The Steadfast Tin Soldier

I want to introduct something about Pigment Foil. Pigment foil is very suitable for paper and label with higher quality, favourable price The Steadfast Tin Soldier Illustration by Vilhelm PedersenAuthorHans Christian AndersenOriginal title'Den Standhaftige Tinsoldat'CountryDenmarkLanguageDanishGenre(s)Fairy talePublisherC. A. ReitzelPublication date7 April 1838Media typeprint"The Steadfast Tin Soldier" (Danish: Den Standhaftige Tinsoldat) is a fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen about the love a tin soldier holds for a paper ballerina. After several perilous adventures, the tin soldier and his love perish in a fire. The tale was first published in 1838.Like "The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep" (1845), "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" displays Andersen's talent for investing ordinary household objects with life, character, and personality. Both tales narrate romances between household objects but differ in that the 1838 story ends with the lovers joined in death while the 1845 story ends with the lovers living (in fairy tale fashion) happily ever after. Andersen may have taken inspiration for the tale from memories of his few cherished childhood toys.Though the title has been translated variously as "The Brave Tin Soldier" and "The Courageous Tin Soldier", the story is generally known in the English speaking world as "The Steadfast Tin Soldier". The tale has been adapted in various media including ballet and animated film.Contents1 Plot 2 Analysis 3 Publication 4 Adaptations 5 See also 6 References 7 External links // PlotOn his birthday, a boy receives a set of tin soldiers and arrays them on a table top. One soldier stands on a single leg as there wasn't enough metal that was used to cast the set of soldiers to fully form him. Nearby, he spies a lovely paper ballerina with a spangle on her sash. She too is standing on one leg and the soldier falls in love. That night, a troll, a "black bogey" in the form of a Jack-in-the-box among the toys angrily warns the soldier to avert his ardent gaze from the ballerina, but the soldier ignores him. The next day, the soldier falls from a windowsill (presumably the work of the troll) and lands in the street. Two boys find the soldier, place him in a paper boat, and set him sailing in the gutter. The boat and its passenger wash into a sewer, where a rat demands the soldier pay a toll. Sailing on, the boat is washed into a canal, where the tin solder is swallowed by a fish. When the fish is caught and cut open, the tin solder finds himself once again on the table top before the ballerina. Inexplicably, a boy suddenly throws the tin soldier into the fire in the stove. A draught blows the ballerina into the fire with him, and she is consumed at once; only her spangle remains. The maid later discovers the tin soldier has melted into the shape of a heart.AnalysisAndersen, 1854Andersen probably drew the inspiration for The Steadfast Tin Soldier from his own childhood experiences. As a boy he took great care of his few toys, and performed puppet plays at home on a handmade stage. As a youth in Copenhagen, he attended performances of the Royal Danish Ballet, which, at that time, was on the road to the pinnacle of artistic achievement under balletmaster and choreographer, August Bournonville. Andersen remained a lifelong balletomane.Joan G. Haahr writes in The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales: "The story is unusual among Andersen's early tales, both in its emphasis on sensual desire and in its ambiguities. Blind fate, not intention, determines all events. Moreover, the narrative questions the very decorum it praises. The tin soldier's passive acceptance of whatever happens to him, while exemplifying pietistic ideals of self-denial, also contributes to his doom. Were he to speak and act, the soldier might gain both life and love. Restrained, however, by inhibition and convention, he finds only tragedy and death. The tale is often read autobiographically, with the soldier viewed as symbolizing Andersen's feelings of inadequacy with women, his passive acceptance of bourgeois class attitudes, or his sense of alienation as an artist and an outsider, from full participation in everyday life."The story is generally taken to be a sad one, though, like many of Andersen's other tales (The Little Mermaid, The Little Match Girl), it implies that the tragedy of physical death is outweighed by the permanent rewards which follow. Central to this story is the soldier's unwavering sense of duty in the face of his hardships. Andersen concludes the story on a symbolic note: throughout the sufferings and difficulty of life, only love is eternal.PublicationThe tale was first published in Copenhagen by C.A. Reitzel 2 October 1838 in Fairy Tales Told to Children. 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