Arthur Andersen

Case History Ariel is a mermaid and the daughter of King Triton and Queen Athena. She is sixteen years old and the youngest of seven daughters. She seems to have a passion for collecting items, especially human objects. She is very curious and spends much time wandering and exploring with her friend Flounder, a yellow fish. She also is rebellious like many teenagers and she disobeys her father and Sebastian, a crustacean and her fathers advisor who watches over Ariel. Due to her rebellious and…

Disney’s newest hit movie Frozen has been one of the most popular movies in Disney history. Few people know that the movie is based off of the Danish folktale The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson and that the two are quite different. Most people believe that because a movie is based on a classic story, both storylines are the same. Little do people know that these two stories are worlds apart. Through the characters, the acts of true love, and the ends, these stories have proven to be…

there learnt lessons would help other and they when content with themselves when they died. For other people they are not lucky enough to learn on their journeys some time it's after the journeys are over the “The Ugly Duckling” by Hans Christian Andersen. The “duck” grew up thinking it was ugly and different but he lack the expression to know that he was beautiful. “Then he felt quite ashamed, and hid his head under his wing;for he did not know what to do, he was so happy and yet nat at all…

Tiny Tina Psychoanalytic Tiny Tina is a character within a videogame called Borderlands 2. She has no concept of empathy for other people and almost no concept of ego or superego. She demonstrates that she is all id because she likes explosions… and in particular, blowing people up with those explosions (She feels no remorse afterwards). She is introduced by blowing up a bandit. Her go to defense mechanism would be denial. TIny Tina has her own downloadable content called “Tiny Tina’s Assault…

The Little Mermaid was written in 1836 by the Danish Author Hans Christian Andersen. The story was very popular at that time, It was about one little Mermaid. The little Mermaid was the youngest one out of her five sisters. She was the prettiest and talented out her five sisters. However she had no feet, and her body ended in fish's tail. When she reached fifteen years old, she got a permission to rise up out of the sea. All the conflicts started that moment. One day, she was one young prince…

When I first watched Disney 's version of "The Little Mermaid" when I was younger, I knew there was something wrong with Ariel giving up her voice. I was so annoyed at her for making that decision -- Why would she give up her talent and her ability to talk for Prince Eric? What was even the point of doing that if she couldn 't talk to him? After now having read the original Hans Christian Anderson version, this time with a feminist theoretical lens applied to the story, I better understand why…

The Little Mermaid is an example of this, and after further examination the contrast of the original intent of Andersen will be established. The original tale has a much more profound lesson to teach, compared to the shallow, more diluted…

The cauldron of story is a metaphor used to help understand the formation and adaption of myths and fantasy. The metaphor identifies a cauldron as a massive pot holding all aspects of stories that simmer and brew together forming the soup which is served up by the author/storyteller as the story itself. The bones found in the soup represent the different aspects that make up the story such as the characters, the traits, the location, the foe, etc. And over time it can be hard to pull out the…

origins of the Disney film Pocahontas and discovered that it has a deeper, more complex history than we thought. In today’s post, we delve into another Disney film, Frozen, which is said to be based on the fairy tale The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen. Interestingly, there are speculations that Andersen’s fairy tales were actually inspired by Norse mythology, so we decided to examine The Snow Queen for these literary remnants. Join us as we peel back the layers of history to see how an…

period of time, Hans Christian Andersen wrote “The Thorny Road of Honor,” a short story that goes through the lives of great people who influenced history, only to be persecuted and called many different things for it. Throughout this narrative by the author, many examples of key figures in history are used to show that although we view them as successful, those people were ridiculed and had very harsh lives with the society around them. In “The Thorny Road of Honor,” Andersen uses simile to…