ipl-logo

Stereotypes In Grimm And Disney

1430 Words6 Pages

Gender Ideology in Grimm and Disney Why are young girls in society expected to look up to perfect princesses as role models? When did singing with animals and loving to cook and clean become admirable traits? Since 1937, movies have been made about the Grimm fairy tale princesses that highlight these ideals. Not only are these things inaccurate in real life; they are also altered from their original stories. The movies do not properly display how the characters were originally written and enforce stereotypes set for women in literature from this time period. Disney and Grimm have both been heavily critiqued because of their sexism. Throughout all of their stories they often address women as either the helpless victim or …show more content…

Cinderella has a happy life until her mother dies and Cinderella's father remarries a cold, cruel woman who has two daughters, who are referred to as the ugly stepsisters. When the father dies, Cinderella's stepmother turns her into a slave in her own house. Meanwhile, the prince is having a ball in order to find a bride. Cinderella’s friends the mice, and the birds make her a dress with the help of her Fairy Godmother and she attends the ball and the prince is immediately infatuated. He doesn't know her name or remember anything about her other than her beauty and even so he has to use a shoe to find her. Once again, the men in these stories are much more concerned with the physical appearance of someone than anything else …show more content…

Some of these include the fact that Cinderella's powers which are completely ignored. She is able to control animals and she does not have a fairy godmother. Instead she has a tree that is over her mother’s grave that she cried over so much it became magical. Getting rid of these take away from her character and make her appear more helpless. Disney also eliminates the Prince’s many attempts to try to capture the Princess. It is alarming that everyone in the kingdom was trying to help him find this girl who wanted to stay away from him. Her stepsisters became so desperate to try to marry the prince that they cut off their toes and heels to fit into the slipper. They were sacrificing their ability to walk just so that they could be royalty

Show More
Related

  • Rhetorical Analysis Of Cinderella By Grimm Brothers

    1631 Words  | 7 Pages

    Additionally, there is a clear contrast between Cinderella’s item of choice which is used to honor her deceased mother versus her sisters’ desires to pursue vanity instead of respecting family. The Grimms then expounds upon this contrast between the protagonist and antagonists by using poetic juxtaposition. Later in the story, when the two sisters attempt to steal Cinderella’s love with the Prince by physically altering their feet to forcefully fit the shoe, the Grimms writes, “ ‘ Roo coo coo, roo coo coo, blood’s in the shoe: the shoe’s too tight, the real bride’s waiting another night’ (pg 184). Then, when Cinderellas effortlessly fits into the shoe without having to force herself, the Grimms writes, “Roo coo coo,

    Read More

  • Cinderella Research Paper

    708 Words  | 3 Pages

    They took her swords, arrows, and knives, and scratched them up as they were no longer sharp. The next day she excludes herself from the world in her room watching her stepsisters go off to kill Stefano, when all of a sudden there was a bright flash and an ominous glow coming from the corner of her room. Cinderella realized that it was her fairy godmother. Her fairy godmother found her crying and screaming in rage. She then blessed her with brand new swords, and knives, and a new bow with arrows.

    Read More

  • Anne Sexton Cinderella Compare And Contrast

    743 Words  | 3 Pages

    However, when “Cinderella” wanted to go to the ball, she could not go because “she does have a suitable dress to go to the ball.” When her two mice friends named “Jacques and Gus”, made her a dress her stepsisters ripped it apart. At this point, she wants to give up; however, her “fairy godmother came, made a carriage for her out of a pumpkin, and made her dress with a glass slipper. She was beautiful. She went with the prince to the ball.

    Read More

  • Determination In Grimm's Cinderella

    790 Words  | 4 Pages

    Cinderella’s stepmother constantly gives her stepdaughter hard work to do, but Cinderella perseveres, which fuels her determination to attend the ball and become the prince’s bride. Although the task is unreasonable, for Cinderella’s embarrassment and suffering only, Cinderella does not give up. Her menial task only pushes Cinderella to want her opportunity to be with the prince more, proving her determination and the benefit of being allowed to go with her stepsisters, shown by, “Then you may go with us”. Cinderella is tired of the life she lives and desperately wants a new one. This is why the benefit of being able to attend the festival makes Cinderella determined to clean up her stepmother’s

    Read More

  • Cinderella Research Paper

    499 Words  | 2 Pages

    Cinderella's step family treats her very poorly so she runs away into forest and meets a charming prince who she then falls in love with. The prince assists she goes to a ball being held soon to see her again. Right when Cinderella gives up all hope to go to the ball her fairy godmother appears and makes her a beautiful dress, glass shoes, and a carriage out of a pumpkin with a spell that will make everything disappear at midnight. Ella goes to the ball and as soon as she knows it she is at the ball dancing with the prince. She was having so much fun she barely notices it is about to strike midnight and rushes out leaving only her glass slipper to track her.

    Read More

  • Examples Of Stereotypes In The Princess And The Frog

    1155 Words  | 5 Pages

    As one of the most influential entertainment producers, Disney dominates the global market for ages attracting the countless audience around the world. However, Disney’s most famous “‘princess’ fairy tale stories” (Barker, 2010, p. 492) are criticized for racism and sexism. In 2007, Disney confirmed production of the film, The Princess and the Frog, featuring the first African-American Disney princess, Tiana. For Disney this film was the response to the accusation of racism and sexism represented in its animation. Also, it was filled with African American parents’ anticipation and excitement who longed for a non-stereotypical black woman on the screen (Breaux, 2010, p. 399).

