Andersen's fairy tale "The Nightingale"
Genre: fairy tale-legend
The main characters of the fairy tale "The Nightingale" and their characteristics
- The nightingale is a small, freedom-loving bird with a magically beautiful voice. I valued only sincerity.
- The Emperor loved everything beautiful, but did not understand that a living nightingale is better than an artificial one
- Death, at first glance cruel, but turned out to be sentimental after hearing the nightingale singing
- Beautiful garden near the palace
- Books about the nightingale
- Searching for the nightingale in the palace
- Little girl in the kitchen
- Courtiers in the forest
- Nightingale gives a concert in the palace
- The nightingale lives in the palace
- Artificial nightingale from Japan
- Escape of the nightingale
- Breakdown of the artificial nightingale
- Emperor's illness
- Death and evil deeds
- Return of the Nightingale
- Emperor's Promise
- In the forest behind imperial garden there lived a nightingale, whose singing all foreign guests admired and wrote about him in their books
- The Emperor reads a book and orders the nightingale to be delivered to the palace
- A little girl helps in the search for the nightingale and the courtiers are amazed by the nightingale's voice
- The nightingale gives a concert in front of the emperor and the emperor cries
- An artificial nightingale replaces the real one, but soon breaks down
- The emperor is sick, but the nightingale returns and drives away death.
Fake admiration is worth nothing, but real emotions are more valuable than anything else.
What does the fairy tale "The Nightingale" teach?
This fairy tale teaches us to love and appreciate the beauty of nature, teaches us to understand beauty, teaches us that no perfect machine made by human hands will ever replace the work of nature. This fairy tale also teaches gratitude.
Review of the fairy tale "The Nightingale"
I really like this fairy tale. It tells of the triumph of a real nightingale, whose singing was always different, over a mechanical toy that could sing only one melody and which could break. The Emperor of China realized his mistake, he could experience sincere feelings, and therefore the nightingale forgave him and helped him when he fell ill. This is a very beautiful fairy tale.
Proverbs for the fairy tale "The Nightingale"
The nightingale is small, but the voice is great.
The spool is small, but expensive
A domestic calf is better than an overseas cow.
Summary, brief retelling fairy tales "The Nightingale"
In distant China, near the imperial palace there was a wonderful garden in which magical bells grew. The garden was very large and even the gardener did not know where its end was. And behind the garden in the forest lived a nightingale. And all the foreigners who came to the garden were amazed at the beauty of the nightingale’s voice.
They returned home and wrote books about China, in which they said that the best thing there is the nightingale.
One day the emperor read a book and was surprised, because he had never heard of a nightingale. He ordered the minister to bring him a nightingale so that he could listen to its singing.
The minister and courtiers ran around the entire palace, but no one heard about the nightingale. And only the little girl in the kitchen said that she knew where the nightingale lived.
She led the courtiers into the forest, and they mistook the mooing of cows and the croaking of frogs for nightingale singing. But then they heard the nightingale singing and were amazed. They invited the nightingale to the palace to sing to the emperor, and the nightingale agreed.
He sang to the emperor and he was amazed, he even cried, and the nightingale said that these tears were the best reward for him.
The nightingale began to live in the palace and the courtiers made sure that he did not fly away. And all the people fell in love with the nightingale.
But one day an artificial nightingale was brought from Japan that sang only one song. The real nightingale flew away, but no one was saddened by this. Everyone in the palace fell in love with the artificial nightingale.
But soon the artificial nightingale broke. The watchmaker repaired it, but now the nightingale was allowed to be wound only once a year.
5 years passed and the emperor fell ill. Everyone thought he was dead, but he just lay cold and sick on his bed.
The emperor saw death and his deeds - evil and good. He begged the artificial nightingale to sing to him, but he had to be wound up. And then a real nightingale flew in. He sang his song and death retreated. The nightingale promised that he would fly to the emperor and sing his songs to him, because he saw tears in the emperor’s eyes.
And the emperor recovered and greeted the stunned courtiers.
Drawings and illustrations for the fairy tale "The Nightingale"
Literature lesson in 5th grade
H.K. Andersen. “The Nightingale”: the instructive meaning of the fairy tale
Lesson objectives: in the process of textual analysis of Andersen's fairy tale; identify the main idea of the fairy tale - the idea of the immortality of true art and the impossibility of replacing it with “mechanism”; define artistic features works;
develop the skill of expressive, thoughtful, “slow” reading, selective retelling, literary and creative skills;
to help students, using the example of a work, to master a cultural norm-model (the relationship between art and reality, the purpose of art).
