Moore, Frazier (6 September 2002). "Upcoming TV schedules focus on events of 9/11". Chillicothe Gazette (Ohio). p.13. The Tales of Hans Christian Andersen". Scandinavian.wisc.edu. Archived from the original on 12 March 2012 . Retrieved 2 April 2010. Many of Andersen’s tales are concerned with relationships, in particular those of mothers and children. Many critics have discovered or argued for the presence of Andersen’s own relationship with his mother in these tales. Andersen’s mother, who gave birth to a bastard daughter before marrying Andersen’s father, comes off looking less like a saint and more like a drunk if this is true. But then, there is a tale like “She Was a Good for Nothing” where the mother is a drunk who dearly loves and cares for her son. In this story, Andersen contrasts public view versus private life, of how the upper class views the lower class. The tale was republished 18 December 1849 as a part of Fairy Tales. 1850. ( Eventyr. 1850.) and again on 30 March 1863 as a part of Fairy Tales and Stories. Second Volume. 1863. ( Eventyr og Historier. Andet Bind. 1863.). [2] The story is about a girl forced to dance continually in her red shoes. "The Red Shoes" has seen adaptations in various media including film. The tale is classified in the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index as ATU 704, "The Princess and the Pea". [2] Plot [ edit ]

While the content in Andersen’s stories is not of adult themes, nor his writing meant for just adults, including the fairy tales, they did distil the satisfactions, tensions, hopes, and fears experienced by Europeans as the Napoleonic war came to an end. This earned Andersen vast readership. The Tinderbox" was the subject of the first Danish animated feature film in 1946 directed by Svend Methling and animated by Børge Ring. [4] Papercuts by Hans Christian Anderson". Odense Bys Museer. Archived from the original on 8 March 2014 . Retrieved 23 May 2023.

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Andersen's story in turn appears to have influenced Oscar Wilde's " The Fisherman and His Soul". [1] Adaptations [ edit ] Sipe, Lawrence R. (1993), "Using Transformations of Traditional Stories: Making the Reading-Writing Connection", The Reading Teacher, 47 (1): 18–26, JSTOR 20201188 The Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division was bequeathed an extensive collection of Andersen materials by the Danish-American actor Jean Hersholt. [53] [54] An old oak pities a happy fly who only lives for one day, then his life passes before him in a dream and he is reunited with his friends, the birds and flowers, in heaven while a storm topples him over. Andersen was played by Joachim Gottschalk in the German film The Swedish Nightingale (1941), which portrays his relationship with the singer Jenny Lind.

Too often people look at Andersen in the simplest terms. Take “The Little Mermaid” for example. Many today know the story not as Andersen’s but as Disney’s. They think that the mermaid marries her prince and everyone lives happily ever after. While the cursory reader of Andersen knows that this is not the ending, a deeper reading reveals, if not a happy ending, perhaps a slightly hopeful one as well as a few details about the prince. In the mermaid’s story, Andersen presents a people where the women seem to help each (the witch, the mermaid’s sisters, the mermaid herself) and where the only male who does anything is the prince himself. The mermaid and her sisters are desexualized (she loses her voice, they their hair). The prince treats the mermaid like his pet dog. The mermaid, however, wants a soul more than a prince. She acts more as if she has a soul more than prince. By taking “The Little Mermaid” and reducing the plot to a love story, the adaptor or reader does Andersen a disservice and dismisses the larger issue. In the story, it is the non-humans, the merfolk, who appear to have those virtues that humanity claims – compassion. The mermaid might eventually get her soul though she doesn’t get her prince. Today, there is a movement to de-religion stores (look at Narnia in both the movies and the exhibit), but to do so to Andersen guts this story. An abused destitute match girl has a vision of her grandmother in paradise just as she freezes to death. Zizek, Slavoj (2012). Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism. Verso Books. p. 548. ISBN 9781844679027. Milligan, Mercedes (2 June 2012). "Russian Animation on Ice". Animation Magazine . Retrieved 22 November 2020.The Shadow" was first published 6 April 1847 as a part of New Fairy Tales. Second Volume. First Collection. 1847. ( Nye Eventyr. Andet Bind. Første Samling. 1847.). The work was re-published December 1847 as a part of A Christmas Greeting to my English Friends, again 18 December 1849 as a part of Fairy Tales. 1850. ( Eventyr. 1850.), and 30 March 1863 as a part of Fairy Tales and Stories. Second Volume. 1863. ( Eventyr og Historier. Andet Bind. 1863.). [3] Precedent [ edit ]