Hello, dear fairy tale lovers. I invite you to consciously reflect on the meanings of fairy tales.

The other day, life gave me an amazing meeting with an amazing woman who told an equally amazing story. Even as a child, she was greatly impressed by reading the fairy tale “The Little Match Girl” by G.Kh. Andersen. However, the impression from fairy tales does not always remain kind and wonderful, and sometimes can leave a spiritual scar invisible to the human eye. Why does this happen?! Dear friends, first of all, you need to take on faith the statement that a fairy tale is not children's play. Fairy tales were never told “just like that”, i.e. without need.

A folk tale is the encrypted wisdom of our ancestors:

• About the challenges that Her Majesty Life throws at us;
• about the life lessons we have to go through;
• and finally, about the traps we can fall into.

How should a “correct” fairy tale end?! Of course, happy! Except for the warning tales. The hero must receive a well-deserved calling and emerge victorious from the trials that befall him. However, there are many original fairy tales that have a dramatic outcome. What is this connected with?

• Firstly, a fairy tale is a powerful tool for regulating your emotional state. It's no secret that often literary works are autobiographical and represent a projection of the fears and experiences of the author himself.
• Secondly, a fairy tale with a dramatic outcome suggests that the hero, who finds himself in a difficult life situation, does not see the challenge that Life throws at him, and instead of learning the lesson intended for him, he falls into the trap of some archetypal plot . And if we see that the fairy tale ends this way, then we must understand that its purpose is to warn us about the wrong strategies of the heroes’ behavior.

An example of such a fairy tale is the fairy tale "The Little Match Girl".

I propose to consider this tale from the perspective Complex Fairytale Therapy and determine which archetypal stories were active in the life of Andersen's heroine.

First, a few words about archetypes in Complex Fairytale Therapy. Archetypal plots- these are ancient mechanisms that remain unchanged for many centuries and unfold both in the lives of modern people and in the lives of fairy-tale heroes. They warn, demonstrate scenarios for resolving conflict situations, and reveal the secrets of male and female initiations.

In the fairy tale "The Little Match Girl" one can see the universal archetype "Divine Udder" - the plot "Unfair Treatment", and the female archetypal plot "Stepmother and Stepdaughter".

Plot "unfair treatment" indicates that the balance between “take and give” is disturbed in life. A person becomes a donor, giving away his strength and his own resource free of charge. “Indefatigable consumers” get used to receiving resources just like that. When a source of resource is depleted, they become filled with resentment. They believe that they have the right to take, and the donor has a duty to produce what they can take. Sooner or later, the donor becomes depleted, and those who used his resource turn into lazy and selfish creatures or simply turn out to be ungrateful.

Let's return to the fairy tale. The heroine of the fairy tale is a girl from a dysfunctional family, raised by a tyrant father. Her father sets impossible tasks for her, for failure to complete which he punishes her. The girl was unable to sell the matchboxes on the last evening before the New Year and, frightened by her father’s anger, decided not to return home, remaining on the street. “... She didn’t dare return home, because she didn’t sell a single match, didn’t earn a penny - her father would kill her!”. Not only the father is harsh towards the child, but also the world in which she lives: "... in this cold and darkness, a poor girl with her head uncovered and barefoot made her way through the streets. True, she left the house in shoes, but what good were they! They were huge, enormous! The girl’s mother wore them last, and the little one’s shoes flew off from her feet when she ran across the street, frightened by two carriages rushing past, she never found one shoe, but some boy picked up the other and ran away with it, saying that it would make an excellent cradle for his children when they left. they will be with him... Hungry, cold, she walked further and further... It was a pity to even look at the poor thing...".

In addition, in the described story it is easily recognizable "stepmother and stepdaughter" plot, only unlike the fairy tale story about Cinderella, the Good Fairy did not give the girl a magic ticket to a new life, and the girl froze to death on the street. This is the tragic outcome of this tale. What went wrong?! You are right, the girl fell into the trap of this plot.

What is the idea behind the stepmother and stepdaughter plot?

Education. The stepmother is the heroine’s teacher, her “coach”. Quite cruel, unfair, selfish. The “stepmother” can be one’s own cruel and cold mother, it can be sisters or brother, father or stepfather. The stepmother gives her stepdaughter tasks, each time increasing the degree of difficulty. Such training is necessary in the heroine’s life so that she acquires the quality she needs in life—resilience. That's why:

• The challenge of this story is to be resilient and patient in the learning process.
• The lesson is to persevere through losses and visible injustice towards oneself, maintaining self-control; perceive offenders as coaches.
• The trap is to succumb to anger, resentment towards the symbolic stepmother, lose faith and a sense of perspective, and also not realize that what is happening is the school of life. Feeling of hopelessness, falling into the “victim” position.

Unfortunately, the girl’s grief broke her, and she fell into a trap, deciding to leave this life.

Could the plot of this tragic story have unfolded differently?!

