yeeees
why is Ursula shunned from King Triton’s society? does it have something to do with being more powerful than him? why does King Triton have a magical trident, being otherwise a pretty regular merman? Ursula is a witch, if anyone should have a magical artifact it should be her, did King Triton steal it?
and finally, Ursula didn’t do Ariel much wrong
Ariel wanted some legs (and a vagina) and Ursula told her flat out that in the surface world you can have a vagina or a voice, not both
i’d watch the hell out of a movie about Ursula
“Ursula told her flat out that in the surface world you can have a vagina or a voice, not both”
ohhhh shit though, ursula was being too real about the world
although perhaps a bit too literal
Okay, these were all excellent points and I’ll never see The Little Mermaid the same way again.
I laughed at that caption at first then the reality actually hit me
you can have a vagina or a voice, not both”
well, damn
Triton is the son of the Greek sea god Poseidon and carries a trident just like his father, the fucking god of the ocean. Ursula took Ariel’s voice in exchange for a pair of legs and because she was jealous of Ariel, King Triton, and everything they had. She’s a bloody evil witch. What in God’s name could excuse her manipulating an innocent little girl? God goods. You people are just looking for excuses to be offended.
In the original story, the sea witch married the prince and Ariel was turned into sea foam. Reckon that would balance it out for ‘em?
Yikes. And I think we’re hoping for too much rationality from them.
Actually the Sea Witch played a very small role, and did NOT marry the prince. The prince married the girl he saw when he awoke on the beach after the ship accident. He assumed the girl had saved him, but it had been the Little Mermaid.
Also, the Mermaid didn’t even love the prince, he was a means to an end to achievd immortality in heaven. According to Hans Christian Anderson’s mythology, mermaids could not go to heaven and were turned to sea foam when they died. However they could be saved if they loved and were loved by a mortal man.
When the prince married someone else (he always saw the mermaid as a sort of plaything or pretty trinket anyway), the mermaid allowed herself to be turned to sea foam out of heartbreak. But that wasn’t the end! She was saved by the spirits of the wind, daughters of the sun, and told if she did good deeds as a breeze for 100 years she could earn her way into heaven. And every time she saw a good child, she lost a year off her time, but every time she saw a bad child, she earned another.
In the end, the mermaid got what she truly desired: immortality. It’s a story about false idols (the prince) and learning the true way to heaven (good deeds).
(Source: tybalt-tisk)