Mulan Compare And Contrast

It begins with “The Ordinary World”. This world is considered ordinary and is the original world that the hero exists in and often feels out of place in (Hamby). Mulan correlates directly to this element of The Hero’s Journey. Her “ordinary world” can be considered the time frame in which the ballad was written in, early China. The importance of the proper roles that men and women should take is important because it is what makes Mulan feel out of place in her world. “Mulan weaves, facing the door” (Frankel). The second line of the ballad establishes the proper role that women should take, correlating with the social normativity. This social norm is then questioned when Mulan breaks it by taking the next step in her

The film doesn’t distinctly demonstrate the hindrances that she had to beset. However, the poem attributes the actions and the consequences she faced

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

Fa Mu Lan is a genuine woman warrior because she proves that Chinese women can be capable, and at the same time, fulfill the duties of a traditional Chinese woman. Hong Kingston is careful to point out that Fa Mu Lan is a warrior and a woman, not one or the other. By becoming a war hero, Fa Mu Lan has not given up being a woman. She “put[s] on [her] men’s clothes and armor

However, similar to Medieval Europe, the gender rules and regulations were stronger than a woman challenging them. Mulan was offered a job in the Chinese government due to her strength in the war. However, instead of risking her identity, she just wants to go home, and be a woman. The idea of continuing to challenge the gender rules was an absurd concept, and seemed absolutely impossible at that time. Because these regulations of gender were so powerful, Mulan decided it was best to go home, and continue her

Mulan is “proud to have taken his [her father’s] place,” and grateful for her experience in the army. She will continue to fight for gender equality in China. “It’s very obvious both

Mulan risks shaming her family because she is not as physically strong as the other males at the camp, and may be kicked out or discovered. She transforms once again and trains her hardest to keep up with the men. Once she can her and her fellow soldiers are sent out, as part of her growth in this part of the movie goes from willing to do anything for her family to her fellow soldiers as well. She risks her lives and saves many in return. She grows from being clumsy and different, to become this strong powerful force to be reckoned with.

Despite the oppression women were subjected to in China, they still occasionally overcame it and accomplished something extraordinary. Some worked, and helped to earn the family living, some were extremely honorable in their efforts to uphold their chastity or their family's honor, and some accomplished even more influential feats. Fa Mu Lan trained for fifteen years in order to become a woman warrior. She became as strong as a man, but swifter and more graceful. After saving her father from the draft by dressing up as a man, she assembled an army. Her army never lost, because Kuan Kung, the god of war and literature, would always ride before her into battle. Interestingly enough, another of the more extraordinary feats was that of

Maxine Hong Kingston’s novel The Woman Warrior is a series of narrations, vividly recalling stories she has heard throughout her life. These stories clearly depict the oppression of woman in Chinese society. Even though women in Chinese Society traditionally might be considered subservient to men, Kingston viewed them in a different light. She sees women as being equivalent to men, both strong and courageous.

As Mulan’s father is enlisted to fight in the war, Mulan rebels against her gender role and speaks out on the drafting of her injured father who would unquestionably die to protect his country. Noticeably having crossed a line, she is shamed for her outburst and is now determined more than ever to bring her family honor. Mulan sets off to fight under her family’s name portraying the male role of a man named Ping. Under this role, Mulan begins to find her true identity, which is not necessarily that of a man, but of a single individual who is strong-minded and brave. As she prepares for war, Mulan leaves behind a flower pin from her hair and this flower reoccurs throughout the film. The flower represents her leaving behind this societal view of femininity as she

In China, women were put in subservient positions to society. They were quiet, obedient creatures who "gathered patience". Song speaks of how women learned to provide for their families, as they were "learning to stretch the family rice". Women were expected to serve a purpose and be seen and not heard.

Women did not have any power in Chinese culture. Kingston describes how a man intimidates her aunt by telling her that he will beat and kill her if she tells anyone. It shows men dominance over women because the man is making Kingston’s aunt do anything he wants. In paragraph fifteen, “women in the old China did not choose. Some man had commanded her to lie with him and be his secret evil” (623). It adds to how women in China did not have any voice and were supposed to comply with any thing men said. Women had to be protective mothers. Kingston states, “as a last act of responsibility: She would protect this child as she had protect its father… mothers who love their children take them along” (629). This quote means that women would protect their children and always look out for the best interest for them. Women had to provide food for their family and their gods. In paragraph thirteen, “she plants vegetables gardens rather than lawns; she carries the odd-shaped tomatoes home from the fields and eats food left for the gods” (622). It shows one duty of women in Chinese culture and the role they had to follow.

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

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

In the movie there was a character named Mulan that went to fight in the war in place for her father. In Ancient China, women weren’t allowed to be in the war, making her ineligible for the task. In real life there may have been a person named Mulan, but she probably wasn’t that important, and didn't participate in the war.