Equipment: portrait of H.K. Andersen, illustrations to the fairy tale by E. Narbut.
Epigraph for the lesson:
None external beauty cannot be complete
If she is not enlivened by the beauty within.
Victor Hugo
Lesson progress
- Organizational stage.
- Motivational stage.
Opening remarks teachers.
Today in class we will talk about an interesting and difficult fairy tale by the great storyteller Hans Christian Andersen “The Nightingale”. During the lesson we will try to understand the meaning of this fairy tale, what it can teach us.
– Did you like this fairy tale?
– What do you think she’s talking about?
(Students cannot yet answer the question accurately, so it is necessary to return to it at the end of the discussion)
III. Analysis of the fairy tale "The Nightingale".The main technique used in the lesson is “reading with stops”: repeated slow movement through the text, accompanied by problematic conversation and commenting on individual details.
1. Read the description of the palace Chinese Emperor. Do you think it is convenient, is it good to live in a palace made of the most precious porcelain, so fragile “that it was scary to touch it”?
– Why were bells tied to the “most wonderful flowers” in the emperor’s garden?
(To once again admire the beauty of flowers, the clink of silver, the shine of porcelain, in a word, the external splendor and splendor of the imperial house)
– Why didn’t the emperor know anything about the nightingale? Why didn’t the courtiers hear anything about him?
2. Read carefully the fragment in which the author talks about the place where the nightingale lived.
Why does he live “in the dense forest that begins behind the garden”?
Don't you think that the nightingale and the inhabitants of the palace live in some kind of different worlds X? Describe these worlds: what does the nightingale hear and see every day, and what do the courtiers and the emperor see?
What's funny about the scene of the courtiers searching for the nightingale? Don't you feel a little sorry for them?
4.What is the first minister trying to compare the nightingale’s singing to? Why is his comparison ridiculous?
5. Why did the nightingale still agree to fly to the emperor’s palace, despite the fact that his songs “are much better to listen to in the green forest”?
6. How did the emperor perceive the nightingale’s singing? Re-read this scene.
Why did the nightingale refuse the reward - the golden slipper around her neck? Find the answer in the text of the fairy tale.
7. Find in the text the answer to the question: how did the courtiers try to imitate the nightingale? What, in your opinion, is the absurdity of the nightingale's fame in the city?
Tell us about what happened during the competition between two nightingales. Where did the real nightingale go?
8. Find in the text the answer to the question: what does the “court supplier of nightingales” see as the advantages of an artificial nightingale? Why does the writer depict it in such detail, and why is the portrait of a natural nightingale so short?
9. Read what the poor fishermen said about the artificial nightingale. Why did the courtiers particularly like the artificial nightingale?
10. Retell the episode “The Emperor’s Illness” (work with an illustration by the artist E. Narbut).
Why was the emperor left alone during his illness? Why was the emperor so scared?
(It was not death that was terrible, but life, revealed on the day of judgment as a scroll of good and evil deeds)
How did the nightingale manage to save the emperor? What was the nightingale singing about? What does he ask the emperor to do, what does he promise him?
(The cemetery in the nightingale’s song evokes not fear, but a feeling of humility; it is full of beauty - special, but not cold, like the imperial palace. Salvation is that the nightingale awakened “good feelings” both in death and in the emperor, who had good business, because he cried when he first listened to the nightingale)
11. What does the nightingale sing about and will always sing about? Re-read this fragment.
IV. How would you answer now, what is this fairy tale about?
(Students conclude that the world of the nightingale (nature) and the world of the imperial palace are two completely different worlds. “Mechanism” (creation human hands) is contrasted in Andersen's fairy tale with nature, its living voice - the voice of the nightingale. The voice of nature would never have reached the boundaries of the palace (another world) if not for the nightingale and his songs.
Which heroes of Andersen's fairy tale can we attribute to the world of nature and the world of the palace? Let's name them.
V. Conclusions. The nightingale sang and will sing to the emperor about that real, living life, which cannot be seen from the walls of the palace and which no flowers with crystal bells and magnificent gardens can replace.
