Sleeping Beauty

Fairytales, Femininity and Film: Feminine Ideals in American and Japanese Children’s Animation The nature of social expectations evident in children’s animated films is compelling. Socialization structures, values, morals, spirituality, gender expectations, and national culture and identity are all expressed through animated media and marketed toward children. Animation is more than entertainment, it is a major means by which children assimilate culture. Film is one of the most useful sets of…

Within sections 13 and 22 of Briar Rose, the author establishes a sense of parallelism by adding a meta aspect to them. During both sections, the crone retells the Perrault’s version of Sleeping Beauty to Briar Rose. As the crone continues with the story, she adds and takes details out of the story, adjusting it for her audience, Briar Rose, causing the story to feel “vaguely reassuring...[but] unlike a happy ending” (Coover 13). Due to the crone’s addition or subtraction to the story, she…

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…

continued love of Disney, especially into adulthood, I have noticed changes in the stories and in the character development between the older classic films and the modern day marvels. An example of this is how Aurora, the title character, from Sleeping Beauty has approximately twenty lines of dialogue in the entire film and is a static character, but more modern day Disney films show the “Princess” as the main character who goes through dramatic character development during the course of the…

Study The purpose of this study is to investigate the depiction of beauty in animated Disney princess films and measure the consequences that the portrayal of beauty has on young girl’s individual self-esteem levels. The hypothesis of this study, states that young girls who idolize the beauty standards of Disney princesses will have lower self-esteem levels than young girls who do not idolize Disney princesses standard of beauty. I expected that young girls who have the desire to mimic Disney…

Children are being 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…

Imagine one day you are the happiest woman on Earth. The warm sun is always shining. You have a lover. You guys do everything together. From watching sunsets to picking flowers in the garden. You guys are in love. Then one day, your lover, in cold bold and malice and jealousy, takes your most prized possession, takes it and sells it to a swap meet agent. Well, that’s pretty much the case with Maleficent. She was in love and her lover stole her beautiful wings away from her. Stefan sold the…

In 1937, Walt Disney Pictures produced its first princess film. Almost seventy-nine years later, a total of twelve Disney princess movies have been completed, with each one bringing a captivating narrative to life. These classic tales feature a female protagonist that aspires to discover herself. Along the way trials are uncovered and, by the conclusion of the story, it makes the princess a better person overall. Villains normally create these obstacles and are an essential part of these movies;…

they are. Class stereotypes are exaggerated as well in Disney movies. The hyenas in The Lion King were shown as the lower class, and were very poor and hungry. Throughout the movie they are referred to as stupid and are never given any power. Then in Beauty and the Beast, the dishes sing “life is unnerving for a servant that’s not serving.” this quote from the song suggests that the lower class enjoys serving the wealthy. Just because one is classified as lower class, it does not make them…

with prim, proper female leads and charming princes. His first film, the beloved Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, is about a young princess who seeks refuge in a cottage of seven dwarves. She is fleeing from her evil step mother who is envious of her beauty. Little girls idolize Snow White along with the other classic Disney princesses for what they stand for. Since the beginning of Disney Pictures, little girls have been watching the Disney princess movies. Consequently, they look up to them…