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Compare And Contrast Cinderella And Little Mermaid

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Cinderella and Little Mermaid are two of the most well known fairy tales of the 21st century. The two stories focus their attention on a young girl struggling to change who she is in order to marry the man of her dreams. However, the Disney version most people know and love are not the original tales. The true Grimm Brother’s Cinderella and Andersen’s Little Mermaid have much more dark and twisted endings than any Disney fan would like to believe. While the two stories start out in similar ways, a young girl longing to venture somewhere and experience what is unfamiliar to them, these stories end up going in two completely different directions. In both the Grimm Brother’s Cinderella and Andersen’s Little Mermaid the protagonist is exceptionally curious and, due to their curiosity, becomes willing to do anything in order to achieve their goal; however, the characters use two very different methods in order to try to reach their happily ever after. In order to compare these two stories we must look at what makes the main characters so curious and how they go about solving their problems. In Andersen’s Little Mermaid, the protagonist longs for a life above the bottom of the sea. The Little Mermaid longed to see the world and explore everything that it had to offer; however, because of her age she was unable to fulfill this longing. While the Little Mermaid’s only enemy was the time until her fifteenth birthday. Unlike the Little Mermaid, Cinderella is not born a princess

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