灰姑娘与小美人鱼的鲜明对比_英语论文

The Sharp Contrast Between Cinderella and the Little Mermaid

摘要

《格林童话》是德国著名的语言学家雅各布·格林和威廉·格林的代表作。格林兄弟在十九世纪初收集、整理、加工而成的这本神话级童话。《安徒生童话》是丹麦文学家汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生在1835年至1872年发表完成的史诗级著作。而《灰姑娘》与《海的女儿》分别作为《格林童话》与《安徒生童话》的代表作，《格林童话》乡谣式的论述方式，朴实生动的描写与《安徒生童话》唯美而如同史诗般的描述对比展现了二者的语言文字运用的不同；《格林童话》更注重展示人的本性，而《安徒生童话》则是给予世人以警醒；在灰姑娘穷困的生活与小美人鱼富足的环境进行对比下，表面看来小美人鱼处于优势，但实际上并非如此。在追求真爱的历程中，灰姑娘获得多方相助，可是美人鱼却只能自己默默承受；最后的结局，灰姑娘获得幸福生活而美人鱼只能化身为泡沫，这两个截然相反的结局揭示了无论是以前还是现在，在爱情的道路上，每个人都会遇到或大或小的羁绊，但为了深爱之人不惜牺牲一切，即使无法得到理想中的美满，却也能不留遗憾。敢于追求，这正是爱情的可贵，同时也为当代女青年在追求爱情的道路上提供宝贵的经验和教训。

关键词：灰姑娘；小美人鱼；对比；爱情；童话

Abstract

The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales is German famous linguists Grimm Jacob and Grimm Wilhelm’s masterpiece. The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tale is the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen’s work. Both of them have great influence around the world. Cinderella and The Little Mermaid are respective the masterpieces of The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales and The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tale, which will be the main research objects of this paper. In this paper, the Grimm’s vivid, simple description and the Andersen’s beautiful, poetic description will be compared to each other to show the differences. Grimm’s Fairy Tales pays more attention to showing the human nature, while Andersen’s Fairy Tales is to give the world to alert. The paper then compares Cinderella’s poor life and the little mermaid’s rich environment, although the little mermaid is seemingly in the ascendant, actually it is not the case. In the pursuit of true love, Cinderella gets multiple help, the mermaid, however, only can take it all herself, which contributes to the two characters’ contrast, that is, dependence and independence. To speak of the ending, Cinderella gets happy life but Mermaid sacrifices as bubble. Through deep analysis of the two opposite ending, we know that everyone will encounter fetters and difficulties during love, but we need to fight for it, even if we are unable to obtain the ideal happiness at last, there will be no regrets. Daring to pursue, this is the value of love, also, it provides experience and lessons to the youth nowadays.

Key words: Cinderella; the Little Mermaid; contrast; love; fairy tales

Contents

1 Introduction1

2 The Contrast Between the Grimm and Andersen Tales.2

2.1 Grimm’s Folk Forms and Andersen’s Biblical Forms3

2.2 Grimm’s Narrative Art and Andersen’s Poetic Art.5

2.3 Grimm’s Dream and Andersen’s Reality7

3 The Contrast Between Two Heroines8

3.1 Cinderella’s “Sadness” and Mermaid’s “Happiness”.8

3.2 Cinderella’s Dependence and Mermaid’s Adamancy 9

3.3 Cinderella’s Comedy and Mermaid’s Tragedy.10

4 Conclusion12

References14