Characteristics of the main characters of the fairy tale geese swans. Geese swans main characters and their characteristics
We all love to listen to stories, and even fabulous ones! Many analytical psychologists have been and are engaged in the interpretation of fairy tales: Hans Dieckmann, Marie-Louise von Franz, Sybill Birkhäuser-Oeri, Clarissa Pinkola Estes. They continue to be studied by mythologists, linguists, historians and other scientists. And they began to tell fairy tales from the very birth of human society!
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They wondered why, over time, fairy tales not only did not go into oblivion, but continue to live and remain popular?
For centuries mankind has been tormented by the same existential questions. Who am I? Why am I here? What is the most important thing in my life? What should I not miss in order for my life to be filled with meaning? What comes first: spirit or matter? How to explain complex categories - space and time, why the sun rises and sets, what is life and death? How to explain the change of seasons? How to understand such categories as "good" and "evil"? How is life?
Living in an unexplained incomprehensible world is scary, so ancient people tried to look for answers. Initially, humanity did not have as many tools and as much information as it does now, and the structure of the world was the same. And our ancestors tried to explain life through observation of nature, people, through intuition, including through conjecture and outright fantasizing. Thus, from many disparate parts, a general picture of the world is created. And a myth appears. After bit by bit, the obtained information was passed on to descendants by word of mouth as a great value, making up fairy tales.
Here we must understand that folk tales were not composed on purpose. They appeared over the course of life, polished many times through retellings, therefore they abound in symbols that are understandable to our unconscious, but, unfortunately, not to our narrow consciousness. Therefore, fairy tales are not so easy to understand!
When we, with our thinking, try to pull the ancient tales on modern knowledge, like an old stocking on a leg, they immediately crumble to dust. All their charm and appeal are lost, and the mystery slips away. Fairy tales do not have the practical meaning that we want to extract, explaining from our rational point of view: one hero is good, and that one is bad, and the moral in a fairy tale is such and such.
A fairy tale does not lend itself to ordinary everyday logic, it is not linear, and, what is very important, it is not edifying. V fairy tales sacred knowledge about life, about the world, about people, about death, about the soul is encrypted. And similarly to how the world evolves, what stages it goes through, such stages of development correspond to the maturation of the human soul. Therefore, fairy tale metaphors are so close to us, and fairy tales, without exception, affect us at an incredible depth!
Through understanding the events of the fairy tale, we will be able to understand ourselves. It is vital to know the myth or fairy tale that defines our inner life in order to influence the course of current events and, if possible, not to commit fatal acts. That is why the fairy tale lived, continues and will live among us.
If we treat it as a serious tool, then its wisdom will fall on us like a golden rain, and through understanding the sacred meaning of the fairy tale, we will be able to comprehend our soul and our current spiritual needs. At the very end, I will give you an excellent practical exercise associated with your favorite fairy tale, and you can see for yourself the above.
And now I invite you on a journey through the Russian folk tale “Geese-Swans”, known since childhood.
"Swan geese"
Was she one of your favorites as a child? Have you watched the cartoon of the same name? Have you read this story? What did you think about when you read to your children and when your parents read it to you? What did you imagine? And now the tricky question: what do you think it is about? Everything seems to be clear: the sister disobeyed her parents, and then she saves her brother from being eaten by Baba Yaga, a happy ending and everyone is happy.
But I wouldn't jump to conclusions like that! Not only are there some incomprehensible swan geese, an evil Baba Yaga in a hut on chicken legs, which gives a special flavor to this story, but also a talking stove, an apple tree and a milky river with jelly banks. All this makes me think that there is something to understand here, which I suggest you do right now.
Let me remind you that there are several versions of this tale: folk, in the processing of Alexander Afanasyev and in the processing of Alexei Tolstoy. They differ slightly in who turned out to be the girl's assistant, but in general the plot is the same.
Now, thanks to the popularization of transactional analysis, everyone is familiar with the concepts of "Inner Child", "Parent" and "Adult". The concept of subpersonalities, which Assogioli relied on in his Psychosynthesis, is also well known. While analyzing this tale, we will rely on the concepts of analytical psychology, mythology, symbol drama and psychoanalysis. And you will see how the deep theater will open up and the fairy tale from flat will instantly become bright, convex, having a different meaning, and you will recognize completely different “Swan Geese”.
We will analyze the fairy tale at the subjective level, that is, as if all the characters in this fairy tale exist within one personality. And since the main character is a girl, we will consider the fairy tale from the point of view of feminine (female) psychology.
Geese-swans flew
“There lived a man and a woman. They had a daughter and a little son."
