Whitney Slusser Mrs. Sherrow ACP W131 December 2, 2010 Summary Final of “Cinderella: Not So Morally Superior” (Panttaja 644-647) In her article, “Cinderella: Not So Morally Superior,” Elisabeth Panttaja (644-647) argues that Cinderella is not the motherless, good hearted, and honest character that she is portrayed to be. Panttaja believes Cinderella’s mother has a main role in the story, and that Cinderella is a lying, deceiving, and serpentine character. In almost every Cinderella story, Cinderella is thought to be completely absent. However, according to Panttaja, her mother plays a key role in Cinderella’s future, and in the story’s moral. Although Cinderella’s mother seems to be dead, it is she who holds the most power within the
Ariel is a revolutionary. She’s an unapologetic rebel with her own feelings and desires which separates her from other princesses such as Cinderella, Snow white and Sleeping beauty. Thirdly, Ariel and her crush Prince Eric. Ariel is a sixteen year old girl who is bad at making good decisions about love. Also, Why doesn’t Prince Eric marry her soon of the bat?
Disney is the worlds second largest media firm, and is one of the first factors that affect a child’s gender role portrayal (Martz, Bazzini, Curtin, Joslin, Regan 2010: 353). Even though children may be unaware that these views are being formed, the prince and princess characters in many Disney movies portray traditional masculine and feminine characteristics. These later on build the stereotypical gender images that are related to these traditional characteristics (Ross 2004: 55). Children start to associate certain attributes to men and women and this is how their portrayal is shaped. In many of the fairy-tale Disney movies, male and female characters are overrepresented and having such portrayals of gender roles may weaken children’s beliefs, expectations and aspirations because they cannot aspire to do something other than what is presented in the Disney films (England et al.
Snow White Essay: A critique on the dangers of a woman In Josephine Poole’s Snow White, woman like the former queen, Snow White, and her stepmother are presented throughout the story. Although each woman contains characteristics that differentiate from each other, they all share a commonality that they are all dangerous characters. The very first woman that appears in Poole’s Snow White is the former queen, . She reigns as queen until she dies at Snow White’s birth. Due to the queen’s death, the king becomes “distracted with grief (13)” and “shuts himself up in his wild kingdom (13)”.
“Snow White”: Then and now Fairy Tales are filled with magic, love, and conquest of good over evil. Fairy tales can be a window to other worlds so that children can make their wildest dreams come true. When I was a kid Snow White showed me all of these things, but looking back now at Snow White the characters, plot, and theme shows something in a different way. Looking back at the characters of Snow White they were very unique to me as a kid. For example, Snow White was known for her beauty at such a young age, “The fairest of them all.” Also, the Queen evil as can be and envious of Snow’s beauty.
Most people who are familiar with Cinderella have little understanding of the subliminal messages associated and the consequences involved. To many, Cinderella is a harmless story of a young girl who struggles through life, is finally able to achieve her dreams, and lives happily ever after. In reality, the patriarchal gender expectations and rewards associated with Disney’s Cinderella can be damaging to young girls and their self-image. Therefore, in order to render the misogynistic ideologies of these stories invalid, modern pedagogy should be recreated to incorporate potential empowerment for both genders. Most people believe fairy tales to be harmless to a girl’s development, unable to comprehend the reality of the situation: the gender stereotyping involved in these stories can be influential in several ways (Bonds-Raake 232).
While Disney did manage to stay pretty close to the basic story line, they had to water down many of the details in order to make a more child-friendly film; the enchanting characters, the wicked curse, the actual beauty being laid to rest, her meeting the love of her life, all the way to the defeat of the antagonist differ from the original. Princess Aurora, a.k.a. Briar Rose is the epitome of a Disney princess; she is innocently gorgeous and of course has a choir of animals that follow her every step. Talia, from Basiles’ version, does share similar qualities with Aurora, she is just as beautiful and naïve but lacks the animal entourage and isn’t actually a princess, she is the daughter of a lord. Prince Phillip is the dashing man who steals Auroras’ heart, but Talia captures the eye of King.
In fact, this is actually the synopsis of Disney’s Princess Series 1937 animated movie, Snow white and the seven dwarfs. Classic children’s movies, particularly that of the Disney’s Princesses series perpetuate conventional gender stereotypes-girls marrying their prince charming to live happily, and boys grow up to perceive power is everything. However, waves of feminism have led to the assertion of female status and power in modern society and this change manifests itself in children’s films by the portrayal of gender in characters. There seems to be a chronological movement towards an androgynous view of gender roles in children’s film. According to Shannon R. Wooden and Ken Gillam (2008), in modern post-feminist society, male protagonists in children’s films seem to be taking on more ‘feminine’ behaviors such as being affectionate versus ‘masculine’ ones like competitiveness of the past.
For example, Snow White- her budding sexuality is a threat to another woman, so she is murdered. Her only asset- physical beauty, is what saves her in the end. Ariel from the little mermaid- drastically changes her appearance so as to be more attractive to man. Cinderella- saved by a prince from terrible living
Snow White - symbolism The fairytale Snow White is known in many countries in Europe, the best-known version was collected and written by the Brothers Grimm. Snow White is a beautiful princess, with skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood and hair as black as ebony. Like in Hensel and Gretel, this fairytale tells a story how a child is victimized by an adult. The story of Snow White fits most characteristics of a typical fairytale and is similar to Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty. Before fairytales were aimed for kids, they were intended for adult audiences and so contained adult topics like oedipal themes and strong sexual connotations.