What Is The Moral Of The Little Mermaid

Throughout history, the fairy tale has been a way for children to draw connections to what has already happened in their lives, as well as what they could expect to happen later in life. These stories are by no means realistic for countless reasons, but they carry similar moral values, teaching children to be independent and to believe in happiness. Each fairy tale generally pertains to a different audience depending on the content of the story, with stories such as “Cinderella” and “The Little Mermaid” having been around for centuries, in a near constant state of being retold and rewritten to be more relevant for whatever culture the story might find itself in. Different cultures interpret a diverse array of morals and values in fairy tales,

It is about the mermaid who wanted to be a girl because of a prince she saves. The prince never realized it was the mermaid who saved him and he fell in love with a different girl. The princess wanted to be a human so she could marry the prince. She went to the witch who took away her voice in exchange for legs. In the witches cave there are dead rotting bodies and scary creatures. The little mermaid could not get the prince to fall in love with her so she eventually died because the only way for her to stay a human was for the prince to love her back. The little mermaid then turned into sea foam, which was what she did not want to have happen and also part of the reason she went to the witch in the first place. The Disney version of ”The Little Mermaid” is a lot less violent, while still keeping some of the same basic structures the original story has. She does have to get the prince to fall in love with her and eventually does. But unlike the original they live happily ever after. The whole story has less violence and a lot more happiness. “Cinderella” might not be as violent as “The Little Mermaid” in a lot of the versions that is why you only read or show children of a certain age the little

Fairy tales have mixed opinions depending on the person's point of view and the specific fairy tale being told. For instance, the feminist will adamantly assert that fairy tales teach young girls that they need a man to be happy. However, fairy tales do reflect the times they are told in, and have changed over time. Consider the famous fairy tale of The Frog King and Disney’s version The Princess and the Frog for instance. In the Disney version, it’s a tale of female independence and how the frog learns to find the independence of the princess attractive. In the end, the story posits, the princess gets her restaurant, which she worked for. Fairy tales do, however, “tend to focus very much on the [journey] and don’t tend to give much space to what happens after the hero and the princess ride of into the horizon. What then?” (Danish). While the story still has an "everyone lived happily ever after" ending, ultimately it teaches a lesson reflective of the progressive times it found itself in. In one of the older versions, the frog king tries to have sex with her, so she rejects him by throwing him against the wall. Which then leads to the frog turning into a handsome prince as a reward for the princess’s bravery in standing up for herself- then, she marries him. The older version’s lesson is to stand up for yourself, but also that happiness is found in a man. Fairy tales do tend to change with time, making