It all started with the fact that in an ordinary peasant family, the mother and father leave for the fair, and the eldest daughter is asked to follow her brother, and as a reward she was promised to bring a present - a handkerchief. The sister, despite the order of her parents, ran away for a walk and missed her brother. Fearing parental anger, he runs to no one knows where to rescue him.
Geese-swans are not simple birds, but with meaning. In fairy tales, it is often they who serve Baba Yaga, steal children at her behest. Sometimes she starves them until they bring her good prey, a tasty morsel. If we consider separately the symbolism of the goose and the swan, we will see a lot of similarities, and in the Celtic tradition they are generally interchangeable.
Both the goose and the swan are solar symbols: ancient people associated the arrival of spring or winter with their arrivals and departures. It is known that Apollo, the god of the Sun in ancient mythology, flew on swans. Geese saved Rome. Both the goose and the swan are a guide bird to the world of the dead.
Waterfowl have long enjoyed special reverence among the Slavs, so they, along with the falcon, swallow and dove, are often used in ancient wedding symbols. Ritual songs were composed about them that “geese-swans fly through the vineyard and drop wedding rings”, pre-wedding lamentations about the conspiracy of the matchmakers of the bride and groom and, in fact, wedding songs. The gray goose was usually compared to the groom, while the bride, of course, to the white swan.
“The most striking example among the Russians is the famous song with parallelism about two flying bird “herds” with the words “The white swan lagged behind the herd of swans ... / She pestered the gray geese”, performed at the end of the pre-wedding stage”,- wrote T.A. Bernshtam in his book "Bird symbolism in traditional culture Eastern Slavs". The opposition is present because the bride and groom, according to ancient customs, cannot belong to the same clan.
A.V. Gura wrote: “In the Astrakhan province, they invite you to a wedding with the words: “Come to our prince to eat bread and salt, destroy a white swan!” Swan here means wedding bread - a loaf with a skillful decoration in the form of a pair of swans, geese or doves. All these birds were considered symbols of a strong union..
Motifs of geese and swans were present in ancient embroideries and carpets. "On the hems of women's shirts, the ends of wedding towels and bed curtains, usually abstract symbols of waterfowl and poultry were depicted under the collective names" peahens "," petuns "" (Maslova G.S. Ornament of Russian folk embroidery as a historical and ethnographic source.
But still there is a difference between them, and it is significant. Our ancestors managed to tame and domesticate the goose, therefore it more often symbolizes the domestic and female spheres of life, and the swan remained wild, free, reflecting the spirit of independence, a certain nobility, grace. The goose was eaten, and shooting a swan was considered a great sin.
In this mythological flock, a wild bird is opposed to a domestic one, just as the gender of a groom is opposed to that of a bride, and is united in one set. This union of opposites allows them to live in two worlds - the ordinary manifested Reveal, like geese, and the distant world of non-existence - Navi, like swans.
Brother and sister in fairy tales symbolize the union of male and female opposites, the deep connection of Anima and Animus within the personality. The swan geese take the boy away, thereby separating his sister and brother, and take him to the kingdom of the dead, to Baba Yaga, we will talk about her in more detail here.
The heroine of this fairy tale loses touch with her masculine, spiritual part. Her spirit seems to be carried away into the world of Baba Yaga. Soul and spirit are separated, and the girl will have to go through severe tests in order to connect them again.
From the point of view of psychology, a spiritual attitude has sunk deep into the unconscious. V real life we can see this when a person strives only for material goods or bakes only daily bread, forgetting about the spiritual component of life. Then all his conversations come down to empty chatter, from which there is no warmth in the soul and close contact is impossible.
The masculine part of our heroine is lost; there has been a split into male and female parts. What does it mean? We see such a pernicious division in the so-called modern “Vedic tradition”, where each of the spouses has a certain role: a woman should be beautiful and give birth to children, and a man should realize himself in society and earn money.
It would not be bad, but if a woman denies her male part, does not realize her creative potential, then this will inevitably end in a deep crisis. And therefore, a well-developed Animus in a woman is also an opportunity to be successful in the outside world, mastery of male energy, and not its denial, the ability to assimilate it into her life and the ability to realize the true nature of being.
Now the girl has to work hard to bring her brother home, which in psychological language means in the future to know and love her Animus again and become truly whole from this.
way there. The furnace is the archetype of the Great Mother
“The girl rushed to catch up with them. She ran, she ran, she saw - there was a stove.
In fairy tales, the oven is always located outside the house, in an open field, for example, or in a forest, as it is here. It stands by itself, melted and full of ritual food.
The oven has always been especially revered by the Slavs, so in the huts of our ancestors it stood exactly in the middle, playing the role of both the center and the border between that world and this one. This is a purely maternal symbol, at the global level it acts as a model of a cave, because a cave is the earliest dwelling of people, in the middle of which a hearth was built. Along with this, it is also a symbol of the world tree.
