The Reality as Opposed to the Disney Versions of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty

As we all know princesses are a big part of the Disney film industry and they all have something in common, and that is that they are involved in a social problem of feminism. The conflict between the Disney Corporation and the feminist has been going on since the first Disney Princess film in 1937. The majority of the Disney film's audience are children. Disney films have expanded their arsenal to give young people a lesson about ourselves’ ever-changing morals, but they expose the wrong way of being a princess and also can be transmitted as the wrong idea to young people, which is not helping, because of the Disney Industrial’s size or the coverage of their media. For example, Disney has set forth a standard of how all of their princesses are supposed to look like. The portrait of women in Disney films is often the stereotypical version of them; the cultural beliefs of the 1940s are reflected in the roles of the women

From generation to generation stories are always changing. Fairy tales like Cinderella go from mean step sisters to nice sisters, fairy god mother to a tree. After reading 5 different versions of Cinderella I had to choose which I would decide to read, above the others to my favorite child. After difficult thinking I have chosen the Walt Disney’s version of Cinderella for many great reasons. I have chosen the Walt Disney’s version because I feel it is the most fitting for children over all the others which are best suitable for older teens.

The princess was also mad because she swore she saw him making googly eyes at the woman. I also think that the person she paid to tell her the doors might have lied to her, or maybe did not know the truth about doors and she chose the wrong one. The princess was also semi-barbaric like her father, so she thought if i can't have him she definitely cannot. In the story it states that she came from a long line of semi-barbaric ancestors.

Snow White is a fairy-tale known by many generations; it is a beloved Disney movie, and a princess favoured by many kids. But did you know the fairy-tale was made to teach young children, especially little girls, their duties in life? It also values beauty over knowledge, portrays women to be naive and incompetent, and assumes that women cannot understand anything other than common household chores. Throughout this criticism, I will be using the feminist lens to analyze the fairy-tale, Snow White, through the perspective of a feminist.

Disney princesses are fun for all ages, but their target audience is young children and “as children grow and develop, they can be easily influenced by what they see and hear”. Therefore, what they see and hear in Disney movies leaves an impression on them. The first princess, Snow White, was created in a time where each gender and race had a specific role in society. Recently, many believe that Disney has come a long way in regards to gender and race since Snow White, as several multi-cultural protagonists have been introduced subsequently, and gender roles do not appear to be as stereotypical as they once were. However, many of the apparent innocent messages about race and gender in these movies, can be exposed as otherwise. Despite

In “The Wife of Bath’s Tale,” the Wife of Bath is married five times and always tries to have mastery over her husband; however, at the time she gains mastery over a husband, he dies. After explain how she gained mastery over her fifth husband she tells a tale of a young knight in King Arthur’s court who rapes a young girl. The law says he should be killed but the queen and ladies of the court beg and keep him alive. He tells a foul old lady he will do whatever she demands if she saves his life and she does by giving him the answer he needs. The old lady demands that the knight marry her and in agony the knight agrees too.

One day she comes to him in the garden to discuss the arrangement, she has grown bored of him and her suitor feels uncomfortable having him around. She has found exactly what she needs in this new man, not another slave, but rather a man willing to take the reins. Severin explains that he does not want to lose her and even that he would kill her than let another man marry her. She continues her role as his master and threatens to surrender her control over him to her husband to be. When Severin grabs her and threatens her with her dagger she switches around and starts saying that she loves him also and that this was all a jest. She says she wants to leave Italy and marry him. She asks him to take care of a few formal matters while she says goodbye to her friends in the city and that they will leave the next day. He goes to mail her letters while she packs and when he returns the servants tell me that she called for him. He goes to her room with some trepidation and sits at her feet. Then she reverts to her mistress self and calls to have him bound so she can whip him and elicit his love for her from him. He gets bound to a support in the room and she puts on her furs to get ready for his “punishment.” When he asks for the whip, she calls out and from behind a curtain emerges her young, greek courtesan, to dole out the whipping. The Greek whips him into fury, shame, and despair and then he and the Venus leave Severin all alone. Severin thinks of

In Thousand and One Nights, Shahrazad has volunteered to marry the king, knowing that he kills the women he sleeps with the next morning (p.554). Shahrazad’s plan is to tell him stories every night with each one being better than the last (p.554). The king will not want to kill her because he will want to hear her stories and by doing this she hopes to teach the king how to restore order in his own realm and his own soul (p.554).

In conclusion, the Knight should have been punished. He gets have the woman of his dreams and the young maiden may never have a man who will love her. The Knight may have learned a lesson but he still got a reward. The Queen was able to choose because the King has already learned the same lesson. The story showed how the King gives the Queen a chance to make

When raising children, it is necessary to understand how to navigate their questions on life in a manner that is both appropriate for their age, yet is acceptable in their eyes in terms of an actual answer. According to Bruno Bettelheim, fairy tales are told to children as a way to allow them to symbolically address issues and challenges they might face. These fairy tales employ the use of characters and plots that children can place themselves in, thus allowing them to identify with the situation described. However, over time, some adaptions of the fairy tales differ from their subject matter. Jean Cocteau’s version of Beauty and the Beast differs from Walt Disney’s version, as it retains many of the theories that the Disney version omitted. Jean Cocteau’s version and Disney’s versions of Beauty and the Beast differ in their message by changing aspects of the symbolism and characters’ personalities.

Fairy tales are stories that range from originating folklore to more modern stories. The same story of the fairy tales can be found in the different version in various languages throughout the world. Those stories inspire people, especially the children, even though the stories made up false, but it builds up based on real life story. Going back to history, when women had no real power, the Brothers Grimm version of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves” tells a story about women who have no control over lives, or how a child can be neglected by the adults or what can be done for the legacy/status. This fairy tale story, “Snow White with the Seven Dwarfs,” talks about an evil Queen who is expecting to “fairest them of all,” who is Snow White; she is an innocent beautiful girl, who loves to sing and interact with people.

I grew up watching all of Disney’s movies from 1937 up until the early 2000’s. Before watching Disney’s fairytale movies, I had read the original versions. For example, before watching Disney’s Sleeping Beauty, my parents had read me the original version. Therefore, when I watched the Disney version, I had a different perspective because I had read the “dark version” of

For decades now, Disney Corporation has been providing us with countless films made to delight and amuse children and adults alike. But not all Disney films seem particularly appropriate for their target audience. Many of these films portray violence, gender inequality, and skewed views of leadership roles that seem altogether inappropriate for impressionable young children. Better and more contemporary heroines need to be added to Disney’s wall of princesses in order to counteract years of sexism.

Everyone accorded the wife the due honor and respect for the sake of the King. The romantic love relationship which was intended to last for ages went on for few years but soon was over. Apparently one of the King`s former captains (satan), a rebel and fugitive who had been banished from the palace deceived the wife by telling her lies about the King because of hatred. Jealous of the romantic love of the King for His wife, the rebel succeeded to destroy the marriage by using the wife against the King.

     This tale is completely antithetical to that of the Wife of Bath. Where her tale focuses on the dominance of women over men this one is dedicated to exposing the subservience of the medieval woman. The clerk tells a tale of a peasant woman, Griselda, who marries a nobleman, Walter. He devises cruel ordeals to put her through in order to test her loyalty. She is led to believe that her children are taken away and murdered. Walter rejects her, and apparently substitutes her with a younger, more beautiful woman. This is a cause of suffering for both women. Griselda is forced to stand aside while her children are torn away from her to be killed, and she is pushed away by her husband who replaces her quickly. Her replacement, actually her twelve-year-old daughter, is also caused suffering due to her situation. She has been