The witch told the little mermaid that as long as the prince was killed and his blood flowed to his legs, the little mermaid could return to the sea and live a carefree life again. She jumped into the sea and turned it into foam.
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Creation background
Once, Andersen remembered his failed love experience in the past and what happened to the heroine in the novel Agneger. She spent many years in the Dragon Palace, then left her husband, the Dragon King, and six young girls and returned to the world. What about her daughters?
Andersen pondered the story over and over again, unfolded it and wrote a novel in which many of his experiences can be written. It's not bad to write a fairy tale, short and pithy, full of charm.
Therefore, Andersen wrote to Ida Woolf, and she appreciated his idea. Fairy tales can describe various sides and scenes of forests, rivers, oceans, paradise and underground like novels. It shows the mentality and changes of realistic and fantasy characters, and the plot can be arranged flexibly. If the theme of writing a novel is written as a fairy tale, it will be very attractive.
Therefore, Andersen did not hesitate to pick up a pen and wrote the fairy tale "The Daughter of the Sea" in one go.
Main character
1, Little Mermaid
Unlike other heroines in fairy tales, the little mermaid is not so lucky. In children's literature, she is a tragic image and a vivid image established by Andersen in The Telephone. Aristotle thinks that the ideal tragic figure should be someone who has some defects or made mistakes.
2. Prince
The prince in the fairy tale represents Andersen's ideal world. He is less than 16 years old and handsome, just like a statue in the mermaid garden. In the story, the prince told the little mermaid never to leave him. This auspicious story represents loyalty.
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