The full text of Andersen's fairy tale "Red Dancing Shoes"

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Once upon a time, there was a beautiful little girl whose name was Little Karen. Little Karen's family is poor and has no money to buy shoes. The poor little girl goes barefoot in summer, but in winter, she can only drag a pair of stupid and heavy wooden shoes. Two little feet were blistered, and little Karen felt terrible!

Later, a kind old woman took in little Karen. The little girl had clean new clothes and many beautiful new shoes. She reads and writes every day and helps her grandmother with housework. People praise little Karen as a lovely little girl.

Little Karen has a wish hidden in her heart: to have a pair of red dancing shoes like the princess. Little Karen has seen the princess's red dancing shoes, which are the most beautiful shoes in the world. They are so lovely, like red roses. They are so soft, like the feathers of a white swan. Little Karen often thinks: How happy it would be if her little feet could wear them!

One day, grandma found a pair of red dancing shoes exactly like the princess. The shoemaker said they were made for the earl's young lady, but they didn't suit her. Grandma bought those red dancing shoes, and little Karen just put her feet in. How beautiful they are!

Little Karen doesn't want to wear any other shoes after she has red dancing shoes. Everyone who saw her said that these were little Karen's most beautiful shoes. Little Karen was so happy when she heard their praise that her feet danced involuntarily. Slowly, this pair of red dancing shoes has magic. As soon as little Karen wears them, these shoes will take her to dance.

In winter, grandma was ill, and she needed little Karen's care. But little Karen couldn't resist the temptation of red dancing shoes, so she put them on and went dancing secretly. Grandma was very sad. She told little Karen that doing so would win the magic of red dancing shoes.

Little Karen didn't listen to her grandmother. She still put on red dancing shoes and went dancing every day. One day, when she was dancing in the garden, she saw a little angel waving her wings. The little angel said to little Karen, "You have been enchanted by red dancing shoes. They will make you keep jumping and never stop."

Little Karen was very scared after hearing this. She regretted not listening to her grandmother and hoped that the little angel would take back her red dancing shoes. The little angel agreed to the little Karen's request. Little Karen went back to her grandmother, who forgave her. She put on her old shoes and took good care of her grandmother every day. When the little angel saw it, he smiled happily!

Extended information:

Creation background of Red Shoes:

Andersen explained that the story originated from an incident he experienced when he was a child. According to his records, a wealthy female customer gave his father a red silk scarf and asked him to make a pair of dancing slippers for her daughter. His father made it very carefully, using leather besides silk scarves, but the female customers said that the shoes made were rubbish. She said that her father didn't do anything, but ruined her silk scarf.

"In that case," his father said, "I might as well destroy my leather, too." Then his father cut the shoes in front of the female customers.

Artistic features of Andersen's Fairy Tales:

Andersen's writing is humorous and soft, smart and light, and full of heavy sadness and sadness. Many of his techniques are exquisite but not pretentious, and his themes are profound but not rigid.

He can make those romantic, ancient, affectionate and weak elements in the literary tradition contact with those modern, rapid, indifferent and casual emotions and generate magnetic fields. For example, stories like Thumb Girl and The Old Man Always Does Things Right make simple hearts, simple ideas and ancient principles of life radiate homesick happiness and sadness in the atmosphere of modern life.

Many tragic narratives in Andersen's world reveal the fact that the author shows the beauty and kindness of human beings with tragic stories of different themes, and shows the tragic characters' yearning and pursuit for hope, life, love and happiness.

At the same time, while exploring the aesthetic value of tragic characters themselves, he puts the lofty life connotation and personality of tragic characters on the high level of human spiritual realm. Therefore, the author's aesthetic tendency, the kind of affirmation and praise that the author has poured into his characters, is full of warmth and warmth.

The poetic narration of death is another feature of the tragic beauty of Andersen's fairy tales. Death, the most taboo word of mankind, marks the end of life. Therefore, in the literary description related to death, there is an indissoluble bond with the mentality of sorrow, tears, pain, tragic and tragic. The uniqueness of Andersen lies not only in his indelible contribution to the historical development of children's literature in the world, but also in his many personal characteristics in fairy tale creation.

Andersen here, the author injects smile and calmness, the most attractive literary expressions in the world, into the description of death. Therefore, those people in his works who have gone through the life course or experienced the tragedy of life, no matter whether they are old or young, will no longer shed painful tears when they say goodbye to the world, but will melt themselves freely into nature or leave the world with a smile.

For works like Grandmother, the author deals with death gently and beautifully. This work, which embodies the author's deep memory of his grandmother, highlights the eternal beauty of her old grandmother, and writes about the spiritual beauty of her nostalgia for her past love. In Andersen's works, although her grandmother's face is full of wrinkles and her head is full of white hair, her eyes are "as bright as two stars in the sky, even more beautiful than the stars".

What she cherishes is the rose in the Bible. Although it has withered, it is all the spiritual sustenance of the old grandmother, because it was given to her by the beautiful man whose grandmother devoted all her feelings to it. Only when the old grandmother faces it does she show the gentlest smile.

The work is about death. However, the author covers her dead grandmother with a layer of fantasy sand in a sad and elegant atmosphere. Therefore, the death of a sad relative becomes a painless disappearance of the body. This literary presentation of death with warm tone and poetic illusion makes Andersen's tragic fairy tales have more aftertaste.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Red Dancing Shoes

Baidu Encyclopedia-Andersen's Fairy Tales.