By law of fair exchange The donor always receives timely help and consolation. The girl didn't wait for her. She was so afraid to return home to her father, to withstand another attack of a cruel, unfair attitude, that she decided not to live in this reality anymore. The girl creates in her imagination images of a happy but unattainable future - a warm stove, a delicious roast goose and a wonderful big Christmas tree! The girl fills her fantasy with life, where it is possible to meet her recently deceased old grandmother, who alone in the whole world loved her. And she is no longer able to return to the real world, filled with injustice and cruelty. "... The matches flared up so dazzlingly that it became brighter than during the day. During her lifetime, grandmother had never been so beautiful, so majestic. She took the girl in her arms, and, illuminated by light and joy, both of them ascended high, high - to where there is no no hunger, no cold, no fear - they ascended to God".

Unfortunately, the Little Match Girl was unable to rise to the challenge and complete the lesson that was meant for her, which would have opened up a life of opportunity for her.

What, friends, is this fairy tale about?

• Perhaps someone saw themselves in her.
• Perhaps someone was able to see the world through the eyes of a teenager taking a step towards certain death (teenage suicide).
• Perhaps someone perceived this tale as an invitation to a subtle dialogue about life. Yes friends. Passing on knowledge about the world to children is our parental duty. But is this fairy tale worth reading to children? I think this fairy tale is for parents. For women. For children, I would recommend using it only in special cases and under the guidance of a child psychologist-fairytale therapist. A fairy tale is a code that enters our subconscious and actively participates in our lives. Undeciphered fairy tale information can be an overwhelming burden for a child, plunging him into an atmosphere of non-acceptance of the world. An incorrect perception of a fairy tale leads to incorrect conclusions.

How can you teach your child about the pitfalls and lessons of these archetypes? Using the example of fairy tales accessible to their perception - “Cinderella”; "Twelve months"; "Vasilisa the Beautiful"; "Morozko" and others.

• The key point of this plot is that not a single fairy-tale stepdaughter fights with her stepmother. The stepdaughter benefits from any task. And this is the key - to pass the test. If a “stepmother and stepdaughter” plot unfolds in a woman’s life, no matter what the scenery is, no matter how resentment, anger and a sense of injustice rage inside her, she needs to constantly ask herself the question: “What benefit is there for me in this situation, what does it teach me?” The stepdaughter, having passed the tests and retaining love in her heart, will certainly meet it in life.

Please do not confuse this story with another female story, “Beauty and the Predator.”

Literary reading lesson

Subject: G.H. Andersen fairy tale "The Little Match Girl" » .(Reading, working on the content with access to the subject project “Lessons of life and goodness in the fairy tales of H.H. Andersen.”)

I Org. moment.

II Evocation.

Today we have an ordinary and unusual lesson, we will again talk about the familiar and the unfamiliar, about the fairy tales of the great storyteller Hans Christian Andeosen.Slide1

What will be the result of our work is a project, but we will determine its topic at the end of the lesson.

Therefore, in the plan, I will place a question card at the end - this is our goal.

(Attach a card to the board)

To achieve a goal, information is needed. Where can I get it from, what can I do for it?(Children's answers. As you answer, the plan table on the board is filled in with cards).

work with a book

answer questions, discuss

listen to each other's answers

work in pairs

receive information using a computer( iPad )

write or draw

PLAN on the board

Today I will add a new word LIBRARY.

What is a library?

What does the library have to do with reading lessons?

Absolutely right, the library helps us expand our reading range and learn new things about the authors of works. So, let's try to look beyond the pages of the textbook.

Let's begin.

Shall we talk?

About what?

About various things and other things.

About what is good and not so good.
You know some things, and you know some things.

Shall we talk?

Let's talk. We will be interested.

To make the lesson interesting you need to:

Determine the formula for successful work in the classroom

Today it looks like this:

Slide 2 AND = T+T+F+V+D – what letters were added? Decipher the entry (interest = work + creativity + imagination + attention + discipline, friendship, trust)

In the last lesson we read a fairy tale about the tin soldier. You are familiar with Andersen's other fairy tales. Let's try to determine their names using reference words.(Slide 3)

Let's check the correctness of the answers.(Slide 4)

This means there is a work that has not been read. But you can already ask questions about the new text. Formulate them..... .(Slide 5)

As you already understood from the keywords, the events in the new fairy tale will take place on the eve of the New Year. New Year is fun, gifts and a decorated Christmas tree.(Slide 6). Why does the Christmas tree look like this?

We will return to it after reading the fairy tale.

Reading and analyzing text (DIRECTED READING METHOD).

II . Implementation

Reading part 1 of the text.

• What was your mood before reading the passage?

  Has it changed? Why?

  What made the girl go outside on New Year's Eve on a cold, dark night?

Creating a double entry diary. Work in pairs.

Let's see what 3 main feelings the girl experienced?

