The dentist asked her daughter if she wanted to sit in the “special princess throne.”She then goes on about other times the princess label has been put on her daughter and about her frustrations with these situations. Then, her daughter asks what’s wrong with princesses? She makes references to real life princesses, and also she talked about the princess trend that has swept across the nation. She states her strong feminist beliefs and questions “what playing Little Mermaid is teaching her [daughter] (Orenstein 671).” She then briefly acknowledges the counterargument and moves on to discussing the start and instant success of Disney’s princess products. She quotes the founder of the princess products, Andy Mooney, when he says that boys pass through phases and so will girls with the princess phase.
Amanda Ravens George Powell Eng. 102 28 February 2014 Is Being Sexualized Really A Problem? Stephanie Hane’s article, “Little Girls or Little Women? The Disney Princess Effect,” explains why she thinks young girls are being sexualized at a very young age and how others can help girls see the problem. To make her argument more effective, she talks about a woman named Mary Finucane and her person experience with her daughter.
Smiley says, “Both of them learned how to put makeup before kindergarten” (376). Smiley’s daughters learned to apply makeup; however the writer did not know who taught them, until she blamed to Barbie as the influence of their girls. Smiley realized that her daughters were trying new things, such as applying makeup. She did not argue with her girls; instead she let her girls to experiment with makeup or perhaps other things as they grow up. Next, Jane Smiley says that girls start to discover and develop their femininity while playing with Barbie dolls.
The Princess Paradox Critique Alexandra Heinrich May 2012 English 120 In the article “The Princess Paradox” By James Poniewozik the author explains how “modern day” Cinderella stories have came a long way from what they once were. Although, no matter how hard we try, the Cinderella story will always end the same and our young girls will always want to be a princess, no matter how the princess is portrayed in the fairy tail. In this article, Poniewozik explains the changes that have occurred in the princess stories throughout the years, and the way that they have changed from one story to the next. He shows how the fairy tales and ideal women in movies went from being just a few years ago the “girls-kick-ass culture” to now the much more elegant fairy tales. A few years ago there were movies such as his examples “Charlie's Angels, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and the Powder Puff girls” Where women were very fierce and self defendant.
Leah Hardy Kidder English 9 Honors 20 March 2013 A question commonly asked by frustrated parents to their teenagers: why don’t you just grow up and start acting like an adult? Although it is a rhetorical question, there is an answer. Research has shown that the human brain does not reach full development until people are in their 20s. Teenage brains are strikingly unlike adults’, explaining their often rash, immature behavior exemplified in Mary E. Pearson’s novel The Adoration of Jenna Fox and William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet. In The Adoration of Jenna Fox, 17 year old Jenna Fox struggles to recover from an 18 month-long coma that left her with complete amnesia.
In their younger years, they were told they would never fit in due to the color of their skin. In Helga's case because she was bi-racial she was always told. "If you couldn't prove your ancestry and connections, you were tolerated, but you didn't 'belong'." (Q.43). Even when Helga tries to get help from Uncle Peter she is rejected by his wife, Mrs. Nilssen, who tells her directly "Well, he isn't exactly your uncle, is he?
Her daughter came running over in a full-skirted frock with a gold bodice, a beaded crown hanging sideways on her head, and she says, “Look, Mommy, I’m Ariel!” referring to Disney’s Little Mermaid. Her daughter then stops and raises her eyebrow and asks her mom, “Mommy, do you like Ariel?” Orenstein thinks and says it’s not the perpetual dissatisfaction with the results, but then questions herself and says “Or is it?” Orenstein says the Princesses are not what really bother her anyway. Well what does? Isn’t that’s what she’s arguing throughout the
"Walt Disney's 'Cinderella,'" adapted by Campbell Grant, is the Little Golden Book adaptation of the Disney film. "Cinderella," by Anne Sexton, is a poetic retelling of the "Cinderella" tale that exposes the artificiality of the fairy tale. The last version, written in 1976, is John Gardner's "Gudgekin the Thistle Girl." After the variants, in "'Cinderella': A Story of Sibling Rivalry and Oedipal Conflicts," Freudian psychologist Bruno Bettelheim analyzes "Cinderella's" hidden meanings and asserts that the tale appeals to children because it focuses on the sibling rivalry many children feel at a young age. A Jungian analyst, Jacqueline Schectman, examines the tale to find a sympathetic Stepmother in "'Cinderella' and the Loss of Father-Love."
Marisa on the other hand isn’t as independent as the European Cinderella but more like the American one in that sense. For example, Marisa isn’t able to make her own decisions in the movie; and despite her standing up to her mother and taking care of her son, she still relies on most of the hotel staff to see Chris. Marisa, like the American Cinderella, is also not much of an activist in the movie. Though she may speak her mind, she doesn’t get things done. For example, in the movie she tells her friend how much she wants to be assistant manager, but never sends in the application.
In James Poniewozik’s 2004 Time article The Princess Paradox, he elucidates how the Hollywood movie industry had found a way to manipulate an big chunk of the American nation through the idea of feminism. Hollywood has changed the original concepts of the original fairytales by retelling their stories in a more modernized and female-friendly way. This change is aimed especially at the parents of young girls who are consistent in pushing the idea of independence into their child’s minds. The Princess Diaries is a spin-off of the classic fairytale Cinderella; however in this modernized version, the female lead Diana has no desire at first to be a princess. She is given the chance to experience the life of a princess and then is given the choice to choose whether or not she wants to take over the throne.