Disney’s Mulan is an animated movie about a girl named Mulan who cross-dresses as a man to fight a war against the Huns so that her sick father does not have to go. However, this adaptation of Chinese Hua Mulan has a much darker secret than what is seen. Mulan is the first princes that changed the requirements necessary to become a princess. Originally to became a princess the character needed to be the primary role; Not introduce in a sequel; mostly all human; royal or marry into royalty, since Mulan did not fit the spectrum of the royal, it was added that the main character had to commit an act of heroism. Mulan might be the first Disney princess not to have a castle, but that does not mean it does not have discriminatory connotation like
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Mulan “bring honor to us all” reinforces the stereotypes of femininity, how a woman 's role is to bear children, while the man fights against the enemy this way the empire is preserve. When Mulan goes to the bath house to prepare for her meeting with the matchmaker, the boss tells Mulan and her family that she will wash away the unattractive and make her so beautiful that rich and handsome men will risk their lives for her, this makes the statement that women, who are beautiful, are a price to be won. As Mulan goes to the stylist, the stylist suggests that men like women who are skinny, fertile, serene and amenable and only those that have that character will be most likely to have a successful marriage. The statement made basically dehumanize women making them as if a slave who is not supposed to object to anything, have a slim figure, while at mainly the same time be able to have children. Mulan is an animation film targeted to young children, specifically girls, and it is teaching them that from a young age their goal in life if to be pretty and skinny, marry rich and have children. Besides all this the only reason, Mulan goes along with the process to make bring honor to her family although it is not what she wants. Also, the song manages to throw in a discriminatory line against the Asian community. Towards the end of the song one of the lyrics says “how could any yellow”, which …show more content…
The term daughter is used in a negative connotation by saying that women are weak and vulnerable, unlike men who are strong and powerful. This bring to show that masculinity is not something that is part of the male anatomy. French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir argued that femininity and masculinity was socially constructed by man to show their power as man (de Beauvoir, 1949). Because masculinity and femininity are not natural concepts to characterize a gender Mulan was able to become an exceptional warrior surpassing the male that had taught her to be more masculine, Shang. In the beginning of the movie, Mulan does enforce female stereotypes by going to the arrange marriage, but she also enforces equality of the sexes by being better at a man’s job than the men training.
Gender roles are brought back when Mulan’s gender is discovered. Shi-Fu, one of the emperors trusty subject, calls Mulan worthless because she is a woman. She was a woman that had minimize the Huns army due to her determination making her a great soldier, but that did not stand along with her gender and is left behind by the troops alone in a snowy mountain. Leaving her in the mountain was an approach done by Disney to not make the film dark since females that go against the standards set by society are put to
Mulan “bring honor to us all” reinforces the stereotypes of femininity, how a woman 's role is to bear children, while the man fights against the enemy this way the empire is preserve. When Mulan goes to the bath house to prepare for her meeting with the matchmaker, the boss tells Mulan and her family that she will wash away the unattractive and make her so beautiful that rich and handsome men will risk their lives for her, this makes the statement that women, who are beautiful, are a price to be won. As Mulan goes to the stylist, the stylist suggests that men like women who are skinny, fertile, serene and amenable and only those that have that character will be most likely to have a successful marriage. The statement made basically dehumanize women making them as if a slave who is not supposed to object to anything, have a slim figure, while at mainly the same time be able to have children. Mulan is an animation film targeted to young children, specifically girls, and it is teaching them that from a young age their goal in life if to be pretty and skinny, marry rich and have children. Besides all this the only reason, Mulan goes along with the process to make bring honor to her family although it is not what she wants. Also, the song manages to throw in a discriminatory line against the Asian community. Towards the end of the song one of the lyrics says “how could any yellow”, which …show more content…
The term daughter is used in a negative connotation by saying that women are weak and vulnerable, unlike men who are strong and powerful. This bring to show that masculinity is not something that is part of the male anatomy. French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir argued that femininity and masculinity was socially constructed by man to show their power as man (de Beauvoir, 1949). Because masculinity and femininity are not natural concepts to characterize a gender Mulan was able to become an exceptional warrior surpassing the male that had taught her to be more masculine, Shang. In the beginning of the movie, Mulan does enforce female stereotypes by going to the arrange marriage, but she also enforces equality of the sexes by being better at a man’s job than the men training.
Gender roles are brought back when Mulan’s gender is discovered. Shi-Fu, one of the emperors trusty subject, calls Mulan worthless because she is a woman. She was a woman that had minimize the Huns army due to her determination making her a great soldier, but that did not stand along with her gender and is left behind by the troops alone in a snowy mountain. Leaving her in the mountain was an approach done by Disney to not make the film dark since females that go against the standards set by society are put to