Defining a female antagonist’s characteristics within a role is often separated into more defined stereotypes, ones usually created in part of society’s omnipresent assumptions of gender roles. Rigorously seen during Disney’s ‘Golden Age’ of the 1930’s and towards the beginning of the ‘Renaissance’ period of the 1990’s, the relationship between the female protagonist and antagonist are created through the lens of Disney’s matriarchal figures. As Bell notes, ‘The teenaged heroine at the idealized height of puberty’s graceful promenade is individuated in Snow White, Cinderella, Princess Aurora, Ariel, and Belle.’ (Bell, 1995, 108), to which she further comments that ‘Female wickedness—embodied in Snow White’s stepmother, Lady Tremaine, Maleficent,
