Chapter 17 Daughter of the Sea Complex

Sea King is a widower. He is old and has six daughters. Sea princesses are very beautiful, and the youngest one is the most beautiful.It's just that she has no legs like her sisters, and only has a fish tail. They are all little mermaids, living around their grandmother, and listening to her stories since childhood. The little princess was taciturn and didn't like to joke since she was a child.One day she found a marble statue of a beautiful boy that had fallen out of a capsized ship and sank on the bottom of the sea. She loved this statue very much, and nothing could please her more than this.She does not

I kept asking my grandmother to tell stories about the human world on land, and I was full of surprises there.Grandma told them that as long as they are fifteen years old, they can float to the surface of the sea to see the human world. The ages of the six princesses differ by one year, and the eldest princess has reached the age of fifteen and floated to the surface of the sea.In the second year, the second princess also turned fifteen and floated to the surface of the sea.In the third year, the three princesses also floated to the surface of the sea.Then, in the fourth and fifth years, the fourth and fifth sisters all surfaced in succession.They all saw the scene in the world, and came back to tell the youngest sister.The little princess grew up to fifteen years old in this years of longing, and she was finally qualified to surface in the sea.

The sun had just set, the sea was calm, and a large ship was parked.There were many gorgeously dressed people, including a handsome young prince.It coincided with the prince's birthday, and the sailors shot fireworks into the sky, and the whole ship held a joyous celebration.Just then a terrible storm came, and the waves broke the ship, and the little princess saw the prince sinking to the bottom of the sea.She knew that a man could not live in the water, so she swam to save him, lifted his head out of the water, and let the waves carry her and the prince adrift. In the morning, when the sun came out, the little mermaid kissed the prince's forehead, hoping that he would come back to life.She saw land in front of her and tall houses and trees on the shore, so she dragged the prince to swim to the shore, put him on the sand, and then hid in the sea foam to watch from a distance.

A girl came up to the prince, who woke up and smiled at the girl.Afterwards, the girl found some people to carry the prince away, and the little mermaid jumped into the bottom of the sea and returned home sadly.Since then, she has become more reticent. When the little mermaid had to confide her secret to her sister, they swam with her to the window of the prince's palace.From then on, the little mermaid visited him every morning and night, but the prince didn't notice it at all.The little mermaid likes humans more and more, and longs to be one of them.The grandmother told her that the lifespan of human beings is shorter than that of mermaids. Mermaids can live for three hundred years, and when they die, they turn into foam and float to the surface of the sea.Mermaids do not have immortal souls, and will never have another life; while humans have souls, which exist forever.

The little mermaid would rather give up her 300-year lifespan in exchange for being a human for a day and gaining an immortal soul.However, the grandmother told her that there is no way, unless someone loves you deeply, sees you closer than your parents, and asks the priest to put his hand in yours and promises to be faithful to you forever, His soul will flow into your body, and you will get a soul.The grandmother said that such a thing has never happened, because the fish tail that looks very beautiful to the mermaid is very ugly to the land people, because people have legs. In order to win the prince's love and obtain an immortal soul, the little mermaid is determined to find the sea witch.The sea witch said to her that she could give her a drink that would split her tail in two and make two beautiful legs. Every step you take will hurt like stepping on a sharp knife, and your feet will bleed. At the same time, once the little mermaid has a human shape, she can no longer turn back into a mermaid.The most severe thing is that if she can't win the prince's love, she can't get the immortal soul. On the first morning when the prince marries someone else, the little mermaid will turn into sea foam.

The little mermaid is determined to endure all these pains, and as the price demanded by the witch, she surrendered her melodious singing voice, allowing the witch to cut off her own tongue and become dumb from then on.When she swam to the beach and drank the potion the witch gave her, she passed out from pain.When she woke up, she saw the prince appeared in front of her, but her own tail was gone, and she turned into a pair of slender and beautiful legs. The prince took off his coat, put it on the little mermaid, and led her to the palace.Every time she took a step, her feet hurt as if she was stepping on the tip of a knife.She persisted and came to the palace, and has since become a beautiful girl who can't speak.

