Sleeping Woman

Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White – fairy tale princesses we all know and love, but not all versions of these timeless stories are created equal. Authors of fairy tales use literary devices to convey their message, and while many do so expertly, some are merely subpar. Parents often struggle to choose which stories they should read to their kids, and for good reason. It is difficult to know which stories will teach children to have a strong moral code, and which will be forgotten by the…

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,…

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…

first feature length animation film was released in 1937 (IMDB 2017), and tells the story of a young girl who was born as a princess, who is hidden away by her step mother, the Evil Queen, for fear that the Snow White may become the most beautiful woman in the village. As this fear becomes more relevant as Snow gets older, the Evil Queen hires a man to kill Snow White (Walt Disney Co 1937). The Evil Queen obviously fails in her venture because the young man sent to kill Snow actually falls in…

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,…

began 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…

Did you know that the Disney movie Peter Pan has a prequel book to the movie? The book Peter and the Starcatchers written by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson have new and more characters than what the movie has. Alongside Peter, the other main character is a girl named Molly. Mostly every book or story has an antagonist in them well in Peter and the Starcatchers the antagonist is a cruel captain of pirates whose name is Black Stache. You probably heard of The Never Land from the movie but the main…

he is to be killed buried” (Grimm 192). The robbers saved him. In both instances, the protagonist went through a trial. The king ordered the boy to obtain three of the Devil’s hairs, while Joseph was put into jail because he was wrongly accused of sleeping with a married man’s wife. In the end, Joseph was put in charge of Egypt, while the fortune child became the…

good is valuable in the connection between the aura and the safety of the forest kingdom. This not only makes aura the savior of the forest kingdom, but it preaches a valuable lesson which is genuine love does not always end with a man sweeping a woman off of her…

So what are gender roles? A role is a set of expectations for the way individuals with certain social identification will act in certain situations (Damsels in Distress: A Textual Analysis of Gender Roles in Disney Princess Films). Gender identity is when people begin to believe that they are female or male and feel their femininity or masculinity (The Effect of Cartoon Movies on Children 's Gender Development). How individuals behave is socially enforced and valued. We inherit our gender roles…