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Go around almost the entire Earth in search of your 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 a 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. Most of the acting heroes of the fascinating story are not fictional - they are real people who accompanied Andersen on the path of life.
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" has received international awards and has been translated into 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.
Grandmother tells a fairy tale about the Snow Queen Kaya and Gerda. The first thing Kai asked, remember? He asked in a coveted voice: "Is she beautiful?" Strange, right? He has a beautiful and kind Gerda, it would seem, what more could you want? And from the very beginning he was interested in another woman, and the Coolest. As cool and cold as he would like to see himself. After all, feelings are not for a real man. Kai does not want to be able to worry, does not want to be pitied. This is the beginning of the downfall of many of our men who want to look tough but can't do it with a mommy woman.
That bad boy who was pricked by a splinter always slept in Kai. And it could not be otherwise, because living with Gerda is not fun at all. This is a mother woman. You can't be Cool in front of her. After all, she is always ready to take care of you, even if you are completely drunk. While looking for the Snow Queen, Kai carries out a neurotic scenario. Hadn't he himself hooked his sleigh to hers?
Kai's scenario is to plunge into history, repent and receive forgiveness from a mommy woman. This is the scenario of the latent alcoholic. Moreover, half of the fairy tales are built precisely on this scenario: an all-forgiving woman makes a man out of a dissolute man. Beauty and the Beast, Nutcracker, Pinocchio, Scarlet Flower, Lady and the Tramp, Aristocratic Cats…
Fairy tales teach us that all ends well. The man repents and becomes an exemplary family man. But life is not like that.
It would be possible to remove 2-3 more episodes of the continuation of the Snow Queen. Because behind the snow queen there will be another woman who will charm Kai and draw him into some kind of adventure. Well, let's say the same Rogue is quite suitable for this role. Kai, most likely, will run away with the Rogue, again get into some kind of story, lose everything and come to ask for forgiveness from Gerda. Or, rather, she herself will look for him in the cellars.
HDon't choose men like Kai. However, if you are Gerda, then you have no choice. First, a nice man, roses and "I will never hurt you." Then - rudeness and "overturned sled" (the first violence). Then - going on a spree. And Gerda still believes that he was bewitched. And that she is able to disenchant. What do fairy tales teach our girls? In fact, it is impossible to disenchant such a man. Better not to bewitch the little boy. Teach him that feelings and tenderness are not ashamed. That you don’t have to be a cool or closed monster, a bear, where a gentle man lurks under the skin, and someone will have to take off this skin ... Neither Gerda nor the Snow Queen are able to save Kai. He will be torn between these two roles, drawn into the script. One - supports his skin of coolness ("you are a strong macho"), the other - sweeps the consequences of this coolness behind him ("you are a weak poor thing"). Poor Kai, he shouldn't be one or the other!
I really dislike this cartoon because Gerda is presented as an ideal woman. It's obvious she's addicted to Kai. He several times makes it clear that there is no need to save him, but it is not enough for her. And when she finds out that another woman took him into her arms and that he is happy (the erroneous story with the princess) - any normal loving girl would say "And thank God" and would go away. But not Gerda. After all, Gerda really did not need Kai's happiness. If there was a question about his happiness, she would be happy here for him. But Gerda rushes ahead, because she had to "rescue". The lifeguard scenario was the meaning of her life. And the more victims she suffers along the way, the more she will feel needed. The golden carriage was bound to be plundered. And it's better to go barefoot in the snow. Definitely hungry. From the last forces. So that the victim is more visible and there is a feeling of gratitude. It's just that Gerda can't offer a man anything else. Who needs a lifeguard? The one who gets stuck in history all the time.
That's why I don't believe in saving Kai. That he is able to throw off his cold disguise and become a person who is between the "weak" as Gerda sees him, and the "strong" as the Snow Queen sees him. That is normal. Maybe he would have become like that next to a normal woman. But, alas, they do not notice each other. Is there a way out of this vicious circle? They say that personal growth. Pinocchio, for example, got down to business, and immediately the thirst for adventure somehow weathered. He found the golden key to himself.
