Grandmother tells a fairy tale about the Snow Queen Kaya and Gerda. The first thing Kai asked, remember? He asked in a coveted voice: "Is she beautiful?" Strange, right? He has a beautiful and kind Gerda, it would seem, what more could you want? And from the very beginning he was interested in another woman, and the Coolest. As cool and cold as he would like to see himself. After all, feelings are not for a real man. Kai does not want to be able to worry, does not want to be pitied. This is the beginning of the downfall of many of our men who want to look tough but can't do it with a mommy woman.
That bad boy who was pricked by a splinter always slept in Kai. And it could not be otherwise, because living with Gerda is not fun at all. This is a mother woman. You can't be Cool in front of her. After all, she is always ready to take care of you, even if you are completely drunk. While looking for the Snow Queen, Kai carries out a neurotic scenario. Hadn't he himself hooked his sleigh to hers?
Kai's scenario is to plunge into history, repent and receive forgiveness from a mommy woman. This is the scenario of the latent alcoholic. Moreover, half of the fairy tales are built precisely on this scenario: an all-forgiving woman makes a man out of a dissolute man. Beauty and the Beast, Nutcracker, Pinocchio, The Scarlet Flower, Lady and the Tramp, Cats-aristocrats ...
Fairy tales teach us that all ends well. The man repents and becomes an exemplary family man. But life is not like that.
It would be possible to remove 2-3 more episodes of the continuation of the Snow Queen. Because behind the snow queen there will be another woman who will charm Kai and draw him into some kind of adventure. Well, let's say the same Rogue is quite suitable for this role. Kai, most likely, will run away with the Rogue, again get into some kind of story, lose everything and come to ask for forgiveness from Gerda. Or, rather, she herself will look for him in the cellars.
HDon't choose men like Kai. However, if you are Gerda, then you have no choice. First, a nice man, roses and "I will never hurt you." Then - rudeness and "overturned sled" (the first violence). Then - going on a spree. And Gerda still believes that he was bewitched. And that she is able to disenchant. What do fairy tales teach our girls? In fact, it is impossible to disenchant such a man. Better not to bewitch little boy. Teach him that feelings and tenderness are not ashamed. That you don’t have to be a cool or closed monster, a bear, where a gentle man lurks under the skin, and someone will have to take off this skin ... Neither Gerda nor the Snow Queen are able to save Kai. He will be torn between these two roles, drawn into the script. One - supports his skin of coolness ("you are a strong macho"), the other - sweeps the consequences of this coolness behind him ("you are a weak poor thing"). Poor Kai, he shouldn't be one or the other!
I really dislike this cartoon because Gerda is presented as an ideal woman. It's obvious she's addicted to Kai. He several times makes it clear that there is no need to save him, but it is not enough for her. And when she finds out that another woman took him into her arms and that he is happy (the erroneous story with the princess) - any normal loving girl would say "And thank God" and go away. But not Gerda. After all, Gerda really did not need Kai's happiness. If there was a question about his happiness, she would be happy here for him. But Gerda rushes ahead, because she had to "rescue". The lifeguard scenario was the meaning of her life. And than more casualties she will suffer along the way, the more she will feel needed. The golden carriage was bound to be plundered. And it's better to go barefoot in the snow. Definitely hungry. From the last forces. So that the victim is more visible and there is a feeling of gratitude. It's just that Gerda can't offer a man anything else. Who needs a lifeguard? The one who gets stuck in history all the time.
That's why I don't believe in saving Kai. That he is able to throw off his cold disguise and become a person who is between the "weak" as Gerda sees him, and the "strong" as the Snow Queen sees him. That is normal. Maybe he would have become like that next to a normal woman. But, alas, they do not notice each other. Is there a way out of this vicious circle? They say that personal growth. Pinocchio, for example, got down to business, and immediately the thirst for adventure somehow weathered. He found the golden key to himself.