How did the girl feel?

Why?

Hunger

Cold

Fear

If you found yourself alone on a dark street, what would you do?

What will the girl do?

Reading part 2.

What does the girl decide to do, hiding in the corner behind the ledge of the house?

What does she see while the match is burning?

Let's check your assumptions.

Reading part 3.

Yes, as it should be in fairy tales, the girl strikes a match again.

What does she see this time?

Why exactly such a picture appeared before her?

Reading part 4.

Why does the tree she sees seem more elegant and taller than in real life?

Why does she compare the tree she sees with the tree in the merchant’s house, and not with the tree in her own house?

Three matches were burned, a threefold repetition in the fairy tale was completed. Is the fairy tale over? What could happen next?

Reading part 5.

Why does the girl see her grandmother?

Why does the girl light all the matches at once?

Why did the people who found the girl in the morning think that she just wanted to keep warm? What didn't they know?

Let's trace once again what pictures the girl saw at the moment when the match flashes and fill in the table.

Spmchka

What did the girl see?

1 match

2 matches

3 match

4 and the whole box

Can we say that the girl was happy in those minutes while the match was burning? Why?

How would you title this piece?

IV . Reflection.

What does this tale have in common with The Steadfast Tin Soldier?

They will help to summarize our work and formulate the theme of the project

"6 thinking hats"

Work in groups. (answers the one to whom the hat is given) . Who is the owner of the blue hat in the parable? That's why I'll keep the blue hat for myself today.

Belaya - list the heroes of the fairy tale.

Yellow - what made me happy in the fairy tale.

Black - what I didn’t like.

Red - how the mood changed during the reading process.

Green - what I would like to change at the end of the fairy tale.

Blue - I address the blue hat’s question to everyone. What did this fairy tale teach you? (Good.) Using this word, give a name to the new project.

"Lessons of life and goodness in the fairy tales of H.H. Andersen."

We will work on the project in groups.

Group " Analysts ».

Tasks:

1. Analyze the texts of the works: “Wild Swans”, “The Ugly Duckling”, “Flint”, “The Snow Queen”, “The Little Mermaid”;

2. Choose 2 similar endings from the proposed fairy tales.

Group: " Historians »:

Tasks:

1. Study the history of the creation of works selected by ANALYSTS. + fairy tales “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” and “The Little Match Girl”

2. Prepare material on the history of the creation of works (year of publication..., conditions that contributed to this, etc.).

Group "Artists".

Exercise:

Select illustrations for works selected by ANALYSTS.

We return to the Christmas tree. Each of you has probably already made a New Year's wish and dreams of a gift. Perhaps it is a book, a toy. But there is a GIFT that cannot be touched with your hands, but receiving it is pleasant for the soul - these are words of wishes. Write one word on the ball what you wish for yourself, your loved ones, all of us in the New Year and attach it to the tree.

I Part.

How cold it was that evening! It was snowing and dusk was deepening. And the evening was the last of the year - New Year's Eve. During this cold and dark time, a little beggar girl, bareheaded and barefoot, wandered through the streets.

Her legs turned red and blue from the cold. In the pocket of her old apron were several packs of matches, and she held one pack in her hand. During that entire day she did not sell a single match, and she was not given a penny. She wandered hungry and cold and so exhausted, poor thing!

Snowflakes settled on her long blond curls, which scattered beautifully over her shoulders, but she had no idea that they were beautiful. Light poured in from all the windows, and there was a delicious smell of roast goose on the street - after all, it was New Year's Eve. That's what she was thinking!

Finally, the girl found a corner behind the ledge of the house. Then she sat down and cowered, tucking her legs under her. But she felt even colder, and she didn’t dare return home: she hadn’t managed to sell a single match, she hadn’t earned a penny, and she knew that her father would beat her for this; besides, she thought, it’s cold at home too; they live in the attic, where the wind blows, although the largest cracks in the walls are plugged with straw and rags.

Her little hands were completely numb. Oh, how the light of a small match would warm them! If only she dared to pull out a match, strike it against the wall and warm her fingers! The girl timidly pulled out one match and...

II Part.

teal! How the match flared, how brightly it burned! The girl covered it with her hand, and the match began to burn with an even light flame, like a tiny candle.

Amazing candle! The girl felt as if she was sitting in front of a large iron stove with shiny copper balls and dampers. How gloriously the fire burns in her, what warmth emanates from it! But what is it? The girl stretched her legs towards the fire to warm them, and suddenly... the flame went out, the stove disappeared, and the girl was left with a burnt match in her hand.

III Part.

She struck another match, the match lit up, glowed, and when its reflection fell on the wall, the wall became transparent, like muslin..(thin transparent fabric) The girl saw a room in front of her, and in it a table covered with a snow-white tablecloth and lined with expensive porcelain; on the table, spreading a wonderful aroma, stood a dish of roast goose stuffed with prunes and apples! And the most wonderful thing was that the goose suddenly jumped off the table and waddled across the floor. He walked straight towards the poor girl, but... the match went out, and an impenetrable, cold, damp wall again stood in front of the poor girl.

