I loved the stories written by Hans Christian Andersen, he had the ability to see through the eyes of a child. Every night my mother would read one of his stories. For me it was a time that life was not so complicated, not so hostel. Not all his stories have a happy end, but each of his stories teaches us something about life.
The endings are different, Hans Christian Andersen and Walt Disney differ.
Walt Disney is known for making happy endings. This is just one of many stories that Walt Disney has given a happy ending to it!
Hans Christian Andersen - about the author
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875), Danish author and poet, wrote many poems, plays, stories and travel essays, but is best known for his fairy tales of which there are over one hundred and fifty, published in numerous collections during his life and many still in print today.
His first collection of Fairy Tales, Told for Children was published in 1835. He broke new ground for Danish literature with his style and use of idiom, irony and humour, memorable characters and un-didactic moral teaching inspired by the primitive folk tales he had learned as a child. Though they do not all end happily his Fairy Tales resound with an authenticity that only unabashed sincerity can produce from a man who could still see through a child’s eyes;
Andersen’s fairy tales of fantasy with moral lessons are popular with children and adults all over the world, and they also contain autobiographical details of the man himself. Born on 2 April, 1805 in Odense, on the Danish island of Funen, Denmark, he was the only son of washerwoman Anna Maria Andersdatter (d.1833) and shoemaker Hans Andersen (d.1816). They were very poor, but Hans took his son to the local playhouse and nurtured his creative side by making him his own toys. Young Hans grew to be tall and lanky, awkward and effeminate, but he loved to sing and dance, and he had a vivid imagination that would soon find its voice.
After the death of his father, Andersen travelled to Copenhagen to pursue an acting career at the Royal Theatre. Under the patronage of the Theatre’s Jonas Collins, he attended the Copenhagen University which were formative but difficult years for him. Coming from a humble provincial background he had to adjust to bourgeois life in the capital city and competitive realm of the theatre. Collins’ daughter Louise and son Edward were soon the objects of his affection. Andersen turned his pen to writing poems, plays and stories, his first poem “The Dying Child” published in the Copenhagen Post in 1827.
The Improvisatore (1835) received international acclaim for Andersen, published by the University, and with this encouragement he set off on his literary career. Now that Andersen had achieved success by his pen he was not without his critics. He stayed with friend Charles Dickens in London for a time. He received the Knighthood of the Red Eagle from King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia in 1846, and the Maximilian Order of Art and Science from King Maximilian II of Bavaria in 1859. He was made an Honorary Citizen of Odense in 1867.
After suffering from liver cancer and in the care of his friends the Melchiors, Hans Christian Andersen died at their home on 4 August, 1875 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He lies buried in the Assistens Cemetery in the same city.
“First, you undergo such a terrible amount of suffering, and then you become
famous.” —from The Fairy Tale of My Life (1855).
The Little Mermaid - The Little Mermaid was written by Hans Christian Andersen and made into a film by Walt Disney. The Hans Christian Andersen - The Little Mermaid
On her 15th birthday, a mermaid is allowed to swim to the surface and look at the world above. On her 15th birthday she goes to the surface, and there she sees a ship, she approaches the ship, listening to the music, she spots a very handsome man,the prince. She falls in love with him. A great storm knocks over the prince ship. The mermaid swam with all her might and rescued the Prince from drowning. She took him ashore and petted his head gently until she heard someone coming near. The Prince was found and taken back to his castle, but it saddened the Mermaid that he would never know what she did for him. The Mermaid returned to her home and told her sisters about what happened. The sisters knew about the prince and his kingdom and took their little sister to show her the prince’s home. After that, The Little Mermaid would always dream about life in the Human world.The mermaid asks her grandmother if Mermaids could ever have souls, and she responds, telling her granddaughter that only if she were to marry a human who loved her more so than his own parents and family, that a part of his soul would enter her and she would have a soul of her own. It’s important to note that the Mermaid not only wants to be with the prince, but would gladly give up her extended life to have a soul.
One night, when the underwater kingdom is having a ball, The Little Mermaid decides to go to the Sea Witch, hoping for a way to become human. The sea witch tells her that she is foolish, and that it would only end in heartbreak for her, but the mermaid persists. The sea witch tells her that in exchange for her ability to speak, she could be human. However, every step she takes will feel like a knife through her legs, and if the prince does not marry her, then the morning after his wedding, the Mermaid would die and become sea foam. The mermaid agrees and the Sea Witch takes a knife and cuts the Mermaid’s tongue out.
The Prince finds the Mermaid and takes her back to his castle where she is dressed richly. The prince loved the mermaid, but he loved her as he would a little child. He told her that she was dear to him, but that he was in love with the temple maiden that had found him on the beach after the ship wreckage. He had only seen her twice, but he told the Mermaid that she had almost driven the temple maiden from his mind. The Mermaid is happy, thinking that she is close to winning over the prince’s heart, but then the unexpected happens.
