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“Andersen’s ‘The Snow Queen’; The Creativity of Fairy Tale from the Dynamic View of Mythic Conflict and Reconciliation.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 36.4(2010): 151-170. Andersen’s “The Snow Queen” presents different themes and contents in the multiple levels which appear to be contradictory each other. However, as the fairy tale develops its own story lines, these conflicting tensions are reconciliated into an harmonious insight by Andersen’ creativity. These opposite and incompatible themes - christian myth and pagan norse myth, the Eden garden and the Paradise Lost, nature and industrial city, the good and the evil, purity and corruption, life and death, children’s innocence and adult’s experience, religious love and scientific rationalism, etc. - are all made into a well integrated story. In “The Snow Queen”, the true and unselfish love with the God’s Grace turns to be a self-affirming insight of life, that is, the eternal wisdom of life. This indicates a kind of religious vision - a unified vision of our mysterious life, meanwhile human beings are suffering in awful oppositions and contradictions. (Hannam University)