The ugly duckling is a novel by Hans Christian Andersen.
Hans Christian Andersen's "The Ugly Duckling" is a literary fairy tale.It was published in New Fairy Tales in 1843.The first volume.There are three other tales by Andersen in the first collection.Opera, musical, and animated film are some of the media that have adapted the tale.The tale was written by Andersen.
The mother duck's eggs hatch when the story begins.One of the little birds is perceived by the other birds and animals on the farm as an ugly little creature and suffers a lot of verbal and physical abuse from them.He wanders from the barnyard and lives with ducks and geese until hunters kill them.He finds a home with an old woman, but her cat and hen tease and taunt him, and once again he sets off alone.
The duckling is watching a flock of swans.He cannot join them because he is too young and cannot fly.The winter arrives.A farmer finds a small duckling in the cold and carries it home, but it is frightened by the children and flees the house.He is alone in the outdoors during the winter and hides in a cave on the lake.A flock of swans descend on the lake.
The ugly duckling is no longer able to endure a life of solitude and hardship anymore and decides that it is better to be killed by a flock of swans.He was shocked when the swans welcomed him, only to realize that he had been a swan all his life.The swan spreads his large wings and takes flight with the rest of his family as the flock takes to the air.
During his stay at the country estate of Bregentved, Andersen first conceived the story and spent a year's worth of attention on it.He thought of "The Young Swans" as the tale's title but decided against it because he didn't want to ruin the surprise of the main character changing into a duck.He confessed that the story was a reflection of his own life, and when the critic asked if he would write an autobiography, he claimed that it had already been written.[2]
New Fairy Tales published "The Ugly Duckling" in 1843.The first volume.The first collection.Frste Bind.Frste Samling."These tales were the most mature and perfectly constructed tales he had written, and though, for the first time, the phrase 'told for children' was not part of the title."The first 850 was sold out by December 18.[3]
"The Angel" was the fourth and last tale in the volume.Andersen wrote on December 18, 1843 that the book was selling like hot cakes.Everyone is reading it.These fairy tales are appreciated in a different way than my books.Andersen read the tale aloud at social gatherings.The tale was published again in December 1849.1850.There was an eventyr.The year 1850.In December of 1862, in Fairy Tales and Stories.The first volume.The year 1862.The eventyr was Historier.Frste Bind.The year 1862.The most famous story by Andersen has been translated into various languages and published around the world.
In reviewing Hans Christian Andersen: A New Life by 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, he was cruelly teased because of his singing voice and passion for the theaterThe ugly duckling is a child of a swan.[6]
Speculation suggests that Andersen was the illegitimate son of Prince Christian, and that being a swan in the story was a metaphor for a secret royal family.[7]
Bruno Bettelheim observes in The Uses of Enchantment that the Ugly Duckling is not confronted with the trials and tests of a typical fairy tale hero.There is no need to accomplish anything in 'The Ugly Duckling'.Whether the hero takes some action or not, things are fated and unfold accordingly.In conjunction with Bettelheim's assessment, Maria Tatar notes in ''The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen'' that Andersen suggests that the Ugly Duckling is of a breed different from the barnyard rabble, and that dignity and worth, moral and aesthetic superiority.[5]
"The Ugly Duckling" was one of Andersen's best-loved stories and was published around the world.A variety of media adapted the tale.Two Silly Symphonies animated shorts were produced by Disney.The first was produced in 1931 and the second in 1939.The 1939 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons) was won by the Silly Symphony.In the Disney version, the little bird's plight lasts for a few minutes, not for months.In 1936, the Fleischer brothers adapted the story for an animated short called "The Little Stranger", in which an odd chick was born into a family of ducks.
Ahiru no ko was a 15-minute Japanese short animated film.
A 19 minute version of The Ugly Duckling was produced by the Soviet animation studio.The princess tutu is about a duck that becomes a ballerina.A was an animation studio in the Danes.The film produced a spin-off feature called The Ugly Duckling and Me!, as well as a children's television series with the same characters as the movie.Tom and Jerry's cartoon Downhearted Duckling is based on the famous story.
Musical versions of the tale have been seen.In 1914, the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev composed a work for voice and piano based on the tale and in 1932, he arranged it for orchestra.Lev Konov's opera was a great success in Russia.Honk!, a musical based on the tale which was produced in Britain and won an award, is one of the musical versions.A United States tour of the musical adapted to the tale is planned for 2002.The musical played the Piccolo Spoleto for seventeen days in 1998.[2]