Comparison Of The Little Mermaid And The Little Mermaid

There are many things included in the original Little Mermaid that most people would be shocked by today. I mean, isn’t it hard to believe that the Little Mermaid never actually marries the prince, but rather she falls into the sea and turns into foam? In the new Disney version of the Little Mermaid there are many different things that were hidden from the original story by Hans Christian Andersen. From Ariel’s personality to her way of life, both of these versions are in fact very different from the other. In the Hans Christian Andersen version, the Little Mermaid was very shy and curious growing up. She longed for a different body, and she wasn’t that happy in her own. The Little Mermaid was in a way searching for her “immortal soul,” and

The Little Mermaid’s family encourages this, and her grandmother helps her to be able to do that. Her sisters helped her to find the prince, and to find out more information about him, as well. They traveled to the surface with her to see for themselves, and they each highly encouraged her to go find him. Her sisters helped her to find out where he lived, as well. In the Disney version, Ariel was forbidden from visiting and seeing humans. Ariel’s father believed that humans were dangerous, and he even set someone out to keep an eye on her. Most of the time, Ariel only went and searched for treasures under the water in sunken ships and treasure chests, but one time she did go to the surface. Whenever her father found out, he was angry. Her father didn’t want to see or hear that Ariel had been going to the surface to talk to or see any other humans again. Even with these rules though, Ariel continued to swim to the

In Hans Christian Andersen’s version, the Prince fails to fall in love with the Little Mermaid. “And he loved her as one would love a little child. The thought never came to him to make her his wife.” (Andersen, 1837) Though, if he never loved or married her then she would never receive an immortal soul or be able to become a mermaid once again. If he were to marry another, she would die of a heartbreak and turn into foam of the sea. The prince’s parents didn’t want him to marry anyone but another princess. The prince told the Little Mermaid that if he could choose who he could marry, then he would have chosen the young maiden that saved him from the shipwreck. At this point in time, the prince didn’t know that the young maiden was the Little Mermaid, and she didn’t tell