Maleficent

Steps out of True Love “So to spend a life of endless bliss; Just find who you love through true love's kiss…” The lyrics from a Disney film Enchanted tells about Disney’s “true love”, which trapped Disney Princesses in their assigned gender roles for years. Over nearly eight decades, under the influence of development of feminism, the fairytale-style true love first defined by Disney films has been constantly challenged and finally subverted. Throughout three waves of feminist movements,…

Achieving Self-knowledge from Quests Norton Juster, an American academic, architect, and popular writer, contemplates that “the most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.” (Norton Juster) He says this to describe the quests that individuals have to overcome almost every day for one or another reason. Examples of quest stories are Huck Finn, The Lord of the Rings, North by Northwest, and Star Wars. Quest…

Throughout the years, The Walt Disney Company has been an inspiration for children, even adults with family movies, shows, heart-warming episodes and movies of heroism and perseverance. Disney is one of the largest media corporations in the world getting 38 billion in revenue for 2010. (reference?) The Walt Disney Company started in 1923 in the rear of a small office occupied by Holly-Vermont Realty in Los Angeles. It was there that Walt Disney, and his brother Roy, produced a series of short…

Madness has been affecting humankind for centuries. From Adolf Hitler to Jack the Ripper, humans have been, and continue, to be plagued by madness. Inhumane, infamous people have committed repulsive and maleficent acts ranging from ordering the death of millions to committing acts of lunacy. Many killers have likewise been diagnosed with philological issues. Mental illness can transform any human's actions into irrational and crazy ones. Hamlet's sanity is a highly debated topic in…

Most forms of ethics take virtues into consideration either directly or indirectly, but the big separating factor for virtue ethics is the centralization of a person’s character. Mitchell defines virtue ethics as, “an ethical theory that uses as a moral standard what a virtuous person would do, rather than consequences or obligations; the primary question is, What kind of person should I be?” People put into a specific situation are considered to act because of their virtues and habits of…

defile nature for what, he thinks, they had done to him. Lear placed this blame upon the gods, although it was his own poor decision-making that led to his exilement and mental deterioration. If he had not foolishly given away his kingdom to his maleficent daughters, he would not have been stripped of all of his authority and left with nothing. He was blind towards the fact that the gods blessed him with a new world vision, where he sees, experiences, and understands the lives of the…

In retrospect, Jami inviting me into the staff meeting my first day, and introducing me to this specific group of agendas was a wise move of supervision. Not only did she allow me the opportunity to introduce myself on my terms, disclosing how much or little as I desired, but she also discreetly introduced me to a wide-variety of issues that are relevant to the field and specific to this agency. Additionally, in this meeting I began to see Jami’s supervision style to be relaxed, yet firm. She…

The pictures will include Disney princesses and characters such as: Snow White and the Wicked Queen (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), Cinderella and the Stepmother (Cinderella), Princess Aurora and Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty), Ariel and Ursula (The Little Mermaid), Belle (Beauty and the Beast), Jasmine (Aladdin), Pocahontas (Pocahontas), Tiana (The Princess and the Frog), and Rapunzel and Mother Gothel (Tangled). Participants will see each film at the…

Mackenzie Myers Stephanie Webster ENGL 240 8 November 2014 The Disneyfication of the Grimm’s Fairy Tales The topic of this research paper is to explore the Grimm Fairy Tales in pop culture, the disneyfication of the Grimm’s Fairy Tales as well as feminism of princesses in modern adaptations of the tales movies. The authors were two brothers from Germany, Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm. The brothers are well known for their collection of fairy tales but many people don’t know the origins of the…

from the antiquated and false notion that films starring women don’t sell” (Berg). The article that mentioned this claim gave examples where the belief that films starring women do not sell well is completely wrong. For example, Frozen, Inside Out, Maleficent, and Cinderella were hits! Different consumers simply have different tastes, so it is wrong to assume that all of the people that watch movies are into action movies where men are the protagonists or that they are all into Disney movies…