The nightingale is an image of a free singer, an allegorical image of art that speaks in the language of nature itself about everything in the world; only it is capable of defeating death and even those evil forces that live in the soul of man himself; art makes a person better, cleaner, more beautiful.
Justification and grading.
VI. Homework.
Compose a letter from the Chinese emperor to the Japanese after recovery or a letter to Andersen about a fairy tale you read (optional).
Topic: G.H. Andersen's fairy tale “The Nightingale.” Text analysis.
Goals:- identifying the moral basis of the fairy tale;- formation of moral and aesthetic ideas of students about real and imaginary values; - artistic perception text based on in-depth work on the word in the text.Planned results:
Subject: introduce students to moral basis Andersen's fairy tales and fairy tales
literary genre, promote the development of students’ speech, practice skills expressive reading.
Cognitive UUD: search and selection of necessary information, conscious and voluntary construction of a speech utterance in oral form, free orientation and perception of text work of art, semantic reading; development assistance mental operations: comparison, analysis, synthesis, generalization, systematization. Development assistance creative imagination, cognitive activity,
Personal UUD: self-determination, desire for speech self-improvement; moral and ethical orientation, the ability to self-assess one’s actions and actions;
Regulatory learning activities: goal setting, planning, self-regulation, identification and awareness by students of what has already been learned and what still needs to be learned.
Communicative learning activities: planning educational cooperation with the teacher and peers, compliance with the rules of speech behavior, the ability to express thoughts in accordance with the tasks and conditions of communication
The main activities of students and teachers in the lesson: drawing up questions based on what they read, the ability to draw conclusions at each stage of the lesson, research work with text, analytical conversation, individual and group work. Progress of the lesson.- Organizational moment. Motivation.
You have read a fairy tale. Let's express our first impression of what we read in the form of a syncwine.
Sample answer.
Fairy tale
Instructive, kind
Understand, love, live
We must forgive insults
Mercy
Teacher's conclusion:
Yes, guys, reading the fairy tale “The Nightingale” makes us think about our actions and deeds. The theme of the life-giving power of real human feelings, opposing deathly lack of spirituality, worried many writers, but no one resolved it as brilliantly as Hans Christian Andersen, and most importantly, such by simple means: on the space of several pages. This - literary miracle, and the Danish magician has many such miracles... I suggest you re-read the fairy tale together and reflect.
3. Analysis of the text of the fairy tale “The Nightingale” (heuristic conversation)
“In the whole world there would not have been a better palace than the imperial one.”
Why do you think this tale begins with a description of the extraordinary imperial palace? Why was the palace “fragile” and made of “precious porcelain”?
- “The garden stretched far - far, so far that the gardener himself did not know where it ended.”
Describing the garden and the dense forest, Andersen seems to deliberately force the reader to compare and contrast them with a porcelain palace. For what?
What feelings does the phrase “Lord, how good!” express?
- “Nightingale? But I don’t even know him!” “She is considered the main attraction of my great state!”
Express your opinion about why it is so important that the emperor did not know about the bird that surprised everyone with its singing?
How does the storyteller characterize the emperor?
Phrase from the text
Why does everyone know about the nightingale - the poor fisherman, travelers, the girl, except the emperor and their subjects?
How do the courtiers explain their ignorance? Why are they not ready to mistake the mooing of a cow or the croaking of a frog for the singing of a nightingale?
Let us turn to the text in order to find the lines characterizing the nightingale.
Phrase from the text
Conclusion: the living nightingale became the property of the emperor and sang only for him. The bird was restricted in its freedom and ordinary people they felt very sorry for her.
The Emperor receives a mechanical nightingale as a gift. Why did he choose in his favor? Let's compare two birds? What is the difference between them? Let's compare.
Living nightingale
How do you understand the conductor’s words that the artificial nightingale is “superior to the real one not only in its dress and diamonds, but also in its inner merits.”
There are many sounds in the fairy tale. What did it sound like?
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D: Yes, he was evil - he became kind.
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D: No, it's monotonous.
Conclusion: inner virtues a person is his inner world, his spiritual qualities, talent. Real people can do good deeds, cry, listening wonderful music and the nightingale singing. Sincere feelings awaken when a person strives to become better and help loved ones. Unfortunately, feelings can be false and fake. Before us are two nightingales: real and artificial. One was created by nature, so he is extraordinary and decorates people’s lives with his songs. The other is a toy, skillfully crafted talented master and is also intended to decorate a person’s life.
