I recall the famous psychiatrist Sigmund Freud analyzing children's fairy tales for subtle sexual themes. Hans Christian Andersen may have been a homosexual rather fixated on young people. I read that Charles Dickens evicted this guest out of his house.
Jan 26, 2015 - A new BBC documentary is to explore whether author Lewis Carroll was a repressed paedophile after a photograph of a naked girl comes to …
Albert Einstein would agree that IMAGINATION - whatever its source- is more important than knowledge in human creativity.
How many readers suspected that Oscar Wilde's " hero " scoundrel in " The Picture of Dorian Gray " was a reflection of his homosexual self : " Be always seeking new sensations " ? The hideous " portrait " told the moral tale.
From a review of Hans Christian Andersen
[ Doomed love is the subject of many of Andersen’s tales—think “The Brave Tin Soldier”—but none more than “The Little Mermaid.”
When the mermaid becomes human in Andersen’s tale, every step on land feels like knives are stabbing her feet. She also can’t speak. She dances and walks with the prince at the cost of constant pain, her feet “bleeding” and “burning” throughout the tale.
Meanwhile, the prince treats her more like a pet. Their relationship never translates into romantic love. He ends up getting married to another woman, but unlike the Disney adaptation, it ]
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