We have given our hair to the witch,” said they, “to obtain help for you, that you may not die to-night.
her sisters would do anything for her even after she left them
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he loved her as one would love a little child
he does not she her as a wife, could foreshadow either she will never marry him and not have her soul live on forever or she will start to try and prove to the prince that she is mature and capable of being a wife
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Once she saw in the distance her old grandmother, who had not been to the surface of the sea for many years, and the old Sea King, her father, with his crown on his head. They stretched out their hands towards her, but did not venture so near the land as her sisters had.
Even though the little mermaid left her whole family they still care about her and come up to the surface to see her. Shows in a way that they are accepting, but there is nothing they can do for her =, but come and see her
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Human beings, on the contrary, have souls which live forever, even after the body has been turned to dust. They rise up through the clear, pure air, beyond the glittering stars. As we rise out of the water and behold all the land of the earth, so do they rise to unknown and glorious regions which we shall never see.”
Speaking about religion, the afterlife - Heaven or hell, Christianity
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She gave up tending her flowers, and they grew in wild confusion over the paths, twining their long leaves and stems round the branches of the trees so that the whole place became dark and gloomy.
The little mermaid has pretty much given up on everything. She didn't care about anything, all she could think about what she saw when she went above water
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Oh, how gladly she would have shaken off all this grandeur and laid aside the heavy wreath! The red flowers in her own garden would have suited her much better.
The little mermaid doesn't care about showing off her level of status and wearing extravagant flowers. She is fine wit h simple things. Different from the rest.
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. Now that they were grown-up girls and could go when they pleased, they had become quite indifferent about it.
The girls almost became used to going up. It wasn't as exciting anymore. They saw all the things they were told stories about. Nothing left to look forward to
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“When you have reached your fifteenth year,” said the grandmother, “you will have permission to rise up out of the sea and sit on the rocks in the moonlight, while the great ships go sailing by.
The age 15 symbolizes maturity and
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Nothing gave her so much pleasure as to hear about the world above the sea.
always wanting to know more, wasn't just satisfied with knowing about her "world"
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little mermaid
could be foreshadowing something, name of the novel
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delicate as a rose
purity
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but exceedingly proud of her high birth, and on that account wore twelve oysters on her tail, while others of high rank were only allowed to wear six.
Showing off he her age and wealth. She is the only one with 12 oysters on her tail . This emphasizes how everyone is beneath her considering the person with the next most oysters has half of what the Sea King's mother has
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Its walls are built of coral, and the long Gothic windows are of the clearest amber. The roof is formed of shells that open and close as the water flows over them.
The castle underwater is built similar to the ones built on land. It is similar in architecture but it has elements specific to the sea such as walls of coral instead of concrete or brick (the materials it would be made of if on land). The similar architecture could represent a relationship between the sea and land.
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