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IN big city there lived a boy and a girl who loved each other very much, like brother and sister. The boy's name was Kai, and the girl's name was Gerda. Their parents, who lived under the very roof of the house, had a large wooden box each, where rose bushes grew. Kai and Gerda visited each other and played among the roses.
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They came to each other in winter, and the old grandmother told them about the queen of white snowflakes, often flying through the streets of the city at night and covering the windows of houses with frosty patterns. Gerda was afraid that the Snow Queen might enter their house, but Kai promised: "I will put her on a warm stove, so she will melt."
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Going to sleep, Kai looked out the window and saw "a woman wrapped in the thinnest white tulle, woven, it seemed, from millions of snow stars." She beckoned Kai with her hand, but he got scared and moved away from the window.
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Gerda instantly noticed the changes that had taken place in her friend: the roses that he used to love, now he began to call ugly ...
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One day, Kai went to ride in the square with other boys. Suddenly, a large sleigh appeared on the square white color to which Kai tied his sled. Finally, the woman sitting in the sleigh looked around, and the boy recognized her as the Snow Queen.
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She put the boy in her sleigh, kissed him on the forehead, and Kai forgot all his relatives and Gerda. Kai decided that he had not seen anyone smarter and more beautiful than this woman. The Snow Queen, having picked up the boy, soared into the black sky.
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The girl put on her new red shoes and went to the river to ask about Kai. She decided to give her shoes to the river, if only she would return her friend to her.
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The old woman treated Gerda with cherries and combed her hair with a golden comb. The longer she combed her guest's curls, the more she forgot Kai.
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Gerda sank to the ground and wept, and her tears fell right on the spot where the rose bush had once been. As soon as the tears moistened the earth, the rose bush in an instant grew as blooming as before. Gerda remembered Kai and that he needed to be found.
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Gerda sat down to rest. A large raven jumped in the snow beside her. Suddenly, the bird said hello in human language to the girl
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The raven brought Gerda to the palace to his bride, who found Gerda's story very touching. She told Gerda to take the lamp and follow her forward.
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The next day, they dressed Gerda in beautiful clothes - shoes, a muff, a wonderful dress, put her in a carriage made of pure gold and wished her a happy journey.
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“She will play with me,” said the little robber. “She will give me her muff, her pretty dress, and sleep with me in my bed.
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When the little robber fell asleep, the pigeons told Gerda that they saw Kai sitting in the Snow Queen's sleigh and that they were probably heading to Lapland.
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The little robber took pity on the girl, helped her escape and even released the reindeer in exchange for the fact that he should take Gerda to the Snow Queen's palace. The reindeer set off at full speed to the North Pole, and very soon they found themselves in Lapland.
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The Lapland woman said that they needed to get to Finland, and wrote a message on dried cod addressed to a Finnish woman living there. Deer and Gerda quickly found the Finns' accommodation.
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... The deer did not dare to stop until he ran to a bush with red berries. Then he lowered the girl, kissed her on the lips, and large, shiny tears rolled down his cheeks. Then he shot back like an arrow. The poor girl was left alone in the bitter cold, without shoes, without mittens.
GERDA
GERDA (Dan. Gerda) is the heroine of H.K. Andersen's fairy tale "The Snow Queen" (1843). G. is a normal, "natural" girl in captivity of the myth, unlike her named brother Kai, who defeated evil forces. True, Kai is a victim of the intrigues of a troll, with whom it would seem impossible to fight. Both heroes, each in their own way, fell into the myth. Perhaps this was the main machinations of the troll who broke the mirror, which, as you know, inevitably brings misfortune, and since it was also an evil, crooked mirror, the world in which the heroes lived staggered, distorted and collapsed. Two tiny fragments hit Kai's eye and heart, and he became the prey of the Snow Queen, "fell out of reality", forgetting everything in the world. In this story, it was the boy, Kai, who turned out to be the more accessible object of the experiment of evil forces. The heroine had to become a girl who decided to go to the kingdom to the Snow Queen herself. We learn that while G. was looking for Kai, some heroes grew up (Little Robber), others died (forest raven), and the heroes themselves, Kai and G., became adults during this time. G. is a very important heroine in Andersen's world: she proves the possibility of fighting evil - mystical, omnipotent, ugly. At the same time, G. does not act alone: in a semi-fairy world, where quite everyday, even realistic heroes (like a Lapland woman or a Finnish woman) coexist with talking crows and deer, everyone is drawn to her, there is not a single character who would not try to help her. And it's not just about kindness, triumphant, despite the machinations of the troll. G. has the gift of attracting all that is good and repelling the bad.
