The Little Match Girl is a fairy tale written by Danish fairy tale writer Andersen, which was published in 1846. This paper mainly tells the story of a little match girl who froze to death in the street on the New Year's Eve when the rich family was happy and raised a glass.
The little girl died with a smile on her lips, which was in sharp contrast with her real life of hunger and cold through the beautiful fantasy of lighting matches. Through this fairy tale, Andersen expressed his deep sympathy for the miserable experience of the poor people and his dissatisfaction with the society at that time, and mercilessly revealed the darkness and evil of capitalist society.
The Little Match Girl
It tells the tragic fate of a little match seller on Christmas Eve. The little girl didn't eat for a day because she didn't sell a match. She was cold and hungry. She polished the first match and saw the warm stove. She polished the second match and saw the delicious roast goose; She polished the third match and saw the beautiful Christmas tree; She polished the fourth stove and saw her long-lost grandmother. She was afraid that if the matches went out, her grandmother would disappear like the stove, the roast goose and the Christmas tree, so she polished a whole handful of matches and wanted her grandmother to stay with her. Finally, the little girl died with a smile on her lips, and no one knew the beautiful scene she saw at the last moment.
In The Little Match Girl, Andersen described the unfortunate fate of the poor little girl, but also described the child's psychological activities in detail in the case of hunger, cold and helplessness, especially her fantasies about food, warmth and affection. The writer described in detail the four fantasy fragments of the little girl about a warm stove, a fat roast goose, a beautiful Christmas tree and a loving grandmother, which was precisely the psychological reaction of the poor people who could not realize their good wishes and ensure food and clothing under the capitalist system at that time. However, this kind of fantasy is different from those fantastic descriptions in the fairy tale world, such as copper-headed, iron-armed, blue-faced, and flying sand and stones. She is directly based on real life and is the most true reflection of the unequal reality of European capitalist society at that time. Characters can be seen everywhere, and stories can happen at any time.
The Little Match Girl
The power of tragedy lies in tearing up the beauty for people to see. The Little Match Girl destroys the pure soul of a teenage girl. The poor girl still yearns for a beautiful situation for a moment when she lost even the most basic food and clothing. This may be the true nature of human nature, and the writer Andersen just described the bitterness and tragic fate of this weak life with her yearning and disillusionment of a beautiful situation. The article describes "cheeks are red with a smile", sees "a warm stove, a fragrant roast goose, a beautiful Christmas tree and a loving grandmother" in the fantasy, and flies to heaven with grandma to find a life without cold, hunger and pain. The author described the beautiful fantasy of the little girl and the cold reality she faced, and mercilessly flogged the evil capitalist society.
Little Match Girl