Princess Fiona

from dresses to lunch boxes. The Disney Princess Empire’s story of creation and expansion is comparable to the fairytale stories themselves, with Andy Mooney as Prince Charming and the consumer-products division of Disney as the princess in need of rescue. Prince Mooney rescued the consumer-products division of Disney, whose sales were dropping by thirty percent each year (Orenstein). According to Penny Orenstein of the New York Times, “The first Princess…

manipulated from the start, they are growing up in environments where beauty is seen as white, but not only in dolls but also through the media, through the “amazing” animated movies of Walt Disney. The truth is that when I was growing up I never saw a princess that look like me other than Pocahontas or Aladdin and we all know they weren’t even Hispanic. The only relationship I had with those princesses was the language since my mother would often buy me the Spanish version movies. Although,…

Globalization has changed and shaped how we perceive the world for the past centuries. With the emerging trends of technological advancement, humans nowadays live in much more convenient lives as a results of benefitting from it. From the ability to order foods online, call an Uber through smartphones to communication face-to-face from the other side of the world, everything is within reach and thus implement our digital-active lifestyle. However, with great power comes great responsibilities,…

godmothers are the ancestors of cosmetologists. Cosmetologists will strive for many woman to have the fairytale look for whatever the occasion may be, night at a lavish ball, or a regular outing. So why not let me be the one to portray your inner princess? Cosmetologist and fairy godmothers are the same thing in many ways. But the definition of a cosmetologist is, a person who provides beauty services, such as shampooing, cutting, coloring, styling hair, massaging, and treating scalp. They may…

Aladdin, is set in the big bustling town of Agrabah. The society is filled with poverty and crime, with a division between the rich and poor. Aladdin who is a “street rat”, doesn’t have much and has to commit crimes to be able to eat and survive, he even shares his meals with people who have less than him and have to forage for food elsewhere. Throughout the movie, he has to go through multiple challenges to find the genie lamp pertaining to the evil character Jafar, as he is trying to take over…

There's a lot of different people in the world, with different personalities, clothing and identity. This is the time I went to Disney for my fifth time. I wanted something cute to wear to there, so my mom and I went shopping. I picked out these bright shorts as red as a fire truck. To match a black and white stripe Mickey Mouse tank top. I also wore black nike roshe runs and a sequin Mickey Mouse headband, I got from a gift shop. My outfit I felt was cute and matched the theme of the parks. We…

her book The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter’s intended to extract the latent content from the traditional stories, fairy tales, but to not make her own version. She saw fairy tales in a new way. Not the same way as beginning with once upon a time, a princess needs help, prince save the day and they all lived happier ever after. No, Carter draws out the theme of feminism by contrasting traditional elements of Gothic fiction, which usually illustrate female characters as powerless and vulnerable…

Two important epiphanies in the Princess Bride by William Goldman are seen through the character of Buttercup when she realizes that she is in love with Westley and the character of Inigo when he realizes that he needs the man in black to help him storm the castle. When Buttercup saw how others acted around Westley she realized what her true feelings were, while Inigo realizes he needed Westley’s help after saw what a good sword fighter and thinker he was; both of these characters epiphanies…

“Life isn’t fair, it’s just fairer than death, that’s all.”- William Goldman.The story The Princess Bride is a classic fairytale written by William Goldman who pretends the novel was written by S. Morgenstern. The novel includes interjects by S.Morgenstern and William Goldman.In the novel The Princess Bride William Goldman conveys the universal theme that life isn’t fair, but works out better in the end. The first way the universal theme is shown is through characterization. Inigo Montoya is a…

Charming comes to save her and Princess Aurora, needs “true loves’ kiss” to wake her from her sleep, which is given by Prince Phillip. These princess cannot save themselves and are continually in need of others help.…