Cinderella is a Classic fairytale that most people have grown up watching or reading. There are also many versions of Cinderella around the world that told a tale of a young girl who went through many hardships and in the end married her prince charming with the help of some animal friends and a fairy Godmother. In "Cinderella: Not So Morally Superior" Elisabeth Panttaja examined Grimm’s Cinderella and wanted her audience to see the deeper meaning in the story in which the reader is left questioning the morality behind this fairytale. Good writers can change their reader’s mind or even move their audiences into actions though the art of persuasion and that’s exactly what Elisabeth Panttaja did in “Cinderella: Not So Morally Superior". She used pathos and logos to persuade her audience to look at Cinderella in a whole new perspective.
It helps parents realize the messages that movies can transmit and let‘s them decide how often they will influence their children by media. Disney is one of the largest media companies in the world. They allow girls to have fairy-tales. They are simply called fairy- tales for the fact that they are something you can dream of and hope for. Representations of women in Disney films are due partly to the fact that Walt Disney's personal feelings about family life shaped the Disney Company, and partly to the fact that his attitudes mirrored the patriarchal cultural beliefs of the 1940's about what roles women should play in society (O'Brien.
It’s like women in movies has taken a total role reversal in movies today. Throughout the movie she shows how she don’t listen to no one and just does her own thing because she knows that taking, the character Michael, off the streets is the right thing to do, even though he is black and is kind of shady at first. She has her husband asking her why she is letting this stranger in our house when you don’t even what he is going to do, and she doesn’t see him doing anything wrong. In the older days the husband would have been like no this boy will not stay in my house. If Sean tried saying this to Leigh he would of probably been sleeping on the couch.
Response to “Two Kinds” Donna-Lee Bellamy Jing-mei’s confrontation with her mother following the recital is not where the climax occurs in Amy Tan’s Two Kinds. Jing-mei is the protagonist and during the climax the protagonist is supposed to change during that event. Jing-mei’s mother is constantly encouraging her, telling her she can be a prodigy if she puts forth more effort, but Jing-mei does not believe in herself or her abilities. Jing-mei says, “ For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me” (464).
A good example of this change is the film Pocahontas, which has a active heroin who displays wisdom and strength. Finally, in the modern Disney movies the passive heroin is almost nonexistent, as in the movie Tangled about Rapunzel. As the Disney Princess franchise has progressed the theme of passive women as an ideal has practically disappeared, and the active women characters are not the villains. In the early Disney films the passive woman was presented as an ideal, while being an active woman was always presented as the villainous woman. Disney’s first animated feature length film, Snow White, was made in 1938 (Disney).
In traditional fairy stories one starts with the helpless maiden, especially with Sleeping Beauty. The audience knows that she will be rescued and a happily ever after will be following it straight after. However, one intresting pattern that develops in fairytales is that the rescuer of the bewitched person has himself or herself been bewitched or persecuted. Jane Yolen uses the name Briar Rose for another name for sleeping beauty. There have been many versions of the tale, which not many people know about, and they haven't always been for little children, they were more scarier and ruder than the disney - style and were told to a wider audience.Yolen has taken the story of sleeping Beauty which is (Briar Rose) she developed the parrallel stories of two women: Becca searching for her grandmother's story, and Gemma's story in the extermination camp of chelmmo and afterwards with the partisans of Poland during WWII.
Cinderella: Many Cultures Different Aspect Cinderella is an extremely popular fairy tale for all ages and has been progressing as an inscription over many centuries. It is a story that has been told over many periods of time together with its characters. Actually, the tale Cinderella is so enchanting that many different stories of the fairy tale have appeared in many cultures, the Native American chronicle, “The Rough-Faced-Girl”, and the Vietnamese chronicle, “Tam and Cam.” These stories possibly can be based on distinct beliefs, except they both have something in common, they all immerse in the moral creativity that “good always overcomes evil.”But they contrast in the way they are described. Each story intensifies the aspects of spirituality, illusion, sensation, and outcomes. In the Vietnamese chronicle, “Tam and Cam”, the aspect of spirituality can be visualized overall the incidents in the story.
They often show an inordinate naivety about the world tending to land them in trouble. Despite princess status, they still make excellent housewives, as Snow White shows keeping house for many (male) dwarves. In short, they display the characteristics required by women before equal rights. Hawthorne attempts to imbue Phoebe with a higher purpose and morality but in the end only gives her characteristics displayed by these Disney princesses. Indeed despite Hawthorne telling us to laugh at and ridicule the ugly Hepzibah, she displays a far greater sense of good and a much more complex character than Phoebe.
English Composition 23 January 2013 The positive effects of Disney Since the release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937, children of all ages have been awestruck by the magic that Walt Disney has to offer. Several decades later, scholars dispute whether these classic children’s movies are positively affecting the future adults, especially the young women. Although these films are made to bring joy and entertainment, there are underlined teaching in all of the traditional Disney movies. On December 21, 1937, Walt Disney released his first full-length movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. This is one of the movies greatly disputed because in order to wake up from death, Snow White must rely on a man to kiss her, her fait is not in her own hands.
English 101 Professor: Kathy Lawler Class Section: 3198 SEXISM IN DISNEY MOVIES Children have been a profitable target for advertising for decades, as a three in one market, as influence of their parents' purchases, as buyers themselves, and as future buyers. Advertisers make sure they put the greatest pictures for children to feel caught in their hands to buy their product. What some of us do not or did not realize rather, is that some of Disney movies, commercials, movies, adds, etc. are creating controversy among people, specially parents who wish never have introduced the product to their kids. Some Disney movies are filled sexism stereotyping such as “Beauty and the Beast”, “Aladdin”, and “Snow White” just to mention a few.