Joke:
Fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea".
- How did you sleep, dear girl?
- I didn’t sleep a wink all night. First I ate a pea, and then
this is what started happening to me!
More than a century and a half has passed, and parents still read the fairy tale to their children, because the story is short, and with a good subtext: Andersen makes fun of the effeminacy of princes and princesses. The action takes place in the kingdom
in which no one could believe that the girl soaked in the rain was a princess. And we decided to conduct a check.”
The fairy tale begins with the prince deciding to marry the princess. But only on the real one. But, since there were no criteria for a real princess, the prince traveled all over the world, and it is logical to assume that he never found a real princess. There were many princesses, as many as he liked, but he could not find out whether they were real or not. All of them were missing something. What he was looking for in them - what qualities, what he asked them and what they answered him remained a mystery. Accordingly, the prince returned home dejected - he really wanted to find a real princess. Wherever you are not dejected here, the conflict is obvious. In the Russian manner - go there, not knowing where, find something, not knowing what.
As often happens in fairy tales, something had to happen in external circumstances that would help “resolve” an insoluble situation, and with magic word"all of a sudden". This time nature came to the rescue - one evening there was bad weather. Real bad weather with thunder, flashing lightning, rain in buckets. And just at that moment someone knocked on the door. Since the servants were either absent somewhere, or did not consider it necessary to go out into the courtyard during bad weather (this is not the king’s business), or simply did not allow the idea that someone might be walking at this time, the king himself fulfilled this mission. Either old age did not give him peace, or divine providence drove him to the gate, but thanks to this, a fairy tale was born, which is more than a century and a half old.
Of course, there couldn’t be anyone else outside the gates. No lost traveler, no shepherd with cattle, no pig farm. The princess stood outside the gate. But, God, what shape she was in. Streams of rainwater flowed down her hair and dress onto the toes of her shoes and flowed out from under her heels. The old king guessed from the toes of the shoes protruding from under the dress that it was the princess. Because he had never seen pig farmers or shepherds in shoes, and his parents didn’t say anything about it either. The king may have been confused why the princess was walking alone in such weather and also calling herself a real princess. But shoes! Shoes peeking out from under long dress, outweighed the king’s doubts about her authenticity, and he launched her into the courtyard of his kingdom, thinking to himself: “Okay, now the queen will figure out what’s what.”
Perhaps the king somehow ineptly introduced the princess to the queen, perhaps the princess was unable to clearly argue her affiliation
to the royal family, and there was a disruption in communication. The princess did not inspire confidence. What the prince was doing at that time, and whether he could even participate in this process and influence it, history, as they say, is silent.
“Well, we’ll check that,” thought the old queen, but said nothing and went into the bedroom. Compared to the Danish queen, our simple Baba Yaga evokes admiration and pride. She will make the demand and feed and drink and put you to sleep. But this is in Russian fairy tales.
For some reason there were no servants nearby. Yes, and why were they needed if the old queen had remarkable strength and was extremely active in such complex actions. She threw the blanket off the bed with her own hands.
and the sheets and put a pea on the bare boards. Then she covered this pea with twelve mattresses, and on top of the mattresses she threw another twelve feather beds of eider down. I am amazed how a queen with such remarkable strength and manly qualities could understand the qualities of a pampered princess. Probably, the old queen hoped that none of the women would be able to fulfill her idea, and that’s why her son was so
and will remain with her until the end of time.
The princess was laid on this bed, and there she spent the whole night. What she thought about the hospitality of kings and about the prince also remains a mystery. The next morning, when the owners asked how she slept, the princess replied: “Oh, very bad. I didn't sleep a wink almost all night. Only God knows what got into my bed. I was lying on something hard, and now I have bruises all over my body. That's just terrible".
Perhaps the princess did not fall asleep because she was hungry, that the linen was wet, that the bed was unusual, that she did not take sleeping pills at night. Perhaps she really wanted to get married, and a pea under a layer of mattresses seemed like a small thing to her. As a result, almost no talking
and the culture of communication everyone understood that the princess was real. Because everyone was thinking about their own, their own idea of the qualities of a real princess, which coincided. In any case, she passed the test for princesshood (professional suitability),
and the prince immediately married the princess, bypassing the stages of relationship development (courtship, sweets, bouquets, kisses, engagement). This is how the pea and my mother’s strong-willed decision influenced destinies.
Could the prince without a pea know whether the princess was real or not? If there is no culture of communication in which there is openness and trust between partners, you can only rely on a pea. And even then it’s unlikely, because it’s unknown whether it’s in a museum or someone stole it.
