The marital bed
As we have
seen, we need to know one more thing to end the story. The main character still
has to learn how to shudder, and for this, the princess, taking the advantage
that the youth is sleeping, goes to the garden of the palace and fills a bucket
of gudgeons from the stream. The bucket and the gudgeons end up on top on the
youth. Suddenly, he wakes up, and after feeling the fish moving between his
clothes discovers what shudder is.
It is
somehow ironic the simple way hoe he finds out what shudder is, after having
lived the most terrified adventures.
The message
or the moral of the story ends up transmitting us the following: If you don’t
know what is to be afraid of something, just get married and you will see!
In other
words, marriage is the most dangerous and also the most decisive step that any
men or women can give, and thus, it’s a step where you have to be with a lot of
seriousness.