Depiction of reality in The Little Match Girl through various themes: Poverty and Hunger Helplessness Longing for love and care Dreams and hope Death as liberation
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The little match girl died at the end of the story. But it was good for her that she went along with her dead grandmother, who was the closest one of her.
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Depiction of reality in The Little Match Girl through various themes:
Poverty and Hunger
In “The Little Match Girl,” he focuses on the titular little girl as she struggles for warmth while out selling matches in the bitter cold of New Year’s Eve. The story’s morbid ending (the girl dies from exposure after she uses all of her matches to warm and comfort herself) is presented as a welcome reprieve from the continued suffering of her existence as a child labourer. In portraying the innocent girl’s helpless, futile attempts to escape her difficult circumstances, Andersen shows that poverty is brutal, inescapable, and ultimately a worse fate than death.
By emphasizing the contrast between the little girl’s bleak, hopeless surroundings and her imaginary visions of warmth and nourishment, Andersen draws attention to the stark divide between the lives of the poor and the upper classes. When the girl burns the matchsticks (her only source of income), she finds that their flames spark imaginary visions of comforts like a “big iron stove,” a “table spread with a damask cloth and set with the finest porcelain,” and a Christmas tree with “thousands of candles.” These are comforts that are available to the wealthier people who surround the little girl in the city, but she can only access them in her imagination.
Helplessness
She is not helped by anyone. She cannot even go to her own house because her Father will beat her since she did not sell any matchstick and earn any money. She tells that the only person who showed love to her is her grandmother and that she has passed away. Since there is no one to help her she sits in the corner of the street and lights the matchstick to gain heat and she imagines about all the good things. Finally she dies and goes with her grandmother.
Longing for love and care
The little girl was longing for the love and care. She had to sell matchsticks for her living and if she did not even sell one box of matchsticks a day then her father would beat her. She was not cared by anyone except her grandmother so when her grandmother died she was alone with no one to love her or care for her. On the eve of New Year because of the cold outside she died because of having no heat to warm her up. Finally at the end she was united with her grandmother who took her high up towards glory and Joy.
Dreams and hope
The Little girl dreamed and hoped for having a better life. She hoped for living without facing hunger or cold or fear. She hoped to live by lighting the matches and warming her body from the cold outside. At the end she died and went with her grandmother high up towards god where they did not have to face cold, hunger or fear.
Death as liberation
In the story death liberates the little girl from her suffering and pain. Death brings her and reunites her with her grandmother. Death made her enter heaven with her grandmother and get joy. Death made her with god where they did not have to face cold, hunger or fear. In the story death acts as the saviour and liberates her from her suffering. Death helped her ease her sufferings.
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