Illustration by Hans Tegner from the book by G.H. Andersen "Fairy tales and stories" (1900)
Today I read a book - “Roses on Credit” by Elsa Triolet, if anyone is interested, about a girl from the very, very bottom, from poverty and dirt, who wanted a clean and beautiful life among clean and beautiful things, but it turned out pretty bad; in principle, it could be a fairly relevant book for these times - and there I came across a retelling of the fairy tale “The Princess and the Pea.” Complete, detailed, without any Freudian, Jungian and other upgrades, just as an example of what different people They value everyday comfort to varying degrees. By the way, one gets the impression that ordinary French people should not know this fairy tale, otherwise it would be worth spreading it over two book pages?.. But since that’s the case, I re-read it. And I was perplexed. And I thought a lot.
What do you think this fairy tale is about? What should she teach us, so to speak? After all, we know that all fairy tales teach us something, right?
Look here. There is a queen who, at all costs, wants a wife for her son - a real princess. She has a criterion for determining authenticity: this very pea. The aspiring princesses arrive one after another, sleep on a pea, in the morning the queen asks them how they slept, they answer - oh, great, your majesty, and she drives them away in shame.
Stop. Of course, I’m not a princess, I don’t know anything about whether you can feel a pea through ten feather beds; but suppose - suppose I said! - that yes, it’s possible. That any real princess will feel it. Now let’s imagine a much simpler and more everyday thing. You have arrived at the house of a potential mother-in-law (or mother-in-law, it makes no difference in general), on whom it solely depends whether her son (or daughter) marries you or not. She put you to bed, in the morning with a malicious grin she asks how you spent the night... What do you have Different variants answer? Can you answer with something OTHER than “great”? You personally, who have never been a person of royal blood, you could tell the hostess of the house in which you are visiting, not to mention the fact that she is the mistress of your future destiny, you could tell her that she is a bad hostess and does not receive you well ?.. And, of course, over time there is a certain drift of concepts, but even in my Soviet childhood, it seems, it was generally accepted that true aristocracy is, first of all, good manners, impeccable tact and the ability to sacrifice the personal and secondary (an uncomfortable bed for one night) for the sake of the state and the main thing (a profitable dynastic marriage with the handsome Prince Joffrey).
Let's continue to tell the story. The queen has been marrying all the brides like this for some time, and the flow of applicants is gradually drying up, when suddenly some unknown girl knocks on the castle gate. Rain, wind, mud; she came on foot, dressed in canvas and cheap coarse cloth, shod in wooden shoes, she was cold, wet and dirty. She doesn’t explain where she came from, but she claims that she is also a princess and also wants to marry a prince, and also has the right to pass the test. Well, the queen, purely for fun, accompanies her to the bedroom, where lush feather beds are piled on the bed, one on top of the other, right up to the ceiling, and a small pea is slipped under the very bottom one. And the next morning, as always, he comes to mock. And what does she see? The girl is unhappy! Oh, she says, I haven’t slept a wink all night! I, he says, slept like on a cobblestone street, and my whole back is covered in bruises!.. Here is a worthy wife for my dear son, exclaims the queen. Of the many possible, most decent options She did choose the boorish one.
And what should a story like this teach us? What do these queens need? What is it like for princes who trust their mothers to choose their wives? Or what?
By the way, there is another one here small nuance. This is a completely realistic interpretation. If we imagine that this pea, as it probably is in reality, cannot be felt in any way, and the queen is simply a fool or does not want to give her son to anyone, which is also very, very possible, then we remember that the mysterious girl came to wooden shoes. And whether she is a princess or not, most likely all her previous life she slept on wooden bench. She slept on something hard, as doctors recommend, by the way. And then they laid her on a mountain of spreading feather beds, into which you fall like into a hammock. So how should she feel after this?..
help. Help with at least one
A ball is thrown from the surface of the earth at a certain angle to the horizontal. Determine the angle at which the ball was thrown if the point of throw, the point of impact and the vertex of the ball's trajectory are at the vertices of an equilateral triangle. Ignore air resistance. Express your answer in degrees and round to whole numbers. (Here the answer should work out. The solution is important to me 74)
Here I found that h^2=(3L^2)/4, that is, h/l=SQR(3/4). From the formulas for motion at an angle, I derived L and h, then divided one by the other and got l/h=4ctgα .But if we equate this h/l=SQR(3/4) and l/h=4ctgα then we get tg=2*SQR(3) 63 degrees somewhere, But the answer is 74. I found a solution, but didn’t understand anything from there http://otvet.mail.ru/question/72820688/
And another one.
