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Fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen

The Ugly Duckling

past Hans Christian Andersen

Analogy by Vilhelm Pedersen, Andersen's outset illustrator

Original title

Den grimme ælling

Country

Denmark

Language

Danish

Genre(s)

Literary fairy tale

Published in

New Fairy Tales. Commencement Volume. First Collection (Nye Eventyr. Første Bind. Første Samling)

Publication blazon

Fairy tale collection

Publisher

C.A. Reitzel

Media type

Impress

Publication engagement

11 Nov 1843

Chronology

←Preceded by
The Sweethearts

Followed by →
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"The Ugly Duckling" (Danish: Den grimme ælling) is a Danish literary fairy tale past Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875). Information technology was offset published on 11 November 1843 in New Fairy Tales. Outset Volume. First Collection, with three other tales by Andersen in Copenhagen, Kingdom of denmark to great disquisitional acclaim. The tale has been adapted to various media including opera, musical, and blithe motion-picture show. The tale is an original story by Andersen.

Plot [edit]

Later on a mother duck'south eggs hatch, i of the ducklings is perceived by the other animals equally an ugly little animal and suffers much verbal and concrete abuse. He wanders from the barnyard and lives with wild ducks and geese until hunters slaughter the flocks. He finds a abode with an old woman, just her cat and hen tease and taunt him mercilessly, and once again he sets off alone.

The duckling sees a flock of migrating wild swans. He is delighted and excited but cannot join them, for he is too young, ugly, and unable to fly. When winter arrives, a farmer finds and carries the freezing duckling home, just he is frightened by the farmer's noisy children and flees the house. The duckling spends a miserable winter alone in the outdoors, generally hiding in a cave on the lake that partly freezes over.

The duckling, now having fully grown and matured, cannot endure a life of solitude and hardship any more. He decides to throw himself at a flock of swans, feeling that information technology is better to be killed past such beautiful birds than to live a life of ugliness. He is shocked when the swans welcome and accept him, only to realize by looking at his reflection in the water that he had been not a duckling but a swan all this fourth dimension. The flock takes to the air, and he spreads his wings to take flying with the residuum of his new family.

Composition and publication history [edit]

Andersen first conceived the story in 1842 while enjoying the beauty of nature during his stay at the country estate of Bregentved, and lavished a year'due south worth of attention upon it. He initially considered "The Young Swans" as the tale's title merely, not wanting to spoil the element of surprise in the protagonist's transformation, discarded it for "The Ugly Duckling". He later confessed that the story was "a reflection of my own life", and, when the critic Georg Brandes questioned Andersen nearly whether he would write his autobiography, the poet claimed that it had already been written — "The Ugly Duckling".^[1]

"The Ugly Duckling" was offset published in Copenhagen, Denmark 11 November 1843 in New Fairy Tales. Commencement Volume. Start Collection (Nye Eventyr. Første Demark. Første Samling). For the get-go time the phrase "told for children" was non part of the title—an omission Andersen scholar Jackie Wullschlager believes exhibited a new conviction on Andersen's role: "These [tales] were the most mature and perfectly constructed tales he had written, and though some of them at once became, and take remained, favorites of children, Andersen here melds together the childlike and the profound with exceptional artistry." The first edition of 850 was sold out by December 18, and Reitzel planned another 850.^[2]

The tale was quaternary and last in the volume that included (in contents order), "The Affections" ("Englen"), "The Nightingale" ("Nattergalen"), and "The Sweethearts; or, The Superlative and the Ball" ("Kjærestefolkene [Toppen og bolden]").^[iii] The volume sold out well-nigh immediately and Andersen wrote on December 18, 1843: "The volume is selling similar hot cakes. All the papers are praising it, anybody is reading information technology! No books of mine are appreciated in the way these fairy tales are!"^[four] Andersen promoted the tale past reading it aloud at social gatherings. The tale was republished eighteen Dec 1849 in Fairy Tales. 1850. (Eventyr. 1850.) and over again 15 Dec 1862 in Fairy Tales and Stories. Start Volume. 1862. (Eventyr og Historier. Første Demark. 1862.) ^[5] The tale has since been translated into various languages and published around the world and has become the nigh famous story by Andersen.

Commentaries and criticism [edit]

A pair of young swans (or cygnets)

In reviewing Hans Christian Andersen: A New Life past biographer Jens Andersen, British journalist Anne Chisholm writes "Andersen himself was a tall, ugly boy with a big nose and big feet, and when he grew up with a cute singing voice and a passion for the theater he was cruelly teased and mocked by other children".^[6]

Speculation suggests that Andersen was the illegitimate son of Prince Christian Frederik (later King Christian 8 of Denmark), and constitute this out some time before he wrote the volume, so that being a swan in the story was a metaphor not just for inner beauty and talent but also for hush-hush royal lineage.^[7]

Bruno Bettelheim observes in The Uses of Enchantment that the Ugly Duckling is not confronted with the tasks, tests, or trials of the typical fairy tale hero. "No demand to achieve anything is expressed in 'The Ugly Duckling'. Things are merely fated and unfold accordingly, whether or not the hero takes some action." In conjunction with Bettelheim's assessment, Maria Tatar notes in ''The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen'' that Andersen suggests that the Ugly Duckling's superiority resides in the fact that he is of a brood dissimilar from the barnyard rabble, and that dignity and worth, moral and aesthetic superiority are adamant by nature rather than accomplishment.^[4]

