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The Flying Trunk The idea behind this wonderful fairy-tale is fabulous, as H.C. Andersen anticipates the "flying age" that we live in today. |
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The Tinder-box This painting is inspired by the very first scene of the fairy-tale, where the soldier is stopped by the old witch, who asks him to crawl into an old hollow tree and get a tinder-box. |
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The Ugly Duckling If you are different, you will easily become a victim of mockery. |
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The Story of a Mother When a child dies it is and has always been a major tragedy for the mother of the child. |
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She Was Good For Nothing Alcohol soothes the daily grind for a lot of people. |
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The Shepherdess and the Sweep Very few - today and back in the time of H.C. Andersen - have a realistic relationship to their surroundings. |
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The Emperor's New Suit Normal people don't understand many the things that are appreciated today. |
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Jack the Dullard Very few have the courage to be themselves. |
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The Little Mermaid The motif is from the passageway in the fairy-tale where the little mermaid and the prince meet. She is dumb and has only one leg. |
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Little Ida's Flowers Children's imagination is wonderful. H.C. Andersen's fairy-tale about little Ida's belief that flowers come alive at night is as true today as it was back then. |
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The Little Match-Seller
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The Nightingale Today the fake nightingale is sitting a "television cage". |
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The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf Do we tread on the loaf today as well?
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The Princess and the Pea Woman's status in society has changed a lot, but is she still a "real princess"?
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The Red Shoes The girl wanted more than she was meant to have.
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The Shadow Electronics has become the master of our lives.
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The Snow Queen Kaj got a bewitched splinter in his eye and he forgot about Gerda and had to go out in the cold.
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The Brave Tin Soldier He did well in spite of his leg - the brave soldier.
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Little Claus and Big Claus The fairy-tale is eternal. This is the story about rich people, who do not grudge poor people anything at all.
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Little Tiny or Thumbelina A fairy-tale is - well yes - a fairy-tale and it is not always possible to modernize them, because nobody gives birth to a child as small as the child in "Little Tiny or Thumbelina". |
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