Friday 20th June 2014
Representation of woman in animated Disney films
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Representation
of women in animated Disney films
The
representation of women in film is one that is debateable, and as part of my
year 13 a level media i have looked into this topic, looking in specific at the
women in animated disney film. here is my essay:
A comparison of how women
are represented in animated Disney films (looking in specific at Snow White,
The little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Mulan)
The initial portrayal of women as individuals in the Disney film is a positive one. Snow white in one of the earlier Disney films is portrayed as pure and loving, she takes on a mothering role and looks after the dwarfs, she also shows she is brave to go off by herself into the woods. In the little mermaid Ariel believes that her father is wrong in how he views humanity and wants to prove it, showing how strong she is and sticks to her beliefs. The heroine in beauty and the beast, Belle, has a strong imagination and is smarter than anyone else in her village. Recently in the film Mulan, Mulan is brave, cleaver and strong. She protects her father by going to war and then shows the other men in combat up by surpassing them mentally and physically. However when looking more closely into their actual role in the plot of the film we soon realise that every heroin’s main desire is man. This gives a much weaker look on women and we can see that from early films, such as Snow White, to more recent films, such as Mulan, this image of women being dependent of men still remains.
In 1989 Disney released ‘The Little Mermaid’, Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, in the hope to have created a leading role woman who was a good role model for younger children. The film is about a young teenage mermaid, called Ariel, who doesn’t like her life under the sea and is much more fascinated by the human world. Regardless of her fathers warnings she exchanges her voice with the evil sea witch to spend three days on land where she must make prince Eric fall in love with her and kiss her or else she becomes the sea witch’s forever. From this summery we can already see the fairytale trappings of meeting prince charming and falling in love.
As soon as the film of the little Mermaid opens we are introduced to her character as she is investigating a sunken ship. Her adolescent curiosity is immediately apparent as well as her rebelliousness towards her father’s wishes however this teenage rebalance could be mistaken as her being independent. She is also portrayed as being naive to believe the sea witch despite Sebastian and Flounder trying to stop her.
When looking at my primary research sources I have got a few different opinions of Ariel’s character as a representation of a woman. In a questionnaire asking participants how they would describe Ariel and if they thought that she was a good representation of women to a younger audience 30% of participants described Ariel as Independent and therefore a good representative and 70% described he as rebellious a therefore a bad representative. My second piece of primary research showed similar statistics. Participants were shown two clips from the film ‘The little mermaid’. One of the two clips showed Ariel saving Prince Eric from the blown up ship. After watching this clip they were asked to describe how the woman in the clip was portrayed. 40% of participants found her brave and courageous for saving prince Eric, 50% of participants said that she was recluse and stupid, and 10% said that she was naive. 90% of participants also described her as love struck. From my critical research looking at the character of Ariel we can see that the majority of participants had something negative to say about Ariel.
My secondary research, like my primary research, also said that Ariel was portrayed in a negative way showing that Disney had gotten it completely wrong when thinking that they had created a modern day women. Trites 1990 said,
“Undoubtedly, feminists have criticized Ariel because she seems to have little ambition beyond getting her prince”
This point was backed up in a reading called ‘Gender, Race and Ethnicity in Disney film’ by Marcia Lieberman. She went on to describe Ariel’s naivety of giving up so much for a man,
“Throughout the film she planned how to get him to love her and any brave actions made were done to get closer to her true love”
However a I found a quote by Laura Sells in a reading called ‘Where do the mermaids stand?’ which doesn’t agree that the plot is all about finding ‘True love’ she uses more of a feminist take on the representation of women in ‘fairytales’,
“On one hand, with the traditional fairytale trappings of finding true princely love, the Disney rendition can be seen as more insidious because it sanitizes the cost of women’s access to the ‘male sphere’ by vilifying women’s strength and by erasing the pain that so often accompanies ‘passing’”
Feminists believe that women in fairytales rely on their looks and that they have no power, only the men can defeat evil so the female has to wait for the prince to save her. Fairytales show a bad representation of women and traditional Disney films copied these fairytales through films like ‘Cinderella’ and ‘Snow White’. What Sells is arguing is that Disney hasn’t removed itself from the idea of the fairytale. She goes on to say,
“On the other hand I see ‘The little Mermaid’ as also more laboratory because it contains the means of its own undoing in the camp character of Ursula, the sea witch, and in Disney’s compulsory happy ending which bestows the mermaid with both access and voice”
Here Sells changes her opinion of the film. The second part of the quote explains the film in a different light showing the struggle for women to enter the ‘male workforce’ or ‘male sphere’ both being issues prior and during the time of the films release. Is it therefore a strong representation? Or is it showing the struggles of women’s life? Or is it a message that a woman can only be complete through marriage? Although the content of the plot can be debatable as to whether or not its good or bad as a representative of women and their struggles, Sells concludes her opinions by saying that Ariel is a bad representation of women. She transforms herself to an image of ‘a woman that man wants her to be’ rather then ‘a woman for herself’ which is symbolised in the transformation from fin to legs. In the second part of sells quote another female character is mentioned, Ursula the sea witch.
