Analysis Of Disney Princess

The Disney princesses are a common sight in any household with girls under the age of 8. However, these seemingly harmless women contribute to a darker theme in media. In her essay, “Little Girls or Little Women? The Disney Princess Effect”, Stephanie Hanes uses storytelling, strong facts, and helpful alternatives to effectively persuade parents that the media is targeting young girls with sexualized content, argues that this content is harmful to them in a number of ways, and inspires parents to take action.

I have chose to write my final discussion on the newest Disney movie Moanna. Moanna was the classic example of someone going through the Heros Journey. Although she already is held higher than most though because she is the daughter of the chief, so ultimately the next leader. She always longing for more. Her grandmother is the one that pushes her to go follow her heart, When the tribe is in trouble Moanna goes to the call of the journey to find Maui who is a shapeshifter. Maui was all about himself and did not care to help Monna help her tribe. Monna ends up helping Maui when he needs it the most, he teaches her how to sail and continue their journey. They are defeated though by a monster. Maui goes on about his way and Moanna is lost. Defeated

Cinderella has changed so little over time that it seems we’re still in the 1700’s listening to Charles Perrault. And yet it remains of the most popular fairy tales read to children. The role of women continue to be either the cruel, evil one or the good, docile one while the prince continues to be the saving grace of the helpless girl. The skeleton hasn’t changed much as well. A damsel in distress, saved by a knight in shining armor, who falls in love with her and they live happily ever after. Does this sound familiar? This sentence might as well be a fairy tale. We’ve seen this over and over in Cinderella, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White.

Stephanie Hanes, a correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor, discusses in her article, “Little Girls or Little Women? The Disney Princess Effect,” how media can affect the way little girls think and behave later on in life. Hanes article acknowledges significant dilemmas parents and their daughters face while growing up in a hypersexualized society. Intentionally, Hanes uses logos and pathos to appeal to all types of readers. By relating to people, the author makes readers more likely to be responsive to the information given out in the article.

Disney makes over $3 billion on their Disney Princess products every year and now have over 25,000 items in their princess collection (Orenstein 2). Disney has played a big role in shaping not only societal viewpoints on what young girls should like, but also what little girls believe they should enjoy as well. Gender stereotypes have been around for a long time, but now with technology advancements, such as media in western society is able to play a bigger than ever role in influencing people’s perspectives. Not only do we see gender roles and stereotypes in television shows, but also in advertisements and in children’s toys. Although many readers of Peggy Orenstein’s “What’s wrong with Cinderella” have argued that the princess culture is corrupting today’s young girls and making them more dependent on men, a closer examination shows that many girls grow out of the princess phase with no negative repercussions and choose whatever passions they want.

Moana is a unique film that is released by Walt Disney in 2016. A typical Disney film consists of a beautiful princess who wants to find a true love in her life; however, Moana, the main character of the film, broke all the stereotypes and expectations of a Disney princess since Moana’s conflict does not arise from a love interest, but from a desire to save her island. The story of the movie is that there is a girl who lives on the island, but her island is dying because Maui stole the heart of Te Fiti. Therefore, her purpose is to across the ocean to find Maui and make him return the heart of Te Fiti in order to restore life on the Motunui Island, but the chief of the island “ her father “ wishes for their people to stay within the confines of the island’s reef because he thinks beyond the reef is dangerous, but Moana went against her father’s

Stephanie Hanes’ “Little Girls or Little Women? The Disney Princess Effect” first appeared in the Christian Science Monitor in 2011. Hanes aims to convince her readers that little girls are being exposed to high amounts of sexualized content at a very young age. With strategic organization, supporting evidence, a specific purpose and intended audience, Hanes is able to produce a convincing argument.

Authors James Poniewozik and Peggy Orenstein are both concerned with the increase of princess culture among young girls. Poniewozik’s article “The Princess Paradox” and Orenstein's article “Cinderella and Princess Culture” discuss similar aspects of princess culture that could be potentially harmful to it’s audience. Both Poniewozik and Orenstein take on a feminist perspective in their articles. Specifically, both authors discuss feminist themes in princess culture but Orenstein focuses on toddler to pre-teen aged girls while Poniewozik is more concerned with specifically teenagers.

Disney princesses have always been seen in the public eye as dependent on their prince charming. When thinking about the very first princesses Disney put on the screen, such as Snow white, Cinderella, sleeping beauty and so on, they have never been thought of as very strong or independent women. In most of the early Disney princess movies, the underlying theme is that the princess is always in search of or waiting to be rescued by the male character. With, this is one of the most prominent reasons why Orenstein did not want her daughter listening to the snow-white tale. She did not want to expose her daughter to thinking that the traits or characteristics that the princesses display were how women should act or be represented.

Fiona who is identified as the princess, goes against the ‘norm;’ she is not your typical princess with blonde hair, a clear face and an hourglass figure. Instead Fiona contains freckles, red braided hair, and a much fuller figure. Disney princesses are usually depicted as these quiet damsels-in-distress, however, Fiona is far from this. She is shown as this strong, demanding, and high-pitched singing princess (an eavesdropping bird explodes to its death). Fiona does not fit within the category of a typical princess since she isn’t expressed as this damsel-in-distress needing rescue from a man— prince charming. She can fend for herself. This is evident in the scene where Robin Hood and his crew come to Fiona’s ‘rescue’ from Shrek; instead of Fiona complying with these men she fights them and succeeds. She takes out all the men by karate kicking everyone while in the air (image # 5 on page 10). Fiona also has mannerisms of burping loudly, sitting with her legs wide open, and eating a weed rat off a stick— all being qualities of a woman one would not define and/or label as a princess. Fiona seems to have a blend of ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ traits— she embraces her femininity while remaining a strong character that has more to offer than just her beauty and obedience.

Moana, the new Disney princess is all ready to shine! She will be the first Polynesian princess in Disney, but who is similar in spirit as princesses of Brave and Frozen, holding her hand on hip and smirking at the smell of new adventure.

The animated Disney film, Moana, was released in November 2016 and directed by Ron Clements and John Musker. The thing that sets this film apart from others is that the princess, Moana, doesn’t seek romance to feel full. Instead, this film demands for young children to embrace their family and community while remaining heroic and authentic to their culture. Moana was an original film, emotionally engaging, and it stuck to Disney’s style while following its own rules.

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Watching the trailers before movies in the theater and going home waiting for the day the movie comes out. The anticipation would build up and excitement would grow day by day. Finally, the day would come and walking out there would be no disappointment. Disney never fails to make great movies and it’s all due to certain characteristics they apply in the best films.

Cramped in a small Los Angeles office, Walt Disney drew a few larger than life cartoons. After Disney’s big hit Alice Comedies and cartoons of Mickey and the gang, he moved his office to Burbank, California. There, Walt and his brother, Roy, came up with their most famous movies such as Cinderella, Snow White, and Alice in Wonderland. Now with two American amusement parks, three international parks, multiple cruise lines, multiple resorts, over five hundred films, and over thirty academy award, it’s hard to not heard of Disney. Every boy or girl has at least seen or heard of Disney movies. It’s such a big part of society today that it becomes influential in a kid’s childhood. This project will look at the underlying effect of the Disney princess phenomenon and how it shapes a young girls’ perspective of herself and how she’s “supposed” to be.