论《灰姑娘》中神力的象征意义.docx

1、论灰姑娘中神力的象征意义AbstractCinderella is a character of fairy tale creating by Brother Grimm. It is about a dutiful and good-hearted girl who is abused by her stepmother and sisters, and she is working in kitchen day and night. Afterwards, she gets the help of divine power because of her treating friendly

2、for animals and touching the god. After going through the obstruction of her stepmother and sisters, she lives a happy life with the prince. Later, people use “Cinderella” to describe those who are beautiful, kind and loyal. This essay analyses deep symbolisms from the process Cinderella getting hap

3、py life with the help of divine power that we can expound the deeper significance of Cinderellas image from three parts, pursuing of moral perfection, respecting for nature and making up the deficient feeling of human beings.Key words: Cinderella; divine power; symbolism; morality; nature摘要灰姑娘是格林童话中

4、塑造出的童话人物形象，讲述的是一个孝顺且心地善良的女孩子，长期受到继母和姐姐们的虐待，在厨房里做女佣，每天都是灰头土脸脏兮兮的，后来由于善待小动物而且孝感动天，所以得到了神力的帮助，在历尽继母和姐姐们的阻挠后终于和王子快乐地生活在一起的故事。后来人们常用“灰姑娘”这个词去形容那美丽、善良和忠诚的女孩。本文在分析灰姑娘借助神力的帮助而获得幸福的过程中挖掘其深刻的象征意义，即从追求道德完善，尊重自然和弥补人类匮乏感三方面来解读灰姑娘更深沉意义上的形象。关键词：灰姑娘；神力；象征意义；道德；自然1. IntroductionThe story of Cinderella is well-known

5、in the treasure trove of fairy tale in the world. Once upon a time, there was a poor girl, her mother died. Cinderellas father married a stepmother, and she had two daughters. The two daughters were very abominable; they took away the cloths from the girl, only giving clothes in rags for her and cal

6、ling her “Cinderella”. One day, her father went to a distant place and gave her a branch of hazel tree. She planted it in her mothers grave. As time went by, the branch of hazel tree grew up. Every day, there was a strange bird parking in the branch to satisfy little girls will. One day, the king he

7、ld a dancing party for choosing a wife for the prince. But, stepmother didnt allow Cinderella to attend, while her daughters would go. The bird gave a pretty dress for her attending party when she wished in her mothers grave. The prince was attracted by Cinderella. Finally, after several twists and

8、turns, Cinderella has a happiness life with the prince. The beautiful, kindness, hard-working and loyal heroine was through the hard life of temper and with the help of divine to get the final happiness. For the research of divine power and the meaning of symbol in this work in domestic research, Th

9、e Symbolic Significance of Divine Power in Cinderella of Lin Xiaowen is more comprehensive. As we know, the prototype of Cinderella is enjoyed popular support. Everyone loves and envies Cinderella. They image that they can get protection by divine and gain happiness life like her one day. At the sam

10、e time, I also want to know deeply: Why Cinderella can get the help of divine? Why the lovely birds help her so many times? How the hazel trees can give her splendid dancing clothes and golden dancing shoes? This is the unique aesthetic thinking fairy tale brings to us. So, this essay attempts to an

11、alyze the divine symbolism in Cinderella for the three parts that pursuit of moral perfection, respect for nature and make up the deficient feeling of human beings, telling people that they should handle the relations between human and human, human and nature, human and society correctly. 2. The Sym

12、bolic Meaning of Divine PowerFairy tale is a kind of fantasy colorific fiction works in childrens literature. Also, fairy tale is the most symbolic meaning in style type, and its symbol and metaphor beauty is innate esthetics characteristics. Symbol of fairy tale is expressing by the fairy tales ima

13、ge or the whole activities of people even the whole contents of the story. The life reflects in fairy tale is not the real life itself. The symbolic characters in fairy tales although have the same feature in being a symbol of characters, things have a certain characteristic similarities to each oth

14、er; in any sense are appropriate and consistent by no means. We dont put the feature, action, language and some details of fairy tales images into social life so simply and add assumption and analogy to it. We dont think something must have reasons so that determine one image to present one person,

15、one plot allude to anything, even link some political concepts with class relations together. In fact, the symbolic image of fairy tale can only generalize a certain character, not including those who are the symbol of all. We should see the purpose of this fairy tale from the image, character, the

