Jul
21
2009
The “Mermaid Princess” Storybook (Part 2a): Echoes of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid”: Love
Posted by PokerNemesis in Mysteries, Plot Structure & Story, SymbolismThe first pages of the “Mermaid Princess” storybook to give us some text, rather than only pictures, read as follows:
A long, long time ago, the Mermaid Princess fell in love with a human prince. But for years, her love went unrequited.
The two accompanying drawings both show the Clara-mermaid alone, and a sailing ship on the facing page.
This echoes the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale, “The Little Mermaid” (1836). In that story, the mermaid protagonist also falls in love with a prince that she sees on a sailing ship.
How does such a situation relate to Clara?
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