The stove gave warmth, food, comfort in the house, in addition, in some areas it was used as a bath and next to it, ailments were treated above and inside it. An ancient rite of baking associated with the oven is known: premature, sick children were wrapped in rye dough and placed on a shovel in a heated warm oven, as if they were “baking”. This is where the transforming function of the Russian stove comes from. And folklore confirms this with sayings: "The stove soars, the stove fries, the stove saves the soul."
Also, the oven acts as a symbol of the triune world - heavenly, earthly and afterlife. Our ancestors believed that a connection with the “other world” was made through the chimney, and if you put your palms on it, you can communicate with long-dead ancestors, ask the ancestors for protection and strength. The bottom of the furnace was connected with the world of the dead, the placenta, miscarriages were buried there, and the middle of the furnace - its firebox, hailo - was associated with the world of the living.
Therefore, the stove was considered a sacred attribute in the house. It was forbidden to blaspheme, lie, swear next to it, you can’t have sex on it, because old people and small children slept on the stove. And in the microcosm, the stove is a model of a woman, a mother, a bearer of life.
This also reflects folklore: “Bake our mother dear”, “All red summer is on the stove”, and the appeal to her is nothing more than a “stove-mother”! Note that keeping the fire and cooking food has traditionally been considered a purely female occupation: "Woman's road - from the stove to the doorstep". Therefore, it is quite logical that she is thought of as one of the manifestations of the symbols of the Mother Goddess archetype. Naturally, this idea originated in the days of matriarchy.
In the language of Jungian psychology, this is one of the symbols of the Great Mother archetype. Erich Neumann in the book "The Archetype of the Great Mother" gives a detailed description of all modes of the archetype. And I will only remind you that this archetype consists of four parts, two of which are young and two are old, wiser by experience; two good and two dark, devouring.
TO good old mother include Demeter - the goddess of fertility in ancient mythology, Isis - in Egyptian, Mary the Mother of God, any kind elderly old woman in fairy tales.
Evil old mother- this is a witch, Baba Yaga, Hecate, Gorgon Medusa, an evil stepmother, an evil fairy in the fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty", the goddess Kali, devouring babies.
Good young mother- the virgin Mary, Eve as the mother of all people, the fairy godmother in Cinderella, the goddess Lada in Slavic mythology, Aphrodite is the goddess of beauty.
Young dark maiden- depraved, cold, incapable of real feelings, seducing and taking away the soul: Lilith, Queen of Shamakhan, Snow Queen, Mistress of the copper mountain.
What is the difference between these poles? The fact that on the positive pole - goodness, fertility, wealth, creativity, health, on the opposite - illness, death, evil, poverty, depression, emptiness. But the whole point is that there is no one pole without the other! And the negative pole serves to transform the hero, it urges him to fight, makes him go forward, towards self-realization.
In the fairy tale “Swan Geese”, the archetype of the Great Mother is presented in different guises: it is an oven, an apple tree, a milky river, and even Baba Yaga as a reflection of its different sides. In our story, the oven, the apple tree and the river turn in different directions to the girl, both giving and not giving.
They play the role of a caring, sheltering and protective principle: on the way back, they literally sheltered the children from the chase - and at the same time very demanding ("Eat my rye pie, then I'll hide it"), showing their ambivalent qualities, like grass coltsfoot or "enough good mother". But Baba Yaga is an unambiguously negative aspect of the Great Mother, we will also talk about her separately.
Now back to the oven. And this question that torments everyone: what is the arrogance, why the girl does not eat the rye pies that the oven presented to her? This happens for several important reasons.
The oven in which bread is baked and food is cooked is conceived as an altar, a place for the Eucharist. Any food used to be considered a communion with the totem, the spirit of food. Ate food - gained strength through communication with spirits. This is definitely a transformative power. And the pies that were baked in this oven can be attributed to the transformation that occurs when you interact with such energy.
Our heroine is now at the stage of growing up, her task is to separate from the maternal unconscious, because "the stove is undead, but the path teaches." She is still in a state where a prolonged relationship with her mother is only fatal for her. And her words “But my father doesn’t eat whites either” can be explained as follows: life in the native family personifies the conscious refined part of her life, and the world of symbols - the unconscious, unidentified, and therefore huge and frightening. And the fruits of the unconscious - pies - are now too heavy and rude for her, she will not be able to digest them (to understand the true value). But everything will change on the way back.
forest apple tree
Further on the way, the girl met a forest apple tree full of fruits. This is a wild tree with rough little bitter-sour fruits, and yet it was it that became the progenitor for varietal apple trees. The apple tree here is a symbol of Mother Nature herself.
