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In 1989, Disney first aired the famous show 
entitled "The Little Mermaid".

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Who wouldn't remember Ariel and the other 
sea creatures that made our childhood colorful?

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But, I learned an another story which came 
from a book which was the real origin of 
the fairytale entitled "The Little Mermaid".

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This book was published in 1837, and in my 
opinion, it has a really weird and dark story.

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childhood memories.

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According to the Disney version that we had 
watched, this is about a 16-year old mermaid 
named Ariel.

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Ariel was bored in the Kingdom where her 
father leads. She also seemed curious about 
the human world,

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about what humans do and how are their lifestyles.

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One night, Ariel saved a prince named Eric 
when he drowned after the explosion of their 
ship.

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At that moment, Ariel fell in love with Eric 
which drove her to desire having feet.

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Then Ariel decided to seek help from the 
sea-witch named Ursula wherein they had a 
deal.

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This deal gave Ariel feet in exchange of 
giving Ursula her beautiful voice.

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Another condition of the deal is that Ariel 
must receive a true love's kiss from Eric 
in a span of three days.

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If she fails, she'll turn back into a sea-creature 
again.

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But because of Ariel's desperate love, she 
still agreed to the conditions.

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In that span of three days, Ariel was near 
in getting her true love's kiss from Eric.

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However, Ursula came as she suddenly decided 
to steal the prince from Ariel

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by changing her physical appearance into 
a pretty fine lady.

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When the prince and Ursula were supposed 
to get married,

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luckily, Ariel managed to stop it and she 
confessed the truth to the prince.

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Ursula burst in anger but Eric had stopped 
it,

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and through the help of Zeus, the God of 
Thunder, Ursula was exterminated.

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After the incident, Prince Eric and Ariel 
got married and they lived happily ever after.

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But according the original book entitled 
"The Little Mermaid" written by Hans Christian 
Andersen in 1937,

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you can notice the difference of the versions 
and several scenes in this book was really 
disturbing.

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And here's how the story started...

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One day, in a Kingdom of Ocean, there was 
a mermaid princess

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And this mermaid got tired of the life in 
the ocean lead by his father.

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Similar to the Ariel of Disney, this mermaid 
is also amazed and curious by human life 
at land.

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Because of the stories she heard from her 
sisters and grandmother, her interest to 
meet a human grew.

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But in this Kingdom, mermaids under 14 years 
old weren't allowed to leave and go outside 
their Kingdom's premises.

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The little mermaid in this story were only 
10 years old, so we can assume that she waited 
for almost 5 years until she can leave.

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The moment this little mermaid turned 15, 
she decided to go out of their kingdom.

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And here's when she saved a prince from drowning.

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While the prince laid unconscious, that's 
when the little mermaid fell for him.

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She left the prince's body in a holy temple 
and she went home back to their kingdom.

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As she arrived at the kingdom, she asked 
her grandmother that if she didn't saved 
the guy, will he die like how mermaids die.

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I'll explain why she came up with the question.

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The mermaids in this story has a lifespan 
of 300 years,  however when they die, there'll 
be no afterlife.

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Once the mermaids die, they'll turn into 
sea foams and that's where everything ends 
for them.

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Unlike humans, once we die, there's an afterlife 
that awaits us.

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Because of this, we can say that the little 
mermaid wasn't only interested in the prince,

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but she was also interested in what we call 
the "afterlife".

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However, in this book, it states that it 
was impossible for a human to fall in love 
with mermaids

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as humans sees their tails as something unpleasant 
to the eye.

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And here's where the story gets weird and 
dark...

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The little mermaid decided to see a sea-witch 
and she wished to have feet.

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But the sea-witch asked for the mermaid's 
beautiful voice in return.

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In order to get the little mermaid's voice, 
the sea-witch has to cut her tongue off and 
made it into a necklace.

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The little mermaid agreed to the deal and 
she received a magic potion that'll give 
her her dreamed feet.

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But before she drank the potion, the sea-witch 
added some conditions to the deal.

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First, whenever her fishtail transforms to 
human legs, she'll feel as if she was stabbed 
by swords.

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Second, whenever she steps a foot, she'll 
feel as if she's stepping on knives.

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Third, if the prince suddenly decided to 
marry another woman, the lttle mermaid will 
die the day after.

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And once she dies, she'll turn into sea foams.

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We can tell that the conditions were unfair 
and unjust.

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But the little mermaid is very determined 
that she still agreed to the deal.

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As she drank the magic potion, she actually 
had legs and feet and she went straight to 
the sea shore.

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She was immediately noticed by the prince 
at that moment and was enticed with the beauty 
of the human transformation of the little 
mermaid.

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Because of this, the prince brought her to 
their castle and asked her a few questions,

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But because the little mermaid lost her tongue, 
she wasn't able to speak and answer.

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Even though the little mermaid couldn't answer, 
he still brought her to the castle to dress 
her.

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As the days passed by, the prince slowly 
lost interest as she wasn't able to speak,

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and after a few days, he only treated the 
little mermaid like a sister.

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The day which the little mermaid feared the 
most, the prince fell for another woman.

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If you can remember, the little mermaid left 
the prince's body at a holy temple on the 
day she saved him.

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What we didn't know was when the prince woke 
up in that temple, he met a woman whom he 
mistook as his savior that took care of him 
until he recovered.

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That's why when they met again, the prince 
finally fell in love.

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The little mermaid was bad as she thought 
that she'll be loved by the prince with all 
the efforts that she did.

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Another thing that worries her is the moment 
the prince marries, she'll die the next day.

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What's more painful in this story, the little 
mermaid was invited in the wedding ceremony.

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Watching the love of your life get married 
to someone not you...

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Just imagine the pain she must've felt that 
moment including the knowledge that she'll 
die the next day

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as the little mermaid wasn't able to fulfill 
her conditions with the sea-witch.

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Later that night, while everyone in the ship 
where the wedding ceremony occurred were 
asleep,

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the little mermaid went to the end railings 
and looked at the sea, thinking of her death 
the next day.

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Unexpectedly, her mermaid sisters appeared 
in the sea with a solution to the little 
mermaid's problem.

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In exchange of the sisters' hair, they received 
a magic knife from the sea-witch.

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They said that the little mermaid only has 
to stab the prince's heart with the magic 
knife

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and the blood from it must drop on the feet 
of the little mermaid.

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The moment it drops on her feet, the deal 
with the sea-witch will be exterminated and 
she'll return into a mermaid once again.

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The moment came when she only has to stab 
him already, but the little mermaid failed 
as she thought of how much she loved the 
prince.

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She cried and threw the knive in the sea. 
We can tell that she's already prepared to 
accept her fate.

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She jump to the water and there she waited 
for her death.

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But unexpectedly, she didn't turn into a 
sea foam. Instead, she turned into a wind.

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When she opened her eyes, she was surrounded 
by angels and she achieved her dreamed afterlife.

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It is because she chose to give up on her 
life for the love of her life.

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These angels gave another chance to live 
an another life with a span of 300 years.

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If she'll live her years doing nothing but 
kindness, she'll come to her dreamed heaven.

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So, here's where this story ends.

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