The prince and Mermaid sail away to another kingdom after his parents forced him to meet its princess. On their way there, he tells the mermaid that his parents cannot force him to marry the princess, and that he would rather marry the mermaid who has been so loyal to him. The mermaid grows happier but when they arrive at the town, her world – and heart – is shattered. The princess is the same girl from the temple that found him on the beach, and the prince had finally found the girl that had rescued him. Even the mermaid acknowledges that she is the most beautiful thing she had ever laid eyes on.
The prince married the princess.
That night, on the prince’s ship, the little mermaid waited for the sun to rise and for her imminent death. It was then that she saw her sister's surface from the ocean depths with all of their beautiful hair cut short. They gave her a dagger, saying they all sacrificed their hair to the sea witch in exchange for a way to save their sister’s life. The Little Mermaid would have to plunge it into the heart of prince and let his blood drip over her feet, then, she would turn back into a mermaid and would be able to live out the rest of her life.
Here is the difference between the original and Walt Disney film
The mermaid has no name and Hans Christian Andersen shows her as a young girl of 15. The mermaid is quiet and reserved. She is sad even after meeting the prince and falling in love with him. The mermaid does not have a strong character but she does not choose to kill the prince at the end, she shows a remarkable strength. There is no happy ending for the mermaid. The mermaid endures extreme pain in order to walk. Her tongue was remove and she could no longer sing. After the mermaid could not kill the prince, she throws the dagger overboard, and as the sun starts to rise, she throws herself into the ocean, her body turning into foam. Something really strange happens, and she rises into the sky. She is now an ethereal being. There are other ethereal beings and they explain to her, she had become a daughter of the air and is rewarded with a soul, after her struggle to become human. She is given entry into the Kingdom of God. However, for every good child that they encounter, one year is taken off of their service, and for every bad child, one year is added on.
The sea witch, she doesn’t have an ulterior motive. She even advises the mermaid not to pursue the prince.
The Walt Disney version
Arial has a strong character and fights hard to get what she wants in life. Arial is the youngest of King Triton's daughters. Arial falls in love with the prince. Ariel concentrates more on being human. For Arial there is a happy ending. Eric realizes he had been tricked and rescues Ariel
from the evil witch, Ursula. Ariel dreams do come true and becomes human and marries the prince.
The sea witch, Ursula, Walt Disney version makes the film a lot darker. This is so unlike Walt Disney.
In the Disney version, Ariel was obsessed with the human world way before she ever met Eric, and in the story, one of her main motivations was her desire to obtain a soul and live on in heaven after she died.
What I love about Hans Christian Anderson story, the Little Mermaid was willing to give up her life for the man she truly loved, this can only be because she really loved him. She was rewarded in the end ..........
Here is the difference between the original and Walt Disney film
The mermaid has no name and Hans Christian Andersen shows her as a young girl of 15. The mermaid is quiet and reserved. She is sad even after meeting the prince and falling in love with him. The mermaid does not have a strong character but she does not choose to kill the prince at the end, she shows a remarkable strength. There is no happy ending for the mermaid. The mermaid endures extreme pain in order to walk. Her tongue was remove and she could no longer sing. After the mermaid could not kill the prince, she throws the dagger overboard, and as the sun starts to rise, she throws herself into the ocean, her body turning into foam. Something really strange happens, and she rises into the sky. She is now an ethereal being. There are other ethereal beings and they explain to her, she had become a daughter of the air and is rewarded with a soul, after her struggle to become human. She is given entry into the Kingdom of God. However, for every good child that they encounter, one year is taken off of their service, and for every bad child, one year is added on.
The sea witch, she doesn’t have an ulterior motive. She even advises the mermaid not to pursue the prince.
The Walt Disney version
Arial has a strong character and fights hard to get what she wants in life. Arial is the youngest of King Triton's daughters. Arial falls in love with the prince. Ariel concentrates more on being human. For Arial there is a happy ending. Eric realizes he had been tricked and rescues Ariel
from the evil witch, Ursula. Ariel dreams do come true and becomes human and marries the prince.
The sea witch, Ursula, Walt Disney version makes the film a lot darker. This is so unlike Walt Disney.
In the Disney version, Ariel was obsessed with the human world way before she ever met Eric, and in the story, one of her main motivations was her desire to obtain a soul and live on in heaven after she died.
What I love about Hans Christian Anderson story, the Little Mermaid was willing to give up her life for the man she truly loved, this can only be because she really loved him. She was rewarded in the end ..........
a poem by William John Palmer, Canada
When you really love someone...you will fight for them to the
end
And you have to make it work; no matter how far you have to
bend
You are going to have to hold on tight and never, never let them
go
And if you are not willing to do just that; then the love will not
grow
If you start to play games with the other persons heart and
emotions
You will end up losing their love for you...when all is set into
motion
When it comes to true love; listen to the sages and take their
advice
Never take someone’s love for granted...for true love takes
sacrifice
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