Abstract

A little princess is generally viewed as one of the most important English fairy tale. It has been translated into many languages and adapted into many movies, teleplays and dramas. As one of the famous fairy tales, a little princess has great practical significance to people. Usually, fairy tale influences people from two aspects. First, fairy tale gives people aesthetic pleasure and sentiment edification with its vivid imagination, complex plots, and simple language. Reading fairy tale, people feel happy and hopeful. Second, fairy tale has rich educational meaning to people by advocating sincerity, kindness and beauty, and castigating falsehood, evil and ugliness. Reading fairy tale, people learn how to behave well and gain power to pursue success and happiness bravely. There are already a lot of researches about fairy tale and a little princess, yet few people have focused on the practical significance of fairy tale. This paper will analyze the significance of a little princess. It is argued that its significance is still enlightening to the contemporary society. This thesis contains five chapters. Chapter one, the introduction, mainly introduces the significance, motivation of writing this thesis, thesis claim and the outline. Chapter two is the literature review. In this chapter, the author gives a brief survey about a little princess and fairy tale. Chapter three analyzes the significance of a little princess by analyzing its main themes. Chapter four moves to talk about fairy tale’s practical significance in cultivating innovation, promoting success, upholding humanistic spirits and helping build a harmonious university. Based on the analysis in the previous chapters, it can be concluded that the pure fairy tale can make our world more beautiful and harmonious.

Key words: fairy tale, a Little Princess, aesthetic pleasure, imagination 

摘        要

童话作为一种纯洁美好的文学形式，对人们的生活和心灵有着巨大的影响，优秀的童话给人无限的希望和力量。英国著名作家弗朗西丝•霍奇森•伯内特的童话《小公主》是一部非常著名的童话。自出版以来，《小公主》已被翻译为多种外国语言，并被改编为电视、电影、话剧，广受读者的喜爱。人们已经对童话做出了很多的研究，从各个方面解读了童话。童话以丰富的幻想、想象和夸张来塑造鲜明的形象，用曲折动人的故事情节和浅显易懂的语言文字反映现实生活,寄托了人们的美好愿望，给人以审美愉悦和情感熏陶。童话是人类的精神食粮，它倡导真善美，鞭挞假恶丑，执着地守护着人类最本质的美丽天性，捍卫着美好的童年，温暖滋润着绵延的人生，给人以希望和力量。本论文致力于将美丽纯真的童话与残酷冷漠的现实相结合，通过分析《小公主》的意义来表明童话精神对于当今社会仍然具有很大的启示作用。本论文共分为五个部分。第一部分是导论，主要介绍本论文的写作动机、意义、论点及框架，表明现实需要童话，童话具有很强的现实意义。第二部分介绍已有的关于《小公主》和童话的研究。第三部分分析《小公主》的童话意义及表现。第四部分将阐述这部童话对当今现实的启迪意义。第五部分总结前文观点并得出结论:童话在当今社会仍然具有强的的现实意义，可以使人们的生活更加美好，使社会更加和谐。

关键词：童话，《小公主》，审美愉悦，想像