do you know of any short stories or fairytales that involve love that isnt fufilled or that involves sacrfice?
or any websites that have lists of fairytales or short stories that involve unfifilled love?
please help!
2007-11-28 14:35:33 · 21 answers · asked by Belinda 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Bellina Ana belle Lee is a great answer but its a poem
2007-11-28 14:42:38 · update #1
The Little Mermaid. Hans Christian Anderson, not the Disney version. :)
2007-11-28 14:59:05 · answer #1 · answered by carebearexecutioner 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This one is unusual, but you can try The Kalevala (the Finnish national folk epic). I believe some of the tales in there involve unrequited or sacrificial love.
A great volume was published in the 1980's in English translation by Elias Lonnrot.
Hope this helps.
Brian K
2007-11-28 14:49:12 · answer #2 · answered by Brian K 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is a short tale from the Old Norse or Scandinavian tradition called The White Bear. It is a very meaningful story that reveals a great truth. It is also a personal favorite of mine.
2007-11-28 15:30:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A lot about sacrifice:
Beauty and the Beast (she has to leave her life and live with the beast)
The Little Mermaid--in the original version she leaves the ocean and ends up dying of it.
Anything by the brothers Grimm
Several princesses have to kiss toads. Several princes have to go on quests (Rampunzel, Snow White, etc)
Unrequited
Hansel and Gretel for their parents. A different kind of love, but it still hurts.
2007-11-28 14:47:19 · answer #4 · answered by Truth 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Thumbelina has to do with sacrifice, even if it was in vain.
Some story books to read are the Redwall series, granted they aren't short stories but the chapters are very short and has love lost, lots of sacrifice to save Redwall Abbey from loads of different vermin like weasels, stoats, rats and the list goes on.
to give you some insight into it google it or the author Brian Jacques. I love the books and well worth the read.
2007-11-28 16:46:02 · answer #5 · answered by Valcruel 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
genuine love = A Crock Of ****. anybody Has a distinctive View Of What "Love" Is consequently There can't be genuine love because of the fact What One guy or woman Thinks Is Love yet another does not. So Whats real? not something. Or each and every thing counting on the way you seem at It. the two way Its irrelevant.
2016-10-09 21:57:40 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Annabelle Lee
2007-11-28 14:39:12 · answer #7 · answered by Bellina 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Rapunzel - her father promises the baby to the witch in order to save his wife, who can only eat the special lettuce out of the witches' garden and is close to death. I can't remember where I read this version though.
The Little Mermaid is about unrequited love and sacrifice. She sacrifices everything, including her voice, for the Prince whom she saved from the sinking ship. Unfortunately he marries someone else, who he thinks saved him, and she is unable to tell him the truth and dies.
2007-11-28 21:33:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Lady of Shallot
2007-11-28 16:52:26 · answer #9 · answered by freebird 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Little Mermaid (original version) jumps to the forefront immediately
2007-11-28 15:06:55 · answer #10 · answered by Experto Credo 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