The Huns In Disney's Mulan

This source demonstrates social hierarchy because of how the three registers contrast to each other. It shows how the people need to be ready for war because of invaders that might want to take their land. Two ways that warlike values are shown are because of a soldier and prisoner in the top right register in the third register and the people being trampled in the bottom register. Since it is easy to invade them, they

    Historians believe that his account of the Huns is largely based on stereotypes (Spielvogel p. 180). I completely agree with this statement from the book because the whole section seems to be one big stereotype. In consequence they are ill-fitted to fight on foot, and remain glued to their horses, hardy but ugly beasts, on

In the novel, the dogs that Napoleon trains, portrays as “soldiers,” or an “army” for they obey Napoleon’s orders. An example would be that “He (Napoleon) ordered the hens’ rations to be stopped, and decreed any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death. The dogs saw to it that these orders were carried out” (Orwell, 53). This shows that the dogs have discipline and obedience by serving their leader, which is representation of soldiers. Similarly, during the Cultural Revolution, there were young Chinese people who were teenagers and in their 20’s, who supported the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) led by Mao, and were called the Red Guards. (Cultural Revolution in China) Dorothy Perkins also addresses that “The Red Guards served as ‘soldiers’ of the Cultural Revolution,” and that they followed Mao’s orders to oppose capitalism. (Red Guards) In the article “Cultural Revolution” from World History: The Modern Era published by ABC-CLIO states that Mao Zedong relied a lot on Red Guards to continue the fight against capitalism. Both leaders depended on their armies, as the dogs, and Red Guards also served their leader, showing another parallel from both the novel and

In order to truly understand what Huck is trying to retaliate against, one must know what the ideas of nature and convention are according

In “A Practical Guide to Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces” by Christopher Vogler, he explains “The Stages of a Hero’s Journey.” While stories often vary greatly, most have these similar phases. The Disney movie Mulan follows these rules almost to a tee. From the “Ordinary World” to the “Return with the Elixir,” Mulan is a great example of Joseph Campbell’s twelve stages (Vogler).

The analogy, “It was David vs. Goliath, with U.S. playing Goliath,” was used to describe the two forces. The war strategy used by the Vietcong was an unfamiliar fighting style to the American troops. The Vietcong set booby traps such as: panji traps, side-closing panji trap, spike board, door trap, arrow trap, mace trap, tiger trap, whip trap, venus fly trap, grenade trap, and the cartridge trap. These traps were used to eventually cripple the United States military beyond

Huck does not like them because they don't give him enough freedom, he feels restricted and suffocated by them.

In the beginning, Mulan is being prepared to be sent off to an establishment to uphold the family honor where she will be put through a series of test to make sure she is good enough to be a bride by the matchmaker. While she is being prepped, the seamstress and hair dresser (along with her mother and grandmother) start singing the song “Bring Honor To Us All”. The upbeat tune supports the idea that the only way she could possibly bring honor to her family is by becoming a quiet, rule following servant with “good breeding, and a tiny waist”. Also, “To make a good

if that is bad enough, Mulan’s unintelligent and socially awkward sidekicks serve as comedic function, which alters the authenticity of the film and offended many Chinese viewers. Disney’s production team really dropped the ball when they decided to have Mulan tote around a sidekick cricket for good luck, because crickets are not considered good luck in Chinese culture and therefor they once again negatively affected the authenticity of the film, which unknowingly offended many Chinese people (Amy, 53).

From the minute one is born the division between genders is placed. The phrases “act like a lady” or “be a man” become everyday practices and lifelong slogans. Fairy tales are always focused on women who play the beautiful damsel in distress persona and on men who play the handsome knight coming in to save them. Whether you are female or male, it is important to remember that these fixed characteristics placed on genders are never to be reinforced. In a world full of gender stereotypes, the Disney movie Mulan challenges the societal construct of masculinity and femininity by proving that gender roles are not fixed traits, but socially constructed views that can be changed.

One of the many effective uses of fear within propaganda was in the “Huns” piece of propaganda. This piece specifically puts this tactic to good use by putting the vision of a man with bloody hands and a bloody weapon into the heads of the people. This created a strong sense of fear and pushed people to buy war bonds in order to keep the Huns away.

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

According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary stereotype is a, “a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing”. Society puts out a certain set of standards and roles of men and women and the way in which they should act, known as gender roles. According to these behaviour stereotypes, the ideal man is intelligent, physically strong, heroic, in charge and is ultimately there to provide for his family. In comparison, the typical women is portrayed as beautiful, delicate, inferior to men and are viewed as the housekeeper; taking care of the children and putting food on the table while the men goes to work. These gender roles start to be enforced at a very young age as a result of society and the media. A prime example of this is Disney and the movies they create for young children. Almost all Disney movies are based

Violence against those who are already not quite living, that is, living in a state of suspension between life and death, leaves a mark that is no mark” (36). That kind of thinking has clearly been used in Mulan to prevent the audience from feeling any compassion towards the Huns. There is no discussion whether or not the Huns deserve to die as their punishment because there is no consideration of whether they are human or not. The consensus is that since they are evil, monstrous beasts, they need to disappear. They look like demonic creatures and they behave like a swarm of insects. Nothing that they have done would have granted them clemency. The army of Huns seems to enjoy destruction and killings to the point that the death under the avalanche is almost too merciful for such humanoid beasts. On the other hand, only the weakest of the Huns, the so-called regular soldiers who are not significant to the plot of the cartoon nor do they possess any profitable battle skills, die under the snow. The elite of Huns and Shan Yu in contrast seem almost indestructible, the mightiest creatures of hell facing against humans, partaking in an unequal

Little girls everywhere spend their childhoods watching the princesses portrayed in Disney movies, dreaming about the day they too will meet their prince charming. They see how Sleeping Beauty is woken up by a prince, Cinderella marries a prince, Sleeping Beauty turns a beast into a prince, and countless other instances of a girl just like them meeting their perfect man. Disney is infamous for their outdated illustration of gender roles. Mulan is one of the first Disney princess movies in which, instead of waiting for her prince, the heroine actually saves the day, or in this case, China. Mulan makes a variety of statements about gender roles that can be examined through many