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Vigen Guroian: Fairy Tales, Classical Learning, and The Moral Imagination

The Moral Imagination

CHAPTER

The Little Mermaid

The academic has to and I'll be here a little critical, but you know, the academics, I have to make my name and I'm going to write this. Or you know, what I think it's Hans Christian Andersens that the little mermaid, the idea that you know, somehow he's just turning this woman into like a sexual object, etc. And like missing the point of the story. That's where Disney's hand was not in it. He gave us something we'd never seen before with Snow White. They're not the same story, but he understood what these stories were about.Like Pinocchio, right? Like Pinocchio. I turned him into

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