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“divine altar wine that consecrates life.” This allusion to the yeast used to make bread and also to altar wine is one of many references to bread and wine, and wine’s sustaining influence. Unlike Raphael, who appreciated the value of both bread and wine, the artist makes a distinction between the two. The symbolic power of the sacrament figures importantly in a story about art’s power to represent the soul.

بخش داستان‌های کودکان رو تموم کردم و رفتیم سراغ بخش داستان‌های بزرگسال.
ترجمه تاتار هم عالیه و کلی پاورقی مهم و غیرمهم آورده برای داستان‌ها.

همه داریم ورژن تاتار رو میخونیم و اینقدر ریز اومده بررسی کرده و همه چیز رو نوشته که دیگه حرفی نمی‌مونه برا زدن و حس میکنم حرفی برا نوشتن اینجا(یا هرجا) وجود نداره و شاید همه اش تبدیل بشه به برداشت ناقص و خلاصه از نوشته های تاتار.

In “The Nightingale,” Andersen mirrors his own sycophantic relationship to the aristocracy when he restores “the relationship of servitude” between bird and emperor: “Feudalism has been replaced by a freemarket system; yet, the bird/artist is willing to serve loyally and keep the autocrat in power”.
-Zipes 2005

As in “The Little Mermaid,” a storm signals a life-threatening situation, but it typically produces the opportunity for a romantic alliance. Lightning and thunder, once again, produce the chiaroscuro effects that repeatedly flash through Andersen’s fairy tales.

the realm of the Snow Queen is constructed as a world of exquisite aesthetic purity—chaste and sensual, spare yet luxurious, and disciplined but undomesticated. In the end, Gerda’s pious Christian vision cannot always compete with the enchanting icy attractions available to Kai.