i was reading an analytical essay in the book "the world is a text" by silverman and rader for my composition 1 class entitled "contruction of the female self: feminist readings of the disney heroine" and i realized disney always shows the heorine as needing to be rescued and i was wondering why.
just wanting your thoughts on the issue.
2006-10-23 10:32:59 · 8 answers · asked by christina m 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
It's not just Disney - it's the nature of fairytales in general.
2006-10-23 10:59:48 · answer #1 · answered by sunshine 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not totally true... Belle rescued the Beast when he laid lifeless on the ground and help transformed him back into a Prince. Meg sacrificed herself so that Hercules could get back his godly powers. Ariel rescue the Eric from drowning in the sea. How come we don't notice when the girls save the boys? Is it because we only see what we want to see or because some author has managed to coerce us into thinking that way?
As for the rest of the princesses, the situations were just circumstantial. Jasmine got captured because Aladdin did not free Genie in the first place. Snow White and Sleeping Beauty just happened to fall under a spell that requires true love's first kiss, and it just so happened that a necrophiliac prince and a prince who has no objections to date-rape came trotting along. So technically, the princesses weren't being rescued :P
2006-10-23 10:58:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
As a college teacher once told the class, without conflict there is no story. I would imagine for children it is fun to see the heroine as being the one who is rescued. Afterall, if she wasn't the herione, they would not be excited to see the person rescued.
A female is considered not as strong as a man...thus the need to be rescued. Men usually can take care of themselves even in real life.
2006-10-23 10:43:34 · answer #3 · answered by callylily55 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Disney is a product of society and if you watch the new Disney movies they reflect a more modern view however the fact is that we live in a capitalistic society. If Women wanted to be the rescuer, that is what they would purchase.They Dont. That is what they would have there children whatch when Women Buy videos. Women buy it. People sell what people want. There is no conspiracy. It is women who set the standards of romance and it is women who buy romance novels and its is women who look at fat women and say look at that fat ***. It is women who gossip and call any powerfull women in our society a lesbian. Its not the men. Men Dont run things they never have.
2006-10-23 10:52:19 · answer #4 · answered by Rich 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Disney set out to to already enhance the notion that women are inferior and males are dominant. Did you also notice that Disney women have slim wastes and big boobs and never question their hero?
Disney sets a false pretense that has given generations of women a false pretense of what life is like, all to sell movies, books and countless other merchandise.
The best part about Disney is that Walt Disney hated Jewish people, and his boyhood idol was Henry Ford (who also hated Jews.)
2006-10-23 10:38:26 · answer #5 · answered by doctorpapaswing 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Lingering romaticism from the old days.
Girls I've met like to be rescued. Some just won't admit it.
2006-10-23 10:41:31 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I dunno... But I guess they thought females would probably need to be rescued cause they can't get theirselves out of it. Hmmphh... LOL once I read your question, and apparently how people act these days that popped into my head.
2006-10-23 10:36:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
ITS A FAIRYTALE- THAT MEANS IT'S NOT REAL!!!!!!
2006-10-23 10:41:08 · answer #8 · answered by HADITDUN 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