A) Hans Christian Andersen: The Little Mermaid, (1836)
The story can be found at:
http://hca.gilead.org.il/li_merma.html
Here are some of the original fairytale drawings:
The quotes I have chosen are:
wig 1: Mermaid Lily wreath:
At last she reached her fifteenth year. “Well, now, you are grown up,” said the old dowager, her grandmother; “so you must let me adorn you like your other sisters;” and she placed a wreath of white lilies in her hair, and every flower leaf was half a pearl. Then the old lady ordered eight great oysters to attach themselves to the tail of the princess to show her high rank.
wig 2: Sea Witch:
She now came to a space of marshy ground in the wood, where large, fat water-snakes were rolling in the mire, and showing their ugly, drab-colored bodies. In the midst of this spot stood a house, built with the bones of shipwrecked human beings. There sat the sea witch, allowing a toad to eat from her mouth, just as people sometimes feed a canary with a piece of sugar. She called the ugly water-snakes her little chickens, and allowed them to crawl all over her bosom.
wig 3: Mermaid Knives:
Then the little mermaid drank the magic draught, and it seemed as if a two-edged sword went through her delicate body: she fell into a swoon,
wig 4: Mermaid Ethereal:
She saw the bright sun, and all around her floated hundreds of transparent beautiful beings; she could see through them the white sails of the ship, and the red clouds in the sky; their speech was melodious, but too ethereal to be heard by mortal ears, as they were also unseen by mortal eyes. The little mermaid perceived that she had a body like theirs, and that she continued to rise higher and higher out of the foam. “Where am I?” asked she, and her voice sounded ethereal, as the voice of those who were with her; no earthly music could imitate it. “Among the daughters of the air,” answered one of them.
B) Madame de Villeneuve: Beauty and the Beast, (1740)
The story can be found at:
http://humanitiesresource.com/ancient/articles/beauty_and_beast-final.pdf
The quotes I have chosen are:
wig 1: Beauty:
She decided to amuse herself in the garden, for the sun shone, and all the fountains were playing. She was astonished to find that everyplace was familiar to her, and presently she came to the very brook and the myrtle trees where she had first met the prince in her dream.
wig 2: Beast:
The Beast, who had been sighing dolefully while she spoke, now replied, “I cannot refuse you anything you ask, even though it should cost me my life.
C) The Brothers' Grimm: Cinderella, (1812)
The story can be found at:
http://www.fairytalescollection.com/TheGrimmBrothers/Cinderella.aspx
The quotes I have chosen are:
wig 1&2: step sisters:
When the wedding with the king's son was to be celebrated, the two false sisters came and wanted to get into favor with Cinderella and share her good fortune. When the betrothed couple went to church, the elder was at the right side and the younger at the left, and the pigeons pecked out one eye from each of them. Afterwards as they came back the elder was at the left, and the younger at the right, and then the pigeons pecked out the other eye from each. And thus, for their wickedness and falsehood, they were punished with blindness all their days.
wig 3: Cinderella work:
In the evening when she had worked till she was weary she had no bed to go to, but had to sleep by the hearth in the cinders. And as on that account she always looked dusty and dirty, they called her Cinderella.
wig 4: Cinderella ball:
She put on the dress with all speed, and went to the wedding. Her step-sisters and the step-mother however did not know her, and thought she must be a foreign princess, for she looked so beautiful in the golden dress.
D) Hans Christian Andersen: The Ugly Duckling, (1844)
The story can be found at:
http://www.fairytalescollection.com/HansChristianAndersen/TheUglyDuckling.aspx
The quotes I have chosen are:
wig 1: Duckling:
“I will fly to those royal birds,” he exclaimed, “and they will kill me, because I am so ugly, and dare to approach them; but it does not matter: better be killed by them than pecked by the ducks, beaten by the hens, pushed about by the maiden who feeds the poultry, or starved with hunger in the winter.”
wig 2: Swan:
But what did he see in the clear stream below? His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan.
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