The prince liked her very much, but never thought of marrying the dumb girl.He naturally didn't know that the little mermaid was the daughter of the sea king, and he didn't know that she saved him in the sea.The prince once told the little mermaid that if he chose his wife, he would rather marry her.Then he kissed her.The little mermaid fantasizes about the happiness in the world and the immortal soul. However, the prince finally married the princess of the neighboring country under the arrangement of his parents.When the prince's ship sailed into the port of the capital of the neighboring country and saw his beautiful fiancee, the prince was very happy. He said to the little mermaid: If I can get happiness, you will be happy too, because you love me.However, the little mermaid's heart began to break.

The prince and his bride had their wedding, and slept that night in a tent on the deck of the great ship.The little mermaid knew that this was her last night in the world, and at dawn she would turn into sea foam.At this time, several of her sisters swam out to the surface of the sea , they exchanged their hair for a knife of the sea witch.They told the little mermaid that as long as she stabs the knife into the prince's heart before sunrise, his blood will flow on her body, turning her into a mermaid again and returning to the sea. The little mermaid opened the curtain of the tent before the sun rose and saw the newlyweds sleeping peacefully.When she bent down and gently kissed the prince's closed eyes, the prince called the bride's name in his sleep.The little mermaid loved him deeply and couldn't bear to kill him.When the sun was about to rise, she threw the knife into the sea, and then jumped into the sea herself, melting into the foam of the sea.

The kindness of the little mermaid was finally affirmed by the gods, who transformed her from the foam on the sea into the aura in the sky and floated to God, going to a heaven where souls can be obtained. This is the fairy tale (also called "The Little Mermaid"), which is the most representative one in "Andersen's Fairy Tales" and one of the most widely circulated fairy tales. Andersen was born in 1805 and can be regarded as a contemporary of the Brothers Grimm (Brothers Grimm──Brother Jacob: 1785-1869; Brother William: 1786-1859). "Andersen's Fairy Tales" and "Andersen's Fairy Tales" are the most famous fairy tales in the world, together with the Arabic ones, they are known as the world's three major collections of fairy tales.

The difference between "Andersen's Fairy Tales" and "Andersen's Fairy Tales" is that they are first circulated among the people and then collected, while "Andersen's Fairy Tales" is the literary creation of the writer.However No matter whether a fairy tale comes from the folk or from the creation of writers, as long as it is widely circulated, it is the common dream of mankind. Even if it comes from folk fairy tales, it must be originated by a certain person, and gradually develops and changes in the process of spreading.No matter how a fairy tale is initially formed, as long as it can spread like wildfire and flow into thousands of households, it is because it has touched the hearts of mankind.

