Authors’ appeals at the beginning of several chapters are addressed to little Fritz and Marie, that is, children who perceive everything told as truth. What is happening with the girl is presented by Hoffmann as a real story, which each reader can explain in his own way. The narration is conducted in two artistic spaces – real (the Stahlbaum house) and fantastic, breaking up into two fantasies (Marie – a transformed living room with revived toys and a journey through the Doll Kingdom senior adviser to the Drosselmeyer court – “The Tale of a Hard Nut”) and uniting in a single fairy tale the plot. The main heroine of the tale is the daughter of a medical adviser – seven-year-old Marie Stahlbaum. The name “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” is associated with the plot basis of the work, built on the clash of two fairy kingdoms – Puppet and Mouse. Tchaikovsky (1892) a fairy tale was written by E.T.A.
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