Chapter 20 postscript

Fairy tales are often full of symbolism, and many of the fairy tales analyzed in this book are stories connected by symbols. Some symbols are relatively simple, and ordinary readers can analyze them with a little use of their brains. "Little Red Riding Hood" in "Perot's Fairy Tales" may be a fairy tale with relatively shallow symbols. The mother asked the little daughter wearing the beautiful Little Red Riding Hood to deliver things to the grandma who lived in the forest. Before leaving, she told her not to Talk to strangers.Little Red Riding Hood set off with a basket on her shoulders. On the way, she met the Big Bad Wolf. The Big Bad Wolf praised Little Red Riding Hood for her beauty. Little Red Riding Hood forgot her mother's order and talked to the Big Bad Wolf. In the end, she was fooled. The gray wolf ate it.Fortunately, the hunter killed the wolf and rescued them from the wolf's stomach.

In the story of "Little Red Riding Hood", the "big bad wolf" is obviously a symbol of the bad man who seduces the little girl. Before leaving, the mother warns her daughter not to talk to strangers, which shows the mother's usual education for her daughter. This simple symbol has become a common social term, and "big bad wolf" has become the title of a bad man who seduces a girl. In some fairy tales, however, the symbols are more subtle and difficult to detect.For example, in the famous Arabic mythology, the story is "dependently originated" like this:

The cruel king would marry a bride every day, kill her at dawn, and marry another one the next day.After a long time like this, a clever girl voluntarily married the king in order to save the majority of women.On the wedding night, the bride began to tell a story to the king. When it was dawn, the story was not over yet. The king couldn't help being full of suspense about the development of the story, so he didn't kill her.On the second night, the bride continued to tell the story of the previous day, which left a new suspense in the morning, so the king had to spare her life and let her continue the story on the third night.Day after day, a total of 1,001 nights were talked about. At this time, the king suddenly repented, and he and this woman lived together forever.

The collection of fairy tales unfolded continuously behind this "dependence"—that was actually the story heard by the king. However, not many people noticed the meaning of this "dependence". The king’s brutal practice of changing a bride overnight actually symbolizes a man’s liking for the new and loathing the old in love; while a smart woman tells the king a novel story every day, and keeps leaving suspense, but it shows the woman’s wisdom in maintaining her freshness in front of her husband . All stories are made up by human beings. Just like daydreaming, making up stories seems to be random, but not without rules. They are all outflows of subconscious minds, and they are all solving the contradictions in real life in hallucinations and imaginations.

We often see this kind of plot in fairy tales, a beautiful princess is looking for a bridegroom, and often asks some difficult riddles, if they can’t be solved, the man who tries to propose will be killed, if he solves it, he can get the princess . There may be several symbolic meanings here: First, in the human world, when a man marries a woman, he must have dedication and ability. The power of solving puzzles is a symbol of wealth and ability. Second, the enigma presented by the princess shows the premarital sexual confrontation between woman and man.Women have a lot of resistance to finally giving up their virginity, which often manifests as various "difficulties" and obstacles before their first sexual life.This kind of psychology may be manifested as a custom in the marriage history of some nations, or as such a fairy tale.

Thirdly, we also see that the riddle is sometimes posed by the father of the king or princess, and it simply expresses the father's deep reluctance to marry his daughter.In life, it is manifested as being picky about the man who proposes; in fairy tales, it becomes a riddle, the loser dies, and the lucky winner will succeed. As long as we look at it this way, we can gain a clearer insight into the true meaning of this kind of "selecting a son-in-law out of a mystery". Symbols in fairy tales are almost everywhere.A fisherman picked up a bottle from the bottom of the sea, uncorked it, and a devil emerged from it.The fisherman had no choice but to use his wisdom to lure the devil who wanted to kill him back into the bottle.

Here, the "devil" may symbolize some kind of evil desire in people's hearts, or may symbolize a violent temper, and of course there may be other symbols. Psychologists, especially psychoanalysts, will reveal these symbols in more detail. For another example, forests often appear in fairy tales. According to the analysis of psychoanalysis, forests are also images that often appear in people's dreams. It symbolizes ignorance, deep desire, fear, and unknown territory. In short, only by deciphering the symbols in fairy tales one by one, can we truly understand the mysteries of fairy tales.

Many scholars have done various specialized academic research on fairy tales. This book focuses on analyzing fairy tales from the perspective of personality and complex, in order to touch people's understanding of inner complex and the discovery of self-personality.If this book can help readers understand themselves, society, and life, the author will undoubtedly feel gratified. I hope that the analysis of this book is not far-fetched, and I also hope that readers can verify the truth explained in this book.This kind of verification may not require too much psychological expertise, as long as you calm down and go deep into your subconscious associations and experiences.

In this world, people are very different from each other, but they are similar in nature.All kinds of personalities, complexes and psychological phenomena will be hidden in the heart as fragments.Living in the world, everyone will experience superiority, inferiority complex, and various psychological complexes. The adage "I have all that man has" is also true here. It's just that each psychology and each complex has different proportions in different people. Good people are not without a trace of evil, and evil people are not without a trace of goodness; Cinderella's childhood was not all inferiority, and Scarlett's life was not all full of jealousy.

As a person, we may also be similar to Monkey King, or Tolstoy, or Simba the Lion King, or Jia Baoyu, or Snow White, or Cinderella, or Hai Daughter, may also be similar to Scarlett; ever since, we have identified ourselves as one of them. However, we may find elements of many characters in ourselves at the same time: Monkey King, Simba, Jia Baoyu, Tolstoy have more or less complexes, Snow White, Cinderella, Daughter of the Sea, Ugly Duckling, Scarlett There are more or less beautiful complexes; in this way, we can better understand the characteristics of a person, and also better understand the commonality of the entire human race.

I hope this book can bring you a little happiness after understanding. Keyun Road October 2003 Beijing Author E-mail: keyunlu＠263.net