One day, a king's beautiful little daughter accidentally fell into a well while playing with her favorite golden ball. See the frog in the well. Ask the frog to help her pick up the ball. But in order to be good friends with the princess, the frog picked up the ball. The little princess ignored the frog and returned to the kingdom. When the princess had dinner with the king and ministers.

Someone knocked at the door, and the princess answered it. When she saw the frog, she just told the king that it was nothing. The frog knocked at the door again, and the frog told the king directly that she was the king of the little princess. The king learned that the princess could not promise others not to do anything, so that the frog and the princess could eat and sleep together! The princess doesn't want to sleep with the frog when she sleeps.

Throw the frog on the wall and the frog instantly becomes a handsome prince. He told the princess that he was fascinated by the witch. Today, the princess saved him and wanted to marry her. So the princess and the prince are very happy together.

In the expansion "The Frog Prince", the handsome prince was enchanted by a vicious witch and turned into an ugly frog, living in a dirty deep pool. Compared with the luxurious life in the past, it is certainly not an exaggeration to describe the life in a deep pool with "hell". But even though the prince suffered a lot, the story never mentioned what the prince was cursed for.

We may think that this is a reflection of the consciousness of "original sin" in western religions in literary creation, that is, Wang Zisheng came to be guilty, so the witch punished him for leaving the palace and the Garden of Eden and coming to suffer in the human world represented by the deep water pool.

The frog prince provides readers with a story pattern in Grimm's fairy tales, that is, the prince and princess suffer, and then a kind person breaks the spell for them and sets them free. The emergence of this model is closely related to the way of eliminating evil advocated by Christianity.

Christianity believes that man, driven by free will, violates God's forbidden law, that is, he has committed a crime and can't get rid of it all his life. Only death can dispel it. In order to save mankind, God sent his only son, Jesus, to be punished for mankind and free man from the bondage of sin and death.

This is God's gift to mankind out of love and justice, but not all people can get this gift, only those who truly believe in God can get this gift. Only those who believe in God wholeheartedly will be protected by God, thus freeing themselves from sin. This reflects the contractual relationship between man and God.

In short, in the Christian ideology, "evil" comes from the primitive genes of human beings, and human beings themselves cannot eliminate evil; Only by believing in Christ can the soul be purified and redeemed by God, thus achieving the purpose of "goodness".

Looking back on the process of the prince being rescued by the princess in The Frog Prince from the above Christian redemption methods, we can see that the prince is in a helpless state after being cursed into a frog, and can only believe and insist on a princess to save himself.

Finally, the princess's golden ball fell into the deep pool, and the prince's watch was answered. In this story, the prince's persistence symbolizes his loyal belief in God, and the princess who untied the spell for the prince can even be regarded as the incarnation of God to some extent. It was because of the prince's firm belief that he waited for the arrival of the princess, and because of the prince's loyalty to God, he was finally freed from suffering, reborn and finally redeemed.

About the author: jacob green and william green are German fairy tale collectors and language and culture researchers. Because of their similar interests and experiences, the two men cooperated in studying linguistics and collecting folk fairy tales, so they were called "Brothers Grimm". They were born in a family of lawyers with many children in Kazakhstan. They studied in Kassel, studied law in Marburg, worked in Kassel Library, and served as professors at the University of G? ttingen from 65438 to 0830.

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