What's the difference between Andersen's fairy tales and Grimm's fairy tales?

Differences between Grimm s Fairy Tales and Andersen s Fairy Tales;

1, the author and story source are different.

Grimm's Fairy Tales is a German folk literature work collected, arranged and processed by German linguists jacob green and william green.

Andersen's fairy tales are a collection of fairy tales created by Danish writer Andersen.

2. It embodies different ideas.

19th century is the beginning of human industrialization. Although both of them were written and published in the19th century, Grimm's Fairy Tales is essentially a collection of folk stories, thus reflecting the childhood view of the old times.

Conversation with Andersen is Andersen's personal creation, which is a fairy tale creation under the influence of the new childhood view after the popularization and industrialization of printing. Of course, he himself is one of the shapers of this childhood concept.

That is, when reading Andersen's fairy tales, we can often feel warmth, beauty and enlightenment; However, the feeling brought by Grimm's fairy tales is interesting, exciting and imaginative. Because these are two different literary works influenced by two concepts.

3. The level of language description

Besides writing fairy tales, Andersen is also a novelist and poet. Compared with the bard in the Middle Ages, Andersen was a professional writer with a college education and had a wide range of friends. Therefore, the language of Andersen's fairy tales can be described as carefully carved by Andersen.

However, the language of Grimm's fairy tales may be due to lack of strength. Because the ordinary people in the Middle Ages did not have high cultural quality, they could not write too profound content. Even if there is, it will continue to be lost in a constant cycle. Grimm's fairy tales might be simpler and rougher without the touch-up of the brothers Grimm.

Andersen's fairy tales:

* * * consists of 163 stories. Distinguish between love and hate, enthusiastically praise the working people and praise their good and pure character; Ruthlessly expose and criticize the stupidity, incompetence, greed and cruelty of princes and nobles. Among them, the famous stories are: Little Mermaid, Ugly Duckling, Little Match Girl, Thumbelina and so on.

Andersen's fairy tales have been translated into 150 languages and published. His fairy tales also inspired a lot of movies, ballets, stage plays and movie animations.

Grimm's fairy tales:

It has a wide range of contents and diverse genres. Besides fairy tales, there are folk stories, jokes and fables. Among them, stories can be roughly divided into three categories: first, ghost stories, such as Cinderella, Snow White, Princess Rose, frog prince, dwarf and old shoemaker, monsters in glass bottles and so on. These stories are tortuous, thrilling and unpredictable. The second is anthropomorphic fairy tales featuring animals, such as Tom and Jerry, wolf and the seven little kids and The Golden Bird. The animals in these stories are full of human feelings and animal characteristics, vivid and lovely. Third, stories about daily life, such as happy Hans and three brothers. The characters in these stories are hardworking, simple, humorous and lovely.