The Nightingale by Hans Christian AndersenThe Nightingale is the story of an emperor who hears of a nightingale bird in his empire that he has never seen or heard and talked about by everyone. how beautiful this bird is. He is intrigued by the search for this bird and therefore sends his chamberlain to search the corridors and find the famous nightingale. The chamberlain approached the maid who had already heard about the nightingale. She leads him into the forest to find the bird and ask it to sing for the emperor. Once the emperor hears the nightingale he orders a cage and keeps it in his empire but the bird is unhappy being stuck inside so waits for the perfect moment to escape from the empire leaving the mechanical bird in the cage. The emperor is angry that the bird escaped and banished it from his empire. The emperor falls ill; enough to die soon, and death sits on his breast. The nightingale returns to the empire and sings for the emperor who soon finds himself healed and in good health. The emperor and the nightingale came up with a plan so that the bird would remain free to come and go as it pleased and sing whenever it wanted – or not. The nightingale promises to sing about good and bad, sad and happy, all of this being hidden from the emperor as long as he promises not to tell people, a little bird tells him everything. And they lived happily ever after. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on “Why Violent Video Games Should Not Be Banned”? Get an original essay Although this story does not begin with "once upon a time" or something similar like a typical folk tale does, the author alternately creates a distant setting that occurred long ago and makes it known that it's an old story. As folk tales are known to be old stories told from storyteller to storyteller, this story reminded me of that. Like a folk tale, the story has a beginning, a middle and an end. The beginning of the story focuses on the creation of an imaginary landscape, a world of magic and beauty. I noticed that this story creates an obstacle from the beginning where the chamberlain is searching for the nightingale at the request of the emperor. He searches high and low, so to speak, for this nightingale bird and with the help of the kitchen lady; they find the bird to bring back to the empire. In this part of the story, I noticed that the conflict fell into the repetition of three. The chamberlain heard the cow mooing and thought it was the bird, he heard the frogs croaking and also thought it was the bird, finally he heard the real nightingale bird. Another similarity between the traditional folktale and this story is that the story includes helping figures. The Nightingale has three: the chamberlain who helped find the nightingale bird for the emperor, the kitchen helper who took the chamberlain into the forest to find the bird, and the nightingale himself, who sang for the emperor whatever happens, which led to his regaining good health. Midway through the story, I didn't really notice the fast-paced action or main conflict like a traditional folk tale would have. Instead, and this is another example of their difference, the nightingale brought much happiness to the emperor and the people of the empire until one day a mechanical bird appeared and sang with the nightingale. The nightingale slipped through the window without anyone noticing, which became another conflict in the story. The emperor was upset, as were the courtiers who scolded the nightingale and said it was the most ungrateful bird. He was banished from the empire and everyone was very happy with him...