Day 129: The Maker of Fairytales
December 25, 2009 6:52 pm manycolours22 Dec, Tues
Always thought fairytales like “The Emperor’s New Clothes” and “The Ugly Duckling” were like old folk tales that were told by parents and grandparents to children to teach us about the meaningful morals behind the stories. If I didn’t come to Denmark, I wouldn’t have realised that they all come from the hands of Hans Christian Anderson.?His friend HC ?rsted once said that his novel will make him famous but his fairytales would make him immortal.?And indeed, he grew famous because of that.
The irony of his fairytakes is that the life of this man is so not like the stories he tell others. His love was never reciprocated. He died as a bachelor. He might have made a name for himself but with not happily ever after. How sad ):