Sleeping Woman

The American poet Anne Sexton, in a caustic sequence of poems called Transformations, scathingly evokes the corpselike helplessness of Sleeping Beauty and Snow White, and scorns, with fine irony, the Cinderella dream of bourgeois marriage and living happily ever after: boredom, torment, incest, death to the soul followed”(Warner). I wanted to question the norms that fairy tales often have…

Roseanne Barr, a woman with an incredible insight on how women should advance themselves, once said that “The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power” because “you just take it” (“Quotes about Feminism”). Contrary to getting power from within, the Disney princess movies showcase distinct gender roles and female expectations. However, they do provide children with lessons that will stay with them throughout their lives, and they lower children’s aggression. Influencing young…

In 2012 the Walt Disney Company released a commercial entitled “I am a Princess” that shows a diverse array of young girls doing many different activities while inspirational music plays in the background and the voice of a young girl proclaims what qualities make up a princess. When this video is viewed through the lens of the construction of gender, the audience can see that the video has a rhetorical purpose. The “I am a Princess” commercial makes the argument that the ideal feminine figure…

For my semiotic analysis I will be comparing the websites of two childrens tv series’ websites, How To Train Your Dragon and My Little Pony. These are two of the most popular children shows for todays generation. I will be exploring the codes and design elements used, how they convey ideas and are aimed toward a certain demographic. The main elements of a website include the logo, navigation, colour, font and the graphic design or the information and the layout. These elements work together to…

Fantastic Fantasy Figures Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, and Leprechauns are all figures loved, adored, and believed in by young children. Are these mythical figures crucial to children developing correctly? As children grow into adulthood, they have to make a choice; to tell their kids about fantasy figures or deprive them of this magical experience. Because fantasy is a normal part of child development, believing in holiday figures like Santa and the Easter Bunny is healthy…

Sadly, the mother dies but the father quickly remarries a horrible woman with two daughters. The father is not in the story very much and the sisters and stepmother treat Cinderella as a second-class citizen, making her work all day, wear raggedy clothes, and be the sisters’ stylist. Cinderella mourns her mother and tends…

I chose to revise “Cinderella” because the power of female beauty and the presence of female passivity as a component of beauty has found its way into modern culture and it has warped society’s perspective of females. Cinderella’s impact on growing girls is enormous because it is the biggest of the three “Big Girl Tales” and it is embedded in the heart of our culture in regards to how little girls should grow to view themselves (Thomas, Tammis). The subliminal impacts of “Cinderella” on the…

What makes a Disney Princess a Disney Princess? Who decides which princesses are the “Classic” princesses and therefore being forever crowned in THE Disney Princesses club? But I believe that there is an unjust system in picking these childhood role models, and these prejudice choices cause some princesses to be crumbled up, thrown away and never to be given a second thought on why you don’t see them on your lunchboxes, backpacks, shirts, glasses, video games, bedspreads and so much more! I WANT…

moon. She is the self appointed unicorn queen that is also the CEO of a very colorful beauty company named Lime Crime. Their wild palette of colors are also very whimsical and cruelty free. Some people like to play by the rules. Doe Deere is one woman that believes in breaking free of a few rules to really reveal the beauty inside of you. Her makeup line is definite proof of her love for wild and whimsical colors that excite the imagination. Breaking Makeup Rule Doe Deere is not one to…

individualized and do not fall into the trap of what society wants them to be. Using strong feminist ideals, Orenstein allows the reader to see eye to eye, expanding on how princesses are digressing the progress that has been made in the lives of woman…