According to theorist Bell there are three female positions: that of an idolised teenage heroine, wicked middle-aged women, or nurturing post-menopausal woman. In relation to the character Ursula she is the middle aged woman. Bell goes onto describe them as evil, villainous and sexual.
“They have been called Disney’s femme fatales. The femme fatale in classical cinema is a powerful woman defined by her sexuality and authority, she is seen as an obstacle the hero must overcome”
Matt Roth (1996) in a reading called ‘A short History of Disney Fascism’ describes Ursula like this,
“At first glance Ursula seems to be a woman; on closer inspection however, the sea witch resembles a flamboyant, divinely inspired drag queen. Her octopus-like lower half further renders her gender ambiguous: the first view of her tentacles emerging from the darkness is played up for shock value…she manages to reduce the ‘hyper-masculine’ sea kind into a pathetic plant and only gets defeated when the virile prince impales her with the prow of a ship, thus contrasting his erect phallus with her flaccid ones. Her threat to the heterosexual couple is thus laid at rest.”
Sells backs up Roth’s view on Ursula, in her reading she quotes,
“In Ursula’s drag scene, Ariel learns that gender is a performance. Ursula doesn’t simply symbolise women, she performs women”
The Character of Ursula is used in ‘The little Mermaid’ as a symbol of the ideal woman and to teach Ariel the importance of gendered behaviour to trap the opposite sex. When comparing this secondary research with my primary research looking into the character of Ursula their again is a link. The second clip I showed my participants was that of the ‘Drag scene’ where Ursula convinces Ariel to exchange her voice for legs. I found that 50% of participants described her as flamboyant and sexual, while the other 50% described her as cunning. When asked how they would describe the two female characters in contrast to one another, 70% of participants said virginal child compared to sexual woman, and 50% described them as good via Evil. 30% of participants said they preferred the character of Ursula to Ariel.
Snow White is similar to Ariel as she too devotes her life to finding a man. The film ‘Snow White’ is about a young princess who’s wicked step mother wants killed because she is too beautiful, however the huntsman cannot kill her so she is left in the woods where she finds a cottage belonging to the seven dwarfs. She stays with them until the queen realises she is still alive and tries to kill her by giving her a poisoned apple, but Snow White is saved by loves first kiss and lives happily ever after. We find out at the beginning of the film that Snow White is looking for ‘prince charming’ when she sings, “I’m wishing, for the one I love, to find me, today”. As the film is a much more dated film the main women is portrayed under the stereotype of traditional gender roles. Throughout the film she is seen cooking, cleaning and looking after the seven dwarfs. Goss describes her as,
“She is not seen in a manner that allows her to think beyond falling in love. Snow White defines the ‘ideal’ role of women where quiet obedience and beauty are linked to goodness”
When looking at my primary research 90% of participants found Snow White to be a bad representation of women, due to her dated stereotypes. However this was the typical representation of women in Disney films of that time- young women are naturally happy homemakers, they wait until a man comes along and gives them life. Although in modern time this is seen as a bad representation at the time it was the correct representation. The question now lies that should films like this be shown to today’s young females.
