Brave Movie Analysis

Many people in the world get married because they had fallen in love and they know that person is the one they want to share the rest of their lives with, as well as a reason to prove their love will last eternity. But little does society know that in some parts of the world it doesn 't end like a fairytale and people don 't get married by the virtue that, they had fallen in love. In some parts of the world, there is over 39,000 girls that are forced into marriage everyday and “ sold like cattle to enrich their families” (“Third of girls in 42 countries forced into child marriages” ).These young girls are mostly from ages eleven to eighteen or even younger. Most of these marriages around the world, occur in 42 countries such as: India, West …show more content…
For example, some families in India, obligate their daughters to marry an older man, to support their family economically or to bring honor to the family. While in other places such as, South Sudan, early marriages are seen as ways to protect girls from sexual activity, in other words having sex without been married. Which is what the movie Brave from Walt Disney Pixar studios imports in the film and the film I choose for this assignment.

Brave, is a film that gives an example about how these obligated marriages work due to the cultures and beliefs of some individuals. In the film, a young princess named Merida, is obligated by her parents and as a consequence of her age, to marry a prince from another country; to help her run her father 's land. Her parents the king and queen, had made the decisions to obligate their daughter to marry, due to their cultures and beliefs, but Merida objects this …show more content…
In Juba, South Sudan, a seventeen year old girl was beaten to death for refusing to marry a man old enough to be her grandfather claims” CBS”. The teen was also dragged by her family to be rapped and forcing her to marry the elderly man. In another similar situation, a fifteen year old girl was obligated to marry a seventy five year old man because the man had given her family eighty cows and due that, her family mostly her father had obligated his fifteen year old daughter to marry the man. Of course, she had refused, but in order to pay the man back for what he did and gave his family, the father had to repay him in some way. She claims to “Human Rights Watch” that she was threatened by her father and beaten along with her mother because her mother was also against the marriage. Not all girls get the opportunity to escape these situations, but in Pakistan, there was a situation similar to the ones explained before that, actually had a happy ending somewhat similar to the one from the movie Brave. A girl named Saneda from Jigra was order by the Jigra counsels of her own village to get marry to an older man. She refused and her mother kept looking for ways to stop the marriage. The more