1、 Cinderella; divine power; symbolism; morality; nature摘要灰姑娘是格林童话中塑造出的童话人物形象，讲述的是一个孝顺且心地善良的女孩子，长期受到继母和姐姐们的虐待，在厨房里做女佣，每天都是灰头土脸脏兮兮的，后来由于善待小动物而且孝感动天，所以得到了神力的帮助，在历尽继母和姐姐们的阻挠后终于和王子快乐地生活在一起的故事。后来人们常用“灰姑娘”这个词去形容那美丽、善良和忠诚的女孩。本文在分析灰姑娘借助神力的帮助而获得幸福的过程中挖掘其深刻的象征意义，即从追求道德完善，尊重自然和弥补人类匮乏感三方面来解读灰姑娘更深沉意义上的形象。关键词：灰姑娘；神
2、力；象征意义；道德；自然1. IntroductionThe story of Cinderella is well-known in the treasure trove of fairy tale in the world. Once upon a time, there was a poor girl, her mother died. Cinderellas father married a stepmother, and she had two daughters. The two daughters were very abominable; they took away the
3、cloths from the girl, only giving clothes in rags for her and calling her “Cinderella”. One day, her father went to a distant place and gave her a branch of hazel tree. She planted it in her mothers grave. As time went by, the branch of hazel tree grew up. Every day, there was a strange bird parking
4、 in the branch to satisfy little girls will. One day, the king held a dancing party for choosing a wife for the prince. But, stepmother didnt allow Cinderella to attend, while her daughters would go. The bird gave a pretty dress for her attending party when she wished in her mothers grave. The princ
5、e was attracted by Cinderella. Finally, after several twists and turns, Cinderella has a happiness life with the prince. The beautiful, kindness, hard-working and loyal heroine was through the hard life of temper and with the help of divine to get the final happiness. For the research of divine powe
6、r and the meaning of symbol in this work in domestic research, The Symbolic Significance of Divine Power in Cinderella of Lin Xiaowen is more comprehensive. As we know, the prototype of Cinderella is enjoyed popular support. Everyone loves and envies Cinderella. They image that they can get protecti
7、on by divine and gain happiness life like her one day. At the same time, I also want to know deeply: Why Cinderella can get the help of divine? Why the lovely birds help her so many times? How the hazel trees can give her splendid dancing clothes and golden dancing shoes? This is the unique aestheti
8、c thinking fairy tale brings to us. So, this essay attempts to analyze the divine symbolism in Cinderella for the three parts that pursuit of moral perfection, respect for nature and make up the deficient feeling of human beings, telling people that they should handle the relations between human and
9、 human, human and nature, human and society correctly. 2. The Symbolic Meaning of Divine PowerFairy tale is a kind of fantasy colorific fiction works in childrens literature. Also, fairy tale is the most symbolic meaning in style type, and its symbol and metaphor beauty is innate esthetics character
10、istics. Symbol of fairy tale is expressing by the fairy tales image or the whole activities of people even the whole contents of the story. The life reflects in fairy tale is not the real life itself. The symbolic characters in fairy tales although have the same feature in being a symbol of characte
11、rs, things have a certain characteristic similarities to each other; in any sense are appropriate and consistent by no means. We dont put the feature, action, language and some details of fairy tales images into social life so simply and add assumption and analogy to it. We dont think something must
12、 have reasons so that determine one image to present one person, one plot allude to anything, even link some political concepts with class relations together. In fact, the symbolic image of fairy tale can only generalize a certain character, not including those who are the symbol of all. We should s
13、ee the purpose of this fairy tale from the image, character, the whole meaning described about story of the fairy tale works, and we see what it sings, what it ironies, what it hints and what it reveals. We should see whether authors can catch a symbol of important features and characters of some pe
14、ople and things, and the symbolism he has taken have positive significance or not. Only in this way, can we correctly understand the symbol of fairy tales. Cinderella is the classic work in fairy tale, through the rich imagination, fantasy, exaggeration and symbolism way to shape image, reflecting l
15、ife and conducting ideological education of children. The language is vivid; storyline is often twists and turns.Divine power plays an important role in Cinderella. And it can come from its own strength that can get through their own efforts or congenital conditions; divine power can also come from