The emperor faced a test: he fell ill and found himself alone. Why did everyone turn away from him except the nightingale?
Let's turn to the text. The storyteller introduces a sad motif into the story. “... there was dead silence in the palace.” The emperor lay alone and “completely motionless and deathly pale.” "Death sat on his chest." Why do you think the emperor shouted: “Music here, music!”? How could music help him?
Not only Death appeared before the gaze of the dying emperor, who else?
“Some strange faces looked out from the folds: some disgusting and disgusting, others kind and sweet. These were the evil and good deeds of the emperor.” Explain how you understand these words?
The Emperor asks for help, but “The room was quiet—quiet.” There is no one to have an artificial nightingale. The courtiers left the ruler to die.
Conclusion: The emperor did many evil things. He was not liked because he often punished the servants.
When Death came to him, she took away the crown, the golden saber, the rich banner, and the emperor had to remember what kind of ruler he was. He was afraid, because kindness and care for others were incomprehensible to him, he only thought about his own greatness.
Why did the nightingale fly to the emperor when he learned about his illness? Could the emperor himself console and encourage another?
Let's read the dialogue between the emperor and the nightingale (p. 235).
What reward does the emperor offer the nightingale and why does he refuse?
How do you understand the words “Tears are the most precious reward for a singer’s heart.”
Why does the nightingale call itself a “singer”?
Conclusion: the nightingale saved the emperor. “...wake up healthy and vigorous!” He turned out to be a real not only singer, but also one with deep spiritual qualities. Compassion, care, helping the lonely and sick - this is what should be in each of us. There is no need to accumulate resentment and be vindictive, to destroy your soul with “disgusting and vile” deeds.
The Emperor invites the nightingale to live in the palace again, but now free. “You must stay with me forever! You will sing only when you want!”
Why does the nightingale refuse, since no one dared to refuse the emperor?
Let's re-read the last page of the fairy tale (p. 236).
What are the main words here and what are they about?
“I will sing to you about the happy and the unhappy, about good and evil...” "I love you for your heart more than for your crown."
Who awakened the spiritual qualities in the emperor? Why didn't the nightingale want others to know about him? “Things will go better this way!”
Conclusion: the nightingale understood that the courtiers would not be able to understand the emperor, because they were used to flattery and did not know how to appreciate true art, did not have high moral qualities. He was left by them to die alone without any kindness on their part.
- " Hello!" - this is how the tale of the great Andersen ends. Do you think there will be changes in the reign of the Chinese Emperor?
Conclusion: in order to change, to become morally purer and kinder, you sometimes need to go through difficult trials. It depends on the person himself what kind of heart he will have. The nightingale and the emperor became friends because behind the arrogance and importance of the ruler there was another soul. “My song will please you and make you think.”
What will the emperor have to think about?
What is the power of a small, inconspicuous bird that ensured victory over death?
What lesson did the nightingale teach the emperor?
5. Conclusion: moral lessons the tales we extract are
Closeness to nature;
Attention to others;
Having your own opinion;
Respect spiritual qualities, and not external appearance;
Understanding true art;
Caring for others.
6. Reflection.- What was the most important thing in the lesson? What is the purpose of the lesson? Are you satisfied with your job? What moral lessons can be learned?
U: What did the fairy tale say?
D: The singing of a nightingale, the mechanism of an artificial nightingale toy, the mooing of cows, the croaking of frogs, the sound of bells, porcelain in the emperor's palace.
U: What do you think magical power singing of a living nightingale?
D: The fact that he conquered death with his singing.
U: Has the emperor's character changed?
D: Yes, he was evil - he became kind.
Conclusion: the nightingale should live in freedom and bring joy to people with its singing.
U: And when it wasn’t yet musical instruments How did the music appear, where did it come from?
D: From nature (the murmur of a stream, the rustle of leaves, the blow of a breeze, the singing of birds...)
U: Can the sound of a mechanical nightingale replace a living one?
D: no, it's monotonous.
Hello guys! Sit down. I wish you good mood and I invite everyone to cooperate in the literature lesson. How can you explain main idea fairy tale "The Nightingale" that you read for the lesson? What can we call our lesson? Let's define those learning objectives, which we will have to solve today. Set a personal goal for yourself. How do you understand the meaning of the words “lesson”?