The tale of H. H. Andersen is dedicated to the very famous in the 18th century Jenny Lind, an opera actress. She had a phenomenal range. Berlin, Paris, London and Vienna applauded her. Her voice was admired, and the performances were sold out. Andersen was subdued to the depths of her soul by her beautiful voice. Lind and the writer met in Copenhagen. Literally at first sight, he fell in love with the singer. Whether the feeling was mutual is unknown. But she greatly appreciated his writing talent. Andersen could not speak beautifully about his love, so he decided to write about it and confess his feelings. After sending a letter confessing to Lind, he did not wait for a response. And so the famous fairy tale was born, telling about the touching love that Gerda and Kai experienced for each other. The prototypes of heroes in a fairy tale Two years later, Lind and Andersen met. The actress invited Andersen to become her brother. He agreed (because it's better than being nobody), thinking that Gerda and Kai were also like brother and sister. Perhaps in search of a real feeling, Andersen spent a lot of time traveling, trying to escape from the realm of the Snow Queen, which for him was Copenhagen. Everything in life is not like in a fairy tale. The image of Kai and Gerda, invented by Andersen and personifying him and Lind, was just as pure. In life, Kai was never able to fall in love with Gerda and escape from the kingdom of the Snow Queen. A Brief Analysis of the Fairy Tale G. H. Andersen is the first Danish writer whose works entered the world literature. The most famous are the fairy tales "The Little Mermaid" and "The Snow Queen". They are familiar to almost all of us. The fairy tale "The Snow Queen" tells about good and evil, love and oblivion. It also tells about devotion and betrayal. The image of the Snow Queen in the fairy tale was taken for a reason. Andersen's father told him before he died that the Ice Maiden had come for him. In his fairy tale, the writer personified the Snow Queen precisely with the Ice Maiden, who took his dying father with her. The tale at first glance is simple and does not contain a deep meaning. Going deeper into the process of analysis, you understand that the plot raises some of the most important aspects of life - these are love, devotion, determination, kindness, the fight against evil, religious motives. The story of Kai and Gerda This is a touching story of friendship and love between two fairy tale characters from Andersen's fairy tale. Gerda and Kai had known each other since childhood and spent a lot of time together. In the fairy tale, it is Gerda who has to prove the strength of friendship, who went on a long and difficult journey after the boy, who became a prisoner of the Snow Queen herself. Having charmed Kai with a piece of ice, she turned him into a callous, spoiled and arrogant boy. At the same time, Kai was not aware of his changes. Having managed to go through many difficulties, Gerda managed to find Kai and melt his icy heart. Kindness and faith in the salvation of a friend gave the girl strength and confidence. The fairy tale teaches to be devoted to one's feelings, not to leave a loved one in trouble, to be kind and, despite the difficulties, strive to achieve the goal. Characteristics of Kai and Gerda Andersen's fairy tale describes to us a kind, attentive and sympathetic Kai. But after a challenge to the Snow Queen herself, he turns into a rude and angry boy, capable of offending anyone, even Gerda and his grandmother, whose fairy tales he loved to listen to. One of Kai's tricks ended up being captured by the Snow Queen. In the palace of the evil queen, he became a boy with an icy heart. Kai kept trying to put the word "eternity" out of ice cubes, but he couldn't. Then she promised him to give skates and the whole world. Kai's desire to comprehend eternity indicates his lack of understanding that this cannot be done without true feelings, without love, having only a cold mind...
The fairy tale of H. H. Andersen is dedicated to the very famous in the 18th century Jenny Lind, an opera actress. She had a phenomenal range. Berlin, Paris, London and Vienna applauded her. Her voice was admired, and the performances were sold out.
Andersen was subdued to the depths of her soul by her beautiful voice. Lind and the writer met in Copenhagen. Literally at first sight, he fell in love with the singer. Whether the feeling was mutual is unknown. But she greatly appreciated his writing talent.
Andersen could not speak beautifully about his love, so he decided to write about it and confess his feelings. After sending a letter confessing to Lind, he did not wait for a response. And so the famous fairy tale was born, telling about the touching love that Gerda and Kai experienced for each other.
The prototypes of heroes in a fairy tale
Two years later, Lind and Andersen met. The actress invited Andersen to become her brother. He agreed (because it's better than being nobody), thinking that Gerda and Kai were also like brother and sister.
Perhaps in search of a real feeling, Andersen spent a lot of time traveling, trying to escape from the realm of the Snow Queen, which for him was Copenhagen. Everything in life is not like in a fairy tale. The image of Kai and Gerda, invented by Andersen and personifying him and Lind, was just as pure. In life, Kai was never able to fall in love with Gerda and escape from the kingdom of the Snow Queen.
