ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -"The Princess and the Pea” (Danish: “Prinsessen paa Ærten"; direct translation: “The Princess on the Pea") is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a young woman whose royal ancestry is established by a test of her sensitivity.

Detailed explanation-2: -"The Princess and the Pea” is a classic fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Andersen was a Danish writer who readers know best for his fairy tales.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Princess and the Pea was written by Hans Christian Andersen, who published it in 1835. Unlike the Little Mermaid, which is an original fairy tale by Andersen, The Princess and the Pea was based on traditional folk tales Andersen heard as a child.

Detailed explanation-4: -An Introduction to the Fairy Princess Story Once upon a time, there lived a royal couple; King and his Queen in a kingdom. The family of the King had the blessings of the power of fairies. Once they were blessed with a beautiful girl child. On that day, the Godmother of fairies blessed the baby girl with powers.

Detailed explanation-5: -First, fantasy presents itself as original whereas fairy tale tends to invoke a tradition: Harry Potter has many mythic and fairy elements but it is a full-length, individually authored novel from out of J. K. Rowling’s exceptional and singular imagination.