What is the little mermaid?
The Little Mermaid is a fairy tale published in 1837 by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, who became the foundation of Disney and Broadway musical based on the film.
Story
in the fairy tale, the Mermaid Family - the King, Grandmother and Six Maje estates, the youngest of which is the Little Mermaid - lives on the bottom of the sea. There is a tradition that when the mermaid turns 15, it gets the opportunity to display the world above the surface. The youngest hears the stories of her older sisters and longs for her. When it comes, he happens to see a ship with a prince, which he falls in love with, even if he does not approach him until the storm hits him and saves him from drowning. Mermars on the shore on the spot near the temple remains with the prince until the girl comes from the temple and discovers a prince who never sees a small mermaid.
Returning homes Little mermaid asks her grandmothers to people and find that they have a much shorter life than Merfolk but have an immortal soul that dwells in heaven while Merfolk stopsexist when they die. The mermaid trades the incredible singing of the sea witch for a potion who will give her legs to join the prince and have a soul, which requires the prince to love and marry her, allowing her to share his soul.
The little mermaid meets the prince who considers her attractive, but considers movement on his feet. Then the Prince's father orders him to marry the neighboring princess, but refuses and says that he can only love a girl from a temple she believes he saved him, but tells the mermaid that in his affection begins to replace the temple girl. But then she finds that the princess is a temple girl and they are getting married, and the little mermaid is filled with Wizfalstvi. Her sisters also negotiate with the marine witch: in exchange for hair they get a knife that gives their youngest sister, along with the information that if he kills the prince, he will restore the mermaid of the Virgin. Can't kill a prince, a little mermaid plunges into the sea but instead of stopping exiState, becomes a spirit.
Disney version
Disney Film The Little Mermaid with the lyrics of Howard Ashman and Music by Alan Menken was published in 1989 and made changes in the story of Andersen, some smaller and some major. Among the More Strking Changes Are the Adlation of A Sidekick, Flounder and Other Sea Creatures to the Cast of Characters, the Elevation of the Sea Witch THERE IS AND HAPPY ENDING IN WHICH THE SEA WITCH IS Defeated and the Little Mermaid Becomes and Human Andvez will take the Prince. The film is credited as the beginning of the so -called Disney Renaissance and won the Academy Awards and Golden Globes for the best music, original scores and best music, original song, as well as the Grammy Award for the best song written for film or television.
In January 2008 in January 2008 opened Broadway's musical The Little Mermaid KTEThe rice contained other texts by Glenn Slater and some other conspiracy changes. The marine witch is a sister Mer King in a musical and shared the strength of the sea until the king has put his sister to her evil. Instead of trying to marry the prince, there is a competition of singing and the way of extinction of the marine witch is different.