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The Little Mermaid

**~** Claire - Kyra - Kristen - Jessica **~**



(Jessica Morginshteren)
This version of the Little Mermaid starts off by describing life under the sea. It talks about Little Mermaid's family and how her great grandmother knows everything about life above the sea, and how she inspired The Little Mermaid's curiosity. The Little Mermaid, the youngest of 5 sisters, has to wait until she turns 15 to rise above the sea. When that day comes the Little Mermaid rises above the sea level and instantly falls in love with a prince aboard a ship. She saves him from drowning, and brings him to land. The prince has no idea who had saved him, and the Little Mermaid develops an obsession with him. Eventually she is unable to live with herself and wants to become human to be with him. She goes to the witch, who warns the Little Mermaid that once she has her legs, every time she walks it will feel like she is stepping on knife blades. She also warns the mermaid that unless the prince's heart is truly with hers that she will become the foam of the sea, and that she will never see her mother, father, sisters, or life under the sea again. The Little Mermaid is willing to take the risk, and gives her voice to the witch as payment. She found the prince and they became a couple, but the prince never truly falls in love with her. Instead, he falls in love with a woman he met on the beach who he thought saved him. In the end the prince ends up meeting this mystery woman who he thinks saved him, and they married. The Little Mermaid, with a broken heart, was given one more chance to come back to her family. She was instructed to kill the prince, and have his blood fall on her feet. If she did this, she would be allowed to see her family again and live "happily ever after." However, she couldn't do it, because she loved him. So she accepted her fate, jumps into the sea, and becomes the foam.

(Claire Rieser)
Most versions of fairy tales have been passed through generations by word of mouth. This causes the stories to be transformed and interpreted in many different ways. [|The Disney Version] of //The Little Mermaid// is one of the most well-known interpretations of this tale. It is lightly based off of the Hans Christian Andersen story, and is the //The Little Mermaid// of modern times. The Grimms Brothers is one of the most reliable sources for fairy tales, although they do not have the story of //The Little Mermaid.// Although this story is not on their website, there is a different version that you can find on [|this website].

(Kyra Bovenschulte)
====Did you know after //TLM// was created Disney hired a woman to make the next female protagonist due to the responses they got? Check out this feminist attempt to justify //The Little Mermaid//, and a feminist blog.====

Enjoy a nice cup of coffee, sit back, and relax while reading what critics have to say about TLM: "It restores a traditional way of life, structured by myth, to a society corrupted by rationalism and contractual economies.

Hans Christian Andersen:
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 7 Part 8

Disney: Trailer 1 Trailer 2 Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6

(Kristen MacMillan)
--> Did you know The Little Mermaid is also a statue? Here's an interesting article of the popular tourist attraction: click here --> Here's a link to the entire //The Little Mermaid// script: click here --> Want to know a bit more about Hans Christian Andersen and his version? Here's an annotated version of //TLM// - just click on the highlighted words and phrases, and you will be linked to more info: click here --> Lastly, here is an interesting psychological analysis of protagonist Ariel: click here