Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen

There are a number of fairytales, either from Grimm’s Brothers or Hans Christian Anderson, that portray numerous social issues that we still face in modern days. Social issues could include racism, equality between men and women, and ethnocentrism. These are social problems we face daily, and we have yet found solutions to eliminate\ the plentiful social issues. As said, fairy tales and children’s book always show hidden messages on problems that humans face every day. A very famous short story, which is known also by its movie, has an abundance in social issues that people face to this day. This short story is called “The Little Mermaid”, by Hans Christian

However, because childhood and adulthood never exist completely separate from the influence of one another, the sea kingdom of innocence and joy is tinged with glimpses into the adult domain – glimpses which grow in frequency and intensity of curiosity as the Little Mermaid grows older. The Little Mermaid has shaped her garden to look like the sun; the sun has connotations with the over-world as well as with “son” or man (Dahlerup). The statue of a young man in her garden verifies this semblance. Such indications of another world are not given birth on its own, but rather are spurred by the figure of the grandmother, who serves as both an otherworldly messenger, as well as an embodiment of the sea world. The grandmother acts as a mother figure to the mermaids, as a center and a sustainer of a child world; however, the twelve oysters on her tail shows her to be “a little too proud of her rank” and instantly places her as an adult with desires and manifestations of such desires that extend beyond the simplicity and ignorance of childhood (Andersen 218). The grandmother’s stories and descriptions of an ulterior reality power both imagination and curiosity – and the Little Mermaid longs for the day she is “old enough” to give tangible form to her

The Little Mermaid is a fairy tale by the Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The tale is about a young mermaid willing to give up her life in the sea and her identity as a merperson to gain a human soul and the love of a human prince. The tale was first published in 1837 and has been adapted to various media including musical theater and animated film.The standard of this classical story has been set to be the Disney Movie titled the same

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Fairytale live in the minds of their tellers and hearers, growing and changing with each telling. The same tales told six hundred years ago still live in the minds of today. Fairy tales hold a unique magic because they are able to grow, to change, and to become important to each new generation. In the time of the tales of the Grimm Brothers were created, people lived in fear of magic and witches. While Pentamerone, by the poet Giambattista Basile was born in the sunny, temperate climate of Italy is less dark but to today’s minds equally unlikely. In the culture of France where Charles Perrault gathered his anthology of tales, people lived in a society characterized by ridged customs and class difference where each person played a vital role. There lies the difference such as Rapunzel and Sleeping Beauty both tales originated around the same time but reflecting two different nations. These two tales are still important today from recently released films which have heroines instead of only heroes and movies from Walt Disney which are lighter and more fantastical versions of the classic stories. Fairy tales reflect their originator’s environment, beliefs, class, ideals, and national identity.

The short story “The Little Mermaid” by Hans Christian Andersen tells a story about the tragedy of love and the result of selflessness in the form of death of the unnamed mermaid. Her love for the prince lead her to pain and conflict throughout the short story, only to end with her death. In contrast, Disney’s version ends with the “happily ever after” cliché as seen in many of Disney’s films with the little mermaid marrying the prince. With the drastic difference, it’s clear that the change in tone and theme was meant to appeal to a different type of audience and a different message top deliver to their audience.

This story, like many other Disney stories, involves a young, naïve girl who is easily and illogically swayed by the good looks and charm of the handsome man, the same heterosexual and misogynistic fairy tale that is constantly recreated in each of Disney’s movies. The same company that retold classic fables like Cinderella, Pocahontas, and Sleeping Beauty, notoriously exploits, objectifies, and hypersexualizes women’s bodies and femininity and has created a multibillion dollar industry that profits from its demeaning ideals that negatively categorizes and homogenizes women. The Little Mermaid is no exception in the way it portrays beauty in terms of youth, smallness, and a ‘pretty singing’ voice, thus subliminally sending the message to its youthful audience that women must ‘prove’ their womanhood to men, the ultimate and most important judges or they are in fact inauthentic and flawed. This story also idealizes and constructs ways that feminism is falsely related to sexuality, consequently assuming that women’s transition from childhood to womanhood is influentially provoked by their sexual curiosity and promiscuity, and unable to resist the opposite sex’s carnal advances. Arial is just another example of the ways in which Disney ritually practices invoking inferior complexes to the linkage of women, depicting them as susceptible and needy of the dramatically hypermasculinized men, insinuating their superiority as the saviors of these women. This, however, poses the idea that this antiquated idealism may potentially emanate from patriarchal society’s intimidation by the threatening challenge women pose to masculinity if these sexist ideas were to ever cease. Undeniably, The Little Mermaid is another classical children’s tale that has

The Disney story lacks feminism and the maturity level needed for young girls in 2017. When King Triton finds out about Ariel’s unforgivable actions Ariel realizes that she must choose between these two men. In the article “Is Disney’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ a Feminist Film or Not” it talks about how some people can see how “The little Mermaid” lacks feminism because Ariel chooses to change herself for a man. Then the immature image that Disney shows young girls is that Ariel “rejects her father’s culture to embrace Eric’s culture” (Trites 2). The maturity level of how to handle situations between the two stories is evident. Disney’s underlying message is that “Children, especially girls, can gain an identity independent from their parents by becoming dependent on someone else”, while in Andersen’s story the mermaid 's quest is for a soul and she searches for answers in a less malicious way.