When Andersen started writing, he once said in a letter to his friends: "I use all my feelings and thoughts to write fairy tales, but at the same time, I have not forgotten adults. When I write a fairy tale for children I will always remember that their father and mother will listen to their stories, so I have to write something for them to make them think about it.” (The Complete Works of Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales translated by Ye Junjian, Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House, 1995 February 2009) In this way, "Andersen's Fairy Tales" is not only a story for children, but also a story for adults. All fairy tales are like that. Those fairy tales that are circulated among the people are always told to children by adults from generation to generation.When they flow out of the mouths of adults, they undoubtedly carry the thoughts and feelings of adults. Therefore, the widely circulated fairy tales are actually the stories of the whole human being. Nature is such a story. It is a particularly delicate dream among many beautiful dreams floating in the sky of human society, and this beautiful dream is deeply rooted in human social life. We begin to unravel, and we will lift layer by layer the veil that hides the fairy tale. One, first of all, we should not be confused by the image of Neptune as a fairy, nor by the so-called palace of Neptune and the world in the sea, nor by the identity of the daughter of the sea as a "fairy". In fairy tales, all settings in the fairy world are compared to human society.like those animal stories are also compared As in human social life, there is no more mystery here. At the same time, we don't have to regard the story of the little mermaid as a story of low-level life longing for high-level life.Although in the imagination of human beings, they also make various guesses about the inner world of animals, and they may also fabricate the imagination that animals are eager to enter human society. s story.However, even in these kinds of stories, the animal characters are actually simulating human life. In this way, no matter how conscious Andersen himself was when he created this story, we can unswervingly regard the Neptune world under the sea as a part of the human world, and regard the daughter of the sea and all members of his family as human beings. a member of. Then, the conclusion we are going to draw next is somewhat alarming. In this fairy tale, the underwater world is actually a society of the middle and lower classes of human society, and the daughter of the sea is actually a girl from a family of lower classes in society.She longs to ascend to the surface of the sea and enter the world, showing the envy and yearning of girls from low-income families for a higher-class life. However much this assertion mars the beauty of the story, our full analysis of it will prove it.As long as we start from this point and analyze all the behaviors and thoughts of the little mermaid, we will have a very thorough understanding. Second, in this family with low social status, the father of the Sea King exists in name only. The youngest daughter actually grew up in a poor and lacking fatherly family, which is undoubtedly a very important life situation for the little girl.It is conceivable how a little girl will struggle to grow up in a family with low social status and almost no father's love. Three, Aquaman is a widower, so again, this is a motherless family. The setting of the story environment can either show the rejection of the mother by the Elektra complex, or it can be directly regarded as the mother's real non-existence.No matter what the situation is, it all points to a conclusion: our little girl has no maternal love since she was a child, and only her grandmother is telling stories. This is the only care and guidance that a little girl who lacks fatherly love and motherly love can get from her elders. Four, the little princess has five sisters, she is the youngest sister. This was again an extremely important aspect of the conditions of her childhood.Because she is the youngest, she is in the lowest position in this originally low-status family.Any curiosity, fantasies, inquiries, and observations she has about the outside world have to go beyond the shielding and blocking of her five sisters.This realistic condition must have effectively cast her personality. The youngest daughter growing up in this environment, when she longs for life on the sea, is not only a low-class person longing for a high-class life in society, but also a young girl longing for the adult world outside the family; the former, with social Class differences, the latter, come with age differences. In the novel, it is always full of the yearning and longing unique to this little girl. Five, when the five older sisters reached the age of fifteen, they surfaced one after another. The rules of Neptune's world are exactly the rules given to children by adults in the human world. Girls who have reached the age of fifteen can enter the social world.The youngest daughter finally got her turn after her sisters entered the society one by one. During the long wait, one can fully imagine the desire and expectation of this girl who is the youngest among many sisters.Expectation creates desire, and desire intensifies expectation.Year after year, the little girl listens to her sisters telling about the adult world outside, especially about those noble social classes and