My Life As A Fairytale: Descriptive Analysis - Essay Example

‘My Life As A Fairytale’ – A Descriptive Essay As a kid who was six years of age, my fondness of fairy tales had taken my imagination to dimensions that have since inspired me to gain different insights in life and to be keen or sensitive about the things that truly matter. The stories of Hans Christian Andersen are particularly worth remembering especially when I recall either how the moral of the story works or the scenes from which to draw a similar picture of a current situation being deal with so that I may find encouragement to think and act positively. It is particularly motivating to ponder on the colorful illustrations of each tale as well as the fine lines uttered by some magical characters both in movie and in text. For one, Hallmark’s ‘My Life as a Fairytale’ creates to mind vivid depictions of H.C. Andersen’s life story through a mixture of settings, characters, and emotions in a collective presentation where the author’s popular creations reflect his own life. The crippled Henrietta, for instance, is characterized by the mermaid who happens to save a prince in a shipwreck during a squall or terrible thunderstorm then falls in love with him eventually. The sight of the mermaid’s journey to the place of the sea witch is quite horrifying as if one would yield to the feeling of ‘no return’ in a forbidden confinement the mermaid musters all strengths to cross. On hearing and watching how the sea witch exclaims ‘Now put out your little tongue so that I can cut it off!’ it feels like her pitching would instantly cast a binding spell of curse. The cutting of tongue must be so excruciating it would make that part of the ocean world itself wail out of a blood-filled pain which the mermaid should bear to have scales turn into a pair of legs. All naked and flawless in her milky white shimmering skin, partly covered with locks of unusual length, the lovely mermaid is found lying fast asleep over the side of the palace by the coast. Even as the prince adopts her to be kept as someone very special, she becomes frustrated to express her love through a muted endeavor. At the tragic end, I wonder what causes more hurting between heart breaking and turning into foams which make her vanish away into another world. When Hans meets two of the sons of Charles Dickens, this is the time he gets prompted to create the story of the brave tin soldier and the two kids listen with eagerness as the storyteller narrates the story on vigorous round tone and using a small figurine representing the tin soldier with one leg who sets off on a noble adventure with the other toys at midnight. The children are amazed at the view of the tin heart brought out of the burning fire and the look on their faces shifts from stern to cheer along as the story goes. In this picture, I can see both the flexibility and rigidity of the streets which I suppose bore much influence on Dickens at the time of his creation of Oliver Twist. Industries are well present everywhere making cacophonous sounds coming out of chugging engines. The varying sights of hustle and bustle make up the crowded city squares and certain places where factories emitting huge billows of smoke are erected and seeing the old-style cars belching sulfur-smelling smog as well as hearing boisterous people of different lifestyles are all worth learning how intellectual writers at that period had enriched their literature as Dickens and Andersen did. Though Hans does not achieve a happy ending with Jenny Lind, his love interest in reality, his admiration of her sweet operatic voice drives him to write about ‘The Nightingale’. Besides expressing his love by giving Jenny the ring of the princess, Hans takes her to a special place of various ornaments, oriental jars, and other such articles that reflect signs of Asian antiquity then asks Jenny to start letting melodies fill the room and blend in an imperial illusion which she would later gaze at in amusement. A viewer can begin to form an image of two worlds, Chinese and Danish, in fusion and the enactment of the unhappy emperor in royal blue calls forth my remembrance of a culture most prominent with chinky eyes, dragon dance, and the burnt jasmine fragrance of sacred incenses. Just as the beautiful voice of Jenny Lind is much-sought after by rich and poor alike at the time, the delighted emperor similarly gets elated upon the nightingale’s singing with a voice perhaps as soft as its delicate feather. Like a magical experience, the bird seems to sprinkle enchantment across the palace yet when it leaves never to come back, the emperor is grieved to sickness, as he so fond of the bird with its own lyrical attribute. Being replaced by a mechanical imitation who sings the same tune does not suffice because the machine in the turnkey bird wears out in the long run. This quite parallels the fate that H.C. Andersen obtains at not getting the approval of Jenny Lind on his proposition. In the same manner, The Snow Queen is based upon the author’s inspiration of a love that loses the right path and the snow queen appears to portray a reigning woman of deception, blinding men with wrong passion and devotion toward her physical beauty. If I were to become a victim of her seduction, I perceive calling out to her for not being able to stand the nipping cold on my frail skin which by that time would have been frostbitten in the snowing region I could not find a way out of. Either under her spell or not, the desire to get off the burning cold would surely bring me in total submission to her command. Overall, I highly appreciate having watched ‘My Life as a Fairytale’ for its sensibility on tapping not only human imagination of wonders but also the nature of exploring with life in an adventurous fashion. Words are as delectable as the dishes served at that period and as sharp or pungent as the taste of wine especially when fermented through ages just like man’s wisdom gained out of several ordeals or difficult encounters in life. The way a reader gives value to the story read as this fairytale can be significantly compared to the manner of chewing the food and identifying how palatable it is in a gradual process of digestion quite similar to a tasteful learning and appreciation of literature. Read More