The Little Mermaid Conflict

The Little Mermaid is a Disney movie about a young mermaid named Ariel. In the movie Ariel experiences several different conflicts throughout the entirety of the movie. Some of these conflicts could have been avoided if the characters would have used a non-judgemental tone/calm voice, clarified their real intentions, and established mutual purpose.Throughout the movie Ariel engages in flight many times when it comes to conflicts, though on the rare occasion she does choose fight. On the other hand, other characters such as her father, Sebastian, and Ursula engage in fight in over half of the conflicts they face. Ariel often runs away from her problems in the movie The Little Mermaid. One of the biggest examples of Ariel engaging in flight is after she forgets the performance …show more content…
She, like King Triton, uses the strategy of attacking. She uses Ariel to make King Triton suffer and to try and “win” the throne. When she helps Ariel and makes her human this greatly hurts King Triton because he is so concerned about his daughter. Then when he has to give himself up to save Ariel he really suffers and it makes it seem like Ursula “won”. If Ursula and King Triton had established mutual purpose and figured out what both of them were looking for in the beginning, there is a good chance that no one would have had to suffer. There are a lot of different conflicts in the movie The Little Mermaid. Ariel and her father have no idea how to communicate with each other which causes a lot of tension. Learning techniques such as creating safety, mutual purpose, and STATE could have greatly helped the characters in this movie. Even though The Little Mermaid is considered to be a children’s movie there are actually a lot of lessons to learn from it about communication. Ariel’s love and belonging needs and her safety needs weren’t being met by her father which is why she ran from her conflicts so