IV Part.

The girl lit another match. Now she was sitting in front of a luxurious Christmas tree. This tree was much taller and more elegant than the one the girl saw when she approached the house of a rich merchant and looked out the window. Thousands of candles burned on its green branches, and multi-colored pictures, such as those that decorate store windows, looked at the girl. The little one stretched out her hands to them, but... the match went out. The lights began to go higher and higher and soon turned into clear stars. One of them rolled across the sky, leaving behind a long trail of fire.

Part V

The girl again struck a match against the wall and, when everything around was illuminated, she saw in this glow her old grandmother, so quiet and enlightened, so kind and affectionate.

Grandma,” the girl exclaimed, “take me, take me to you!” I know that you will leave when the match goes out, you will disappear like a warm stove, like a delicious roast goose and a wonderful big Christmas tree!

And she hastily struck all the matches remaining in the pack - that’s how she wanted to hold her grandmother! And the matches flared up so dazzlingly that it became lighter than during the day. During her lifetime, grandma had never been so beautiful, so majestic. She took the girl in her arms, and, illuminated by light and joy, they both ascended high, high - to where there is no hunger, no cold, no fear.

On a frosty morning, behind the ledge of the house they found a girl: a blush played on her cheeks, a smile on her lips; she froze on the last evening of the old year. The New Year's sun illuminated the little girl's body with matches; she burned almost the whole pack.

The girl wanted to warm up, people said. And no one knew what miracles she saw, among what beauty she and her grandmother celebrated New Year's Happiness.

“The Little Match Girl” by G.H. Andersen and “The Boy at Christ’s Christmas Tree” by F.M. Dostoevsky

Learning from students

Vladislav Osipov

The work was written by Vladislav Osipov when he was a 6th grade student at secondary school No. 110 in Kazan (literature teacher - Elena Vladimirovna Eremeeva).

“The Little Match Girl” by G.H.

Andersen and “The Boy at Christ’s Christmas Tree” by F.M.

Dostoevsky

The purpose of my small research is to analyze works of art that, at first glance, have nothing in common with each other. They were written by completely different writers, one of whom lived in Denmark and the other in Russia. One was a great storyteller, and the other was a realist writer. But a deeper acquaintance with the story of F.M. Dostoevsky’s “The Boy at Christ’s Christmas Tree” and the fairy tale by G.Kh. Andersen's "The Little Match Girl" suggested to me that these works are similar in many ways. Why did this happen? I thought about this for a long time and came to the conclusion that these writers are united by an attachment to one theme - the theme of childhood suffering. Of course, Dostoevsky and Andersen are humanists. It was hard for them to watch the lives of young disadvantaged children. Therefore, it seems to me that with these two small works they wanted to draw attention to one problem: “Reader, you are now skimming through these lines, and at the same time, somewhere on the streets of Copenhagen or St. Petersburg, a child, exhausted by suffering and cold, is freezing.”

So, let's turn to the content of the works. The action of "The Little Match Girl" and "The Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree" takes place on New Year's Eve and before Christmas, respectively. The girl walked down the street and sold matches to earn money for food. She wandered through the streets, afraid to return home. After all, her father will kill her because she didn’t sell even the box. And in Dostoevsky’s story, to which he gave the subtitle “Yuletide,” boys with “hands,” that is, begging, also expect beatings from “negotiators.” Thus, fear, hunger, humiliation become an integral part of the child’s life. At the center of the narrative of both writers is the unfortunate fate of children from poor families in the 19th century.

The composition of the story is one-part, the story consists of two parts. Surprisingly, it seems that the plots of these works are developing almost in parallel. By chance, our heroes find themselves on the street.

“Finally, she sat down in a corner, behind the ledge of one of the houses, huddled and tucked her legs under herself in order to warm herself up a little” (“The Little Match Girl”).

“Here is the street again - oh, so wide! Here they will probably be crushed like that: how everyone is screaming, running and driving, but the light, the light!” (“The Boy at Christ’s Christmas Tree”).

Both writers use antithesis as their main artistic device. The authors contrast the gloomy pictures of basements, dark streets and dim streetlights with the unusual beauty of the visions and dreams of young heroes. And it’s amazing - these pictures are so similar!

“This is a Christmas tree, and on the tree there are as many lights as there are golden pieces of paper and apples, and all around there are dolls and little horses; and children are running around the room, dressed up, clean, laughing and playing, and eating, and drinking something” (“The Boy at Christ’s Christmas Tree”).

“The girl lit another match. Now she was sitting in front of a luxurious Christmas tree<...>Thousands of candles burned on its green branches, and multi-colored pictures that decorate store windows looked at the girl” (“The Little Match Girl”).