The film ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (1991-directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise) is about a young girl, Belle, who is unhappy in her town and is constantly pursued by the vial Gaston. One day she gets doomed to stay in a bewitched castle in order to save her fathers life. Throughout her stay Belle teaches the master of the castle, a hideous Beast, how to be kind and love another. He falls in love with her and lets her go but she returns to save him from Gaston and saves his life and breaks the spell through loves kiss. The Disney writers of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ promised that Belle, the heroine, would be Modern, Active and even Feminist. When conducting my primary research to find out what my participants thought of the character of Belle I found that 30% said that she was strong minded and intelligent, 40% described her as brave and devoted to her father and 20% said that she was adventurous. 60% of participants also mentioned the fact that she is a romantic and likes fairytales. On the whole participants in my primary research described belle in a positive way. But my secondary research didn’t have such positive things to say about Belle.
Jeffords thought that the writers of the Disney film were misleading to describe Belle as ‘A Disney Feminist’ he sarcastically says,
“Belle has been called ‘a Disney feminist’ basically because she reads and does not accept the advances of Gaston”
Kathi Maio agrees with Jeffords and says that the only difference Disney have made through Belle is made her read, she still follows the other Disney connotations by giving up her life long dreams of adventures for a marriage to the beast. Maio thinks that this shows her as being stupid not intelligent.
Among the villagers in the film Belle doesn’t get a very good representation. In my primary research I showed my participants a clip from the village scene in ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and gave them a question which quotes, ‘In the Village Scene Belle is described as being ‘a beauty but a funny girl’ why do you think this is?’. I found that 60% of my participants thought that it was due to her intelligence, as she was reading a book while walking through the town, with 30% of that 60% adding that the film is set in a time where it would be uncommon for a female to know how to read. Jennifer Goss agrees with these ideas, she quotes,
“While she is a woman representing a cleaver and independent role, she is seen as overbearing and wicked in society… one could even say that the implications of this character suggests that any woman who is independent is morally unacceptable”
This quote links to the village scene as Belle isn’t seen as acceptable because of her intelligence, and also because she doesn’t want to marry Gaston.
Mulan (1998) is based on a Chinese myth about a woman who saves china from the Huns. In the film Mulan goes to fight instead of her father as he is too weak and ends up being the best and most cleaver warrior, and saves china. Mulan is similar to Belle, as she too isn’t seen as acceptable in society and this idea of gender obligations. Women ‘should’ be a homemaker and wife, not cleaver and strong etc. In Mulan this idea of gender obligation is shown through the first scene where she is preparing to see the matchmaker. While she is being made ‘beautiful’ the women sing to Mulan a song called ‘Honour us all’, a song that pushes the traditional roles onto Mulan. They say that women should have ‘tiny waists’, ‘be calm’, and ‘obedient’. They even tell her that a man’s main use for a woman is for her to have babies. In a reading by Jen Goss it reads,
“When she asks Mushu why no one is listening to her, he replies ‘Because you are a woman again’. The statement is a direct implication of the status a woman holds, she is to be seen but not heard”
This quote sums up the whole idea behind the Film showing the era and the traditions of China. When looking at Snow White and at Belle in the beginning of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ a similar traditional woman is shown, which shows that they are bad representations of the ‘Modern day’ woman.
Again I conducted primary research into what participants thought of the character of Mulan. 70% of participants described her as brave and strong, 50% of participants thought that she was recluse and that her actions were dangerous. 20% said that she was a little naive and 40% mentioned the fact that she was loyal to her father and her family.
Although the film ‘Mulan’ has a very strong undertone of a woman’s obligation, the main character takes on traits that are stereotypically for men and breaks the traditional stereotypes. Mulan goes to war to fight instead of her father because she knows he is too weak. Throughout the film Mulan is not only seen training along side the other men but surpassing them mentally and physically. The main bit where that is shown is where she uses her brain as well as her strength to get the arrow from on top of the pole while holding weights. Goss describes her as,
“She is not only swift she is also able to think on her toes, qualities that Disney had previously attributed to men”
When looking at this quote in comparison to the clip I used in my primary research you can see a link. In the clip Mulan and her army have only one cannon left to shoot at the millions on Huns running towards them. Instead of shooting straight at them like the others did Mulan shot it up at a snow-topped mountain causing an avalanche that buried the Huns. When I asked participants how they would describe her actions 80% described them as brave, 70% said that she was cleaver with a further 10% adding that she had the ability to think on her toes.
On a whole we can see a huge difference in the comparison of representation of women starting from Snow White to Mulan. Although traditional roles have changed and women have developed to become more modern, cleaver, strong and brave, one problem lies in every Disney film, the power that men and true love have over the female characters. The best thing that can happen to a Disney heroin is to marry her prince charming. Does this ending have to be, so that the woman can live ‘happily ever after’?