Facing the dangerous route to the sea witch’s residence, “her heart was beating with fear, she almost turned back.” But by reminding herself of her goals, “her courage returned.”(68) She was not the helpless, vulnerable, little princess in her father’s palace, rather, she turned into a strong-minded woman who bravely sought for the truth about her nature and who willingly endured unimaginable pain for love. The sea witch warned her about the terrible consequences of her decision: “every time your foot touches the ground it will feel as though you were walking on knives so sharp that your blood must flow.”(68) And more severely, if she failed to marry the prince, “the first morning after he has married another, your heart will break and you will become foam on the ocean.”(69) Even though her voice trembled and her face turned white as a corpse, she answered, ”I still want to try.”(69) However, the little mermaid’s painful efforts did not come out as she expected. The prince treated her as his lovely pet and she, who sacrificed her voice for legs, could not reveal the truth that she was the girl who saved him. Yet the little mermaid held on to her beliefs, “I will take care of him, love him, and devote my life to him.”(72) And so she did. As the prince fell in love with the neighboring princess, it seems that the little mermaid’s journey was going to come to a dreadful end. At the most frustrating moment, on the edge of death, she danced for the prince to please him and refused to kill him for her own life. Her devotion and selflessness shows her transformation from a sentimental, imaginative, and impulsive mermaid girl to a rational, faithful, and mature human. In the end, Andersen indicated her transformation by granting her a chance to obtain the immortal soul, a soul that only human could have. At the end, the little mermaid “kissed the bride’s forehead and smiled at the

After 25 years of hearing and watching Disney fairy tales, I learned that they were a cleaned up version. After watching the movie Maleficent, it seems that fairy tales have tricked us yet again. Maleficent, directed by Robert Stromberg, retells the story of Sleeping Beauty except this time the tale does not concentrate on Aurora. Rather, it begins with a young fairy-like princess name Maleficent, but she is not an average fairy, she is someone who takes care of her home of magical creatures. During this movie, I notice that Maleficent shows that the heart has a tendency towards terrible thoughts and actions not quite like any Disney fairy tale I’ve watched that ends with a prince charming and a princess getting married at the end.

Ugly. Different. Broken. Worthless. These are all names and problems The ugly Duckling and the Tin Soldier had to deal with everyday. Hans Christian Andersen uses the theme of an unfortunate outcast, marked by physical appearance to display the neglect and rudeness the characters receive for being different and eventually the Regret from others of the beauty that becomes of them.

Like all fairy tales, Rapunzel has a history that extends far earlier than the 1800s when it was first transcribed by brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. However, Rapunzel is a tale that continues to be re-written and re-interpreted even today. From the 1970s with the feminist revitalization of fairy tales to the early 2010s with Disney’s Tangled (2010), this timeless tale continues to engage its listeners. In 2015, Katie Kapurch of Texas State University revisited Rapunzel with an eye on its more recent modernizations. By starting with Anne Sexton’s poem “Rapunzel” from her 1971 collection Transformations, Kapurch analyzed the lesbian elements of the tale in order to examine the 21st century Tumblr culture that “ships” Tangled’s Rapunzel with Brave’s (2012) Merida.

The inquisitive mind of a child is one of imagination and exploration. The lines between reality and fantasy can easily be crossed when imagination takes flight and one is left to think about everything that is outside of the norm. Dreams of attaining the unrealistic seem only to be a subtle hurdle in life instead of a barrier preventing one to obtain a final goal or destination. Despite these attainments as being foreseen as the ultimate goal, individuals somehow accept aspects of the journey that may not be as glamorous or even desirable sometimes even those that could be avoidable. Hans Christian Andersen’s tale of “The Little Mermaid” is that of a young child who dreams of not only experiencing the parts of life that seem to be better than

Fairy tales have been embedded into our culture and date back before recorded times, they provide a source of entertainment and imagination for children. Despite today’s fairy tales having positive moral intentions they have been adapted from earlier versions which often can be very different and much more sinister. The fairy tale “Sun, Moon, and Talia” by Giambattista Basile formed the basis for the more commonly known Disney interpretation called the “Sleeping Beauty” however they are vastly different, Basile’s original is a very dark and twisted story compared to the Disney version.

Once upon a time, there lived an innocent girl who so blindingly fell in love with a prince whom she had never spoken to. Most people would call it love at first sight, others might predict that the two would find true love, however, instead of living happily ever after, the 15-year-old girl suffered through the perpetual pain of treading on sharp knives only to throw herself off a ship, ending her young life. Believe it or not, the well-known Disney film The Little Mermaid, whose songs you may still sing along to in the shower, myself included, is based on this tragic and gruesome tale. However, the fairy tale The Little Mermaid written by the Hans Christian Anderson in 1836, has no significance to a modern audience and is highly inappropriate for children due to its archaic and repugnant values, attitudes and beliefs. There are many beliefs conveyed throughout the tale, but two major beliefs that have no relevance to a modern society include the idea that men are superior to women and that physical looks are to be prioritised rather than personality.