The Importance Of Impossible Standards Of Beauty In Disney Movies

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Disney films are portraying their characters beautiful to set impossible standards of beauty. Snow White and the seven dwarfs by Walt Disney promotes impossible standards as well as other films. Issues with with Disney films promoting impossible standards of beauty are that when kids see these beautiful princesses and princes they want to be just as beautiful like them. The other side of this argument would be that Disney movies do not promote impossible standards of beauty. There are three arguments with strong evidence to show there are impossible standards of beauty in Disney films. Three arguments to back up that there is impossible standards are, only young and beautiful characters are portrayed well, only beautiful females are main characters and often liked, and only beautiful males are main characters and often liked.
The first argument to prove there is impossible standards of beauty is that only young and beautiful characters are portrayed well. Often in Disney movies only young and beautiful characters are portrayed well. In Snow White and the Seven Dwarves she is portrayed as beautiful, loving, and caring. To explain this evidence of only young and beautiful are portrayed as good, snow white does nice things
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Disney likes to make their male characters beautiful and make them loved by many. In Snow White, when to Prince shows up to kiss Snow White to bring her back from the dead, the dwarfs are grateful for the Prince and like him for bringing her back to life. The dwarfs are appreciative of the Prince and like him for what he did. (1:18:46-1:22:53) Some say there is evidence against this. Some say that The Hunchback of Notre Dame is against the argument that only young and beautiful characters are portrayed well. Though Quasimodo is not physically beautiful, he has a good personality and that's what makes him

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