Brief analysis of the tale
G. H. Andersen is the first Danish writer whose works entered the world literature. The most famous are the fairy tales "The Little Mermaid" and "The Snow Queen". They are familiar to almost all of us. The fairy tale "The Snow Queen" tells about good and evil, love and oblivion. It also tells about devotion and betrayal.
The image of the Snow Queen in the fairy tale was taken for a reason. Andersen's father told him before he died that the Ice Maiden had come for him. In his fairy tale, the writer personified the Snow Queen precisely with the Ice Maiden, who took his dying father with her.
The tale at first glance is simple and does not contain a deep meaning. Going deeper into the process of analysis, you understand that the plot raises some of the most important aspects of life - these are love, devotion, determination, kindness, the fight against evil, religious motives.
The story of Kai and Gerda
This is a touching story of friendship and love of two fairy tales by Andersen. Gerda and Kai had known each other since childhood and spent a lot of time together. In the fairy tale, it is Gerda who has to prove the strength of friendship, who went on a long and difficult journey after the boy, who became a prisoner of the Snow Queen herself. Having charmed Kai with a piece of ice, she turned him into a callous, spoiled and arrogant boy. At the same time, Kai was not aware of his changes. Having managed to go through many difficulties, Gerda managed to find Kai and melt his icy heart. Kindness and faith in the salvation of a friend gave the girl strength and confidence. The fairy tale teaches to be devoted to one's feelings, not to leave a loved one in trouble, to be kind and, despite the difficulties, strive to achieve the goal.
Characteristics of Kai and Gerda
Andersen's fairy tale describes to us a kind, attentive and sympathetic Kai. But after a challenge to the Snow Queen herself, he turns into a rude and angry boy, capable of offending anyone, even Gerda and his grandmother, whose fairy tales he loved to listen to. One of Kai's tricks ended up being captured by the Snow Queen.
In the palace of the evil queen, he became a boy with an icy heart. Kai kept trying to put the word "eternity" out of ice cubes, but he couldn't. Then she promised him to give skates and the whole world. Kai's desire to comprehend eternity indicates his lack of understanding that this cannot be done without true feelings, without love, with only a cold mind and an icy heart.
Deprived of all human feelings, Kai in fear wanted to read a prayer, but could not. All he could think of was the multiplication table. Frozen figures of regular geometric shape - this is the only thing that delighted him. Once beloved roses, Kai tramples, and examines snowflakes with interest through a magnifying glass.
The image of Gerda is a contrast to the character of the Snow Queen. To find Kai and rescue him from the ice castle, the girl goes on a long and difficult journey. In the name of her love, a brave little girl ventures into the unknown. The obstacles encountered on this path did not make Gerda angry and did not force him to turn back towards the house, to leave his friend as a prisoner of the Snow Queen. Friendly, kind and sweet, she remained throughout the tale. Courage, perseverance and patience help her not to lose heart, but humbly overcome all failures. Thanks to this character, she managed to find Kai. And love for him was able to melt his icy heart and cope with the spell of the evil queen.
The description of Gerda and Kai can be a prototype of real people and similar stories in life. Just take a closer look around.
Characteristics of the Snow Queen
Snow Queen, Snowstorm Witch, Ice Maiden - a classic character in the folklore of Scandinavia. Lifeless and cold space, snow and eternal ice - this is the Kingdom of the Snow Queen. Tall, beautiful ruler on the throne, located on the lake, which is called the "Mirror of the Mind", she is the embodiment of a cold mind and beauty, devoid of feelings.
Growing up fairy tale characters
After visiting the realm of the Snow Queen, the heroes become adults. Moral meaning acquires the motive of growing up. Children grow older when they face severe life trials, overcoming which Gerda managed to save her loved one, resisting the difficult searches and intrigues that the Snow Queen arranged for them. Kai and Gerda, despite growing up, retain their childish spiritual purity. They seem to have been born again with the goal of a new adult existence.
Christian motives in a fairy tale
Andersen's fairy tale is saturated with Christian motives. In Russian publications, this is rarely seen. In the episode, when Gerda tries to enter the Queens, the guards do not let her in. She was able to get into it thanks to the fact that she began to read the prayer “Our Father”. After that, the guards, turning into angels, paved the way for the girl.
At the time when Gerda and Kai are returning to their home, the grandmother is reading the Gospel. After the meeting, the children all together begin to dance around the rose bush and sing a Christmas carol, which ended the instructive tale.