life scenes, what rich fantasies she will have. When her sisters happily told about their novel experiences outside, she would raise her head and look at them enviously.The sisters have long been accustomed to the social freedom they have gained, but she is the only one who ferments more and more intense yearning and desire in her heart. In this way, we can take a more comprehensive look at the entire environment of the little mermaid's childhood life, and explore the basis for the initial occurrence of the little mermaid complex. First, she is a girl from a low-class family in society; second, she is a girl without father's love; third, she is a girl without mother's love; fourth, she is the youngest girl among many sisters; therefore , she is actually a girl who is neglected and despised by society and her family. When she watched her sisters emerge from the sea one by one with great interest, she couldn't help but build up a great desire for life in her heart.There is not only a young girl's longing for the adult world, not only a girl in a low-class life for a high-class life. Desire, and the desire of the younger sister to surpass the older sister. This desire gradually evolved into a strong rebellious spirit. She is not satisfied with following her sisters to come out of the sea to take a look, and then follow the crowd contentedly, and is not satisfied with getting a little excitement in the high-level life and then returning to the family to follow the rules; she wants to be original, she wants to be unique, She wants to rebel against the trend, she wants to pursue a different goal, she wants to live a life completely different from her sisters, and she wants to pursue an ideal life realm. This is the basis of the complex of the daughter of the sea and the starting point of the complex of the daughter of the sea. Starting from such a strong complex, the little mermaid began a unique pursuit of life. One, she decided to leave the seabed and go to the human world, striving to become a member of the human race. This desire not only stems from her longing for the human world since she was a child, her transcendence of her sisters, but also from her knowing and falling in love with the prince. In this way, the strong longings and complexes formed from childhood repression are particularly concretely expressed as the goal of life: she is determined to give up the mermaid's three hundred years of life, to pursue the qualifications of even one day's human membership, in exchange for a noble soul that only human beings can have. Here we see a girl's determination to go to the bottom of the boat in pursuit of a happy life. She fell in love with a high-class man because she longed for a high-class life in society; and because she fell in love with this high-class man, she was even more eager to become one of them.This is a very understandable social phenomenon in the eighteenth century when "Andersen's Fairy Tales" was born. Second, the little mermaid fell in love with the prince in the world, which means that a girl from a low class falls in love with a man from a high class. At this time, can she get this love, and can she enter a high class society because of this love? , the only condition is whether the man has true love for her. In the words of the old grandmother, that person should love her deeply and treat her closer than his own parents.Here, true love is not enough, legal marriage is also necessary.The old grandmother told her: "If he asks the pastor to put his hand in yours and promise to be faithful to you forever, then his soul will flow into your body and you will enjoy the happiness of the world. He will give you a soul." The presence of the priest and the ceremony performed are nothing more than symbols of legal marriage. In the era when "Andersen's Fairy Tales" was born, a girl at the bottom of the society tried to become a member of the upper class, not only to win the love of the upper-class man, but also to obtain a legal marriage with him. The story here very clearly paints a picture that only human society has. Third, in order to emerge from the sea and enter human society, the little mermaid must remove its fish tail and turn into two human legs. This is a very painful transformation.It just shows that if a girl at the bottom of society wants to enter the upper class, she must make a fundamental change in herself, and only in this way can she be accepted by the new class. In the process, she even had to give up her voice and become mute.The little mermaid's tongue was cut off, which meant that a girl from a humble background had to give up her familiar language and culture, and she could only achieve her goal of integrating into the new society by relying on silent and noble behavior.She does not have the right to use her original voice. Just like this, the little mermaid appeared on the beach and was supported by the prince towards the palace. Just as the sea witch said, every step she took was as painful as stepping on the tip of a knife.This shows the pain of the little mermaid walking into the world, and also symbolizes the great pain that girls from the lower class must suffer when they pursue their legal status in the upper class.Not the pain of the feet, but the pain of the heart. Fourth, the prince fell in love with this beautiful and kind dumb girl.Here, we just saw the so-called love of the prince to a beautiful female slave.It's rather like an upper-class aristocrat playing