summary of the story little mermaid
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Deep down at the bottom of the sea live the mermen and mermaids. Six sisters live there, all of them princesses, the youngest of whom is quieter and more thoughtful than her older siblings. Each of the mermaids has their own little garden under the sea, but whereas the others decorate theirs with all sorts of things they have salvaged from shipwrecks that have drifted to the bottom of the sea, the little mermaid has just some roses and the statue of a beautiful boy. They are all intrigued by the world beyond the sea, but this youngest sister – the little mermaid of the story’s title – is more interested in the world above the sea than her other sisters.
The sisters are looked after by their grandmother, who tells them that when a mermaid reaches the age of fifteen, she can rise to the surface of the water and explore the world above the surface. In turn, each of the sisters reaches that age and goes up to the surface, returning below the sea to tell her sisters what she has seen. When it’s finally the turn of the little mermaid, she notices a ship, which contains royalty. The people on board are celebrating the birthday of a handsome prince. The little mermaid is instantly attracted to him.
There is a storm, and the ship sinks. The little mermaid is initially delighted when she sees the prince sinking beneath the water – as it means he can join her – but then she remembers that humans cannot survive underwater, so she rescues him and takes him to shore at a temple, where some novice girls appear and one of them restores the prince to consciousness. The mermaid sinks back under the water, with the prince entirely unaware of her existence, or that she has saved his life.
The little mermaid asks her grandmother about humans. She learns that humans don’t live as long as mermen (who can live for up to three hundred years), but that they do have immortal souls which float up to heaven when they die, unlike the mermen who don’t have souls. The little mermaid says she would trade three hundred years of life as a mermaid for one day as a human, if it meant she would have a soul
and live forever. The grandmother tells her not to think about such things, because the only way a mermaid could gain a soul is if a human loved her so much that his soul would merge with her and she would gain one.
But the little mermaid realises that she so loves the handsome prince that she could give anything to be with him and gain an immortal soul. So she goes to visit the one woman who might help her: the sea witch. The sea witch says she will make the little mermaid a potion which the mermaid must take onto land with her and drink. It will turn her fish’s tail into two human legs, and she will not be able to transform back into a mermaid again. It will also hurt her every time she walks. If the handsome prince will not marry her, she will not gain an immortal soul; and she will die and become foam upon the water (as is the fate of soulless mermen) the day the prince marries another.
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