How Does Culture Influence Children In Disney Movies

Once upon a time a young girl, influenced through several Disney princesses, realized that she was never going to have the happily ever after she always dreamed of. She’ll never have the guy who treats her right, instead she gets the guy who hits her while he’s drunk, and a mother fighting for her life in a hospital bed. Yet she continues to pray for her happy ending day after day, year after year. She begins to hate the stories that made her dream that made her feel special. Every day she falls further into a black hole where her life gets more and more worthless. How is she expected to live in a cruel world with the knowledge that everyone is going to live happily ever after? How is she expected to cope with the heartache she was never prepared for as a child? How is she expected to live in pain? The culture displayed in Disney’s movies are affecting girls …show more content…
Henry A Giroux, author of The mouse that roared; Disney and the end of innocence, writes “Stripped of the historical and social constructions that gives it meaning, innocence in the Disney universe becomes an atemporal, ahistorical, apolitical, and a theoretical space where children share a common bond free of the problems and conflicts of adult society” (Giroux and Pollock 32). This sarcastically explains how Disney view themselves as protecting the innocence of children, when they are actually putting the political ideas in their minds, stripping them of their innocence. Words such as “apolitical” is an attempt to construct it to look as if Disney is innocence, but the examples given exhibits that they are just putting adult ideas or political propaganda in their minds. Political views are being incorporated into child entertainment, angering the audience and influencing the young minds of the next