“morality”, “caring”? I agree with your answers and propose to summarize them in the topic of our lesson, which we will call
« Moral lessons from the fairy tale by H.K. Andersen's "The Nightingale".
Teacher's opening speech.
Guys! Do you think there are some common spiritual values and concepts for all people that are important at all times and in all countries?
Today in class we will think and reason about an interesting and complex fairy tale by the great Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen
"Nightingale". In the course of our work, we will try to understand those spiritual truths of the fairy tale that can become useful moral lessons for each of us.
You have read a fairy tale. Let's express our first impression of what we read in the form of a syncwine.
Yes, guys, reading the fairy tale “The Nightingale” makes us think about our actions and deeds. The theme of the life-giving power of real human feelings, opposing deathly lack of spirituality, worried many writers, but no one resolved it as brilliantly as Hans Christian Andersen, and most importantly, by such simple means: in the space of a few pages. This is a literary miracle, and the Danish magician has many such miracles... I invite you to re-read the fairy tale together and reflect on what you read.
“In the whole world there would not have been a better palace than the imperial one.”
Why do you think this tale begins with a description of the extraordinary imperial palace? Why was the palace “fragile” and made of “precious porcelain”?
Describing the garden and the dense forest, Andersen seems to deliberately force the reader to compare and contrast them with a porcelain palace. For what?
What feelings does the phrase “Lord, how good!” express?
- “Nightingale? But I don’t even know him!” “She is considered the main attraction of my great state!”
Express your opinion about why it is so important that the emperor did not know about the bird that surprised everyone with its singing?
How does the storyteller characterize the emperor?
Why does everyone know about the nightingale - the poor fisherman, travelers, the girl, except the emperor and their subjects?
How do the courtiers explain their ignorance? Why are they ready to mistake the mooing of a cow or the croaking of a frog for the singing of a nightingale?
Let us turn to the text in order to find the lines characterizing the nightingale.
The Emperor receives a mechanical nightingale as a gift. Why did he choose in his favor? Let's compare two birds? What is the difference between them? Let's compare.
How do you understand the conductor’s words that the artificial nightingale is “superior to the real one not only in its dress and diamonds, but also in its inner merits.”
How do you understand what inner peace is? Do you agree that
a person’s inner virtues are his inner world, his spiritual qualities, his talent.
The emperor faced a test: he fell ill and found himself alone. Why did everyone turn away from him except the nightingale? What developments do you expect after these lines?
Let's turn to the text. The storyteller introduces a sad motif into the story. “... there was dead silence in the palace.” The emperor lay alone and “completely motionless and deathly pale.” "Death sat on his chest." Why do you think the emperor shouted: “Music here, music!”? How could music help him?
Not only Death appeared before the gaze of the dying emperor, who else?
Explain how you understand these words?
Why did the nightingale fly to the emperor when he learned about his illness? Could the emperor himself console and encourage another?
Let's read the dialogue between the emperor and the nightingale.
What reward does the emperor offer the nightingale and why does he refuse?
How do you understand the words “Tears are the most precious reward for a singer’s heart.”
Why does the nightingale call itself a “singer”?
The Emperor invites the nightingale to live in the palace again, but now free. “You must stay with me forever! You will sing only when you want!”
Why does the nightingale refuse, since no one dared to refuse the emperor?
Let's reread the last page of the fairy tale.
What are the main words here and what are they about?
Who awakened the spiritual qualities in the emperor? Why didn't the nightingale want others to know about him? “Things will go better this way!”
- " Hello!" - this is how the tale of the great Andersen ends. Do you think there will be changes in the reign of the Chinese Emperor?
What will the emperor have to think about?
What is the power of a small, inconspicuous bird that ensured victory over death?
What lesson did the nightingale teach the emperor?
5. Conclusion: the moral lessons we learn from the fairy tale are
Closeness to nature;
Attention to others;
Having your own opinion;
Respect for spiritual qualities, not external appearance;
Understanding true art;
Caring for others.
What other moral lessons can be learned from this tale?
What was the most important thing in the lesson?
Have the goals and objectives of the lesson been achieved?
Are you satisfied with your job?
What moral lessons can be learned?
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