    Read More

  • Similarities Between Grimm Brothers And Cinderella

    700 Words  | 3 Pages

    It is nearly impossible for a tale to be passed down generations and still stay the same. The fairy tale “Cinderella” told by the Grimm brothers is almost 206 years old, and differences can be seen between the modern “Cinderella” story and the original. In “Cinderella,” by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, a young girl named Cinderella is treated like a servant by her family. Luckily she is gifted with beautiful clothing, enabling her to attend a festival, meeting her one true love. Cinderella gets married to the prince, and the step-sisters are punished by getting pecked in the eyes by birds.

    Read More

  • Analysis Of What's Wrong With Cinderella

    1343 Words  | 6 Pages

    However, the later Disney films have gradually attempted to break away from this stereotype resulting in stronger female characters like Ariel, Mulan, and Elsa among others. Keeping this transition in mind, this paper uses semiotic analysis of four popular Disney films, namely, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), The Little Mermaid (1989) and Mulan (1998) to depict the influence of societies ' changing perceptions of women on the portrayal of Disney princesses. These films taking into account the earliest film and certain popular characters that have represented a shift from being the coy damsel in distress to a woman who plays an active role in determining her own destiny. The portrayal of the Disney princess has changed in accordance with the development of women in society over time (1937 to 2013) from demure and traditional to

    Read More

  • Comparing Cinderella And Grimm's Cinderella

    680 Words  | 3 Pages

    She longs for love and affection. She finds it when at the ball, but when she has to leave, she leaves in a hurry and one of the slippers that she is wearing gets left behind at the ball and the Prince finds and starts to look for her. Even though they were separated for short periods of time they still find each other in the end. The Prince takes her to his palace and they get married. This general plot stays the same for all versions of the story, but the differences between Disney’s Cinderella and Grimm’s Cinderella are striking, and they deserve through examination.

    Read More

  • Comparison Of Cinderella And The Grimm Brothers

    786 Words  | 4 Pages

    Once the prince is finished with the two evil sisters, Cinderella comes out and while taking off her dirty shoe, her foot fits perfectly into the shoe. The prince and Cinderella are finally together, the prince knows Cinderella was the mystery women he had been searching for all along since her foot fit into the shoe. Cinderella and the prince return to his kingdom and live happily ever after. While the Disney story and the fairy tale version of the stories both end with happy endings the fairy tale is written with much more graphic images than the Disney

    Read More

  • Psychoanalytic Analysis Of The Disney Film 'Cinderella'

    1318 Words  | 6 Pages

    The story is about a young girl named Cinderella whose widowed father remarries but soon dies, leaving his daughter with the evil stepmother and her two daughters. The stepmother prefers her own daughters over Cinderella and has her perform all of the house chores. While Cinderella is kind, patient, and sweet, her stepsisters are cruel and selfish. Meanwhile, across the kingdom the King decides that his son the Prince should find a suitable bride and marry and so invites every eligible maiden in the kingdom to a fancy ball. Cinderella has no appropriate dress for the ball so her friends the mice namely Jaques and Gus, and the birds help her in making one, but the evil stepsisters tear apart the dress on the evening of the ball.

    Read More

  • Disney Princess Stereotypes

    1330 Words  | 6 Pages

    The Disney princess movies had a great deal of influence on many young girls watching princesses represent what royalty looked like. The princesses are always beautiful, polite and seeking the love of their Prince Charming. This plays a strong role in perpetuating the idea that being a princess means seeking only love from a man, and a man who contains all the stereotypical masculine qualities; handsome, powerful and rich. For example, in The Little Mermaid, Ariel had to give up who she was in order to win over the affection of her prince charming. She traded in her voice in order to have real legs and near Prince Eric.

    Read More

  • Cinderella Vs Modern Story

    1161 Words  | 5 Pages

    A Comparison between Traditional and Modern Day Versions of Cinderella Cinderella is perhaps one of the most famous childhood fairy tale stories of all time. Over the years, numerous versions of the story have been recreated and have been told to children all over the world. The original story of Cinderella follows the life of a young girl who is mistreated by her step mother and stepsisters. Cinderella is magically converted into a gorgeous princess with the assistance of her fairy godmother. She then goes to the ball to meet the prince.

    Read More

  • Critical Analysis: The Brothers Grimm

    1880 Words  | 8 Pages

    Her mother truly meant this, during any sort of conflict, Cinderella will do what she is told and be rewarded by awfully dark things happening to her false sisters and her stepmother. Cinderella is unrecognizable when she sneaks into a festival which includes a wedding feast held by the King for his son to find a bride, this festival is supposed to last 3 days long, Cinderella’s stepmom makes her do ridiculous chores that are impossible in order for her to earn permission to go to the event, the pigeons help her make it possible. Cinderella is seen in a beautiful dress with glass slippers, her sisters believed she was some kind of foreign princess when they saw her. The Prince falls for Cinderella when he sees her at the wedding feast but once the Prince decides he wants to see where this beautiful princess lives, Cinderella panics and ends up escaping him 3 separate times within the next two days of the festival, on the last Cinderella left her slipper. The prince made all of the girls try it on, the sisters both cut off parts of their feet in order for the shoes to fit perfectly and be with the prince.

    Read More

  • The Role Of Cinderella's Identity In Different Social Classes

    865 Words  | 4 Pages

    With her beautiful dress, she received “a pair of glass slippers, the prettiest in the whole world.” At the ball, no one is aware of Cinderella’s true identity. Despite that, the King’s son falls in love with her and she gets a happily-ever-after. Due to the different social classes Cinderella portrays to be, she is treated differently

    Read More

More about Stereotypes In Grimm And Disney

Open Document