For my literary analysis I read Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, and watched Disney's The Little Mermaid. I felt these stories had more differences than similarities. Where Hans Christian Andersen focused more on the consequences of becoming human, the movie focused on Ariel winning the prince over. While reading this story I took note of the fact that even though The Little Mermaid was normal, in the end she still didn't get what made her happy. The movie on the other hand gave Ariel
Should The Little Mermaid be shown to children? This question has stirred up controversy between Disney and its viewers, since the movie has been out. In the Disney produced film The Little Mermaid, Ariel the main character is perceived as a very beautiful, powerful, venturous, and independent young woman who is very intrigued with new findings of all sorts’, especially human related objects. Ariel being the curious girl she is, wonders off to see a sailing ship and finds her true love at first glance
The two versions are very different but they also have similarities. One of the main differences between Andersen’s version and Disney’s version of the Little Mermaid is that the Disney Movie portrays the Little Mermaid in a sexist way, while Andersen attempts to break the stereotype of women in the 18th century. In the Disney movie, Ariel is very dependent on a man even though she is smart, courageous and resourceful. In Andersen’s version, “In all three instances that "love" and "soul" are coordinated
“The Little Mermaid”, is a story of an astonishing beautiful but yet very lonely mermaid who longs to be human. The Walt Disney Musical Fantasy Film was released in 1989 and entails a story of beauty, love, betrayal and evil. The box office hit brought in eighty four million during initial release and is now totaling twenty four million dollars total sales. The main character, Ariel, shows her true colors from the beginning of the movie. Her sisters have planned a musical act to display Ariel’s
Matchmaker is a song from the 1964 musical ‘Fiddler on the Roof’. ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ is based in a pre-revolutionary Russia where a Jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters. The song Matchmaker (sung by characters Tzeitel, Hodel and Chava, the three daughters) starts when the parents have arranged to meet with the matchmaker and match their three daughters to potential husbands. The beginning of the song starts with the daughters happily imagining their husbands to be but