The initial portrayal of women as individuals in the Disney film is a positive one. Snow white in one of the earlier Disney films is portrayed as pure and loving, she takes on a mothering role and looks after the dwarfs, she also shows she is brave to go off by herself into the woods. In the little mermaid Ariel believes that her father is wrong in how he views humanity and wants to prove it, showing how strong she is and sticks to her beliefs. The heroine in beauty and the beast, Belle, has a strong imagination and is smarter than anyone else in her village. Recently in the film Mulan, Mulan is brave, cleaver and strong. She protects her father by going to war and then shows the other men in combat up by surpassing them mentally and physically. However when looking more closely into their actual role in the plot of the film we soon realise that every heroin’s main desire is man. This gives a much weaker look on women and we can see that from early films, such as Snow White, to more recent films, such as Mulan, this image of women being dependent of men still remains.
In 1989 Disney released ‘The Little Mermaid’, Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, in the hope to have created a leading role woman who was a good role model for younger children. The film is about a young teenage mermaid, called Ariel, who doesn’t like her life under the sea and is much more fascinated by the human world. Regardless of her fathers warnings she exchanges her voice with the evil sea witch to spend three days on land where she must make prince Eric fall in love with her and kiss her or else she becomes the sea witch’s forever. From this summery we can already see the fairytale trappings of meeting prince charming and falling in love.
As soon as the film of the little Mermaid opens we are introduced to her character as she is investigating a sunken ship. Her adolescent curiosity is immediately apparent as well as her rebelliousness towards her father’s wishes however this teenage rebalance could be mistaken as her being independent. She is also portrayed as being naive to believe the sea witch despite Sebastian and Flounder trying to stop her.
When looking at my primary research sources I have got a few different opinions of Ariel’s character as a representation of a woman. In a questionnaire asking participants how they would describe Ariel and if they thought that she was a good representation of women to a younger audience 30% of participants described Ariel as Independent and therefore a good representative and 70% described he as rebellious a therefore a bad representative. My second piece of primary research showed similar statistics. Participants were shown two clips from the film ‘The little mermaid’. One of the two clips showed Ariel saving Prince Eric from the blown up ship. After watching this clip they were asked to describe how the woman in the clip was portrayed. 40% of participants found her brave and courageous for saving prince Eric, 50% of participants said that she was recluse and stupid, and 10% said that she was naive. 90% of participants also described her as love struck. From my critical research looking at the character of Ariel we can see that the majority of participants had something negative to say about Ariel.
My secondary research, like my primary research, also said that Ariel was portrayed in a negative way showing that Disney had gotten it completely wrong when thinking that they had created a modern day women. Trites 1990 said,
“Undoubtedly, feminists have criticized Ariel because she seems to have little ambition beyond getting her prince”
This point was backed up in a reading called ‘Gender, Race and Ethnicity in Disney film’ by Marcia Lieberman. She went on to describe Ariel’s naivety of giving up so much for a man,
“Throughout the film she planned how to get him to love her and any brave actions made were done to get closer to her true love”
However a I found a quote by Laura Sells in a reading called ‘Where do the mermaids stand?’ which doesn’t agree that the plot is all about finding ‘True love’ she uses more of a feminist take on the representation of women in ‘fairytales’,
“On one hand, with the traditional fairytale trappings of finding true princely love, the Disney rendition can be seen as more insidious because it sanitizes the cost of women’s access to the ‘male sphere’ by vilifying women’s strength and by erasing the pain that so often accompanies ‘passing’”
Feminists believe that women in fairytales rely on their looks and that they have no power, only the men can defeat evil so the female has to wait for the prince to save her. Fairytales show a bad representation of women and traditional Disney films copied these fairytales through films like ‘Cinderella’ and ‘Snow White’. What Sells is arguing is that Disney hasn’t removed itself from the idea of the fairytale. She goes on to say,
“On the other hand I see ‘The little Mermaid’ as also more laboratory because it contains the means of its own undoing in the camp character of Ursula, the sea witch, and in Disney’s compulsory happy ending which bestows the mermaid with both access and voice”
Here Sells changes her opinion of the film. The second part of the quote explains the film in a different light showing the struggle for women to enter the ‘male workforce’ or ‘male sphere’ both being issues prior and during the time of the films release. Is it therefore a strong representation? Or is it showing the struggles of women’s life? Or is it a message that a woman can only be complete through marriage? Although the content of the plot can be debatable as to whether or not its good or bad as a representative of women and their struggles, Sells concludes her opinions by saying that Ariel is a bad representation of women. She transforms herself to an image of ‘a woman that man wants her to be’ rather then ‘a woman for herself’ which is symbolised in the transformation from fin to legs. In the second part of sells quote another female character is mentioned, Ursula the sea witch.
