for Kai. Delighted, Gerda shares what she has learned with the jailer. Despite the environment, the heart of the young robber has not yet hardened. The thief releases Gerda, giving her reindeer as her escort.

So, on the back of a mighty animal, the heroine gets to Lapland. The duo makes their first stop at the house of an old Laplander. The woman, having learned the fate of the deer and Gerda, gives the heroes a strange message written on dried cod for their journey. The old woman asks to convey a message to a familiar Finn.

Having reached Finnmark, Gerda finds the old woman's dwelling. While the heroes are warming up after a long journey, the Finn carefully examines incomprehensible letters. The reindeer, who during the journey has taken a liking to his companion, begs his new acquaintance to help Gerda. But the Finn, seeing the character traits of the girl, has a different opinion on this matter:

“Don’t you see how great her power is? Don't you see that both people and animals serve her? After all, she walked around half the world barefoot! It's not for us to borrow her strength! The strength is in her sweet, innocent baby heart. If she herself cannot penetrate into the halls of the Snow Queen and extract the fragments from Kai's heart, then we will not help her even more!”

Having reached the entrance to the Snow Queen's garden, Gerda is left alone - the reindeer is waiting for her at the entrance. Prayers help the girl reach the castle. The angels who came to help drive away the guards of the Snow Queen from the heroine and do not allow them to harm Gerda.

The house of the evil mistress of the snow fascinates the girl, although during the journey the castles ceased to amaze Gerda. Seeing Kai, the heroine throws herself on her friend's chest. Warm tears rolling from the girl's eyes melt the ice in the boy's heart, and the mention of Christ in his favorite psalm makes Kai himself burst into tears. So fragments of the cursed mirror came out of the body of a young man.

Happy heroes set off on their way back and, having reached their home, they realize that they have matured a lot during the journey. Only their hearts remained the same kind and pure.

Screen adaptations

The first cartoon about the adventures of a brave girl was filmed in the USSR in 1957. The cartoon "The Snow Queen" was awarded with international awards and was transferred to six foreign languages. The actress became the voice of Gerda.

In 1967, the film studio "Lenfilm" released a fairy tale film "The Snow Queen". In the film, in addition to living people, puppets are involved, and elements of animation are inserted. She played the role of Gerda.

The premiere of the New Year's musical of the same name took place on December 31, 2003. She performed the role of Gerda. In addition to the original plot, there are other Andersen stories in the musical film.

Inspired by a Danish writer's fairy tale, Osamu Dezaki created an anime about the adventures of a brave girl. The cartoon almost does not depart from the original source. The image of Gerda was created by Akio Sugino, and the voice was given by Ayako Kawasumi.

In 2012, a new animated film "The Snow Queen" was released. Later, the fairy tale was continued - "The Snow Queen 2: Refreeze" (2015) and "The Snow Queen 3: Fire and Ice". In the first and second parts, Gerda was voiced by the singer (Anna Shurochkina), in the third - by Natalia Bystrova.

• The name "Gerda" came from Scandinavia, the meaning of the name is the protector of people.
• A polar bear named Gerda lives in the Novosibirsk Zoo. In August, the animal toiled from the heat, and the servants brought real snow to the aviary. The video of Gerda enjoying the snow has spread all over the world.
• The poetess Stefania Danilova dedicated a verse to Gerda, in which the heroine enters the halls of winter. The work ends unexpectedly: Gerda confesses her love not to Kai at all, but to the Snow Queen.

We will be very happy to meet our neighbors, friends of the same age and other citizens! =)

Gerda Johansen and Kai Larsen are ordinary Copenhagen teenagers, dairy brother and sister. Offspring of worthy, but impoverished families.