Co-ordinate to Carole Rosen, the story was inspired in office past Andersen's friend Jenny Lind.^[8]

Adaptations [edit]

"The Ugly Duckling" became i of Andersen's all-time loved tales and was reprinted effectually the world. The tale was adapted to a diverseness of media. Films based on the tale include two Silly Symphonies animated shorts produced by Walt Disney chosen The Ugly Duckling. The first was produced in 1931 in black and white, and a remake in 1939 in Technicolor. The latter film won the 1939 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons),^[9] and was the last Silly Symphony to be fabricated. The main deviation between the Andersen story and the Disney version is that, in the latter, the fiddling bird'south ordeal lasts for only a few minutes, not for months. In 1936, the Fleischer brothers adjusted the story for their blithe brusk "The Little Stranger", reversing the story by having an odd chick born into a family of ducks.

In 1932, Yasuji Murata directed Ahiru no ko (The Ugly Duckling), a 15-minute Japanese short animated film based on the tale.

In 1956, the Soviet blitheness studio Soyuzmultfilm produced its own 19 minutes version of The Ugly Duckling.^[10] The anime Princess Tutu is about a duck that turns into a swan-like ballerina. In 2006, the Danish animation studio A. Film produced a spin-off CG characteristic called The Ugly Duckling and Me!, and afterward produced a children's CG television series Ugly Duckling Inferior which featured the same characters equally the motion-picture show. The 1954 Tom and Jerry cartoon Downhearted Duckling is also based on the famous story.

The tale has seen various musical adaptations. In 1914, the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev composed a work for voice and piano based on Nina Meshcherskaya's accommodation of the tale and, in 1932, bundled the work for voice and orchestra. This was transcribed by Lev Konov in 1996, and his opera was a great success in Russia. Other musical versions include the vocal "The Ugly Duckling" composed past Frank Loesser and sung past Danny Kaye for the 1952 Charles Vidor musical film Hans Christian Andersen, and Honk!, a musical based on the tale which was produced in U.k. and won an Olivier Award. The tale was adapted to a musical past Gail Deschamps and Paul Hamilton. In 1998, the musical played the Piccolo Spoleto for seventeen days.^[11]

In 1999, Jerry Pinkney adapted the story equally a children's picture book.^[12]

In 2009, the Trip the light fantastic toe Theatre of Bradenton, Florida, presented the ballet version of the pop tale (Allison Norton: The Ugly Duckling).

In 2010, Garri Bardin directed a feature-length stop-motion musical of the story set up to Tchaikovsky'south ballet music.

In 2012, a musical adaptation of the story, with 10 original songs, was released by JJ's Tunes & Tales. The album, titled "The Ugly Duckling: Story with Songs" contains both songs and spoken narration, and was released independently on CD Baby and iTunes. Examples of song titles include: Hatching of the Eggs; A Improve Identify; Song of the Swans; What'due south the Matter with You; It's a Big, Big Globe; Pretty Skilful Place to Alive.

GivingTales – in 2015 a storytelling app for children was created in assist of Unicef. The Ugly Duckling read past Stephen Fry is included in this drove of fairy tales along with other stories.

In November 2017, a Youtube Channel by the name of The Uncle Louie Variety Show fabricated their own version of the story called "The Ugly Babe".^[13]

Encounter also [edit]

List of works by Hans Christian Andersen
Ugly duckling theorem, in philosophical logic, arguing that nomenclature is not possible without bias
Henny Penny

References [edit]

^ Bredsdorff, Elias (1975). Hans Christian Andersen: The Story of his Life and Piece of work 1805-75. Phaidon. ISBN0-7148-1636-i.
^ Wullschlager, Jackie (2002). Hans Christian Andersen: The Life of a Storyteller . Academy of Chicago Printing.
^ "Hans Christian Andersen - FAQ: Books by Hans Christian Andersen". Hans Christian Andersen Centre.
^ ^a ^b Tatar, Maria (2008). The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen. West.. Norton & Company. pp. 99–118.
^ "Hans Christian Andersen: The Ugly Duckling". Hans Christian Andersen Center.
^ Chisholm, Anne (2006-06-05). "The tale of an ugly duckling". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2008-03-07.
^ Philip, Neil (2005-01-08). "The Little Prince". The Times.
^ Rosen, Carole (2004). "Lind, Jenny (1820–1887)". In Matthew, H. C. One thousand.; Harrison, Brian (eds.). Oxford Lexicon of National Biography. Oxford University Printing. ISBN978-0198614111 . Retrieved April one, 2014. [Lind] inspired at least partly two of his best-known children's stories, The Ugly Duckling and The Emperor'southward Nightingale [sic]...
^ "The 1939 Featherbrained Symphony". The Internet Animation Database.
^ The Ugly Duckling at Animator.ru
^ "GMT: The Ugly Duckling".
^ The ugly duckling. Online Reckoner Library Center. OCLC 39051276.
^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "Fairy-tales and Wine with Uncle Louie and Carlo". YouTube.

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