![]() ![]() He was very upset by the rector’s attacks, just as the ugly duckling was afraid of a warlike Native American rooster in the poultry yard.Īndersen’s biographers associate the life of a duckling in a hut with an old woman, a cat and a chicken with the relations of the young man with the family of his patron, financier under King Frederick 6 Jonas Collin. After all, Andersen was 6 years older than classmates, that is, big and awkward, like an ugly duckling. He experienced the same ridicule in the prestigious schools of Slagels and Elsinore, where he was arranged at government expense by well-wishers. There, the young ugly Andersen caused only ridicule, because he wanted to become an actor. In Odense’s hometown, his mother sent him to a Jewish school for poor children, where there were no corporal punishment, but the boy there felt like a stranger. Three trials of the ugly duckling are associated with the three stages of Andersen’s life. The ugly duckling is young Andersen, who had an extravagant appearance: he was thin and clumsy, so that many aroused pity and a desire to help. Literary scholars believe that the tale is autobiographical. The tale “The Ugly Duckling” was written in 1843 by Andersen and published in the collection New Tales. ![]()
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