According to theorist Bell there are three female positions: that of an idolised teenage heroine, wicked middle-aged women, or nurturing post-menopausal woman. In relation to the character Ursula she is the middle aged woman. Bell goes onto describe them as evil, villainous and sexual.
“They have been called Disney’s femme fatales. The femme fatale in classical cinema is a powerful woman defined by her sexuality and authority, she is seen as an obstacle the hero must overcome”
Matt Roth (1996) in a reading called ‘A short History of Disney Fascism’ describes Ursula like this,
“At first glance Ursula seems to be a woman; on closer inspection however, the sea witch resembles a flamboyant, divinely inspired drag queen. Her octopus-like lower half further renders her gender ambiguous: the first view of her tentacles emerging from the darkness is played up for shock value…she manages to reduce the ‘hyper-masculine’ sea kind into a pathetic plant and only gets defeated when the virile prince impales her with the prow of a ship, thus contrasting his erect phallus with her flaccid ones. Her threat to the heterosexual couple is thus laid at rest.”
Sells backs up Roth’s view on Ursula, in her reading she quotes,
“In Ursula’s drag scene, Ariel learns that gender is a performance. Ursula doesn’t simply symbolise women, she performs women”
The Character of Ursula is used in ‘The little Mermaid’ as a symbol of the ideal woman and to teach Ariel the importance of gendered behaviour to trap the opposite sex. When comparing this secondary research with my primary research looking into the character of Ursula their again is a link. The second clip I showed my participants was that of the ‘Drag scene’ where Ursula convinces Ariel to exchange her voice for legs. I found that 50% of participants described her as flamboyant and sexual, while the other 50% described her as cunning. When asked how they would describe the two female characters in contrast to one another, 70% of participants said virginal child compared to sexual woman, and 50% described them as good via Evil. 30% of participants said they preferred the character of Ursula to Ariel.
Snow White is similar to Ariel as she too devotes her life to finding a man. The film ‘Snow White’ is about a young princess who’s wicked step mother wants killed because she is too beautiful, however the huntsman cannot kill her so she is left in the woods where she finds a cottage belonging to the seven dwarfs. She stays with them until the queen realises she is still alive and tries to kill her by giving her a poisoned apple, but Snow White is saved by loves first kiss and lives happily ever after. We find out at the beginning of the film that Snow White is looking for ‘prince charming’ when she sings, “I’m wishing, for the one I love, to find me, today”. As the film is a much more dated film the main women is portrayed under the stereotype of traditional gender roles. Throughout the film she is seen cooking, cleaning and looking after the seven dwarfs. Goss describes her as,
“She is not seen in a manner that allows her to think beyond falling in love. Snow White defines the ‘ideal’ role of women where quiet obedience and beauty are linked to goodness”
When looking at my primary research 90% of participants found Snow White to be a bad representation of women, due to her dated stereotypes. However this was the typical representation of women in Disney films of that time- young women are naturally happy homemakers, they wait until a man comes along and gives them life. Although in modern time this is seen as a bad representation at the time it was the correct representation. The question now lies that should films like this be shown to today’s young females.
The film ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (1991-directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise) is about a young girl, Belle, who is unhappy in her town and is constantly pursued by the vial Gaston. One day she gets doomed to stay in a bewitched castle in order to save her fathers life. Throughout her stay Belle teaches the master of the castle, a hideous Beast, how to be kind and love another. He falls in love with her and lets her go but she returns to save him from Gaston and saves his life and breaks the spell through loves kiss. The Disney writers of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ promised that Belle, the heroine, would be Modern, Active and even Feminist. When conducting my primary research to find out what my participants thought of the character of Belle I found that 30% said that she was strong minded and intelligent, 40% described her as brave and devoted to her father and 20% said that she was adventurous. 60% of participants also mentioned the fact that she is a romantic and likes fairytales. On the whole participants in my primary research described belle in a positive way. But my secondary research didn’t have such positive things to say about Belle.
