The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen (The Annotated Books) by Hans Christian Andersen

Author:Hans Christian Andersen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2014-10-09T16:00:00+00:00

W. HEATH ROBINSON

Thumbelina receives a pair of wings and is able to fly on her own.

21. “We shall call you Maya!” The renaming signals that Thumbelina has developed a new identity, living in a world where she is no longer diminutive. The transformation takes her from adolescence to marriage and moves her from the condition of being a perpetual misfit to membership in a community of kindred spirits. In Hinduism, Maya represents the manifold appearance of the world of phenomena, a world of illusion that obscures the spiritual reality from which it emerged.

22. the man who can tell you fairy tales. The coda embodies the two narrators (the mellifluous bird and the Danish writer) and is reminiscent of the conventions of oral storytelling. At the end of the tale, tellers find a way of drawing attention back to themselves and to the origins or consequences of the stories they tell. The writer’s association with the swallow suggests his existential kinship with Thumbelina, a creature who experiences hardship as a misfit.

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