The juggler threw balls vertically upward. When the first ball reached the top of its trajectory, the second ball was thrown with the same initial speed. At what height will the balls meet if the height of their throw is 4.9 m?
I used the law of conservation of energy. From it I found h. Then I compiled a system for flights up and down. I added it up and got 2h=u0t. But if h is inserted here, then you get 2 unknowns. In general, I got confused.
Is the volume of a solution always less than the sum of the volumes of its components?
3. Attractive forces act between glass particles. Why can't you put a broken glass back together by simply putting the pieces together?
4. Why are liquids fluid? Why can gases occupy any given volume? Why solids retain their shape and volume?
5. Why in hot weather Does a soccer ball compress less when hit than when it is cold?
6. How to explain the fact that in a lightly fired vessel with small pores the water remains cool for a long time?
7. Why does the first snow usually melt?
8. Why do those sides of the window panes that face the inside of the room fog up in cold weather?
9. Can relative humidity air increase with a simultaneous decrease in absolute humidity?
10. When do your glasses fog up: when entering from the street or when leaving if it’s cold outside? Why?
11. Why does the boiling point increase with increasing external pressure on the liquid?
12. Can a liquid boil and freeze at the same time? Justify your answer.
13. Why does the lid on a boiling kettle bounce?
1. Find the work done by the force and the increment in the potential energy of the body in the Earth’s gravitational field in the first half of the ascent, if a body weighing 40 kg beginslift from the surface of the Earth by applying a force to it, which changes with the height of the rise y according to the law F = 5(xy-2)mg, where x is a positive constant.
2. Find the magnitude and direction of the acceleration vector of the coil axis; and the work done by force F in the first t seconds after the start of movement. If a spool of thread of mass m lies on a horizontal rough plane. Its moment of inertia relative to its own axis is l=betta*m*R^2, where betta is a numerical coefficient, R is the outer radius of the coil. The radius of the wound layer of thread is pi. The spool began to be pulled by the thread without slipping with a constant force F directed at an angle a to the horizontal.
2002), I suddenly - and this is not surprising for a long time - began to think. This happens when you watch it as a child, and even a thought does not arise about the subtext and sanity of the plot. And then you see, I wondered, what is the meaning of such a strange story about a princess who felt a dry pea under the feather beds? As it turns out, I wasn’t the only one asking this question. Below are (from detailed to brief) opinions from the comments, not all - but these are enough.
(1)
All that glitters is not gold.
They are greeted by their clothes and escorted by their intelligence.
Never trust the first impression, it is always deceiving.
Only after learning a little more about a person can one draw any conclusions.
So it is in this fairy tale: a simply dressed girl could not immediately be called a princess, but life habits in any situation will tell everything about a person, because what a person is used to, how he was formed mentally, is difficult to hide.
(2) The meaning of the fairy tale is that people, it turns out, are not all the same, but differ from each other in their level of intelligence, moral development, and natural wisdom. On just one page, Andersen defined the entire philosophy of modern times. The princess came in rags, barefoot and cold. Behind it lies a trail of an extraordinary story that we do not know. But she's a princess, and that's what she's all about. And just one pea is enough to understand this.
(3) The way to verify the princess's authenticity is just an image. The fascination with the princess occurs even before the pea test. If she didn't like it to the royal family, the queen would not have taken such a risk - to entrust the fate of her son and her own to chance. That is, the opinion about the stranger at first is this: the girl is good, but have we been deceived? To make sure that the chosen one is truly worthy, it would take years of living with her. In a fairy tale, everything can be tested with a pea. The fabulous property of the pea is to give confirmation - yes, this is exactly it. And once confirmation has been received, here is proof that even in rags there can be a golden, noble, pure soul.
(4) The princess was not getting married, she just asked to spend the night, hungry and cold, and the treacherous queen slipped her a pea as a test. In the morning, the princess was sore from bruises left by hailstones (the day before she ran around, got wet, got agitated + solid precipitation beat her), and the potential mother-in-law decided that she had got a daughter-in-law of blue blood. A fairy tale for attentiveness.
(5) The ability to feel a pea gives the right to assume in a person the ability to feel the state of the person nearby, his pain, joy, doubts. And there is sympathy and complicity nearby. And also what the princess said about how she didn’t sleep well—that’s openness!
