Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales are very interesting. The little mermaid is one of my favorite children’s movies so it was interesting to see the differences between this version and the movie. Andersen’s tales were not made for children and you can see this because there are vulgar parts and you can see that there is a lot of pain and/or suffering. This is a difference from some of the stories we have read. As well as there isn’t really that fairy tale ending that we normally see. In the little mermaid we see that the mermaid doesn’t get to marry the love of her life and because of this she turns into air. Normally we see the main characters live happily ever after, they don’t normally die. Although there are differences some things seen in his story are similar to others that we have read. We see some similar motifs such as love and villains and also the main character goes through a transformation of some sort. The villain of the Little Mermaid was the sea witch and when we meet her you see how the mermaid is going to have to suffer, but she does it for her love. When we look at the stories you see that the main character is very young and that is normally a common theme seen through most of the stories that we have read. Because the character is so young, I think it made if very easy to change this story into a children’s movie.
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