Sleeping Beauty

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,…

creates a dark shadow around Aurora as she decides what curse to bestow on the child. “Why, no, your majesty, and to show I bear no ill will, I, too, shall bestow a gift on the child. Listen well, all of you! The princess shall indeed grow in grace and beauty,…

I had been bullying my classmate which make me feel guilty. I swear that I never do it again. In the class, student A who always late at school and teacher often punish at her. However, my classmates created a nickname for her which is call “Sleeping Beauty”. Due to her behaviour was lazy and creepy that classmate blamed to her useless, teased her and shouted her nickname aloud in everywhere. Before I am a bystander, based on classmates…

According to Disney, and many people in society, Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Pocahontas along with many others are all considered princesses. The glamour and beauty these princesses depict in their movies can be defined as princess culture. As young girls grow up it is not uncommon for them to admire this princess culture. However, in today's society the stereotyping of young girls is recurring and sometimes considered discriminatory. Some feminists may argue that young girls…

publication of folk tales during the 19th century. They were midst the best-known narrators of folk tales, and popularized stories such as Cinderella, (Aschenputtel), Hansel and Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin (Rumpelstilzchen), Sleeping Beauty (Dornröschen), and Snow White (Schneewittchen). Their first assembly of folk tales, Children's and Household Tales (Kinder- und Hausmärchen), was published in book form in 1812. The typical fairy tale contains the following elements,…

While Aurora is the protagonist and center of the cartoon, she speaks only eighteen lines throughout the films entirety, and does not speak after she has been awaken from a sleeping curse by Prince Philip (Susman 2014). Although Aurora’s three fairy godmothers do participate in more dialogue, they are portrayed as bumbling and emotional, and are not successful in keeping Aurora from harm. Ariel, who is a talented and passionate…

Rad Looking Historical Royals The BuzzFeed video, “Historically Accurate Disney Princesses” is highly effective in presenting its historical devices and the brief back story of the entailed Disney Princesses within their time period. Therefore, providing an intriguing, and historically correct look at what could have been worn by some of our favorite leading ladies throughout time. BuzzFeed’s use of highly extensive attention to details during this video, as well as, the very well done…

The reading questions and discussion boards were particularly important in helping me analyze and research especially for my RA. For example, this particular question made me ponder upon several things until I researched and found something interesting to use for my RA. “George Cruikshank – “Cinderella and the Glass Slipper” Q: The stepmother is portrayed as proud, selfish and extravagant which makes her unjust and cruel, in contrast to Cinderella whose “disposition was even better than her…

to collect fairy tales and eventually writing their own. The Grimm Brothers are famous for their own versions of fairy tales including: Little Snow White, Rapunzel, Little Brier-Rose and many others (Ashliman). Little Brier-Rose, also known as Sleeping Beauty, is a story of an only child of the king and queen. There was a bash after her birth, where she was given many gifts from these wise women and a curse from one, as well as a “gift” to soften the curse. After turning fifteen, she falls into…

stemmed from its ability to play on the nostalgia of other time periods. In the film, Snow White(1937), the princess is portrayed as a “1920/’30s starlet with a flappers haircut” who is helping the “working class dwarfs”(38). Similarly, In the film Sleeping Beauty(1959), Do Rozario describes Aurora as a “prototype Baby Boomer” who is “uninterested in the affairs of the king”(39). Her exploration of the role of nostalgia expands on the traditional studies of the princess and offers new insight…