My collage is a satire piece targeting the phony idealistic character, prince charming. I portray the fraudulence character by having the prince take off his helmet to reveal a skeleton body. An idea of ‘prince charming’ is unrealistic and just a fairytale. The ideals females place on males while looking for “the one” can get unbelievably ridiculous and expectations can gravitate toward a ‘prince charming’ character. The expectations females have put on his personna, have rot away at his skin, and made him a husk of his former self showed by the skeleton. Also, bits of the skeleton body shows through the armour.This is to portray how “prince charming” isn’t a perfect , genuine persona.
For the female in the collage, I chose a cutout that could be viewed as typical 21st century working woman, to contrast the “damsel in distress” archetype that would be typically matched with the prince. I chose this image to portray that women are not just lounging around, waiting for a guy to same them. We can look after ourselves and have dreams, hopes, and aspirations that we strive to reach. Additionally we have the power to work for what we want on our own. She faces away from him to show that she doesn’t need the false prince, and she is fine on her …show more content…
The are black to show death, and danger, and they fly over the mismatched couple. The apple in the hand of the ‘false prince’ is in fact a poison apple. I used irony to further prove my satiric points. The positioning the prince is on is on a knee. This is the famous, universal way to propose. The ring is switched out with an apple. This is a reference to Snow White, which is an ode to a prince’s fairytale roots and his unrealistic quality. Snow White is also one of the fairytale characters with the least personality, and an infamous form of a damsel in distress. The poison apple being given by the prince is to show this ideal is poison to the
For the female in the collage, I chose a cutout that could be viewed as typical 21st century working woman, to contrast the “damsel in distress” archetype that would be typically matched with the prince. I chose this image to portray that women are not just lounging around, waiting for a guy to same them. We can look after ourselves and have dreams, hopes, and aspirations that we strive to reach. Additionally we have the power to work for what we want on our own. She faces away from him to show that she doesn’t need the false prince, and she is fine on her …show more content…
The are black to show death, and danger, and they fly over the mismatched couple. The apple in the hand of the ‘false prince’ is in fact a poison apple. I used irony to further prove my satiric points. The positioning the prince is on is on a knee. This is the famous, universal way to propose. The ring is switched out with an apple. This is a reference to Snow White, which is an ode to a prince’s fairytale roots and his unrealistic quality. Snow White is also one of the fairytale characters with the least personality, and an infamous form of a damsel in distress. The poison apple being given by the prince is to show this ideal is poison to the