Hans Christian Ørsted

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 Deeper Tale of the Mighty Mermaid When people think of Disney fairy tales, most immediately associate with fun, happy endings, imagination, and dreams come true. While this is not inherently wrong, it seems they can take it too far. Historically speaking, the majority of fairy tales intend to impart life lessons, values, and morals. However, when Disney sets out to create fairy tale films, ultimately, they tend to alter the original story line so much that the original context tends…

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…

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…

explored 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…

In the late 1850s, change was a revolutionary concept. Life was changing at a more rapid pace than ever, with unimaginable concepts and technological advances. During 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…

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…

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…

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…

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 elementary-school-me recognized the problem with the mermaid giving up her voice: Women having a voice, and having it heard, is…