The Princess and the Frog

that make them similar yet so different. “Hazel tells Laverne” is a funny poem about a woman who is in a strange situation with a frog. Hazel, a janitor cleaning out the ladies room at the Howard Johnson hotel comes in contact with a talking frog. This frog tells her that if she kisses him she will become a princess. Hazel scoffs at the fact she could become a princess and mockingly jokes about it as she tells her tale. She says he started talking about a ball and requested that she kiss him,…

reinforces African American stereotypes. (Rickford 14-15). Elements of AAVE are found through out the Disney movie Princess and The Frog. The features can be found in the language of main characters Mama Odie, Louis, Ray, but rarely appears in Disney’s first African American Princess, Tiana’s language. It is because of Disney’s selective use of AAVE in their movie Princess and The Frog, both perpetuates…

provides, such as the Princess makeover. The article gives evidence to suggest that the Princess makeover uses child consumer/models to embody the “Disney fantasy” in a crafty method of “brandscaping” (28, 25). Using this article as a reference, I will critically analyze scenes from Disney animated films such as The Princess and the Frog as well as some relevant Disney products and experiences. I will pay particular attention to the messages being…

the situations throughout the plot. The brothers’ have had many collections of stories to come out. Some of the most famous tales that come from the collections include: Aschenputtel (Cinderella), Dornröschen (Sleeping Beauty), Der Froschkönig (The Frog King), and many more well known Disney Tales. The Grimm Brothers’ Tales and Disney follow the…

One of the main reasons being that the princess was a frog for the vast majority of the movie. There is a scene that shows Dr. Facilier with masks and voodoo dolls that resemble southern African American culture. Mama Odie is a heavy set, very old, African American blind bayou “fairy grandmother.” Another…

about how to kill a shapeshifter. In order to do so, you have to either shoot them or stab them in the heart with silver. One example of shape shifting in folktales is the Princess and the Frog. In the story of the Princess and the Frog, the Frog is the shapeshifter. He is turned into a frog at one point in his life. The princess rescues him and transforms back into a prince, his natural form. What makes him a shapeshifter is the fact that he had transformed into a completely different form.…

then several years later Disney then released The Princess and the Frog (2009). When I started to look and review the movies I began to wonder if diverse princess had maintain the same qualities as other princesses. Walt Disney was a legend in making of these movies and it seemed that his legacy would live on. However, in which brought questions to the viewers, why didn’t the “white” princess gain any racial awareness?…

of being a princess, I found this quote by the American author of romantic and paranormal fiction for teens and adults, Meg Cabot. Dainty, delicate, submissive, proper, snobby, and multiple other terms come to mind when thinking of what it takes to be a princess. Surrounded by the media and images, young girls are vulnerable to societies social construction of princesses. Dressing in gowns, wearing tiaras, playing with makeup, just to generally make themselves feel “pretty like a princess”. In…

happiness through social dominance, but like all worldly pleasures, his supply of money has “run out”. After Dr. Facilier turns Naveen into a frog, Naveen has lost the social dominance his money gave him. In order to transform back into a human, Naveen must kiss a princess. After he kisses Tiana, mistaking her for a princess, she is also transformed into a frog. Naveen feels hopeless at first, but decides not to give up. He and Tiana both sing about how everything will go back to normal when…

Princess Cimorene, in the book Dealing with Dragons, Cimorene is expected to follow the social norms of her time. The setting of the book is the medieval times. Even, though Cimorene is a princess she doesn’t act like she is expected too, and is justified in not following the expectations. Cimorene is justified to show apathy towards the expectations of her time because she is not given the right to make her own choices.Her parents were forcing her to marry someone she didn’t want to marry. The…