About family

There was a man named Hans Johansen, a self-taught artist and the son of a bookseller. His close friend was Soren Larsen, he was a technician and spent several years in England. Søren and Hans invented a new way to print color prints. They took out loans, entered into a share and became the owners of a small printing house "Larsen and Johansen". Published luxurious gift books. Especially for children! And I must say, young people were a little ... idealists. Didn't get the right patents. Soon their equipment was mastered by competitors and strangled, bankrupted. It happened fifteen years ago. Books "from Larsen and Johansen" are now selling for three times the old price, the books are hunted by a collector. And the children of publishers huddle in the attic ...
Trouble does not come alone - Christina, the young wife of Hans Johansen, died in childbirth. Little Gerda was brought up by Soren's wife, Camille Larsen, who had a boy named Kai a little earlier. The misfortune only strengthened the friendship between the two houses. They also rent housing next door! The parents of Gerda and Kai had to work together with the very competitors that ruined them - for fifteen years they have been delivering books to the bearish corners of dear Denmark, spinning like a squirrel in a wheel and rarely happen at home ...
Until now, “the fragments of imperial greatness” are kept in the atmosphere of our dwellings. Parents cherish old things and samples of their luxury publications. They want to save money and start a business again. They dream of bringing children into people. They save, save, save a penny, feel like the last poor people! But arrogance, arrogance ...
Kai's mother is a companion of the old countess, lives in her country estate. The countess has a “charitable cause”: she keeps twenty-eight virgins of Balzac age without dowries and strives with all her might to “arrange their happiness.” True, the old woman has memory lapses, and she tries to marry Kai's mother to the company. Camilla rereads, a scandal rises, the “ungrateful” rolls into the attic to Kai in tears. But mother and countess can no longer live without each other, everything returns to normal. The old woman is pathologically stingy and with a difficult character, but wants to bequeath part of the estate to her companion if she "proves her gratitude."
Gerda and Kai are left with Magda Johansen, Gerda's grandmother. Now Kai considers her a grandmother. Here our dear grandmother told about herself: http://community.livejournal.com/andersen_tales/29984.html

Children live in neighboring attics. Between their humble dwellings is a beautiful little rose garden!
Of course, the parents are virtual characters, only Gerda appears in the game ( Mirish ), grandmother ( glornaith ) and Kai (me).

About Gerda

She just turned 13. She looks like an ordinary city girl: well-educated (grandmother did her best, taught politeness), neat, shy, beautiful. Moderately cheerful, moderately quiet, moderately devout. In a word - an exemplary bride will grow up! Only trouble with the dowry. And I read a lot of books.
Gerda is a kind and sympathetic girl, but she knows how to insist on her own, if she is sure that she is doing well. People are drawn to her...
Gerda's girlfriends know her excessive flight of imagination, which is why not everyone can play with her: it's hard to keep up. Therefore, Gerda speaks and plays more and more with Kai, and with the girls - insofar as.
Kai loves like a brother. He considers him the smartest boy on Earth and even in all of Copenhagen. IN Lately Gerda doesn't even know who is smarter, grandma or Kai. Although the authority of the grandmother, of course, is indisputable.
“We have a stupid last name with my grandmother,” Gerda laments. - Larsen is cooler.
Ah, what a juicy street dictionary: “cooler, stupid” ... How good that grandmother didn’t hear this - Gerda would have been thrashed!

As you can see, Gerda is a multifaceted nature.

About Kai

To the best of an original city teenager of fourteen years old, of an indefinite social status: dressed poorly, but with a pretense. However, the boy is pleasant, friendly, not boring, with a variety of hobbies. I studied at school for several years, while there was enough money. Seems to be a child prodigy. Dreams of going to university in the future!
Runs around libraries, reads a lot. “A lot, but all nonsense,” the neighbor laughed without malice. There was a case, Kai was caught with a volume of Voltaire in his hands.
They arranged the boy for a printing house - he worked for three weeks, then something did not work out with the owner ...

Gerda loves like a sister. Walk together, adventure! Gerda and Kai seem to balance each other out. Gerda with a boy - Common sense.

Kai and Gerda also play tricky games. It happens that you don’t even know whether it’s a trick or an innocent game, and you just wave your hand so that you don’t mess with their grandmother once again: she knows better what children can do.

There is a rumor that Kai has recently had some cockroaches ... And there was such a good boy with beady eyes! Another kind boy, Kai, knows how to spit poison.