Plants, like animals, from the time of paganism often act as prototypes of gods for humans. They were endowed with a living soul, whole rituals-festivities were held in their honor, they were worshiped, they were idolized and attributed a special power. Take at least apples: they are rejuvenating, with the help of which you can heal all diseases and regain your youth, roll on a saucer to see upcoming events.
This moment is reflected in the Russian folk "Tale of a silver saucer and a bulk apple": “An apple rolls on a saucer, poured on silver, and on a saucer all the cities are visible one after another, ships on the seas and regiments in the fields, and the heights of the mountains, and the beauty of the heavens.”
In Little Khavroshechka, a cow asks to bury her bones in the ground after her death, and a lush apple tree grows in that place. In the fairy tale "Ivan Tsarevich and the Gray Wolf", Father Ivan has a garden with golden apples, which are hunted by the Firebird.
For alchemists, the apple was something especially magical, therefore it symbolized the process of knowledge and the fantastic fifth element.
In the Christian tradition, this is an ancient symbol of sin, temptation and the knowledge of good and evil, like a fruit from a tree from the Garden of Eden. Eve tempted Adam to eat it, and they saw another world, learned another truth, for which they were severely punished by God by expulsion from paradise.
In the fairy tale "Swan Geese", an apple tree offers a girl a fruit in exchange for her telling her where the swan geese carried the boy. She does not ask, but gives, but the girl does not want to take! And all because she does not want to know the sour wild truth of the world.
It is better for her if she eats garden apples from her father's garden, she sees half-truths when she is under the protection and protection of her relatives. But when you went out into the outside world, then your task is to find your support in it. The girl is now incomplete, she is only half, so she is unable to bear the real truth, to accept the world as it is, and this is the meaning of her refusal.
But there is something else here as well. In the Slavic tradition, it was customary to give apples during matchmaking: they were sent to the groom's relatives - if the bride agreed, then the apples were ripe and beautiful, and if not, then green and unkind.
It is believed that the apple tree is a tree of female power. It gives us, women, sexuality and sensuality, awakens the maternal instinct. And it is no accident, because it is a symbol of Aphrodite - the goddess of sexual pleasure, pleasure and love. The fruit of the apple tree gives fertility to the bride, and therefore the branch of the apple tree is used in the manufacture of a wedding tree, which is popularly called "giltse".
Although the girl is of premarital age, she understands that it is too early for her to think about sexual pleasures, the birth of children, to identify with a mature woman before undergoing initiation, therefore, only on the way back she eats the offered fruit.
On the way back, the girl, according to some versions of the tale, also removes the entire crop from the tree, helping the apple tree to free itself from the burden, and here I see a parallel with Jesus. Since the apple, along with other meanings, is a symbol of Christ, who atoned for all the sins of mankind with his life. In August, Apple Spas is celebrated, another name for this holiday is the Transfiguration of the Lord, during which it is customary to eat apples for the first time in a season. For the heroine, this can symbolize the act of salvation, her own healing, transformation.
Milk river with kissel banks
The next, from whom the girl asked for help, was a milky river with jelly banks. From the point of view of mythology, this picture is not at all strange, because the milky river with jelly banks was considered a symbol of paradise in the realm of the dead, where you do not need to think about food, where everything is in abundance. It existed in various fairy tales, for example, in The Tale of King Pea: “In that ancient time, when the world of God was filled with goblin, witches and mermaids, when milky rivers flowed, the banks were jelly, and fried partridges flew across the fields, at that time there lived a king named Peas”.
Vladimir Propp in the book "Historical Roots fairy tale writes about her like this: “The plot of milk rivers with jelly banks, as the embodiment of the motif of abundance, is ancient, has analogues in different cultures and reflects ideas about an ideal happy country. So, according to the observation of the English anthropologist J. Fraser, in Polynesian culture there is a similar motif, but with rivers from coconut oil.
Here we mean oatmeal jelly with milk, which our ancestors ate. And also the milk river reminds Milky Way in the sky, which the ancients considered a manifestation of the Heavenly Mother. Therefore, on the one hand, this is undoubtedly an aspect of a giving caring generous mother, a symbol of life, because mother's milk is the first food that a baby eats.
But there is a directly opposite side: the same jelly often served as ritual food, they finished the meal at the wake. Therefore, a meeting with a milky river for a girl is like a meeting with the ambivalence of a mother, both giving and taking life.
In support of this idea, the following fact: for our ancestors, the river is not just a stream of water. Along the Smorodina River, the Slavs sent the dead to last way on a raft or on a boat, because it was thought of as the border between the world of the living and the world of the dead. V Ancient Greece these were the rivers Styx and Lethe, the Nile among the Egyptians, at the gates of the Scandinavian kingdom of the dead Hel the river Gjoll flows. The source of the river was often associated with the upper world, and the mouth with the lower one.
