Disney empire creates nice pictures of "happily-ever-after‚" there are great alterations to the original versions while inculcating cultural values without necessarily examining them. In Disney’s movie The Little Mermaid‚ Ariel‚ a sixteen-year-old mermaid princess‚ is dissatisfied with life under the sea and curious about the human world. Ariel fills a secret cave with all the human artifacts she has found and collected. She frequently goes to the forbidden surface to visit Scuttle
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Dugond Maybe‚ as a child‚ everyone of you has wanted to see a real mermaid‚ because of all the stories you’ve heard for them. Surely you have imagined this sea creatures as a very beautiful ones‚ and you’ve thought they aren’t real. Actually they exist‚ but their real appearance isn’t so magical as you dreamt. The dugong is a large marine mammal. The word "dugong" derives from the Tagalog term dugong‚ meaning "lady of the sea". These enormous vegetarians can be found in warm coastal waters
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Little Mermaid Analysis The Little Mermaid is an example of how woman were seen in society. In the fairy tale‚ women are characterized by appearance rather than personality by both men and women. The little mermaid mentions “But if you take my voice‚ what shall I have left?” (Anderson 226). In this quote‚ the little mermaid believes that she cannot just be herself to win the prince’s heart. The prince also looks at women the same way because of how he talks to the little mermaid. He asks
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In Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid” we witness that there is not an actual Heaven for the mermaid but a sub-heaven that is a reflection of Heaven. It goes to say that in “The Girl Who Stepped on Bread” also by Andersen‚ there is a sub-hell (not actual Hell)‚ where she stands in the form of a statue in the entrance hall. Both these place are not where the characters expected to be‚ yet one scarified herself ending up in a sub-heaven and the other will suffer in the entrance hall of hell
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Jackeline Elizabeth Chang Chang 1 Ms. Carr EMS30 24TH‚ March‚ 2010 The Little Mermaid The Little Mermaid is a film made in November‚ 17th‚ 1989. It was written by John Musker and Ron Clements. This is the story of a mermaid named Ariel‚ youngest daughter of King Triton‚ who is dissatisfied with life in the sea. She longs to be with the humans above the surface. She dreams of going on land. She is often caught in arguments with her father over those "barbaric
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years ago the inhabitants of small coastal towns talked of mermaid encounters. All the way back in the 1600’s a mermaid was said to have entered Holland through a dike and she was injured while traveling. She was nursed back to health at a nearby lake‚ and she eventually learned to speak Dutch‚ did chores‚ and even converted to Catholicism. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration there are even cave paintings of mermaids that were painted during the late Paleolithic Era‚ 30‚000
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The Little Mermaid : Old vs. New Story The Little Mermaid is a well known story about the mermaid who was yearning for the life out of the sea. She wanted to be part of the human world and explore all of the wonderful things of living below the stars. The original Little Mermaid story was written in 1836 by a man named Hans Christian Andersen. The Little Mermaid was created into a Disney movie in 1989‚ many of the aspects of the stories followed the path of one of Vladimir Propp’s spheres he
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In 1989‚ Disney Feature Animation released its twenty-eighth animated film‚ The Little Mermaid. The movie grossed over $111 million in the United States alone and was the recipient of two Oscars (Office Box). The merchandise for the film varied from bed sheets and Barbie dolls‚ to pajamas and Halloween costumes. In 1992‚ an animated series based on the movie premiered on Disney television and ran for three seasons (IMDb.com). A Broadway production began in 2008‚ with “50 previews and 685 performances”
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The Little Mermaid‚ and Finn Mortensen‚ author of The Little Mermaid: Icon and Disneyfication‚ both agree that Disney’s simplification of morals is giving viewers the wrong depiction of life. Disney’s portrayal of women and simplification of morals are giving viewers the wrong impression of life and women. Many critics call the process of simplification in Disney movies‚ “Disneyfication.” Disneyfication is especially shown in The Little Mermaid. In Disney’s version of The Little Mermaid‚ Disney retains
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In the story “the Little Mermaid” by Hans Christian Anderson and Disney’s The Little Mermaid a young sea princess who had just turned 15 years old was out sitting on a rock watching the moonlight. When a ship was sailing in the middle of a storm in which the ship had flipped on one of the sides causing the prince to sink into the waves ‚ but if it were not for the mermaid saving his‚ life he would have died. Watch as the story unfolds and changes during the course of video production. Disney had
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