16、the extraordinary power creating by outside world, with the help of divine power, people can get what they expect. In the fairy tale, divine power has symbolic significance.Symbol is one of the basic artistic techniques. It refers to a particular thing in external characteristic, containing some pro
17、found thoughts of artist or the artistic methods expressing some rich and special significance reasons. Using the artistic techniques of symbol can make abstract concept more concrete and visualize, male the complex profound thing easier and single. It can also extend describing the implication, cre
18、ate a kind of artistic conception, in order to arouse peoples association and enhance the works expression and artistic effect. （Todorov, 2004:26）As a kind of aesthetics form, symbolism usually refers to a unique, complete image system as foundation, then perform or imply a beyond this image system
19、of rich and deep aesthetics artistic conception as the way of expression. Therefore, the basic characteristics of symbolic artistic should be: firstly, it should has a unique and complete image system, not only locally and even isolated detail image; secondly, it should be able to perform or imply t
20、hat image of system beyond a rich and deep aesthetics artistic conception. That is to say, it should not be just a simple analogy and one-way image interpretation, must have the meaning of philosophical connotation, and should be of deep integration between figurative and abstract. Generally speakin
21、g, “Cinderella” is the incarnation of beauty, kindness and loyalty. But from a deeper sense to read the appearance of Cinderella, especially the process she obtained the happy life with the help of divine power. What we can excavate the deep symbolic meaning is that if human want to live longer and
22、peacefully on the earth, we should handle the relationship correctly between human and human, human and nature, human and society. It is said that the pursuits of moral perfection, respect social law, reach for the harmony among human, nature and society on the basic of respecting for nature and und
23、erstanding the lack of oneself and deficient.3. Pursuing the Integrity of MoralityDivine power can come from its own strength that can get through its own efforts or congenital conditions. “Cinderella” is the incarnation of beauty, kindness and loyalty. Through her own divine power, pursuing the int
24、egrity of morality, and warning people should improve themselves and their moral cultivation. Morality is a kind of social ideology in which people live together and their behavior of the principles and norms, with the five functions of understanding, regulation, education, evaluation and balance. M
25、orality often represents the positive social values, since the role of judgment behavior justified or not, however, different times and different classes, its moral values will change. （Wang Haiming, 2001: 32）Recognized from the current human nature, the moral responsibilities of things do not harm
26、others as a criterion. In essence, men are born naturally well, which means man is born only instinct, but not a discipline. So, everyone needs instinct of exterior restriction and inner restriction; exterior restriction is a law, but the function of legal sanctions against human instinct is only an
27、 attempt to harm others in community such as the human aspects of major hazards. Therefore, we need inner restriction that is morality to restrict the instinct, while it is not illegal. No matter people are goodness or evil, the influences of morality to people are profound and lasting. The evil, mo
28、rality prompted him to much from good; the good, morality prompted him to continue from good. Morality as the norm to peoples behaviors, often represents the positive social value orientation, plays a leading and promoting the function of people to perform good. It is because of moral strength, our
29、society will become warm and harmonious. For fairy tale Cinderella with a cycle of mystery in this moral power that is divine power, it is regarded to authors as a kind of power to promote religion at the past. But in our opinion, the teaching before her mother died “Dear child, be good and pious, a
30、nd then the good god will always protects you”, which was the essence of author or the fairy tale itself to calling a deep and pursuing an ardent human goodness nature. 3.1 The philosophies come in fairy taleFairy tale is the product that combing with fantasy and real life. The most distinctive features of fairy tale fantasy is surreal, one of the fantasy world does not exist in rea
