A Little Princess

Little children loves to listen to fantasy stories about love between prince and princesses such as “Cinderella”, “Snow White”, “Beauty and the Beast”, and as you get old you might know more stories like “Romeo and Juliet”. When you are small you dream for experiencing love like in those stories, and even if you do realize that it is impossible to magically meet a princess or price, many still desire the romantic encounter with someone. Though, is that love? Or is it that act of loving just…

the magic once made by Walt Disney by turning many of the movies in to live action movies, but it has not worked. I think this approach is to sell more of the movies with little to no thought but it is also affecting how young one’s view life and imagination in general. The magic I remember is watching a very beautiful princess singing to birds and helping dwarfs or being carried away by a prince. After I would watch a Disney movie, I would play outside and whistle to birds as if they would…

As a child, did you dream of being a princess or a queen when you grow up? When you start growing up, parents read you bedtime stories about princes and fairies; all unrealistic things. Monsters were part of the tales told, like Grendel, dragons, and demons found in Beowulf. Then you grow out of all of the fake thoughts and think realistically. You start to dream of real occupations you can acquire and think about life from a different point of view. Although we grew up with these illusions of…

Disney’s magic carpet ride: Aladdin and women in Islam is about how the Disney version of Aladdin portrays the women and men in Islam. I agree on a lot of the points in this article and disagree with only a few. This article talks mainly about how Disney could have done a better job with portraying Islam culture. The author of this article Christiane Staninger uses a lot of other authors from different papers to back up certain arguments that are being made about this Disney movie, and this…

Dreaming of Miss America There are not many little girls who do not dream of being a princess. As a little girl, one of my favorite things to do was to watch Miss America with my mom. My mom would always say, “That could be you one day.” The pageant was so exciting because it was a night filled with upbeat music, glitzy costumes, and fun performances. My mom and I would always pick out our favorite contestant and cheer her on throughout the show. I kept telling my mom that I wanted to have a…

“The human body is the best work of art” –Jess C. Scott Nearly every person in America has something about themselves that they don’t like. Whether it’s their smile, their legs, or the way they look in a swimsuit. A person has no trouble overlooking what’s beautiful about them and solely focusing on their flaws. Body image issues have been around for centuries. Women have tried altering their bodies in order to become ‘beautiful’, and most of the time those procedures are in no way healthy. Many…

and themes are used to present the true meaning of self-empowerment, honor, and equality to its target audience; kids. The language used in the song “I’ll make a man out of you” contributes greatly in making Mulan a female hero and role model to little girls as she succeeds despite all the criticism shown to females in this song. The use of the rhetorical question “did they send me daughters when I asked for sons?” mocks girls through the creation of dark humor and sarcasm which portrays gender…

found the archetypal meanings of color in film and fiction, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic story of A Little Princess and Kenneth Branagh’s magical 2015 film Cinderella. The plot of “A Little Princess,” is familiar: Sara Crewe is a Cinderella figure whose story begins with the loss of her fortune, derived, in part, from diamond mines in India and ends with its restoration. A Little Princess and Cinderella use color symbolism to emphasize a plucky narrative in which flawed characters find the…

Pixar’s animated films have been giving off strong hints towards the emasculation of male characters since old movies like “Dumbo” were released. In Ken Gillam and Shannon R. Wooden’s novel “Post-Princess Models of Gender: The New Man in Disney/Pixar” they bring up points and topics involving “Cars”, “Toy Story”, and even “The Incredibles”. Gillam even goes to say that the films “overtly praises the film “Good Woman” proverbially behind every successful man” (470). The novel they’ve written…

The Little Mermaid was written in 1836 by the Danish Author Hans Christian Andersen. The story was very popular at that time, It was about one little Mermaid. The little Mermaid was the youngest one out of her five sisters. She was the prettiest and talented out her five sisters. However she had no feet, and her body ended in fish's tail. When she reached fifteen years old, she got a permission to rise up out of the sea. All the conflicts started that moment. One day, she was one young prince…