Femininity and masculinity have played a major role, shaping our society greatly in terms of gender equality. Feminist theory explores how the submissive, weak and emotional are exploited by those who are dominant and strong with the ultimate aim to prove the equality of both sexes. These ideas are clearly evident throughout the movie 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves', such as when Snow ends up serving seven males in the Dwarves' house and also when she waits for her prince to save her life. Both of these points views men as worthy and brave whilst women are weak and emotional.
Gender equality has exceedingly progressed over the past decades. Purely due to the women who stood up for their own rights. However, back in the days, people were …show more content…
This is clearly evident throughout the characters' behaviours in the movie, such as when snow is forced to perform the traditional roles of women to obtain the protection and shelter from the dwarves. Despite this verbose abuse, snow remains kind and gentle, showing that women are clueless and innocent. Just before, snow was threatened by the huntsman with the Queen's orders, however as the huntsman endeavour to menace snow, she uses her physical beauty to employ him. This proves that women are able to manipulate men by using their physical self, not their intelligence and personality. After, where Snow finds herself in a messy disgraceful house, where she promptly starts cleaning without any fear or thought of her experience with the huntsman. This implies that in the absence of a female presence up until that point, the dwarves were either unable or incapable of doing any domestic work with the message of women having mood swings all the time. The dwarves being filled with their surprise, eventually welcome Snow, as they learn that she has the ability to cook and clean where Grumpy remains vocally resistant. 'Angel, ha! She's a female! And all females is poison! They full of wicked wiles!' Grumpy believes that she is feminist them simply by making them clean themselves, implying the fact that Snow is invading their traditional masculine territory. All these ideas portray women as
Gender equality has exceedingly progressed over the past decades. Purely due to the women who stood up for their own rights. However, back in the days, people were …show more content…
This is clearly evident throughout the characters' behaviours in the movie, such as when snow is forced to perform the traditional roles of women to obtain the protection and shelter from the dwarves. Despite this verbose abuse, snow remains kind and gentle, showing that women are clueless and innocent. Just before, snow was threatened by the huntsman with the Queen's orders, however as the huntsman endeavour to menace snow, she uses her physical beauty to employ him. This proves that women are able to manipulate men by using their physical self, not their intelligence and personality. After, where Snow finds herself in a messy disgraceful house, where she promptly starts cleaning without any fear or thought of her experience with the huntsman. This implies that in the absence of a female presence up until that point, the dwarves were either unable or incapable of doing any domestic work with the message of women having mood swings all the time. The dwarves being filled with their surprise, eventually welcome Snow, as they learn that she has the ability to cook and clean where Grumpy remains vocally resistant. 'Angel, ha! She's a female! And all females is poison! They full of wicked wiles!' Grumpy believes that she is feminist them simply by making them clean themselves, implying the fact that Snow is invading their traditional masculine territory. All these ideas portray women as