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awny-haired mermaid Ariel was one of Disney's
most immediately popular animated heroines. Ariel is a girl in the process
of becoming an attractive woman. One of her attractive qualities is that
she is very definite about what she is doing and very confident about
her own ability to succeed. Of course, a good deal of that confidence
is ill-placed, as she is just a teenager. Although she is warned by her
father, King Triton, that humans are dangerous, Ariel stubbornly believes
otherwise and has an insatiable curiosity about them. She explores human
artifacts (sunken ships, etc.) and is constantly going into forbidden
territory: the surface. This, of course, leads her to love ... and trouble. |