Mulan Character Traits

Many failed attempts and a highly disappointed mother later, Jing Mei realizes that the only thing that she wanted was to be her own person. She soon finds out that to do this she must rebel against her mother. Jing Mei gets so caught up in rebelling that she loses sight of what was originally the most important thing to her. This leads her on a deconstructive path of not giving full effort. Jing Mei thought that her mother was the only thing keeping her from reaching her full potential, while it was really her the entire

Since Mulan is an archetype hero, she goes on a journey (war) to save her father’s life. She must learn how to become a soldier and fight in battle. She has to fight harder than any man, and to stay alive, she must use her quick- thinking skills to save everyone. On her journey, she has a realization that she did not go to war to save her father. Instead, she realizes that she went to war to prove to everyone she can do something right

It all begins with the call to adventure. Mulan hears her father being called to fight for the emperor in a war against the Huns.. Outraged as she was, she pleaded for her father to not be taken away, as he already fought for the emperor in the past. Her

In the movie, Mulan, she is caught between having to stay at home and become a wife, which is her proper role in society or go fight in a war in her father’s name. After a while, they discovered that she had been a woman the whole time. I feel like they were more angry that she was a woman and fought better than most of the men there. They kicked her out, of course, and later saved them and the emperor, but was still shunned. Chi-Fu told Shang, “Tis a woman. She will never be worth anything.” This shows that Chi-Fu wants her to be a woman, just like he thought she should be. He even admitted that she would not be worth anything or be a impacting role in society. This shows even if she did risk

Prior to these circumstances happening, she is a “little girl of seven” (page 20). She is respectful, small (hence “little girl”) child with six siblings and as such she is probably considered insignificant or unassuming. She is only at the beginning of her journey toward full potential as a victorious warrior which comes to fruition afterward in her life. After Fa Mu Lan establishes herself as a strong, capable woman warrior who contrasts with the little girl she used to be, she marries, becomes a caring mother and “she is beautiful” (page 39). Fa Mu Lan has gone through three developmental stages now: child, warrior, and mother. Maxine Kingston uses these stages as a way to depict how she wishes she could be and also represents Fa Mu Lan’s dynamism as a

A hero or heroine in a modern sense is not the traditional knight in shining armor who slays the dragon and saves the damsel in distress, rather, he or she is a person who pursues the truths and fights for veracity. One person who many deem as a heroine would be Malala Yousafzai, one of the youngest women’s rights and equal education activists in the world. Moreover, in the story of To Kill a Mockingbird, the humble yet strong Atticus Finch is a voice of reason and justice in the town of prejudice and insularity. Lastly, although a highly contested issue, many view Louis Riel as a hero in the fight for the rights for the Metis.

The one solution that will help her father to avoid from joining the Chinese army is that Mulan has to sacrifice her life for her father, because Mulan had to impersonate as a man so she can join the army instead of her father. What Mulan is doing is a serious crime because the punishment is death. There’s a difference between self-centered

Mulan is fighting for her dad to make it easy and better for him. Another example about Mulan is when she shows she can be the same as the rest of the men in the army by training hard to show what she/he is really about. Mulan wants to show what she’s really made of to show what strength she’s got in her. What she show’s is her pride for fighting for the people she loves to make it a better place for them, so her dad can be safe from fighting the war again and fighting for her country too.

Unlike Chinese culture, Jing-Mei starts to revolt against her mother. As a result of her mother

A woman who stood for her family, culture and country. The woman who became the role model in china. Hua Mulan is a famous female warrior during the Dynasties period of Chinese history. She was also the first to label in a ballad. Hua Mulan takes her father’s place in the army. She's a beautiful and brave woman, who knows martial arts, kung fu and is well skilled with swords. In twelve years, Mulan was active as a brave soldier and earned high honor, but denied any merit. Instead she retired and went back to her hometown. There is no archaeological evidence to prove that she was a real person. However, tales of her heroic actions are told in ancient text. Although her story was historical in literature only, and still taught in modern Chinese schools.

When her house was destroyed, she was pushed into living with Tyan-Yu’s family and his strict mother Huang Taitai and forced to leave everything behind. This means that she has to leave her family, which she takes very

The movie and the poem about Mulan are similar but in a lot of ways also very distinctively different. Mulan's story indicates that she is genuinely audacious and will do anything to keep her father from having to go to battle. “I want to buy a saddle and horse, and serve in my father’s place.” (line 15-16) She knew in her heart that she was going against everything she learned as a little girl

We need to understand that the filial piety presented in the movie with the one in the original legend is different, because in the movie Disney portrayed back the filial piety based on American people’s understanding and stereotypes on Confucianism. In this way Mulan described as a free individual who does not want to be bounded by the strict rules of Confucianism. Although, most of the time Mulan expresses her refusal to Confucianism, she still represents the value of filial piety to her father by disguising herself as a man warrior and taking her father’s duty in a war. In this sense, Disney tried to show Mulan’s dutiful character by bringing out Mulan’s “manly” and rebellious personality. However, in order to strengthen Mulan’s head-strong personality, Disney deliberately lessened the value of obedience and replaced it with Mulan’s pursuit of identity. In this sense, Mulan is described as being confused of her real identity. She is given two difficult choices between fulfilling her role as a potential wife or listening to her own calling (She wants to find her own love without the interference of other people, including her parents). Moreover, the Ballad never explicitly tell the relationship between Mulan and her parents; but everyone can assume that Mulan does not have “a close relationship” with her parents unlike the one depicted in the Disney’s version. Because in filial

From that moment on, she goes through life as Ping. With the help of the small, red dragon, Mushu, she becomes an honourable soldier of the Chinese Army. However, when she is exposed as a woman she gets dismissed from the army and she loses the trust of her commander Shang. It takes a threat to the emperor and a battle with the Huns to win his trust and love, and regain her honour. 

Mulan, in fact, has more in common with male Disney leads than the female Disney leads. Mulan is a thinker. She 's resourceful, like Aladdin. She is quick to act, like Eric (from The little Mermaid.) And she sacrifices herself for the sake of others, like Hercules. She also speaks her mind, even in a culture that does not allow such a thing. She doesn 't waste time pining about "will I ever