Jeffords thought that the writers of the Disney film were misleading to describe Belle as ‘A Disney Feminist’ he sarcastically says,
“Belle has been called ‘a Disney feminist’ basically because she reads and does not accept the advances of Gaston”
Kathi Maio agrees with Jeffords and says that the only difference Disney have made through Belle is made her read, she still follows the other Disney connotations by giving up her life long dreams of adventures for a marriage to the beast. Maio thinks that this shows her as being stupid not intelligent.
Among the villagers in the film Belle doesn’t get a very good representation. In my primary research I showed my participants a clip from the village scene in ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and gave them a question which quotes, ‘In the Village Scene Belle is described as being ‘a beauty but a funny girl’ why do you think this is?’. I found that 60% of my participants thought that it was due to her intelligence, as she was reading a book while walking through the town, with 30% of that 60% adding that the film is set in a time where it would be uncommon for a female to know how to read. Jennifer Goss agrees with these ideas, she quotes,
“While she is a woman representing a cleaver and independent role, she is seen as overbearing and wicked in society… one could even say that the implications of this character suggests that any woman who is independent is morally unacceptable”
This quote links to the village scene as Belle isn’t seen as acceptable because of her intelligence, and also because she doesn’t want to marry Gaston.
Mulan (1998) is based on a Chinese myth about a woman who saves china from the Huns. In the film Mulan goes to fight instead of her father as he is too weak and ends up being the best and most cleaver warrior, and saves china. Mulan is similar to Belle, as she too isn’t seen as acceptable in society and this idea of gender obligations. Women ‘should’ be a homemaker and wife, not cleaver and strong etc. In Mulan this idea of gender obligation is shown through the first scene where she is preparing to see the matchmaker. While she is being made ‘beautiful’ the women sing to Mulan a song called ‘Honour us all’, a song that pushes the traditional roles onto Mulan. They say that women should have ‘tiny waists’, ‘be calm’, and ‘obedient’. They even tell her that a man’s main use for a woman is for her to have babies. In a reading by Jen Goss it reads,
“When she asks Mushu why no one is listening to her, he replies ‘Because you are a woman again’. The statement is a direct implication of the status a woman holds, she is to be seen but not heard”
This quote sums up the whole idea behind the Film showing the era and the traditions of China. When looking at Snow White and at Belle in the beginning of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ a similar traditional woman is shown, which shows that they are bad representations of the ‘Modern day’ woman.
Again I conducted primary research into what participants thought of the character of Mulan. 70% of participants described her as brave and strong, 50% of participants thought that she was recluse and that her actions were dangerous. 20% said that she was a little naive and 40% mentioned the fact that she was loyal to her father and her family.
Although the film ‘Mulan’ has a very strong undertone of a woman’s obligation, the main character takes on traits that are stereotypically for men and breaks the traditional stereotypes. Mulan goes to war to fight instead of her father because she knows he is too weak. Throughout the film Mulan is not only seen training along side the other men but surpassing them mentally and physically. The main bit where that is shown is where she uses her brain as well as her strength to get the arrow from on top of the pole while holding weights. Goss describes her as,
“She is not only swift she is also able to think on her toes, qualities that Disney had previously attributed to men”
When looking at this quote in comparison to the clip I used in my primary research you can see a link. In the clip Mulan and her army have only one cannon left to shoot at the millions on Huns running towards them. Instead of shooting straight at them like the others did Mulan shot it up at a snow-topped mountain causing an avalanche that buried the Huns. When I asked participants how they would describe her actions 80% described them as brave, 70% said that she was cleaver with a further 10% adding that she had the ability to think on her toes.
On a whole we can see a huge difference in the comparison of representation of women starting from Snow White to Mulan. Although traditional roles have changed and women have developed to become more modern, cleaver, strong and brave, one problem lies in every Disney film, the power that men and true love have over the female characters. The best thing that can happen to a Disney heroin is to marry her prince charming. Does this ending have to be, so that the woman can live ‘happily ever after’?
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