And the very search for a brother by a sister in this sense is surprisingly similar to the mythological plots of the descent into the lower world. So Orpheus descends for his beloved Eurydice to the kingdom of Hades, for which Charon transports him across the river Styx.
As you can see, the milk river with jelly banks is a very ambiguous symbol: on the one hand, it personifies maternal kindness, care, and on the other, oblivion and death. In psychological terms, this means getting to know the shadow aspects of the Mother. Indeed, in fact, the Mother both gives life and takes it away, and in this sense it is understandable when we talk about land, water or nature in general.
On the way there, before the initiation, the girl is not ready to look at the shadow of the Mother, because in a sense it is her shadow too. Only a mature holistic person can look at it openly, perceive the object as a whole, and not in fragments.
Civil Birkhäuser-Oeri notes: “Without recognizing the traits of the dark Mother in herself, she (the woman) runs the risk of identifying only with her light side. However, she still lives this dark, shadowy side, but she does it unconsciously; in other words, both she herself and the people around her are in serious danger.
In order to perceive yourself this way, you need to have great courage, strengthen your ego, know the boundaries of Self and non-Self, and for this she needs to connect with her structuring masculine principle.
3 + 1
Notice that on the way the girl met three maternal symbols, not five, not two, but three.
This number has long been considered important, so in fairy tales we meet the faraway kingdom, the farthest state, three desires, three brothers, three trials, as in our history. Remember three more heroes, a trio of horses, the well-known Pushkin's "Three girls under the window were spinning late in the evening."
This number is reflected in time as past, present and future, in space as length, width, height. It is known that "God loves a trinity." By the way, in Christianity the three is also a sacred number. The Scriptures speak of three gifts of the Magi to Christ, three images of the Transfiguration, three crosses on Golgotha, three days of Christ's death, three theological virtues: faith, hope, love.
There are also three goddesses of fate in different mythologies. In ancient mythology, there are three hypostases of the Great Mother: Persephone, Demeter and Hekate, which correspond to birth, life and death and are depicted as a girl, a bride and an old woman.
Combining all three parts of the archetype together, we see that the stove is connected with the sky through its pipe, the apple tree with the earth through its roots, and the milky river with jelly banks is a river flowing into the world of the dead. It's like all life. And with each of them, our heroine had to learn how to interact in her own way. And when she is a girl, and when a woman, and when an old woman. In a symbolic language, there was an acquaintance with the whole world, the Universe. With this interaction, the heroine receives sacred knowledge, which she will include in her life.
An encounter with the numinous has taken place, and this can only happen by contact with the archetype, and if the consciousness is not prepared, then this is an excessively severe test. The more we are disturbed, traumatized from the inside, if our ego is weak, infantile, requires constant support from the outside, the more we are at risk of not coping with our feelings during such a meeting. Simply put, we need to first learn how to earn money for ourselves, arrange our lives, and then think about the hungry in Africa.
Every time on the way “there”, the girl refused all offers of help, which can be translated into psychological language as follows: by such behavior she strengthened her ego, more and more separated from her mother’s unconscious. There is a certain natural act of inflation necessary for the development of the individual. And, of course, in doing so, she takes on a great responsibility.
Remember that the real treasure is found only by those who look for it and work? In the Tarot, the number "three" corresponds to the lasso "Empress", which symbolizes the living creative feminine, renewal, the joy of life. Therefore, having passed this important test of maturity, the girl discovers in herself an inexhaustible source from which something new is born all the time.
But among the characters of the fairy tale there is also Baba Yaga. Who is she really?
Meeting with Baba Yaga
What does a girl see when she comes to Baba Yaga's hut? A terrible old grandmother is spinning a tow, and a brother is sitting on a bench, playing with silver apples.
Baba Yaga has several names - Yagibikha, Yagishna, Baba Yoga. Her hut always stands in a dense forest, where you need to wade through dense thickets of trees and thorny bushes. Such a forest has always caused genuine horror among our ancestors, as they thought of it as a border between the worlds. They imagined that Baba Yaga is a goddess who accompanies the dead from this world to the next, and therefore endowed her with limitless possibilities.
She lets the boy play with silver apples, which reflects the popular notion of a world where golden apples grow on silver trees. There is also an old name for the apple tree - "silver bough", which comes from the belief that apples grow on silvery branches and have the properties of immortality.
Note that the hut stands on chicken legs. The play on words led us to chicken paws, while, according to the ethnographer D. Zelenin: “The ancient Slavs erected burial structures on pillars, which were fumigated with the smoke of juniper branches, hence the “chickens”.”
