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    Orenstein’s article, “What’s Wrong with Cinderella?” she states that the princess story is only doing damage to young girls and women. Orenstein discusses her encounters with the princess wave and how she observes it affecting her daughter. As a mother and a feminist, Orenstein feels as if it’s her duty to rescue her daughter from becoming trapped in the princess mindset. Peggy Orenstein illustrates her claim with the endless pink, princess, and sparkles offered to her daughter. She discusses…

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    Disney Princesses

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    on Child Development Whelan (2012) stated that princess narratives has been key throughout children’s literature. Hurley (2005) stated that fairy tales, such as Disney Princess narratives play a crucial role in shaping self-image of a child. England, Descartes, and Collier-Meek (2011) claimed that Disney Princess films portray stereotypical presentations of gender roles and have several examples of racism and sexism by having almost every princess have large breast, a small waistline, and a…

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    The Princess Bride “The Princess Bride,” by William Goldman is a fictional story filled with adventure, true love, and high fantasy, which is all the qualities needed for a reader getting lost in the story. This novel was first published in 1973 and it became an instant bestseller. This book also got to shine again, when it was made into a movie in 1986 and was added to the list of one of the most famous young adult movies to exist. Ultimately, this book holds many elements to make the story so…

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    Most little girls grow up watching Walt Disney princess movies. Disney is one of the biggest brands in the world. And they have a huge following mostly consisting of little girls who look up to characters disney puts out. They are one of the few brands who have really mastered the art of marketing. At first businesses thought the best way to get consumers to buy their products was to make sure there was more than enough of it. Manufacturers believed the best way to make a profit was to make more…

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    Mother Teresa once said, “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” This quote is relevant in the 2001 movie Shrek. The star of the movie, Shrek, is an ogre who falls in love with princess Fiona, while rescuing her from a castle protected by a dragon. Shrek has a deal with Lord Farquaad that if he can bring Fiona back to be the bride of Farquaad, he can get his swamp cleared of fairytale creatures. In the satirical Dreamwork production Shrek, William Steig utilizes the device bathos…

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    “Little Girls or Little Women? The Disney Effect” emphasize the stereotypes on little girls, as a Princess with beauty images and matureness. Introduction: How does Disney Princess become a huge effect by stereotypes toward little and older girl? For the reason, that many young and older girls believe that all Disney Princess dreams come true in reality than a fantasy fairy-tales and it is called “Princess Phenomenon” (pg. 509, Hanes). I have never fall for any Disney Princess’ character to…

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    Disney Gender Stereotypes

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    They did this in order for children in today’s generation to connect and relate more to their characters. Merida from Brave was one of the first princesses that broke the ideal Disney princess image and concept. Merida wears absolutely no makeup, has red, frizzy, unruly hair, and does not have the body of a normal princess. Merida does not care about her appearance, and she shows this by being a wild, ambitious women who chooses to rebel against the stereotypical principles of pure beauty…

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    What if Disney princesses had realistic waistlines? Well, they would look pretty fab. No doubt about it. Buzzfeed’s Loryn Brantz decided to digitally edit six famous Disney ladies — Ariel (“The Little Mermaid”), Pocahontas (“Pocahontas”), Jasmine (“Aladdin”), Belle (“Beauty and the Beast”), Aurora (“Sleeping Beauty”) and Elsa (“Frozen”) — to show what the cartoon heroines would look like if they had more realistic physical proportions. After all, since these characters are supposed to represent…

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    Disney Princess Analysis

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    Disney princesses are known to be stereotypically “perfect.” They all have the same body, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. Then, all the movies shared the same plot: the “perfect” girl gets saved by a strong, handsome man, they fall in love, and live happily ever after. To viewers in the 20th century, this was exactly what they wanted. This “perfect” girl and plot all made sense. But when the 21st century rolled around, this all changed. People started to realize that this wasn’t the…

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    to. Many examples show princesses saving men from life-threatening situations. In The Little Mermaid, Ariel reverses gender roles and saves her prince, Eric from drowning. Also, at the end of Tangled, Rapunzel cuts her hair in order to save Flynn (her lover) from dying. Her hair has magical powers in which she was willing to give away to preserve the well-being of another person (Johnson). Furthermore, the princess’ good deeds for men extend beyond their love life and branch out to their…

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