As we see, for children the Christmas tree becomes a symbol of well-being, harmony, happiness and comfort. But they cannot get all this here on earth. Both writers understood that life and society are too cruel to children. This is probably why the ending of both the story and the story are the same: the fate of the heroes will be tragic, they will die of cold and hunger.

“In the cold morning, in the corner behind the house, the girl was still sitting with pink cheeks and a smile on her lips, but dead. She froze on the last evening of the old year; the New Year's sun illuminated the dead body of the girl with matches.”

“And downstairs, the next morning, the janitors found the small corpse of a boy who had run and froze to collect firewood; They also found his mother... She died before him; both met with the Lord God in heaven.”

Special mention should be made of the author’s attitude towards his characters; it seems to me very similar. Both Dostoevsky and Andersen sympathize with the unfortunate children. When describing both a girl and a boy, writers use words with diminutive suffixes: “frozen fingers,” “rosy cheeks,” “thin arms.” The portrait characteristics are full of pity and tenderness; the hearts of real artists seem to be bursting with pain. Neither Dostoevsky nor Andersen gives their hero a name. I think this has a special meaning: such a fate was destined for many children.

It is impossible not to pay attention to the fact that in both works there is an episode of meeting with people close to the children. Even if it’s on the threshold of another life. At least in this way, the boy and girl are rewarded for their suffering. Both writers give their heroes one moment of happiness.

“Grandma was never so beautiful, so majestic during her lifetime. She took the girl in her arms, and, illuminated by light and joy, they both ascended to God.”

“Where is he now: everything glitters, everything shines and there are all dolls all around - but no, these are all boys and girls, only so bright, they all circle around him, fly, they all kiss him, take him, carry him with them, and he himself is flying, and he sees: his mother is looking and laughing at him joyfully.”

In conclusion, it is necessary to highlight the general idea of ​​the story by F.M. Dostoevsky’s “The Boy at Christ’s Christmas Tree” and fairy tales by G.Kh. Andersen's "The Little Match Girl", written in the 19th century. The idea is “Be merciful!” In the 21st century, it sounds especially relevant, because there are still many children in need of compassion and help.

Literature

Andersen G.H. Fairy tales. Stories. M.: Resurrection, 1996.

Dostoevsky F.M. Stories. M.: Sovremennik, 1983.

Literary encyclopedic dictionary / Ed. V.M. Kozhevnikova. M.: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1987. P. 750.

Encyclopedic Dictionary of Young Literary Scholar / Comp. IN AND. Novikov. M.: Pedagogika, 1988. P. 416.

Today I want to discuss a fairy tale. It has a deep psychological meaning. But first, the full text. In case anyone didn't read it. I highly recommend it, when I read it for the first time several years ago I cried.

GIRL WITH MATCHES

G.H.Andersen

How cold it was that evening! It was snowing and dusk was deepening. And the evening was the last of the year - New Year's Eve. During this cold and dark time, a little beggar girl, bareheaded and barefoot, wandered through the streets. True, she left the house with shoes on, but how much use were huge old shoes? Her mother had previously worn these shoes - that's how big they were - and the girl lost them today when she rushed to run across the road, frightened by two carriages that were rushing at full speed. She never found one shoe, some boy stole the other, saying that it would make an excellent cradle for his future children.

So the girl was now walking barefoot, and her legs were red and blue from the cold. In the pocket of her old apron were several packs of sulfur matches, and she held one pack in her hand. During that entire day she did not sell a single match, and she was not given a penny. She wandered hungry and cold and so exhausted, poor thing!

Snowflakes settled on her long blond curls, which scattered beautifully over her shoulders, but she, really, did not even suspect that they were beautiful. Light poured in from all the windows, and there was a delicious smell of roast goose on the street - after all, it was New Year's Eve. That's what she was thinking!

Finally, the girl found a corner behind the ledge of the house. Then she sat down and cowered, tucking her legs under her. But she felt even colder, and she didn’t dare return home: she hadn’t managed to sell a single match, she hadn’t earned a penny, and she knew that her father would beat her for this; besides, she thought, it’s cold at home too; they live in the attic, where the wind blows, although the largest cracks in the walls are plugged with straw and rags.

Her little hands were completely numb. Oh, how the light of a small match would warm them! If only she dared to pull out a match, strike it against the wall and warm her fingers! The girl timidly pulled out one match and... teal! How the match flared, how brightly it burned! The girl covered it with her hand, and the match began to burn with an even light flame, like a tiny candle.

Amazing candle! The girl felt as if she was sitting in front of a large iron stove with shiny copper balls and dampers. How gloriously the fire burns in her, what warmth emanates from it! But what is it? The girl stretched her legs towards the fire to warm them, and suddenly... the flame went out, the stove disappeared, and the girl was left with a burnt match in her hand.

