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The Ugly Duckling
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"The Ugly Duckling" is a literary Fairy Tale written by Danish poet Hans Christian Andersen. It has been adapted by Disney twice and the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev wrote a score for a ballet of the story in 1914. It is one of the few Hans Christian Andersen stories where nobody dies.A swan egg winds up in a duck nest. When it hatches, it is clear that this baby "duck" is different from all his siblings and gets teased and picked on. The "ugly duckling" goes off on his own and ekes out a miserable existence, meeting misfortune everywhere he goes.When the spring comes, he sees a bevy of swans on a pond and is drawn to their beauty, feeling compelled to approach them even though he fears they will abuse or even kill him for his ugliness. To his amazement, they receive him as one of their own. The "duckling" catches sight of his own reflection and sees that he too is a swan.Adaptations include a famous Disney cartoon from 1939, a 1997 animated movie based on The Ugly Duckling but with its own original plot, and a stage musical. A long running animated series was also made, but it is essentially Lost Media at this point. | |
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Beautiful All Along | |
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Beautiful All Along: The "ugly duckling" is actually a beautiful swan. | |
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Big Brother Bully | |
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Big Brother Bully: The duckling's siblings. For clarity, it was the title character who hatched last. See All of the Other Reindeer above. | |
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Never Accepted in His Hometown | |
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Never Accepted in His Hometown: Only once he leaves does the Ugly Duckling find acceptance. | |
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Sweet and Sour Grapes | |
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Sweet and Sour Grapes: The "duckling" is "ugly" by duck standards, but by accepting this, he realizes that he is a fine example of something else. | |
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Swans A-Swimming | |
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Swans A-Swimming: The ugly duckling's Happy Ending is that he learns he's a swan and gets accepted by his own kind. | |
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All of the Other Reindeer | |
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All of the Other Reindeer: The duckling gets this in spades from pretty much every duck that he deals with, even his own brothers and sisters, who say things such as "We hope the cat gets you!" | |
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Cats Are Mean | |
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Cats Are Mean: In the original story, the ugly duckling, after being taken in by a kind old woman, is promptly bullied by her cat. Subverted in that said cat was also accompanied by a chicken, so it's really Both Cats and Domestic Birds Are Awful People. | |
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Author Avatar: The ugly duckling is said to based on Hans Christian Andersen himself. Andersen was gangly, unattractive as a child and was bullied when young. The whole "becoming a beautiful swan" thing was probably wish fulfillment on his own part. Hans Christian Andersen believed he was actually the illegitimate son of Christian Frederick, the Crown Prince of Denmark. The ugly duckling's acceptance by the swan-bevy was symbolic of Andersen's desire to be accepted by the royal family. | |
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Rhyming Title: The title is memorable by its assonance, although this is a coincidence, as it was originally written in Danish (where it is "Den grimme ælling"), rather than English. | |
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Throw the Dog a Bone | |
| The Ugly Duckling / int_98576799 | comment |
Throw the Dog a Bone: For all the story's emotional intensity of the cygnet feeling rejected in the Disney version, he only has to endure it for a few minutes before a mother swan takes him in. In the original story, the poor duckling suffered a lot, but an old woman took pity on him and showed him love. And then her other pets got jealous... | |
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Parental Neglect | |
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Parental Neglect: The duckling's adoptive mother—she half-heartedly defends him from bullies at best, ignores him at worst and her last moment of screentime consists of the duckling overhearing her stating that she "wishes he was miles away". | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Practically everyone who bullied or abused the duckling gets away with it in the end. | |
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Feathered Fiend | |
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Feathered Fiend: Besides other waterfowl being nasty to the eponymous character, a chicken owned by the woman who adopts him is also nasty. | |
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World of Jerkass | |
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World of Jerkass: Practically everyone bullies the duckling only because he doesn't look like a regular duckling. | |
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Interspecies Adoption | |
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Interspecies Adoption: He is adopted first as a duck before finding out that he's actually a swan. Though it's implied that this wasn't intentional and that instead his egg just happened to find its way into a duck's nest. | |
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Foul Waterfowl | |
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Foul Waterfowl: All the birds aside from the title character, a few geese and the swans at the end are mean-spirited, being the main factors in the duckling's suffering. | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending: The poor duckling goes through so much torture throughout the years. When the swans find him, he's finally accepted and has a truly happy life. | |
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