16、whole meaning described about story of the fairy tale works, and we see what it sings, what it ironies, what it hints and what it reveals. We should see whether authors can catch a symbol of important features and characters of some people and things, and the symbolism he has taken have positive sig

17、nificance or not. Only in this way, can we correctly understand the symbol of fairy tales. Cinderella is the classic work in fairy tale, through the rich imagination, fantasy, exaggeration and symbolism way to shape image, reflecting life and conducting ideological education of children. The languag

18、e is vivid; storyline is often twists and turns.Divine power plays an important role in Cinderella. And it can come from its own strength that can get through their own efforts or congenital conditions; divine power can also come from the extraordinary power creating by outside world, with the help

19、of divine power, people can get what they expect. In the fairy tale, divine power has symbolic significance.Symbol is one of the basic artistic techniques. It refers to a particular thing in external characteristic, containing some profound thoughts of artist or the artistic methods expressing some

20、rich and special significance reasons. Using the artistic techniques of symbol can make abstract concept more concrete and visualize, male the complex profound thing easier and single. It can also extend describing the implication, create a kind of artistic conception, in order to arouse peoples ass

21、ociation and enhance the works expression and artistic effect. (Todorov, 2004:26)As a kind of aesthetics form, symbolism usually refers to a unique, complete image system as foundation, then perform or imply a beyond this image system of rich and deep aesthetics artistic conception as the way of exp

22、ression. Therefore, the basic characteristics of symbolic artistic should be: firstly, it should has a unique and complete image system, not only locally and even isolated detail image; secondly, it should be able to perform or imply that image of system beyond a rich and deep aesthetics artistic co

23、nception. That is to say, it should not be just a simple analogy and one-way image interpretation, must have the meaning of philosophical connotation, and should be of deep integration between figurative and abstract. Generally speaking, “Cinderella” is the incarnation of beauty, kindness and loyalt

24、y. But from a deeper sense to read the appearance of Cinderella, especially the process she obtained the happy life with the help of divine power. What we can excavate the deep symbolic meaning is that if human want to live longer and peacefully on the earth, we should handle the relationship correc

25、tly between human and human, human and nature, human and society. It is said that the pursuits of moral perfection, respect social law, reach for the harmony among human, nature and society on the basic of respecting for nature and understanding the lack of oneself and deficient.3. Pursuing the Inte

26、grity of MoralityDivine power can come from its own strength that can get through its own efforts or congenital conditions. “Cinderella” is the incarnation of beauty, kindness and loyalty. Through her own divine power, pursuing the integrity of morality, and warning people should improve themselves

27、and their moral cultivation. Morality is a kind of social ideology in which people live together and their behavior of the principles and norms, with the five functions of understanding, regulation, education, evaluation and balance. Morality often represents the positive social values, since the ro

28、le of judgment behavior justified or not, however, different times and different classes, its moral values will change. (Wang Haiming, 2001: 32)Recognized from the current human nature, the moral responsibilities of things do not harm others as a criterion. In essence, men are born naturally well, w

29、hich means man is born only instinct, but not a discipline. So, everyone needs instinct of exterior restriction and inner restriction; exterior restriction is a law, but the function of legal sanctions against human instinct is only an attempt to harm others in community such as the human aspects of

30、 major hazards. Therefore, we need inner restriction that is morality to restrict the instinct, while it is not illegal. No matter people are goodness or evil, the influences of morality to people are profound and lasting. The evil, morality prompted him to much from good; the good, morality prompte

31、d him to continue from good. Morality as the norm to peoples behaviors, often represents the positive social value orientation, plays a leading and promoting the function of people to perform good. It is because of moral strength, our society will become warm and harmonious. For fairy tale Cinderell

32、a with a cycle of mystery in this moral power that is divine power, it is regarded to authors as a kind of power to promote religion at the past. But in our opinion, the teaching before her mother died “Dear child, be good and pious, and then the good god will always protects you”, which was the ess

33、ence of author or the fairy tale itself to calling a deep and pursuing an ardent human goodness nature. 3.1 The philosophies come in fairy taleFairy tale is the product that combing with fantasy and real life. The most distinctive features of fairy tale fantasy is surreal, one of the fantasy world does not exist in rea