An Unexpected Warrior: The Legend of Hua Mulan
The world knows Hua Mulan as Disney’s tough, yet pose warrior princess created in the 1990s. What most of the world does not know is that Disney based his hit movie off of the Medieval Chinese Legend: The Legend of Hua Mulan (Disney 2). Both the movie and the legend portray a strong and independent woman who dares to be a warrior. The Legend of Hua Mulan teaches its readers that breaking the barriers of society can be a good thing and that gender stereo types should not limit a female’s sense of empowerment. The Legend of Hua Mulan was written about a woman named Hua or Fa Mulan in 400 A.D, Medieval China (Disney 1). Like the movie, Mulan inspires to be a male warrior. She is constantly …show more content…
The hero, Hua Mulan, and the Threshold Guardian, the Chinese. Hua Mulan is a misfit character in a way, never really going with the flow of the feminine way of society. She is a loyal girl to her family and in the legend, volunteers her self in place of her father. “I am young and healthy, and you have no eldest son. If the Emperor needs a solider, then I must be that one” (Chin 7). She fulfills the role of a hero because of her bravery in the Chinese Army and loyalty to her family. Mulan knows that what she is doing is daring and brave, but she does it anyways. Society plays the role of the threshold guardian because of the idea that women were mothers and house wives, while the men went off to work or to fight in the …show more content…
in the Jin Dynasty (J 1). Medieval China was a very traditional society with stereotypical gender roles. Men and boys worked on farms and went off into the military, while women and girls stayed home and watched children or cooked in the kitchen. In the Legend, Mulan defiantly breaks the boundaries of a traditional Chinese woman in 400 A.D. The Chinese thought that a women’s sole purpose in life was to get married and have children. Going into the work force of any sort was unusual and usually looked down upon. Medieval China was a modest and traditional country and was not used to people being out of place in
The world knows Hua Mulan as Disney’s tough, yet pose warrior princess created in the 1990s. What most of the world does not know is that Disney based his hit movie off of the Medieval Chinese Legend: The Legend of Hua Mulan (Disney 2). Both the movie and the legend portray a strong and independent woman who dares to be a warrior. The Legend of Hua Mulan teaches its readers that breaking the barriers of society can be a good thing and that gender stereo types should not limit a female’s sense of empowerment. The Legend of Hua Mulan was written about a woman named Hua or Fa Mulan in 400 A.D, Medieval China (Disney 1). Like the movie, Mulan inspires to be a male warrior. She is constantly …show more content…
The hero, Hua Mulan, and the Threshold Guardian, the Chinese. Hua Mulan is a misfit character in a way, never really going with the flow of the feminine way of society. She is a loyal girl to her family and in the legend, volunteers her self in place of her father. “I am young and healthy, and you have no eldest son. If the Emperor needs a solider, then I must be that one” (Chin 7). She fulfills the role of a hero because of her bravery in the Chinese Army and loyalty to her family. Mulan knows that what she is doing is daring and brave, but she does it anyways. Society plays the role of the threshold guardian because of the idea that women were mothers and house wives, while the men went off to work or to fight in the …show more content…
in the Jin Dynasty (J 1). Medieval China was a very traditional society with stereotypical gender roles. Men and boys worked on farms and went off into the military, while women and girls stayed home and watched children or cooked in the kitchen. In the Legend, Mulan defiantly breaks the boundaries of a traditional Chinese woman in 400 A.D. The Chinese thought that a women’s sole purpose in life was to get married and have children. Going into the work force of any sort was unusual and usually looked down upon. Medieval China was a modest and traditional country and was not used to people being out of place in