Sleeping Beauty

How Fairy Tales Shape Children’s Perspectives Children in cultures all over the world are brought up with stories—myths, fables, and fairy tales. Many of these stories, such as those of Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, are cross-cultural; they occur in many traditions. However, these classic tales are more than simply entertainment for the young. Many child psychology experts have made the connection between fairy tales and children’s emotional and mental development. In his class work, The Uses…

In 2012 the Walt Disney Company released a commercial entitled “I am a Princess” that shows a diverse array of young girls doing many different activities while inspirational music plays in the background and the voice of a young girl proclaims what qualities make up a princess. When this video is viewed through the lens of the construction of gender, the audience can see that the video has a rhetorical purpose. The “I am a Princess” commercial makes the argument that the ideal feminine figure…

before midnight. At this ball she meets her prince and they fall for each other but their meeting is interrupted by time and they have to be separated. The story continues with the prince searching for Cinderella all over the kingdom. In the movie Sleeping Beauty Maleficent, the witch, curses for Princess Aurora to die on her sixteenth birthday out of jealousy. However, with the help of fairies, the curse is turned into a deep sleep that can be broken only by the kiss of a prince. In The Little…

waistlines? Well, they would look pretty fab. No doubt about it. Buzzfeed’s Loryn Brantz decided to digitally edit six famous Disney ladies — Ariel (“The Little Mermaid”), Pocahontas (“Pocahontas”), Jasmine (“Aladdin”), Belle (“Beauty and the Beast”), Aurora (“Sleeping Beauty”) and Elsa (“Frozen”) — to show what the cartoon heroines would look like if they had more realistic physical proportions. After all, since these characters are supposed to represent people in films made for children, they…

Second Version In the 1959 Walt Disney produced one of the famous musical and fantasy movie named Sleeping Beauty. Throughout the years Walt Disney produced many more well know movies. In 2014 a famous director named Robert Stromberg produced a second version of Sleeping Beauty and was named Maleficent. The two movies are very different from each other, but still contain the same theme though out the movies. In “Creating the Myth” by Linda Seger discuss the ten stages of a hero myth movie.…

Before 1980s, the three classic Disney princess films were: Snow White (1937), Cinderella (1950), and Sleeping Beauty (1959). These films demonstrated both female and male perform traditional gender roles. Female were expected to do domestic work and be subservient to males. Male is portrayed superior than female in the storyline of these films. After the 1980s, The Little Mermaid (1989) and Beauty and The Beast (1991) both appear as the new Disney female evolving from the classic Disney…

Believe it or not but Disney did not come up with their own fairy tales. They got the base of many of their stories from the famous Grimm Brother’s. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were German linguists, cultural researchers, and authors who together specialized in collecting and publishing folklores in the nineteenth century (Shojaei-Kawan). Walt Disney first started with his huge success Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and that is how the Disney Company took off (Stevenson 134). Walt Disney…

Tales. Their collection of legends has entertained families for years and continues to be prevalent in any time period and culture. Walt Disney Studios contributed to this popularity with the films Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty. In addition to these films, other stories, like Hansel and Gretel, Red Riding Hood, and Rumpelstiltskin, originate from Kinder- und Hausmärchen. Fairy tales are shared by all ages, but with little consideration to their history. High…

views of all Disney Princess movie. First is for ‘Snow White’. One of them said, “I think that Snow White is very pitiful princess. She’s just only fourteen and she has to leave her castle because her own beauty is a threat to another woman, so she will be killed. And finally, her only physical beauty is what saves her in the end. Because of her skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony. That’s why she’s alive with a prince’s kiss.” It makes me think that if Snow…

problems with/about their husbands. For example, Ariel talks about how her husband is an animal, Cinderella’s husband still drives a pumpkin, Snow White’s leaves her at home with seven little ones, Ariel’s wants her to wear fishnet stockings, and Sleeping Beauty just pretends she’s asleep so she doesn’t have to deal with her husband. Even though this cartoon doesn't depict real life for them, I think it does depict it for women in the real world. These women are forced to deal with whatever…