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The Ugly Duckling is a fairy tale written in 1872 by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. Its moral teaching is that inner virtues will eventually overshadow physical appearance. The Ugly Duckling is a story by Hans Christian Andersen. ...
A fairy tale is a story, either told to children or as if told to children, concerning the adventures of mythical characters such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, giants, and others. ...
Hans Christian Andersen or simply H.C. Andersen , (April 2, 1805 – August 4, 1875) was a Danish author and poet, most famous for his fairy tales. ...
Not as ugly as their reputation: young swans (cygnets) have short wings and fluffy feathering. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (3456 × 2592 pixel, file size: 1. ...
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Plot synopsis A mother duck hatches her eggs and, while most of her ducklings are normal, one is gray, too large, and too clumsy to fit in among the others. Though she tries to accept him, the entire barnyard realizes that he simply does not belong and after a period of harassment he leaves to fend for himself. He wanders for the entire summer and fall, for no one will take him in, and he nearly freezes to death in an icy pond. Though he is rescued by a human, he cannot live in captivity, and he goes back to the wild.
By the end of winter he is miraculously still alive. He comes to a pond in a park or garden, where beautiful white swans are swimming. He is drawn to their beauty, though he has no reason to think that they will treat him better than anyone else has. Still, he thinks, even if they kill him, he must approach them. To his surprise, the beautiful creatures welcome and accept him; gazing at his reflection, he sees that he too is a swan. The children declare that he is the most beautiful swan of them all, yet he is not proud, for a good heart is never proud. Because of all that he suffered he now appreciates his happiness so much more.
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Please improve the article by adding references. See the talk page for details.(September 2007) | The moral concept of "The Ugly Duckling" is that inner beauty will overshadow the physical appearance. Its understated social moral is buried within the tale: To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg. A human parallel would concern a child who looks or acts different from the other children around him/her. Image File history File links Emblem-important. ...
H.C. Andersen used the story to explain his early life. Born into lower middle-class, he frequently felt the part of the ugly duckling. He was an admittedly effeminate youth who later reveals his homosexual feelings through correspondence. This further explains his feelings of being out of place in his day. Today, the story's significance has grown to become a metaphor for anything neglected continually, or anything neglected at first, then becoming popular or good. For example: "I can't believe Sara's so accomplished now! She used to be such an ugly duckling." For other uses, see Hans Christian Andersen (disambiguation). ...
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While the story is uplifting to those currently suffering harassment because of difference, it also encourages belief that the tormentors are simply destined to remain lower class, giving an otherwise innocent story a tinge of elitism and classism. Elitism is the belief or attitude that the people who are considered to be the elite — a selected group of persons with outstanding personal abilities, wealth, specialised training or experience, or other distinctive attributes — are the people whose views on a matter are to be taken the most seriously, or...
Classism (a term formed by analogy with racism) is any form of prejudice or oppression against people who are in, or who are perceived as being like those who are in, a lower social class (especially in the form of lower or higher socioeconomic status) within a class society. ...
One other concern is that while the underlying theme of a youth who is not accepted among his peers finding a group where he belongs is a pleasant premise, it is ironically rather self-defeating. The ugly duckling is not accepted among his peers because he is inadvertently different from them; only later as he discovers that he has turned into a beautiful swan is he accepted into a group and finds happiness.
Some peoples believe that "The Ugly Duckling" is Andersen's autobigraphic story, because he was the illegitimate son of royalty. So he was "ugly duck" among his brothers and sisters but later he accepted by noblesse as the most beautiful "swan". Also like "ugly duck" he leaves to fend for himself as young boy etc.
Adaptations Walt Disney produced two Silly Symphonies animated shorts based on the story, one in 1931 in black and white, and one in 1939 in Technicolor. The latter film is the more notable version, as it won the 1939 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons). In this version, the baby swan's sufferings are significantly shortened, as he is found by his real mother and father, and brothers and sisters, after only a few minutes of rejection and ostracism, instead of a whole year; also, its quack was similar to that of a motorcar horn. This abbreviated version is read by Lilo to Stitch in the 2002 Disney film Lilo & Stitch. The story has a deep impact on Stitch, who sets out to look for his real family. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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// The Academy Award for Animated Short Film is an award which has been given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as part of the Academy Awards every year since the 5th Academy Awards, covering the year 1931-32, to the present. ...
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For the television series, see Lilo & Stitch: The Series Lilo & Stitch is a 2002 American animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution on June 21, 2002. ...
The 1952 Charles Vidor musical film Hans Christian Andersen contains a song, "The Ugly Duckling", written by Frank Loesser and sung by Danny Kaye. Year 1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Charles Vidor (July 27, 1900 – June 4, 1959) was a film director. ...
The musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative. ...
Hans Christian Andersen is a 1952 Hollywood musical film, with words and music by Frank Loesser. ...
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Kaye entertaining U.S. troops at Sasebo, Japan, 25 Oct 1945 David Daniel Kaminsky, known as Danny Kaye (January 18, 1913 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, singer and comedian. ...
A musical, Honk!, based loosely on the text of Hans Christian Andersen, but more on the concept of the "Ugly Duckling," was performed in London's West End Theatre. Honk! is a musical retelling of the Hans Christian Andersen story The Ugly Duckling, mixed with a theme of pro-tolerance. ...
Hans Christian Andersen or simply H.C. Andersen , (April 2, 1805 – August 4, 1875) was a Danish author and poet, most famous for his fairy tales. ...
In 1914, the Russian-born composer Sergei Prokofiev composed a work for voice and piano based on Nina Mershchersky's adaptation of Andersen's original tale. Later in 1932, he arranged the work for voice and orchestra. Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (Russian: , Sergej SergejeviÄ Prokofijev; April 27 (April 151 O.S.), 1891–March 5, 1953) was a Russian and Soviet composer who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. ...
In 2006 the Danish animation studio A. Film produced a spin-off CG feature called The Ugly Duckling and Me!, and later a children's CG TV-series Ugly Duckling Junior, featuring the same characters as the movie. A. Film A/S is a Danish animation studio established in 1988. ...
Books Donna Jo Napoli is an author of childrens and young adult books, as well as a prominent linguist with work in syntax, phonetics, phonology, morphology, historical and comparative linguistics, Romance studies, structure of Japanese, structure of American Sign Language, poetics, writing for ESL students, and mathematical and linguistic analysis...
Television Shows Ugly Betty is an Emmy-winning[1] American television comedy-drama series starring America Ferrera, Eric Mabius, Rebecca Romijn and Vanessa Williams. ...
America Georgine Ferrera (born April 18, 1984) is an American actress. ...
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