It should be noted that Baba Yaga in many fairy tales spins yarn or a tow, which makes me think of three spinners from the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm or the goddesses of fate Moira from ancient mythology, they are also Parks among the Romans or Norns among the ancient Scandinavians. They spun and cut the thread of life, determining fate.
The Slavs believed that women in labor, or sudzhanitsy, determined the fate of the newborn. And Baba Yaga in the fairy tale "Geese Swans" spun a tow, which reflects her predictive function and inevitability. Have you noticed that in many Russian fairy tales it is Baba Yaga who gives the hero the cherished ball that will lead him on the right path?
Here, when the girl enters the hut (narration in the processing of A.N. Tolstoy), the old woman instructs her to spin, and she herself leaves to heat the bathhouse. Is it by chance? It is still too early for children to leave this world - to cut off the thread of fate, so it is necessary that the spinning does not stop, and the old woman gives them a choice: leave or stay.
The mouse temporarily took over spinning. She, as you know, is considered one of the chthonic animals, because her hole is in the ground. The cunning mouse knows many secrets of the underworld. The girl first feeds the mouse, and then listens to her advice. And this is not the only story where this happens. In one of the most ancient, “Stepmother and Stepdaughter”, when a girl comes to a bear, it is the mouse that helps her deceive the bear-death, beating him in blindfolds.
The girl certainly needed to see Baba Yaga, but why? Putting all the parts together, we can conclude that the meeting with this old woman symbolically reflects the meeting with her own death. A whole person always includes the aspect of death in his life. This is a rethinking, the acquisition of new values, and the girl understands that she will not return after such a test of the former.
And yes - about the number of characters that the girl meets on the way: three plus one will be four, and this is the number of earth, the number of completeness and stability. Baba Yaga is the fourth part of the Great Mother archetype in this tale. As Jung says, "the fourth puts the shackles of reality on trinity thinking."
The fourth element connects opposites and creates a new unity.
There were four of them so that the girl could realize her reality as it is, get rid of childhood illusions, expand her consciousness by adding parts from the unconscious. And this is no longer the little girl who went into the thick of the forest in search of her brother.
Return trip
The sister grabbed her brother and dragged him out of the hut. But the story did not end there, because Baba Yaga ordered the swan geese to rush after the fugitives. That is, it is not enough to return your part, it is important to appropriate and save it, because on the way back the heroine faced no less danger.
Have you noticed that on the way to follow her brother, the girl is intractable, does not show due modesty and respect for the great symbols (oven, apple tree and river)? She relies only on herself in search of her missing brother.
So it is in real life: when we rationalize everything, not attaching due importance to intuitive knowledge from the unconscious, then it punishes us, covering us with a shadow with a head.
Jung said: "Many people mistakenly overestimate the role of the will and believe that nothing can happen in their own mind without their decision and intention." Have you heard the saying “if you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans” or “man thinks, but God disposes”? They are just about it! And the deeply religious, on the contrary, have such an expression as "The Lord will rule." The truth is somewhere in the middle.
Initially, our unconscious has great power, and if we do not give it the necessary respect and respect, we do not make a sacrifice (and pride, verbosity, and the desire to gossip, the desire to speed up events or our own laziness can be a victim), we do not pay attention to clues from dreams, to the synchrony of the world, then we have an answer to keep.
But back to the story! Returning, the girl again met with the same symbols, but in reverse order, and this order is important here.
On the way there, first there was a stove as a symbol of birth, then an apple tree as a symbol of life and a river as a symbol of death. It was as if the whole life had passed before death in an accelerated version. On the way back, she first tasted jelly by the milk river, then a forest apple, and ate a rye pie.
These actions reflect symbolic death by the river, then life by the apple tree, and then, climbing inside the oven, as if “baking” - transforming, it is born again for life in the manifested world, the world of consciousness. And it was after the rebirth in the furnace that the swan geese stopped chasing and left the girl alone.
By the way, don't you think that the girl is behaving very strangely? The treats are still the same, and on the way to get her brother she refuses them, and on the way home she eats everything that the archetypal heroes offered her. And our ancestors would not have thought so, because they know the truth: the sister on the way “there” behaves like an uninitiated, who has not received initiation, and therefore does not receive help from supernatural forces.
Russian folk tale "Geese-swans"
Genre: folk fairy tale
The main characters of the fairy tale "Geese-swans" and their characteristics
- Daughter, a cheerful and capricious girl who loved to play very much, and therefore forgot about her brother.
- Geese-swans, insidious birds that kidnapped small children and carried them away to Baba Yaga.
- The stove, Apple tree, River, did not help the capricious girl, but they helped when she corrected herself.
- Parents' order
- forgetfulness girl
- geese kidnappers
- Chase and Stove
- The Chase and the Apple Tree
- Chase and River
- Baba Yaga's house
- Return trip.
- Return.