She struck another match, the match lit up, glowed, and when its reflection fell on the wall, the wall became transparent, like muslin. The girl saw a room in front of her, and in it a table covered with a snow-white tablecloth and lined with expensive porcelain; on the table, spreading a wonderful aroma, stood a dish of roast goose stuffed with prunes and apples! And the most wonderful thing was that the goose suddenly jumped off the table and, as it was, with a fork and knife in its back, waddled along the floor. He walked straight towards the poor girl, but... the match went out, and an impenetrable, cold, damp wall again stood in front of the poor girl.

The girl lit another match. Now she was sitting in front of a luxurious Christmas tree. This tree was much taller and more elegant than the one that the girl saw on Christmas Eve, approaching the house of a rich merchant and looking out the window. Thousands of candles burned on its green branches, and multi-colored pictures, such as those that decorate store windows, looked at the girl. The little one stretched out her hands to them, but... the match went out. The lights began to go higher and higher and soon turned into clear stars. One of them rolled across the sky, leaving behind a long trail of fire.

“Someone has died,” the girl thought, because her recently deceased old grandmother, who alone in the whole world loved her, had told her more than once: “When a star falls, someone’s soul flies off to God.”

The girl again struck a match against the wall and, when everything around was illuminated, she saw in this glow her old grandmother, so quiet and enlightened, so kind and affectionate.

Grandma,” the girl exclaimed, “take me, take me to you!” I know that you will leave when the match goes out, you will disappear like a warm stove, like a delicious roast goose and a wonderful big Christmas tree!

And she hastily struck all the matches remaining in the pack - that’s how she wanted to hold her grandmother! And the matches flared up so dazzlingly that it became lighter than during the day. During her lifetime, grandma had never been so beautiful, so majestic. She took the girl in her arms, and, illuminated by light and joy, they both ascended high, high - to where there is no hunger, no cold, no fear - they ascended to God.

On a frosty morning, behind the ledge of the house they found a girl: there was a blush on her cheeks, a smile on her lips, but she was dead; she froze on the last evening of the old year. The New Year's sun illuminated the dead body of the girl with matches; she burned almost the whole pack.

“The girl wanted to warm up,” people said. And no one knew what miracles she saw, among what beauty she and her grandmother celebrated New Year's Happiness.

Analysis of a fairy tale

You might think that this tale is simply one of the pitiful ones, but this is far from the case. Today I would like you to find out the secret meaning inherent in this seemingly simple plot.

G.H. Andersen masterfully painted various female portraits in his creations: little girls, girls, women and grandmothers. Without knowing it, he put his psychological problems into his heroines: in their mouths, actions and life in general. Because his childhood years were not at all glamorous. In this way, the writer tried to live through his childhood traumas.

Same thing with The Little Match Girl. For many, this particular fairy tale becomes very memorable, vivid and at the same time cruel.

Let us first consider the object level of the fairy tale, that is, the inner world of the heroine. What's going on in it? It's cold and unloving here.

Pay attention to her inner parents: father and mother, how hostile they are towards their daughter. They do not give her parental love and support, but on the contrary, they force her to give away everything valuable that she has on the cheap. Her light, her creativity, is something that should be cherished and developed.

How does this play out in real life with real women? Many talented, smart women are forced to eke out a miserable, absurd existence. They are not able to find the strength within themselves to finally begin to develop their talents, voluntarily imprisoning themselves in the shackles of everyday life. If you started writing a novel, but limited yourself to a couple of lines and put it aside, know that your soul is already cold. If thoughts come to you that “if only I were in different conditions”, “as soon as I earn money, I will afford it”, “if it weren’t for my environment, then I would have sung (drawn, been famous) long ago” , “I will take care of my personal life as soon as the child grows up” know that you are in the position of the Little Match Girl. Because you entertain yourself with the illusion that you will ever change the current course of events.

This often happens to women who did not receive love, sympathy and help from their natural parents (or their parents died at a very early age). When parents only made complaints and raised them according to the type “first lessons, and then we’ll see if you deserve our love.” Therefore, a woman does not show herself love, care, and attention to her true desires.

Here we see a similar plot: “if you don’t sell matches, you’ll be punished.” And the girl chooses not to return home. The house - the symbolic soul of the girl - is cold and empty, since the internal parents do not create comfort in it. They don't care about the family, as if they don't care what happens in the end. After all, few people can withstand such a tense situation for a long time. And a real woman, feeling this deathly cold, wants to warm up. For this she takes not matches, but alcohol, drugs, food, many love affairs, countless purchases of clothes and jewelry, just not to think and feel what she feels. But the next morning she gets up in even worse condition. Thus her soul dies.

Please note that a small, immature person is given responsibilities that she obviously cannot fulfill. She is obliged to earn money, not to play, grow and gain strength. Only people who are not interested in the development of the child act this way. This happens in families where children are raised to be small adults and are charged with completely adult responsibilities: babysitting the younger ones, cooking, running the household. Killing the child in the child, and with it the creativity. Unfortunately, the consequences of such upbringing are disastrous. Such women are often burdened by games and fun with children. They have no sense of humor and problems with sex.

