Reading Notes: Andersen Fairy Tales

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The Princess and the Pea
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  • Does he mean real princesses in the sense that she must be perfect,or actually literally real, like there are women who are faking it?
  • What are the odds that the perfect girl ends up at your door in the pouring rain?
  • Why is sensitivity the mark of a true princess?
  • An interesting story to take could be: A girl knows a prince is looking for a wife, and knows that she will be tested in some sort of way, so she sneaks to the room where she will be sleeping and sees the queen put a pea between the mattresses. So she lies in the morning and pretends like it kept her up all night and everyone believes her
  • Or it could be told from the perspective of the queen, who is over protective of her son and has been filling his head with silly things that "real" princesses do, and this is the girl she finally likes enough to let marry her son

Bibliography: The Princess and the Pea from Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen translated by H. P. Paull link to online reading

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