(6) Main meaning fairy tale is that if a person wants to know something, he will definitely figure out how to do it. The fairy tale teaches you to be smart and resourceful, to invent original solutions to achieve the goal.
(7) The point is that people of high society are accustomed to the best. This is the lifestyle of princesses; they do not sleep on mattresses; they are not maids. That’s why they feel the catch right away. Without such princesses in real life there would be no luxury class.
(8) The fairy tale teaches us not to divide people into rich and poor, that is, it teaches us that all people are equal. But always meeting people based on their clothes is wrong; you need to learn to trust people. After all, the essence of a person is in his inner world.
(9) This tale is a mockery of royal blood. The author makes fun of the nobility, laughs at the prince's parents and their criteria for finding a wife for their son.
(10) The point is that now there are no real princesses left. We sleep on our hard beds with an orthopedic mattress and not a single bruise in the morning.
(11
) The pea symbolizes a bad conscience.
No matter how you cover her, a real princess will not be able to sleep peacefully.
(12 ) Of course, anything can happen, but for me the moral of the fairy tale is this: if you feel like a princess, even tattered rags will not be a hindrance to you.
(13 ) It seems to me... they just needed a “thoroughbred” wife, and not some village impostor from the street, that’s the point, I guess.
(14 ) Moral - find yourself in right time V in the right place, eavesdrop and spy on how they will test you. PS: I added I don’t know why... what if?
(15 ) The fairy tale has no moral. FABLES have morals! This is what this genre was created for. A fairy tale is a reflection of reality created by creativity. And Andersen does not moralize, he shows the world in all its diversity.
Such things, some opinions are somewhat similar, many are pure speculation - the imagination draws the details. Which number do you think is close to the truth? Perhaps someone's CPGS turned on. As for me, I am leaning towards option 15 and 9.
There is probably no fairy tale in the world with a more concise content. “The Princess and the Pea,” whose story is not inferior to Agatha Christie’s detective stories, was written back in 1835 by the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen, but was never accepted by critics, but it contained a deep philosophical meaning about the subtlety of the soul and imaginary values.
Story line
Summary of “The Princess and the Pea”: a wealthy prince was looking for a wife, and the main condition was that future wife must be a hereditary princess without a blemish on the pedigree, with a royal appearance and ideal character. Naturally, the search was in vain, because, as you know, ideal people not in nature. The prince sat in sadness in his family castle, driving himself into depression.
And one evening, during a severe thunderstorm, a girl of model appearance asked to stay for the night, posing as a princess, although she looked primitive and wretched due to low-quality clothes and the consequences of the elements. The Queen Mother immediately realized that the girl was a hunter for a rich groom, but she did not show it, but quietly planted a “pig” for the princess in the form of a pea, which she hid under 20 mattresses.
But the girl was also not cut out for it. Although who knows, maybe she’s actually so subtle at heart? She followed the old queen. As a result, in the morning, in the process of asking about her well-being, the queen recognized the girl’s aristocratic origins, the prince immediately got married, and the ill-fated pea was placed in the Kunstkamera.
Characteristics of the fairy tale heroes
The Princess and the Pea is the main heroine of the story. But who was the girl in reality: a capricious princess, a sissy and a dowry hunter, dissatisfied with the hospitality and honors given (why else would she complain about insufficiently soft feather beds and a hard bed), or a ruined orphan of blue blood, who accidentally got caught in a thunderstorm and ended up with the door of a rich prince?
From the summary of “The Princess and the Pea” it becomes clear that the old king opens the door for the princess. How so? There was still a rich kingdom if the prince could afford to search for his wife all over the world, but the father played the role of a butler. Out of boredom or hopelessness (to work off bread, for example)? After all, it is clear that the Queen Mother was in charge of everything in the palace. If not, then why did she need to get involved in the relationship of young people with checks?
What did Andersen want to convey?
It happens that, being carried away by the plot or the main characters, viewers (or readers) forget about the details that play the most important role important role in history. Pea: what did Hans Christian mean when he said that the princess felt the pressure of a pea through twenty (!) feather beds?
You don't have to be to understand that it was not a plant from the legume family. No one, even the most gentle and hereditary princess with an ideal pedigree, could simply physically feel a pea seed through the bed. So the pea is a metaphor? What did the great storyteller want to convey with it?
No wonder "The Princess and the Pea" summary- the author did not consider it necessary to dwell on the details of the story, but highlighted the essence: character cannot be hidden anywhere!