Hans Christian Andersen

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…

changed. How and why have children’s stories changed overtime? This is best seen through two different versions of The Little Mermaid, the Disney version and the original Hans Christian Andersen version. Each follows the journey of a little mermaid who dreams of being with a prince who lives on land. In the Hans Christian Andersen version of the story the little mermaid is not yet old enough to go to the surface. When she is, she sees a prince celebrating his birthday…

that 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…

“Once upon a time” is an idiom most people associate with the beginning of a fairy tale. Fairy tales from around the world represent their culture’s values. Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author who lived from 1805 to 1875. His “The Little Mermaid” represents Danish culture. Western Europe, including Denmark, was facing an influence of liberalism in the mid-nineteenth century. Walt Disney was an extremely successful American entrepreneur and animator; in 1923, he founded one of the most…

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…

story that has a happy ending for the protagonist and the villain is defeated, but that’s not how they used to be. The original Little Mermaid is a story by Hans Christian Andersen (1836). Andersen’s version of the story was a literary fairy tale, and was not passed on verbally like many fairy tales were. Disney did take some aspects from Hans’ story and are similar in some ways (such as the mermaid trading her voice for legs), but in Andersen’s story, her tongue is…

Hans Christian Andersen stories are illustrious to young ones but why? Adults read different versions of his fairy tales to put children to sleep yet, they do not know how strange and disturbing they actually are. Fairy tales are read to kids worldwide because they create situations to inspire infants to be better. However, do you know what horrors lie between the pages of classics? There is no doubt people have heard of The Little Mermaid, The Little Match Girl, and Thumbelina. Does everyone…

“The Little Mermaid” was originally a fairy tale written in 1837 by Hans Christian Andersen that portrayed a young mermaid that faces the tribulations that comes with growing up and showcased her struggle to obtain what she wants most in life. Since then, Andersen’s story has inspired several movie adaptations, once of which being “The Little Mermaid” produced by Disney in 1989. In both the movie and book, similar archetypes between characters can be examined, however the mermaid’s ultimate fate…

this 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…

"Life is full of tough choices innit." This statement made by Ursula, the sea witch in Disney's Little Mermaid, sums up the plot in both the original book by Hans Christian Andersen and Disney's animated version. Both revolve around the choices of a young girl seeking love. The stories are similar, but have striking differences. Desire, cost and sacrifice are at the heart of both accounts of a young mermaid becoming a woman, but while one story shows growth and responsibility, the other…