Little Mermaid Comparison

Disney movies portray the Little Mermaid to be a glorious, and exciting fairytale romance that was completely altered to shelter children while still trying to teach them valuable lessons that they could use in their everyday lives. Ariel in the Disney version learned not to trust weird strangers, follow her heart, value your family, get creative, etc. However, the original story tells of more gruesome punishments to Sirenetta’s curse that taught her a lesson forever; Sirenetta’s grandmother gave her a potion that would give her the “gift” of legs that could help her reach the young prince that she had fallen in love with that lived in a kingdom not far. The potion would give the feeling of being split in half with a double sided sword, and …show more content…
While the mermaid is on land trying to convince the prince that she in fact is the one that saved him from the shipwreck, she sees that he is to be married to a neighboring princess to join the kingdoms. Serenetta learned from her grandmother that humans have a smaller lifespan than humans, however, they have eternal souls that mermaids do not, therefore, Serenetta would outlive the prince and turn to seafoam while his met his creator. Regretting her choices after all this time she knew that he married the princess she would be turned into seafoam by sunset, but if she killed him and let his blood drip onto her feet then she would turn back into a mermaid and live out her days as a mermaid with her family. However, love got the best of her, and costed her life proving just like in many stories that love will make you do anything, and love is …show more content…
Such as the princess of the neighboring kingdom was called to marry the prince to join kingdoms for the family rather than personal interests. Serenetta is dependent on her father mostly because she is still a child, or seen as a child in modern day society, and her father is royalty. This story could not have ended happily like the disney story and taught the same lessons, because this story unlike the disney version shows that no matter how hard you try, everything can be against you and you cannot battle against because something aren’t in your best interest. “She knew that her love for the young captain was without hope, for she was a mermaid and could never marry a