Favorite fairy tales: a summary of "Wild Swans" by Hans Christian Andersen

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Hans Christian Andersen is a world famous children's storyteller. He was born into a poor shoemaker's family. As a child, the father told the boy that he was allegedly a relative of Prince Frits. This was the reason for the child's fantasies about his acquaintance with the offspring of the royal family. Even when Hans grew up, he did not stop dreaming and inventing various implausible stories. All this is reflected in the wonderful fairy tales that glorified him throughout the world. Many of them we know from childhood. Andersen wrote one of his best works in 1838. “Wild Swans”, a summary of which is given in this article, is a fairy tale about the value of kindred feelings, about selfless love in all its manifestations. Even the possibility of her own death does not frighten the main character. She has only one desire - to save her brothers. Let's remember how it was…

Summary. "Wild swan". Intro

There once was a king. And he had eleven beautiful sons and one daughter, whose name was Elsa. They lived well and amicably, until she appeared in their familystepmother. She was an evil witch. Appearing in the castle, the stepmother immediately established her own rules there. She sent Elsa to be raised in a remote village, and turned her brothers into white swans. They flew away to no one knows where. Their sister, who lived in the wilderness, became more and more beautiful every day. And now she has already turned into a real beauty, which is not more beautiful in the world. When Elsa returned to her father in the castle, her stepmother, seeing her, became even more angry. She decided to make her stepdaughter ugly. For this, the sorceress sent three nasty toads to her. But as soon as they touched the innocent girl, they turned into red poppies and floated down the river away from her. Then the stepmother smeared Elsa with mud so that even her own father could not recognize her and drove her out of the castle.

Summary. "Wild swan". Developments

After that, the girl had to spend the night in the forest. There she has a dream in which she sees herself and her brothers as a child. In the morning, waking up, Elsa washed herself in a forest pond, after which she again became a beauty. And the girl went to look for her brothers. On the way, she met an old woman with a basket full of berries. She treated Elsa to them and told that she would soon come to the river, where eleven beautiful swans in golden crowns fly. In the morning, the beauty went to the river and waited for her brothers. In the evening swans arrived and turned into good fellows. At dawn, the brothers flew away again, promising to take their sister with them. The next day they took her away in a willow basket to a cave overgrown with greenery. There she remainedlive Elsa. One night she had a strange dream: the old woman, who showed the way to the brothers, told her the secret of their salvation. She said that swans would turn into young men if they were dressed in shirts made from nettles that grow in the cemetery or near this cave. Only at the same time the girl must be silent, otherwise the spell will not work. Elsa set to work the next day. She picked some nettles near the cave and began to knit the first shirt. But before she had time to finish the second shirt, she was found by the local king, who hunted in these places. He was fascinated by the beauty of Elsa, took her to his castle and married her.

Summary. "Wild swan". Interchange

Only one circumstance upset the king - his young wife was always silent, showing what she needed, only with signs. The archbishop who served with him told that his beauty was a witch. At night, he himself saw how she went to the cemetery and picked nettles there. Why does an ordinary girl need this? The king wanted to see for himself. The next night, he caught his wife in this business. Soon the people became aware that the young queen was a witch. People demanded that Elsa be burned at the stake. The girl herself could not explain to them why she was tearing nettles, as this would have destroyed all her efforts. Even when the girl was taken to the execution, she sat and knitted. She had to finish the last shirt. The swans circled around her. At that moment, when the executioner grabbed her by the hand, she managed to throw knitted shirts over her brothers, and they turned into young men. Only she did not have time to finish the sleeve on the last shirt. The younger brother was left with a wing instead of a hand. Having done this, Elsa fainted. And the brothers told the king their whole story. At that moment, the logs for the fire turned into a bush of scarlet roses. Only one flower in the middle was dazzling white. The king tore it off, put it on the girl's chest, and she woke up. The evil spell of the sorceress has been broken. Joy and peace settled in Elsa's heart. This ends the tale of the brave girl and her eleven brothers (here is a summary of it). "Wild Swans" is a work of selflessness and love. It teaches us to believe that good will always triumph over evil, no matter what happens. Children love this story. Based on her, both cartoons and feature films were created.

The fairy tale "Wild Swans", a summary of which is given here, is perhaps one of the best works of Hans Christian Andersen.