And this mysterious journey from the world of good to the country of evil began with a fragment that fell into Kai's eye. The mirror broke due to the fact that the trolls (that is, demons) reflected in it everything in the world in a distorted form. Andersen explains this by the fact that the demons in the lying mirror wanted to reflect the Creator. God, not allowing this, made it so that the mirror escaped from the hands of the demons and broke.
The image of Hell is reflected in the word "eternity", which the Snow Queen instructed Kai to compose. Icy, not created by the Creator, eternity is an image of hell.
In the episode where the deer asks the sorceress to help Gerda and give her the power of twelve heroes, she replies that she cannot make the girl stronger than she is. Her strength is a small loving heart. And God helps her anyway.
The opposition of cold and heat
From the prologue of the fairy tale, Andersen begins to write that for some people, fragments of ice fall into the heart, which freezes, becomes cold and insensible. And at the end of the tale, he describes how Gerda's hot tears fall on Kai's chest and a piece of ice melts in his heart.
Cold in a fairy tale is the personification of evil, everything bad on earth, and heat is love.
Therefore, in the eyes of the Snow Queen, Andersen sees the absence of warmth, the presence of cold and insensibility.
07.01.2016
Many of us at least once read the fairy tale of the famous children's writer Hans Christian Andersen "The Snow Queen". There is probably no better story about the triumph of good over evil and the value of true friendship. So many characters, emotions and feelings are intertwined in this fairy tale that it may well become a good textbook that will tell about human values and shortcomings using examples. So what is the story of the Snow Queen that prompted the writer to come up with such an instructive tale?
The Snow Queen: creation story and autobiographical moments
The fairy tale "The Snow Queen" was written more than 170 years ago and first saw the light of day in the distant 1844. This is the longest fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, which, moreover, is very closely connected with the life of the writer. 
Andersen himself once admitted that he considers The Snow Queen to be the fairy tale of his life. She had lived in it since the time when the little boy Hans Christian played with his neighbor, the blond Lisbeth, whom he called his sister. She accompanied Hans Christian in all games and undertakings, and was also the first listener of his fairy tales. It is very possible that it was this girl from the childhood of a famous writer who became the prototype of little Gerda. 
Not only Gerda actually existed. Andersen's biographers state that The Snow Queen was inspired by Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind. with whom the writer was in love. 
The cold heart of the girl and unrequited love prompted him to write the story of the Snow Queen - a beauty who is alien to human feelings and emotions.
You can also find information that Andersen was familiar with the image of the Snow Queen from early childhood. In Danish folklore, death was often called the Ice Maiden. When the boy's father was dying, he said that his time had come and the Ice Maiden had come for him. Perhaps Andersen's Snow Queen has much in common with the Scandinavian image of winter and death. Just as cold, just as insensitive. Just one kiss from her can freeze the heart of any person.
History of the Snow Queen: interesting facts
In addition to Scandinavian mythology, the image of the Ice Maiden is also present in other countries. In Japan it is Yuki-onna, and in Russia it is Mara-Morena.
Andersen really liked the image of the Ice Maiden. In his creative heritage there is also the fairy tale “The Maid of Ice”, and the prose “Snow Queen” in seven chapters was given the fairy tale of the same name in verse about the mysterious Snow Queen, who stole her fiancé from a young girl.
The tale was written in a difficult year for history. There is an opinion that the image of the Snow Queen and Gerda Andersen wanted to show the struggle between science and Christianity.
They say that H.-G. Andersen wrote the tale with many grammatical errors. When pointed out by the editors, he pretended it was his idea.
It was Andersen's Snow Queen that inspired the writer Tove Jansson to create "Magic Winter".
It should be mentioned that in the Soviet Union this story was censored. There were no mentions of Christ, the Lord's Prayer and the psalm sung by Kai and Gerda. It was also not mentioned that the grandmother read the Gospel to the children, this moment was replaced with an ordinary fairy tale. 
Andersen's fairy tale has gained immense popularity. It was translated into languages of different countries so that the story of the Snow Queen would be known to children all over the world. In addition, there are multiple film adaptations and dramatizations, the most famous of which are the film "The Secret of the Snow Queen" and the cartoon "Frozen". The story of Kai and Gerda became the basis of the opera of the same name.
Be sure to read The Snow Queen again. Now, knowing the history of the creation of this fairy tale, you will definitely discover something new for yourself and realize it in a different way.
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