- When leaving for work, the parents ordered their daughter to keep an eye on their little brother.
- The girl began to play and her brother was carried away by Geese-Swans.
- The girl ran in pursuit, but did not eat the pie, apple and jelly.
- Hedgehog shows her the way.
- The girl finds her brother and, grabbing him, runs home.
- The swan geese pursue her, but the river, the apple tree and the stove hide the girl, and she returns home.
Do not refuse another request and he will help you too.
What does the fairy tale "Geese-swans" teach
This fairy tale teaches you to listen to your parents, to help them around the house, not to abandon the little children who have been entrusted to you. This tale teaches not to be snobby, does not treat requests with disdain. Teaches determination and courage.
Feedback on the fairy tale "Geese-swans"
This is a very good story that I really enjoyed. In it, the girl at first turned her nose up from simple treats, but when she got hot, she stopped being capricious and that was the only reason she was saved.
Proverbs to the fairy tale "Geese-swans"
The need will teach kalachi to eat.
Not expensive beginning, commendable end.
The eyes are afraid, but the hands are doing.
Summary, brief retelling fairy tales "Geese-swans"
An old man lived with an old woman and they had a daughter and a little son.
The old people went to work and the girl was severely punished to keep an eye on her brother and not leave the yard.
The old people left, and the daughter played, put her brother on the grass, and forgot about him.
Then Geese-swans flew in and carried away the brother.
The girl returned, and the brother is nowhere to be found. She searched, shouted, but saw geese in the distance. The girl understood who had kidnapped her brother and rushed in pursuit.
He runs, and here the stove is standing, asking for a rye pie. The daughter did not eat the pie, she runs further. The apple tree stands, treats with a forest apple. The girl did not eat an apple, she runs further. Here is a milky river with jelly banks, asking for milk to drink. The girl did not drink milk.
Hedgehog met her, showed the way where the swan geese flew.
The daughter ran to Baba Yaga's house, and there she saw her brother. She grabbed her brother and rushed back.
And the Geese-swans are chasing after her. The girl runs to the river, asks to hide. And then it reminds her of jelly. The girl ate jelly, the river hid her. Then he runs, and again Geese-swans fly towards him. Here and an apple did not disdain. The apple tree hid the girl.
Then the daughter runs, the brother carries. And again the Geese-swans fly. The girl had to try the rye pie too. Hid her stove.
So she ran to the house. And then the parents returned.
Drawings and illustrations for the fairy tale "Geese-swans"
A Russian folk tale tells that parents have assigned their daughter to look after their little brother while they are at work. But the girl reacted to the instructions of her parents not very responsibly. She made her brother sit down on the grass in front of the house, and she herself went outside to play. But swan geese flew in and took the boy to Baba Yaga. The girl was not taken aback, she understood what had happened, and rushed after her.
On the way, she met a stove, an apple tree and a milky river with jelly banks. When asked to tell where the geese took her brother, the magical characters offered the girl to first treat herself to what they had - pies, apples and jelly. But the girl refused the treat and received no help. Despite this, she managed to find the hut of Baba Yaga, in which her brother was. The mouse living in the hut advised the girl to grab her brother and immediately run home.
Baba Yaga sent swan geese after her. To escape from the chase, the girl again had to turn to the river, the apple tree and the stove for help. And she no longer began to refuse their treats, for which she received timely help. At the end of the tale, the sister and brother returned home safely, just in time for the arrival of their parents.
The main meaning of the fairy tale "Geese Swans" is that the most precious thing for a person is his family. Love for relatives and friends, responsibility for their fate - such topics run like a red thread through the whole fairy tale. The tale also teaches the reader to be resourceful and decisive, not to get lost in difficult situations. Although the sister made a mistake by leaving her brother unattended, she did her best to rectify the situation and was successful in doing so, bringing the little brother back home. The sister set a goal for herself - and she achieved this goal, despite the obstacles put in front of her.
The theme of responsiveness and gratitude is revealed in the fairy tale. When the girl refused the requests of the magical characters to taste the treats, she did not receive any help. But when on the way back the sister tasted the treats offered to her, help was immediately rendered to her. Know how to be responsive and grateful, and goodness will return to you a hundredfold.
In the fairy tale "Geese Swans", the sister who saved her brother is the positive hero, and Baba Yaga, who planned to eat the girl, is the negative hero.
The plot of the tale is built according to the classical canons. It has an opening in the form of the words “Once upon a time there were ..”, and an exposition when the parents instruct the girl to follow her brother. The moment of the kidnapping of the brother by birds is the beginning of the plot, and the discovery of the kidnapped boy from Baba Yaga is its climax. Escape from Baba Yaga and return to native home is the plot twist.
