| Summary: | 碩士 === 臺東師範學院 === 兒童文學研究所 === 91 === Among world’s literary masters, Hans Andersen is one of only a few who can excite readers from age 3 to 90. His 164 fairytales intertwine with dream, fantastic illusion and serial dreams. The study selected some of well-known tales of dreams and illusion for analysis, which were divided into three sections namely thought, role and type of dreams.
Andersen’s fairytale was overwhelmingly influenced by Christian thought. But sin and redemption is the core of that thought. Thus the research is aimed to investigate into the redemptive thinking in the dreamland and see how Andersen makes up these ideas to children’s mind.
Then the study is turned to the most creative characters in the dream. In Andersen’s tales, adults, kids, street lamps, as well as Sundays can have dreams. The author of this study chose four stories for analysis which included “Little Mermaid” that dealt with the shaping of character in girlhood; “Steadfast Tin Soldier” that dealt with the shaping of character in boyhood; how “Shadow” was represented through Jung’s persona; and how type of shadow like “Snow Queen” influences upon children’s mind.
As for the dreamland, the study first applied psychoanalysts’ technique for the analysis of erotic dreams. Traditional fairytales would skip this part, but Andersen slowed down at this point and delineated it in symbolic languages. Foresight dreams in myths and legends always predict drastic destiny while that dream in fairytales usually implies a solution. Finally, “A life in a moment dream” , just like Irving’s Rip van Winkle, and Chinese Huang Liang Dream, Andersen’s Archbishop of Uranius found his new life after waking from that kind of dream and viewed the world with a refreshed perspective.
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