Disney Archives - Cathrin Hagey https://www.cathrinhagey.com/tag/disney/ Author and Blogger Sat, 05 Jul 2025 16:36:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 67173325 Mermaids https://www.cathrinhagey.com/mermaids/ Wed, 08 Jan 2020 19:03:21 +0000 https://www.cathrinhagey.com/?p=4634 Thousands of years since the first fish goddess emerged from the primordial human collective unconscious, countless women pine to be mermaids. Hans Christian Andersen and Disney merely exploited the contents of this particular Pandora’s box. It is thought that Andersen used the archetype in order to submerge unrequited desires. Disney turned Andersen’s tortured protagonist into […]

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]]> 4634 Literary Alchemy https://www.cathrinhagey.com/literary-alchemy/ Fri, 08 Feb 2019 16:25:57 +0000 https://www.cathrinhagey.com/?p=4321 Most attempts to define fairy tale are necessarily too broad or too narrow. J. R. R. Tolkien's most widely read essay, "On Fairy Stories," takes nearly thirty pages of dense text in the heroic struggle to pin their wild wings, once and for all.

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