Now think about this: what response did this fairy tale evoke in your soul? How do you feel after reading it? Perhaps you have joined the main character so much that it feels as if this is happening to you. And then think about what ideas and talents of yours you are not giving way to? What innermost thoughts have you pushed into a far corner so as not to see or think about them? If you can answer them, that’s half the battle; you’ll be on the right track to create a cozy, warm home for your soul.

Warming your soul is not easy, because to do this you need to be able to listen to yourself. If this girl had positive inner parents, then she would know what to do in a difficult situation. Ask for help, secretly spend the night in someone else’s barn, sneak into a house and there try to find food and warmth, that is, use all means to live and create further.

I know a trick to start building your inner support that works well. Imagine how you would like to see your inner parents: loving, kind, helping, caring for you. Try to imagine this picture. It will be good if you draw it. In difficult times, you can turn to them for support, this gives you the opportunity to feel that you are not alone, even if the whole world has turned its back on you.

I usually tell my clients this: “Become your own mother.” I wish the same for you. Take care of yourself, develop your individuality and talents, then you will definitely not freeze.

P.S. Illustrations by Natalia Demidova.

Today I want to discuss a fairy tale. It has a deep psychological meaning. But first, the full text. In case anyone didn't read it. I highly recommend it, when I read it for the first time I cried.

GIRL WITH MATCHES

G.H.Andersen

How cold it was that evening! It was snowing and dusk was deepening. And the evening was the last of the year - New Year's Eve. During this cold and dark time, a little beggar girl, bareheaded and barefoot, wandered through the streets. True, she left the house with shoes on, but how much use were huge old shoes? Her mother had previously worn these shoes - that's how big they were - and the girl lost them today when she rushed to run across the road, frightened by two carriages that were rushing at full speed. She never found one shoe, some boy stole the other, saying that it would make an excellent cradle for his future children.

So the girl was now walking barefoot, and her legs were red and blue from the cold. In the pocket of her old apron were several packs of sulfur matches, and she held one pack in her hand. During that entire day she did not sell a single match, and she was not given a penny. She wandered hungry and cold and so exhausted, poor thing!

Snowflakes settled on her long blond curls, which scattered beautifully over her shoulders, but she, really, did not even suspect that they were beautiful. Light poured in from all the windows, and there was a delicious smell of roast goose on the street - after all, it was New Year's Eve. That's what she was thinking!

Finally, the girl found a corner behind the ledge of the house. Then she sat down and cowered, tucking her legs under her. But she felt even colder, and she didn’t dare return home: she hadn’t managed to sell a single match, she hadn’t earned a penny, and she knew that her father would beat her for this; besides, she thought, it’s cold at home too; they live in the attic, where the wind blows, although the largest cracks in the walls are plugged with straw and rags.

Her little hands were completely numb. Oh, how the light of a small match would warm them! If only she dared to pull out a match, strike it against the wall and warm her fingers! The girl timidly pulled out one match and... teal! How the match flared, how brightly it burned! The girl covered it with her hand, and the match began to burn with an even light flame, like a tiny candle.

Amazing candle! The girl felt as if she was sitting in front of a large iron stove with shiny copper balls and dampers. How gloriously the fire burns in her, what warmth emanates from it! But what is it? The girl stretched her legs towards the fire to warm them, and suddenly... the flame went out, the stove disappeared, and the girl was left with a burnt match in her hand.

She struck another match, the match lit up, glowed, and when its reflection fell on the wall, the wall became transparent, like muslin. The girl saw a room in front of her, and in it a table covered with a snow-white tablecloth and lined with expensive porcelain; on the table, spreading a wonderful aroma, stood a dish of roast goose stuffed with prunes and apples! And the most wonderful thing was that the goose suddenly jumped off the table and, as it was, with a fork and knife in its back, waddled along the floor. He walked straight towards the poor girl, but... the match went out, and an impenetrable, cold, damp wall again stood in front of the poor girl.

The girl lit another match. Now she was sitting in front of a luxurious Christmas tree. This tree was much taller and more elegant than the one that the girl saw on Christmas Eve, approaching the house of a rich merchant and looking out the window. Thousands of candles burned on its green branches, and multi-colored pictures, such as those that decorate store windows, looked at the girl. The little one stretched out her hands to them, but... the match went out. The lights began to go higher and higher and soon turned into clear stars. One of them rolled across the sky, leaving behind a long trail of fire.

“Someone has died,” the girl thought, because her recently deceased old grandmother, who alone in the whole world loved her, had told her more than once: “When a star falls, someone’s soul flies off to God.”

The girl again struck a match against the wall and, when everything around was illuminated, she saw in this glow her old grandmother, so quiet and enlightened, so kind and affectionate.

