Pocahontas Satire

Let us say one has a choice, now in this choice one can decide to stay with their people/ home, or one can be kidnapped and forced to marry someone. In Disney’s movie Pocahontas has said choice, but she was taken from her family in reality. Additionally, the movie is romanticized, but again, she was forced away from her home. Also to add, In John Smith’s stories he never mentions what they are there for. In the movie Governor Ratcliffe is there for one specific thing, gold. The movie shows almost immediately that Ratcliffe is only there to benefit himself and not the colony. All in all, Disney’s representation of Pocahontas is wrong in almost every aspect and has some little stabs at both sides, mostly towards the Powhatans. To say nothing …show more content…
The Governor was then taken back to England and the colony left. The natives were as friendly as possible and defended themselves against the British colonists who are tricked to believe there is gold and the natives are hiding it, but Pocahontas does not seem to know what gold even is. John Smith showed her a gold coin and she said she did not know what it was. Immediately, John Smith generalizes all natives to be the same, savages, he offends Pocahontas and the Powhatans by saying that simple word. Also, John Smith seems like a fearful native killer, as praised by some of the crew on the ship with John Smith. In contrast, John says the natives are friendly in “True Relation” and giving gifts and kindly welcomed John Smith. But, change the spectrum in “General History” where the natives capture John Smith was with a group of men and all but him were killed and he was just captured and put on execution, natives ready to beat him with clubs, Pocahontas stopped them by laying on his head and contended that Smith lived. Generally speaking, John would have put the natives as savages and that they tried to kill him to begin with, but instead he said the powhatans were very friendly to them and would not have falsified himself so