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Gerda is a German name derived from Gertrude. In Russian, it gained popularity after the publication of Andersen's fairy tale "The Snow Queen". Gerda Weissensteiner is an Italian luger. Gerda Wegener is a Danish artist. Gerda ... ... Wikipedia
According to scandin. mythology: a beauty who became the wife of the god Freyr and the goddess of beauty. Dictionary of foreign words included in the Russian language. Chudinov A.N., 1910. GERDA According to Scandinavian mythology: a giant beauty who became the wife of Freyr and ... ... Dictionary of foreign words of the Russian language
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Books
- Gerda. The story of a mongrel, Vladimir Valerievich Zemsha. The focus of the story is an ordinary mongrel named Gerda. The reader has the opportunity to look at the world and perhaps himself, dog eyes. By the will of the human...
Go around almost the entire Earth in search of your best friend? For the heroine of a fairy tale, this is not at all difficult. Bold and courageous Gerda will overcome any trials in order to save loved one. And what kind of obstacles can we talk about if a sincere faith in goodness lives in the heart.
History of creation
In 1844, the collection New Tales. Volume one." The book included a story about the adventures of a girl named Gerda, who was desperately looking for her missing friend.
Scientists claim that "The Snow Queen" is the longest fairy tale of the writer. Hans Christian Andersen himself called the work "the fairy tale of my life." Such a statement is justified. Most of the acting heroes of the fascinating story are not fictional - they are real people who accompanied Andersen on the path of life.
The prototype of the brave Gerda was a girl named Lisbeta. The future heroine of the fairy tale lived not far from little Hans and often came to visit. Over time, the children became so friendly that they began to call each other "sister" and "brother". Lisbeta is the first listener of the still uncertain, but already interesting stories Andersen.
There is a theory that in the confrontation between Gerda and the Danish writer displayed the struggle between religion and science. This idea did not take root in the Soviet Union. It is not surprising, because the fairy tale reached the USSR in a stripped-down version. Mandatory censorship, through which foreign works passed, crossed out religious motives from the fairy tale - in the original version, memories of .
Biography
Gerda was born into a poor family. Despite the difficult financial situation, parents and grandmother tried to give the child a happy childhood. The family lives under the roof apartment building. The young heroine has an attractive appearance:
“The hair curled, and the curls surrounded the girl’s fresh, round, like a rose, face of the girl with a golden glow.”
Mom and dad built a flower garden for Gerda, which the girl looked after with the neighbor boy Kai. The guys have been friends since childhood and spent a lot of time together.
The relationship changed when Kai became a hostage to the fragments of the magic mirror, distorting the perception of the world. Having hit the boy in the eye and in the heart, the fragments turned Kai against Gerda.
The girl's best friend goes missing, the adults decide that the boy is dead. Only Gerda does not accept such a truth and, with the onset of spring, goes in search. The first person the girl addresses is the local river. Gerda offers the elements an exchange: the river returns Kai to her, and the heroine gives her the only value - new red shoes. The river does not help the girl, but takes her to the old witch's house.
The naive Gerda allows herself to be bewitched and carelessly lives in the old woman's house at the end of spring and all summer. Randomness reminds the girl of the goal of her journey. After consulting with local flowers and finding out that Kai is not buried in the ground, Gerda returns to the search.
