Princess Essay

There are many characters in the book Princess Bride by S. Morgenstern. Some which are evil, some which are brave, but the real hero in the story is Westley. Westley saves buttercup twice and he also stops Humperdinck's’ evil plans that he was going to put forth after the wedding. Westly is the true hero of the story because he is brave and is always willing to help even if he is in bad condition. For example, when Buttercup was captured by Vizzini he went and saved her. He went and fought a

When asked to describe a Disney princess, character traits that come to mind are pure, modest, beautiful, and submissive. These traits come to mind due to the gender performativity that the Disney princesses do in each of the films (Palczewski & DeFrancisco, 2014, p.78). Gender performativity is the repetition of gendered behaviors overtime, people continually construct and constrict their gender identity. Disney teaches young girls a script about how to act, move and communicate their gender as

The Princess Bride      In the film, “The Princess Bride,” directed by Rob Reiner, it all begins with a Grandfather telling the story to his less than enthusiastic Grandson. The story opens in the country of Florin with Buttercup treating her “Farm Boy” not so well, “his name was Wesley, but she never called him that. “Very soon she realizes he loves her and she loves him in return. He sets off for America “to make his fortune across the sea.” She later finds out that he

Princess Mononoke, released in 1997, was the highest grossing film in Japan until Titanic came out later that year. It was supposed to be Hayao Miyazaki’s last film before he went into retirement, again (spoiler alert, he came out of retirement), and is praised as one of his absolute masterpieces, right beside Spirited Away, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Today, I will be critiquing two articles that discuss aspects of Princess Mononoke’s themes and influences, one that relates

As You Wish For True Love In the fairy-tale within a tale, The Princess Bride produced in 1987 by Act III Communications, with an amazing cast, begins when a young boy becomes ill and is visited by his grandfather. His grandfather brings a storybook to cheer up the little boy. The story is about a beautiful woman, Buttercup, the hero who is in love with her, Westley, and an evil prince, Humperdinck, who is there to ruin the day. Buttercup, a former farm girl, had been chosen as the prince’s bride

In the animated film Princess Mononoke, Miyazaki conveys several themes and main ideas. The themes and main ideas he conveys in the movie are that hatred corrupts and causes people to make bad decisions, shown through the boars, that greed corrupts and ruins,shown through Lady Eboshi, and that nature can only exist with help from humans, shown through Ashitaka. The main idea of hatred and the theme that hatred corrupts and causes people to make bad decisions is conveyed throughout the movie by

The Disney princess films are some of the most common in the world today. Because of their popularity, these works speak and evaluate, in significant detail, by various scholars. Numerous people disapprove these films for their seemingly sexist and oppressive gender messages. They find fault with the princesses serving as role models for young girls. Though, when one attentively scrutinizes the movies and compares the individualities of the princesses to the progressive woman of their time, one may

Princess Diana was an outstanding leader of her time. Throughout her life she accomplished so much and impacted so many lives. People all over the world were obsessed with Lady Di, just one of her many nicknames. She was an activist, a mother, a wife, a friend, a sister, and most importantly a strong female leader. At the young age of 19, Diana was married into the Royal family and began her life as a Princess. Through a tumultuous marriage to Prince Charles, Diana always put her best foot forward

by the Princess herself, “... the biggest disease the world suffers from... is... people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month... I am very happy to do that, I want to do that” (Pettinger, “Quotes by Princess Diana”). Furthermore, Diana was able to influence people from around the world to be more compassionate and loving because she was able to make the emotionally and physically disabled feel comfortable (Pettinger, "Princess Diana Charity

I chose to analyze the movie “The Princess and the Frog” since I knew how sexist Disney princess movies in the past, such as Cinderella and Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, have been, but also the interesting twists that try to hide sexism in the more modern tales. “The Princess and The Frog” really is a classic Disney love story. Tiana is a woman in New Orleans who dreams of one day running her own popular restaurant along the Mississippi River. Prince Naveen travels to New Orleans with the sole