Snow White: Stereotypes In Disney Movies

By doing so, Disney princess culture increases gender roles and affects how young girls view themselves.

Heroes are found everywhere when Disney is involved. From a prince or princess to secretive toys to the smallest forms of life on earth, a hero can be found in anyone. Being attached to one or a few is entirely common. These certain characters may be the ones they look up to. Young girls often choose to look up to a princess, although, they are not what they were over 50 years ago. The very first Disney princess, Snow White, is purely a damsel in distress. The same goes for Aurora who appeared in Sleeping Beauty years later. As the years have gone on, that weaker vision of a princess has faded. The modern day princesses are anything but damsels needing to be saved by a man. Rapunzel chooses to give up her freedom in order to save Flynn Rider’s life. Tiana works hard to provide for herself so she can chase her dream. Merida rejects what everyone else thinks she should be and is true to herself. Elsa only needs the love from her sister. This list will only get bigger as Disney continues to create these young female heroines. If anything, Disney is preaching to young girls everywhere to be strong in a world that may play on their faults or weaknesses. During a time strong feminist movements, Disney manages to satisfy demands by allowing the girl to be the hero. Though Snow White and Sleeping Beauty are still timeless classics, the princesses of today set a better example for young girls everywhere and that is why they seem to be more attractive than the originals.

Aside from how Disney Princess films portray femininity, the mindset that Disney princesses are created with negatively impacts young American girls as well. The need to always display femininity is not the only gender role stereotype that females experience. In fact, there is stereotype that says that women should be inferior to men, and it is represented throughout several Disney Princess films. For instance, Princess Ariel loses her voice after the evil witch, Ursula, takes it away from her. The only method that works to retrieve her voice back is to get the prince to kiss her.

Pocahontas was different from the myth that portrayed her as a princess who welcomed all Englishmen rather than a complex human being. She was intelligent and curious as a

Female Heroism in Disney Animation Analyzing “Disney Dolls,” Kathi Maio’s purpose in writing is to persuade her readers that all the young women in Disney are meant to be symbols and how the company’s target audiences want to portray women. She argues that films like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991) and Mulan (1998) all have an implied message towards women. Maio achieves to persuade that typically women in Disney are portrayed as a princess, queen, or a homemaker. When Maio mentions Aladdin (1992), she writes that Princess Jasmine is the only significant female character, then talks about cultural assumptions and internalizing racism, which is not significant to the topic of female

Disney Princess inspire young girls but is it in a good way? A debate that’s going on this day is “Is Disney Sexist”. With Feminism becoming strong people are starting to question if certain things are sexist. When you have a company that makes many movies that inspire young girls it is bound to come up. Disney is not sexist because only one Disney princess film did not pass the Bechdel test, princesses are focusing less on their appearances, and Disney princesses are teaching girls.

Over time people have started to talk about disney's underlying themes, and how they are ruining our kids at a young age. I Believe they do not. In fact I would like to think the opposite is true. But let's go and understand both sides. Disney has made numerous “princess” movie where they focus on a female character, facing a problem.

Disney is part of our culture, it doesn’t matter the country, the language or the age, everybody knows it and at least partly, identifies with some aspects of it. Everyone loves a Disney movie, whether it's an old classic like Snow White or a newer one like Frozen. But is this a good or a bad thing? I don’t what to use the typical example of the pretty Disney princess that is always getting in trouble, needs a man to save the say, and their happiness and ultimate goal in life is marriage, because we have heard and talk a lot about this stereotype that is common in Disney movies.

Each person in the world has heard of Cinderella, no matter what kind of version it may be. Cinderella is the one fairy tale story that has been popular and will always be the one tale that has to be told to children. Words and story lines might be twist and turn, but in the end the knowledge of the story will be learned in similar ways. As we all know when one story is told another is created, when one is at its best then another is at its worse. One version will always be better than another, but no matter what version it might be the story will be told.

Furthermore, Cinderella isn’t simply reliant on others to solve her problems, she is also a very clever heroine. For example, she is clever enough to escape the king’s son festival on two different occasions without being discovered. First, Cinderella escapes the king’s son by leaping into the pigeon-house and escapes from his grasp. Secondly, she escapes again the king’s son by climbing into a hazel tree, and retreats to her home. Though the third instance Cinderella returns to the festival the king’s son manages to take one of her slippers, on the contrary, this benefits Cinderella in the end. To summarize, Cinderella outwits the king’s son on two separate occasions demonstrating herself to be a capable

Like boys, girls also face issues regarding their physical representation in Disney films, there are also other feminist issues in the movies. Two Disney movies that are hailed for their progressiveness in feminism are Frozen and Brave. Disney Princesses often end

Cinderella is a strong woman who stayed positive through all mistreat moments. The stepmother was evil, and so were her step sisters, they treated her with no respect, unlike Cinderella who was the opposite. She is also kind and caring for others than herself. The day she was supposed to be at a ball to win the prince's heart, she wasn't allowed to go. Her fairy godmother saved her from that situation.

Ultimately, the fairytale Cinderella showcases females in a weak minded and delicate light. In this story, Cinderella(the main character) lacks determination and emotional strength. In the beginning, Cinderella is being abused by her step mother and step sisters, as well as being forced to carry out traditional female tasks such as; cleaning the house, and providing for her family. Cinderella lives in the attic of her house and dresses in rags. At this point, Cinderella is established to be the innocent girl who is mistreated and needs a way to escape.

Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and Snow White are stories that have been loved by generations of young girls and women, but the female representation in these and other fairytales do not accurately demonstrate how women are in reality. Stories like these have a huge effect on pop culture and what is viewed as an acceptable way to exist as a woman. They affect the way that young girls view themselves, and they set an unrealistic standard of what being good or bad means. Women have never been as one dimensional as these stories are making them out to be and there is no reason that this should be accepted. It is important to have diverse female characters so that people of all ages and genders have more than one idea of how a woman should act.

The Walt Disney Company, more commonly known as Disney is an American multimedia giant with a $74.9 billion net worth and counting to boot it’s no wonder they have such an ever reaching influence not only in the United States, but also abroad, such as marketing the premise that “any” girl can be a princess. But since its inception it has been known for churning out some of the best-animated films to ever grace the silver screen for over a century. While Disney like any other company started out from humble beginnings, the big corporation is not above seeing or for that matter creating an atmosphere of controversy and criticism over some of its own pet projects. Some of these controversies have stemmed from the feminist counter-culture circa 1965 or so; from this point on a lot of female audiences (as well as the feminists) have argued that the media giant has been constantly casting female characters as playing second fiddle to the main hero or at the very least as a stock character for a bit of exaggerated humor. A lot of the films made seem to unfortunately back the feminist arguments of discrimination and even conditioning the audience in some cases within the films and even in modern times dating back about twenty years or so back; Disney sometimes can’t really seem to get it right.