with a girl from the bottom of society more than a century ago, he would love her, but never thought of marrying her. In the novel, the seemingly beautiful love between the prince and the little mermaid allows us to truly see the inequality of love in human society.No matter how handsome and noble the prince is, he is also hypocritical in essence; the pursuit of the little mermaid can only be wishful thinking. We also saw in this fairy tale that she has been wishful thinking. When the prince told her that if he had to choose, he would still marry the little mermaid, and the little mermaid leaned on the prince's chest, imagining her good wish of entering the human world to obtain a noble soul. Five, the prince finally married the princess of the neighboring country, and the upper-class nobles abandoned the kind-hearted girl from the bottom of society.At this time, according to the rules told by the old grandmother, the little mermaid will turn into foam the next morning and disappear without a trace. This just shows that the wishful thinking of a girl like the little mermaid in pursuit of love will burst like a bubble, and her life will lose any reason for existence. Such an ending is not uncommon in love tragedies in human society: a kind girl from the bottom of society, when her wishful thinking bursts like a bubble, everything about her may end there. 6. At this time, the sisters of the little mermaid appeared on the surface of the sea, and they gave her a knife. As long as it pierced the prince's heart before dawn, so that the prince's blood flowed to the little mermaid, she could change herself again. The tail of the fish returned to the sea alive and continued its life span of 300 years. This just symbolizes a girl like the little mermaid who is fooled by love from the upper class. Only by killing the person who fools her can she balance the pain in her heart and find the courage to continue living at the bottom of society. However, she is still in love. She knew she was abandoned, but she couldn't bear to insert the sharp knife of revenge into the prince's heart.She threw the knife into the sea, and she jumped into the sea and turned into foam.Thus ended the girl's life without a trace, and all her bitter and heroic pursuits vanished. When the call of the gods appeared in the sky, promising her that she could ascend to heaven to obtain a noble soul, it was just the girl's last illusion of self-comfort when her life was dying. In the above analysis, we have translated it into a realistic novel that almost describes human social life.In this "novel," the story of the little mermaid becomes the story of a girl from humble birth aspiring to the upper echelons of society. However, the symbol of the novel is by no means so narrow and specific, and it also has a symbolic meaning in the "novel" that we "translate" into. The bottom of the society just symbolizes the humbleness of a person's whole life situation; while the top of the society just symbolizes the higher level of life that people pursue.Only by looking at it in this way does it unfold a broad outlook. The yearning of the underwater world for the sea world is a symbol, and the yearning of the lower class for the upper class is also a symbol. In these two symbols, we are investigating the same thing, that is, a girl's complex. In the final analysis, this is the complex of a girl's life and pursuit. More specifically, a girl's love complex. More specifically, this is a girl's unrequited love complex. At its root, this is by no means a girl's emotion born in a sense of superiority; on the contrary, it is actually a complex born on the basis of many inferiority complexes. This complex may be due to the lack of fatherly love since childhood; it may be due to the lack of maternal love since childhood; it may be due to being the most neglected by parents among brothers and sisters; it may also be due to low social status. Deficiency creates desire, and inferiority seeks compensation. Once the sea's daughter complex is formed, its performance is very strong. First of all, we can see that there is a pitiful and sincere and loyal pursuit of father's love hidden in this complex. Hai's daughter complex may contain, from the very beginning, a girl's devotion to her father with no complaints and no complaints, and a tearful yearning for the distant father's love.This is a typical dream of a girl who is ignored by her father. When the little mermaid embarks on the road of adventure in life, every step of her bloody struggle may contain this hidden pursuit.When she opened the tent and saw the sleeping prince and his bride, although what we saw was a girl facing the sadness of her unobtainable lover, and savoring it carefully, there is also a girl who cannot marry in her young heart. Sad for my father.Some girls with a strong Electra complex will inexplicably have a little association about their father after reading this. She doesn't understand why the memories about his father will emerge at the moment when the little mermaid opens the tent. Then, we will see that latent in Hai's daughter complex is the desire to prove herself to her mother. In the heart of a girl who has not received sufficient maternal love, she will always covet the maternal love received by other children.When thousands of Hai's daughters are striving to pursue in life, to a considerable extent, they are to make a statement to the living or dead mothers: It was wrong for you to ignore