Hans Christian Andersen

After reading several stories in Women Who Run with the Wolves by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, I found two stories that resonated with me most: “The Ugly Duckling” and “Sealskin, Soulskin.” The former of the two stories is based on Hans Christian Anderson’s tale of the same name and tells of a homely little bird born to a family of ducks. The ugly duckling suffers much verbal and physical abuse from all of the other ducks. His mother defends him at first, but she eventually grows tired of his…

tales that is linked to “fantasy” and “fairy tales being unattainable”. Fairy tales, as intended, were supposed to echo real life, and be grounded enough that people could relate to them or take something away from them. Take, for example, the Hans Christian Anderson tale The Little Mermaid. In the original story, the protagonist makes the choice to exchange her voice for legs. She then proceeds to have her tongue removed out of her mouth…

Hans Christian Anderson’s short story “The Little Match Seller”, or “The Little Match Girl”, offers a look into the harsh realities of what life was like for children living in extreme poverty. The main character of the story undergoes a tremendous amount of grief throughout the story because of her low financial status and her inability to escape the harsh winter she is exposed to. Anderson’s use of setting, conflict, and figurative language develops the themes of suffering and loss by…

Introduction While it is noted that original fairytales tend to be darker and more frightening than recreated versions of the tales, there is a strikingly similar amount of violence and unhappiness within Hans Christian Anderson’s fairytale “The Little Mermaid” and Disney’s reimagining of the same story. At the same time, both fairytales and their reimagining’s are supposed to have a clear message, usually regarding some kind of moral value. Unlike the similar happenings of violence in the two…

“The Little Match Girl” written by Hans Christian Anderson is a short fairytale of hope in the darkest of times for a poor little girl. Written in December 1845, The Little Match Girl tells the tale of a young child, trying to sell matches on the cold night of December 31st to avoid being beaten by her father at home. To prolong her inevitable freezing to death by she lights matches to try to keep herself warm, to distract herself dreadful conditions and to try to keep warm. The matches she lit…

The Siren by Kiera Cass is a romance novel with forbidden love and mystical happenings. This novella stars Kahlen, a young girl, who was rescued from her terrible fate of drowning in a shipwreck by serving the Ocean for a century instead. She was forced to use her voice to lure people into the water and drown them, thus “feeding” the Ocean. After a hundred years, she would be given her humanity back and forget she was ever siren.There are two rules to being a siren: you can only use your voice…

Research regarding the use and analysis in two different literary genres has found the archetypal meanings of color in film and fiction, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic story of A Little Princess and Kenneth Branagh’s magical 2015 film Cinderella. The plot of “A Little Princess,” is familiar: Sara Crewe is a Cinderella figure whose story begins with the loss of her fortune, derived, in part, from diamond mines in India and ends with its restoration. A Little Princess and Cinderella use color…

Davy’s Journey Towards Electromagnetism During the early 1800s, scientists made observations that were tested repeatedly and then were seen as fact. Until 1820, electricity and magnetism were believed to be separate branches on the tree of science. Once others believed that idea it became cemented in to the scientific community. However, Humphry Davy was a chemist whose determination and experimentation overturned that idea. Despite obstacles, Oersted’s and Davy‘s experiments changed his peers’…

Hans Christian Heg: A True Scandinavian-American During Scandinavian immigration to America, many Scandinavians arrived in uncertain of what they would accomplish but far surpassed their own expectations and set examples of successful assimilation into American culture. Assimilating into American culture was no easy task. For the majority of Scandinavians who left their home, their hope was to escape hardships and start a new life without religious discrimination, harvests that were sufficient…

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