It should be noted the dynamism of the plot of the tale. It has a lot of action. The use of the number three is also traditional for a Russian fairy tale - three magical characters (a stove, an apple tree and a river), who test the main character and help her get home.
The fairy tale "Swan Geese" teaches children love for relatives and friends, responsibility, determination, courage, and the ability to achieve goals. The tale also teaches respect for the requests of relatives.
Olga Bazarya
Literary and artistic analysis of Russian folk tale"Swan geese"
Literary and artistic analysis of the Russian folk tale
« Swan geese»
1. « Swan geese» Russian folk tale - magic.
2. Theme: V fairy tale tells about, how geese- the swans who served Baba Yaga stole their brother, when the sister played with her friends, then she rushed to save him and saved him.
3. Idea: Nothing can replace the home of the native, native land, love for relatives. Goodness, resourcefulness, ingenuity are praised.
4. Characteristics of the main heroes:
In this fairy tale there is a positive hero sister and a negative hero Baba Yaga.
sister: loves his brother:
Gasped, rushed back and forth - no! She called him - Brother does not respond.
I began to cry, but tears will not help grief.
Brave: Ran out into an open field; rushed in the distance geese-swans and disappeared behind a dark forest. geese-swans have long gained a bad reputation for themselves, a lot of mischief and stole small children; the girl guessed that they had taken away her brother, rushed to catch up with them.
He knows how to correct his mistakes - It's her own fault, she herself must find a brother.
Baba Yaga: Evil
In the hut sits a baba-yaga, a sinewy muzzle, a clay leg;
She called Geese swans: - hurry Swan geese, fly in pursuit!
5. Artistic originality works:
Composition features:
o Traditional start fairy tales: Zachin (Once upon a time, there were….)
o Exposure (parents' order)
o Tie (abduction of brother by Geese - swans, the girl went in search of her brother)
o Climax (found a brother at Baba Yaga)
o Story ends traditionally: Interchange (escape from the hut and return home). -And she ran home, and it’s good that she managed to run, and then her father and mother came.
The story is very dynamic., it has many verbs of motion that convey sudden and quick actions. For example, about Geese - swans say: "They flew, picked up, carried away, disappeared" they convey the severity of the situation.
V fairy tale used the technique of impersonating the inanimate peace:
Stove said; The apple tree helped covered with branches; river said.
V fairy tale use the law of three repetition: three trials three times chasing geese-swans. Characteristic language: Colorful, emotional, expressive. for instance: geese-swans have long gained a bad reputation for themselves, a lot of mischief and stole small children; "Apple trees, apple trees, tell me where geese flew?» The brother is also sitting on a bench, playing with golden apples.
6. Conclusions:
Story teaches children to love their native land, their relatives and friends. It teaches to fulfill promises, to believe in goodness and in good people, helps in the formation of moral values.
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Outline plan
"Geese-swans" came to modern society still from ancient times. There is no definite author of this creation, therefore the fairy tale is truly considered folk. It tells about a simple peasant family who, like everyone else, worked on their land and worked tirelessly. The daughter was the eldest in the family, and the son was still quite small, so the sister constantly looked after her brother.
The main essence of the fairy tale
Everyone remembers that due to her inexperience and negligence, the girl lost her brother, who was carried away by swan geese. She went through the forest for the boy, but not immediately she managed to find what she was looking for. Because of her unwillingness to sacrifice her principles, the girl wandered through the forest for a long time and could not get the necessary information. Only when the road led her to Baba Yaga did her sister find her brother, but she didn’t understand what was waiting for her. The moment the girl did a good service to the mouse and fed it, she was able to find out the truth and run away with her brother. On the way back, they met exactly those characters who were refused the first time. It was then that the girl agreed to all the conditions in order to save herself and her brother.
Few people could know the whole essence of this tale. And the river, and the apple tree, and the stove - this is quite real people who meet daily in Everyday life. They are ready to help and are always kind to others. You should not initially refuse what seems unacceptable, contradictory to your own principles. As they say: "A fairy tale is a lie, but there is a hint in it." It must be remembered that absolutely all fairy tales tell about life, only in a fairy-tale form in order to convey the necessary idea to the younger generation.
Heroes
In a fairy tale there are heroes whose character can be seen by certain actions. Mother and father are quite serious people who love their children and take care of them. They go to work daily and give wise instructions to their children.
The daughter, at the time of the beginning of the tale, is a very unassembled and frivolous girl. She forgets about her brother, goes for a walk and absolutely does not think about the consequences. Only at the moment when the girl finds out about the loss of her brother, her character changes, but not immediately. On the way to Baba Yaga, she becomes capricious and does not want to put up with the fact that her certain principles will be violated. Only on the way back does she realize that for the sake of loved ones she needs to sacrifice something of her own.
