Princess Stereotypes

For hundreds of years now children’s stories have been told; parents read them to their children, children read them on their own and once they grow out of them they pass them on. Have you ever looked in depth at these stories though? If you have, then you will see the typical stereotypes that are used in almost every single one of them. As the years go on though we are beginning to see different types of children’s books with different set-ups that give more equality to not only genders but to different races. I chose to use three books that I read over and over again as a little girl which are: Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and also Anastasia. In Sleeping Beauty, Aurora, the princess is put under a spell and is later found by a prince and …show more content…
Although this was the beginning of the end of the typical stereotypes of women there are still plenty to go around in this princess tale. In order to find out who she really was, Anastasia has to undergo a test through Demetri and his friend Vlad just to be able to get their third ticket to Paris. These two men were interviewing hundreds of women just to find a close enough look alike to pawn her off as the grand duchesses granddaughter. This showed that men had little to now respect for women until there was something in it for them. Anastasia then had to learn small facts about who she was pretending to be and meanwhile behind her back Demetri’s whole plan is just to fill her with enough information that she will sound believable to the grand duchess so he can get his reward money. This was another example of how women are portrayed as a damsel and as though they deserve no respect. But this was also the beginning of women sticking up for themselves, like when Anastasia found out about Demetri’s overall plan and confronted him about it or when the train was on fire and she helped Vlad to blow off the cars behind them. There has been many more improvements though to children’s stories that give women more equality than they had