me like that. Next, we can see that Hai's daughter complex hides the confrontation and revenge against the sisters who oppressed her since she was a child. This naturally translates into the motivation to surpass them, and finally forms the goal of life that must be outstanding.In Hai's Daughter Complex, we can see the powerful role of this drive, and many girls are driven by this drive throughout their lives. Then, we can also see that the Hai's daughter complex hides the stimulation and inferiority complex of being discriminated against by society since childhood, and what is transformed from this stimulation and inferiority complex is the motivation to strive forward. Hai's daughter complex finally manifests as a great pursuit of life and love.This complex has a particularly striking expression in the world of women. One of the manifestations of Hai's daughter complex is her extreme, her idealism, her rebellion, and her uniqueness. Just like the brave determination of the little mermaid, girls with the daughter of the sea complex, although they may be taciturn and unobtrusive since childhood, when they reach a certain age, they will show surprising boldness and unconventional With the quality of secularism, they often make choices that are difficult for ordinary people to make. Not all sea princesses dare to make the risky choice of sacrificing their tongues, splitting their tails, and stepping on the tip of a knife to the world on the beach. If they fail, they will become bubbles without a trace; . In human life, women with this complex often have the same qualities as the little mermaid when dealing with their life pursuits. The second manifestation of Hai's daughter complex is that she does not long for the sudden arrival of a fairy to give herself extra favors, nor does she expect a prince to come to her without sacrifice and give her happiness. Once she embarks on the road of life struggle, she never expects any innate advantages, nor does she have the illusion of a golden peacock flying from the sky. She is willing to make arduous efforts, stepping on the tip of a knife to the prince's palace step by step like a little mermaid .The pursuit of life caused by Hai's daughter complex places all her expectations on her own struggle. When they step forward with the tip of the knife, they also fantasize about victory. However, it is a distant look at their own steps step by step. The sea's daughter complex is a more self-reliant complex than the Snow White complex or the Cinderella complex. The third manifestation of Hai's daughter complex is her persistent pursuit of life and love. Because this complex originated from the great longing formed since childhood, from the endless need to compensate for inferiority complex, from the pursuit of fatherly love, and from the endless proof of oneself.Since they have set an ultimate, idealistic, and distinctive goal, even though it is an unattainable goal, they are always pursuing this goal. An easily achievable goal does not meet their wishes; and an ideal but difficult goal will become the driving force for their lifelong pursuit. The fourth manifestation of Hai's daughter's complex is her obsessive pursuit of life and love, which is full of dedication and sacrifice, and has a religious meaning. Dedication, sacrifice, infatuation, and hardship are not only for the ultimate goal; the process itself is the meaning of life.For their own pursuit, they often show the brave spirit of being buried. Although the little mermaid did not get the love and marriage of the prince, and failed to obtain a noble soul through success, she proved herself with supernatural sacrifice, dedication and nobility, and was also appreciated by God. The specific goal she has been pursuing all her life has not been realized and turned into a bubble; however, her struggle has achieved her life in another sense. In human society, many eloquent women are actually walking the path of little mermaids. The prince's love and marriage became the goal of her life; after a long journey, she may find that goal is illusory; however, her blood-stained road of life explains the true meaning of life. Not every little mermaid who is determined to walk towards the prince can get love and marriage. However, every little mermaid is destined to embody his nobility in such a pursuit of life. This pursuit of life and love has the ultimate meaning of religion. The little mermaid made sacrifices and dedications for the prince, and buried everything for love.Little mermaid-like women often feel self-pity, self-indulgence, self-exaltation, self-sublimation, and self-liberation in such sacrifices and dedications. They are mesmerized when people find it difficult to understand what they are doing. She pursues success, but she doesn't care about success. She is in a never-ending pursuit.It's like a belief.In this kind of pursuit, she does not consider the cost, gains or losses, and has a tendency to pursue for the sake of pursuit. Hai's daughter spends her whole life trying to prove herself to be the loveliest, kindest, most noble woman. In all such women's stories, there is a weeping pathos and a sense of self-exaltation running through.This is the melody of their life. It is the analysis of this complex that tells us that the most beautiful emotions and epic deeds usually come from the deep complex planted in childhood.A woman's sacrifice and dedication for love is due to her need to pursue the noble from childhood.