“Grandma,” the girl exclaimed, “take me, take me to you!” I know that you will leave when the match goes out, you will disappear like a warm stove, like a delicious roast goose and a wonderful big Christmas tree!

And she hastily struck all the matches remaining in the pack - that’s how she wanted to hold her grandmother! And the matches flared up so dazzlingly that it became lighter than during the day. During her lifetime, grandma had never been so beautiful, so majestic. She took the girl in her arms, and, illuminated by light and joy, they both ascended high, high - to where there is no hunger, no cold, no fear - they ascended to God.

On a frosty morning, behind the ledge of the house they found a girl: there was a blush on her cheeks, a smile on her lips, but she was dead; she froze on the last evening of the old year. The New Year's sun illuminated the dead body of the girl with matches; she burned almost the whole pack.

“The girl wanted to warm up,” people said. And no one knew what miracles she saw, among what beauty she and her grandmother celebrated New Year's Happiness.

Analysis of a fairy tale

You might think that this tale is simply one of the pitiful ones, but this is far from the case. Today I would like you to find out the secret meaning inherent in this seemingly simple plot.

G.H. Andersen masterfully painted various female portraits in his creations: little girls, girls, women and grandmothers. Without knowing it, he put his psychological problems into his heroines: in their mouths, actions and life in general. Because his childhood years were not at all glamorous. In this way, the writer tried to live through his childhood traumas.

Same thing with The Little Match Girl. For many, this particular fairy tale becomes very memorable, vivid and at the same time cruel.
Let us first consider the object level of the fairy tale, that is, the inner world of the heroine. What's going on in it? It's cold and unloving here.

Pay attention to her inner parents: father and mother, how hostile they are towards their daughter. They do not give her parental love and support, but on the contrary, they force her to give away everything valuable that she has on the cheap. Her light, her creativity, is something that should be cherished and developed.

How does this play out in real life with real women? Many talented, smart women are forced to eke out a miserable, absurd existence. They are not able to find the strength within themselves to finally begin to develop their talents, voluntarily imprisoning themselves in the shackles of everyday life. If you started writing a novel, but limited yourself to a couple of lines and put it aside, know that your soul is already cold. If thoughts come to you that “if only I were in different conditions”, “as soon as I earn money, I will afford it”, “if it weren’t for my environment, then I would have sung (drawn, been famous) long ago” , “I will take care of my personal life as soon as the child grows up” know that you are in the position of the Little Match Girl. Because you entertain yourself with the illusion that you will ever change the current course of events.

This often happens to women who did not receive love, sympathy and help from their natural parents (or their parents died at a very early age). When parents only made complaints and raised them according to the type “first lessons, and then we’ll see if you deserve our love.” Therefore, a woman does not show herself love, care, and attention to her true desires.

Here we see a similar plot: “if you don’t sell matches, you’ll be punished.” And the girl chooses not to return home. The house - the symbolic soul of the girl - is cold and empty, since the internal parents do not create comfort in it. They don't care about the family, as if they don't care what happens in the end. After all, few people can withstand such a tense situation for a long time. And a real woman, feeling this deathly cold, wants to warm up. For this she takes not matches, but alcohol, drugs, food, many love affairs, countless purchases of clothes and jewelry, just not to think and feel what she feels. But the next morning she gets up in even worse condition. Thus her soul dies.

Please note that a small, immature person is given responsibilities that she obviously cannot fulfill. She is obliged to earn money, not to play, grow and gain strength. Only people who are not interested in the development of the child act this way. This happens in families where children are raised to be small adults and are charged with completely adult responsibilities: babysitting the younger ones, cooking, running the household. Killing the child in the child, and with it the creativity. Unfortunately, the consequences of such upbringing are disastrous. Such women are often burdened by games and fun with children. They have no sense of humor and problems with sex.

Now think about this: what response did this fairy tale evoke in your soul? How do you feel after reading it? Perhaps you have joined the main character so much that it feels as if this is happening to you. And then think about what ideas and talents of yours you are not giving way to? What innermost thoughts have you pushed into a far corner so as not to see or think about them? If you can answer them, that’s half the battle; you’ll be on the right track to create a cozy, warm home for your soul.

Warming your soul is not easy, because to do this you need to be able to listen to yourself. If this girl had positive inner parents, then she would know what to do in a difficult situation. Ask for help, secretly spend the night in someone else’s barn, sneak into a house and there try to find food and warmth, that is, use all means to live and create further.

I know a trick to start building your inner support that works well. Imagine how you would like to see your inner parents: loving, kind, helping, caring for you. Try to imagine this picture. It will be good if you draw it. In difficult times, you can turn to them for support, this gives you the opportunity to feel that you are not alone, even if the whole world has turned its back on you.

I usually tell my clients this: “Become your own mother.” I wish the same for you. Take care of yourself, develop your individuality and talents, then you will definitely not freeze.