Body Images In Disney Movies Essay

When we’re young, we don’t understand much of what is going on around us, if we see something we like, we want it, or we would want to look like it. For someone who has grown up obsessed over Disney Animation movies, it’s very easy to say I have been a victim of their unrealistic body changes. Ariel for example, I thought being a mermaid is the most outstanding thing in the world, however, she changes herself, she traded what was her identity, for a pair of feet, and for who? For a man. I grew up thinking for a man to like me, he doesn’t have to accept me for who I am, I have to change myself to fit into his definition of how my body should look or how I should act. Although, in disney movies the female characters have outstanding bodies, they also have unrealistic bodies, little kids are influenced by disney princess to change in order to fit into society's definition of how a woman should look. In our society, young girls are already growing up in a world where it’s more important to please people rather than to be who they actually are. In many disney

Boys watch these disney films and focus on the princes and kings in the movies. Another example is King Triton also in The Little Mermaid, he is muscular, tanned, and holds a lot of power. This gives boys the images that while girls are supposed to be thin, men have to be muscular and huge, while also holding power over others. The male leads having power is a negative side effect in the movies, the bigger the body the more the power. In the Beauty and the Beast Belle is the Beasts prisoner, this movie shows that it’s acceptable to yell and keep a female as a prisoner. The fact that the male characters in disney movies always appear larger than women (I want to say how body images gives the male more power but I can’t figure out how to put that into