The princes, now swans, obeyed her command and, Also, they mysteriously retained the ability to resume their human form by night. She tried to get rid of her eleven stepsons too, commanding them to, "Fly away as great voiceless birds!" But her spell did not work quite as well as she expected, as they were transformed into wild mute swans royal birds, very noble and majestic, "with golden crowns on their heads". Spitefully, the queen sent Elise away to be raised by peasants. She turned out not only to be a wicked queen, but also a witch. But the king decided to remarry, and his new wife hated the king's children.
They were all very happy, living in the lap of luxury, and their lives seemed perfect. The tale starts in a kingdom far away, where a princess called Elise lived with her father, the king, whose wife had died, and her eleven brothers, who were princes. Here then follow the main developments of the story, as I understood it, before my more personal comment. Indeed, it would be difficult to know what should not be revealed in such a random series of events. The underlying message is a religious one about virtue and self-sacrifice.Īs it is a fairy story, none of the plot is deliberately concealed in this review. However, there is evidently an additional subtext. There are obvious themes of loyalty, trust, and hoping almost beyond hope. Ostensibly it is about a princess who rescues her eleven brothers from a spell cast by an evil queen. It is one of his earliest and longest stories, and very involved. The Wild Swans is a short story by Hans Christian Andersen, which was first published in 1838.
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