The road leads the brave girl to a beautiful castle. The questions of the talking raven confirm the guess - Kai lives in the palace and is quite happy with the local princess. The girl persuades the raven to lead her inside. Alas, another boy turns out to be the princess' fiancé.
Kind rulers listen to the sad story and give the girl warm clothes and a golden carriage. The gifts came in very handy. Gerda again sets off on a difficult journey. Bandits attack an expensive carriage in the nearby forest.
Gerda is saved from death by a little robber who decided to take the girl into her collection of curiosities. At night, when the robber falls asleep, white doves tell the girl where to look for Kai. Delighted, Gerda shares what she has learned with the jailer. Despite the environment, the heart of the young robber has not yet hardened. The thief releases Gerda, giving her reindeer as her escort.
So, on the back of a mighty animal, the heroine gets to Lapland. The duo makes their first stop at the house of an old Laplander. The woman, having learned the fate of the deer and Gerda, gives the heroes a strange message written on dried cod for their journey. The old woman asks to convey a message to a familiar Finn.
Having reached Finnmark, Gerda finds the old woman's dwelling. While the heroes are warming up after a long journey, the Finn carefully examines incomprehensible letters. The reindeer, who during the journey has taken a liking to his companion, begs his new acquaintance to help Gerda. But the Finn, seeing the character traits of the girl, has a different opinion on this matter:
“Don’t you see how great her power is? Don't you see that both people and animals serve her? After all, she walked around half the world barefoot! It's not for us to borrow her strength! The strength is in her sweet, innocent baby heart. If she herself cannot penetrate into the halls of the Snow Queen and extract the fragments from Kai's heart, then we will not help her even more!”
Having reached the entrance to the Snow Queen's garden, Gerda is left alone - the reindeer is waiting for her at the entrance. Prayers help the girl reach the castle. The angels who came to help drive away the guards of the Snow Queen from the heroine and do not allow them to harm Gerda.
The house of the evil mistress of the snow fascinates the girl, although during the journey the castles ceased to amaze Gerda. Seeing Kai, the heroine throws herself on her friend's chest. Warm tears rolling from the girl's eyes melt the ice in the boy's heart, and the mention of Christ in his favorite psalm makes Kai himself burst into tears. So fragments of the cursed mirror came out of the body of a young man.
Happy heroes set off on their way back and, having reached their home, they realize that they have matured a lot during the journey. Only their hearts remained the same kind and pure.
Screen adaptations
The first cartoon about the adventures of a brave girl was filmed in the USSR in 1957. The cartoon "The Snow Queen" was awarded with international awards and was transferred to six foreign languages. The actress became the voice of Gerda.
In 1967, the film studio "Lenfilm" released a fairy tale film "The Snow Queen". In the film, in addition to living people, puppets are involved, and elements of animation are inserted. She played the role of Gerda.
The premiere of the New Year's musical of the same name took place on December 31, 2003. She performed the role of Gerda. In addition to the original plot, there are other Andersen stories in the musical film.
Inspired by a Danish writer's fairy tale, Osamu Dezaki created an anime about the adventures of a brave girl. The cartoon almost does not depart from the original source. The image of Gerda was created by Akio Sugino, and the voice was given by Ayako Kawasumi.
In 2012, a new animated film "The Snow Queen" was released. Later, the fairy tale was continued - "The Snow Queen 2: Refreeze" (2015) and "The Snow Queen 3: Fire and Ice". In the first and second parts, Gerda was voiced by the singer (Anna Shurochkina), in the third - by Natalia Bystrova.
- The name "Gerda" came from Scandinavia, the meaning of the name is the protector of people.
- A polar bear named Gerda lives in the Novosibirsk Zoo. In August, the animal toiled from the heat, and the servants brought real snow to the aviary. The video of Gerda enjoying the snow has spread all over the world.
- The poetess Stefania Danilova dedicated a verse to Gerda, in which the heroine enters the halls of winter. The work ends unexpectedly: Gerda confesses her love not to Kai at all, but to the Snow Queen.