The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea Essays

This started when she heard a boy at her school gave her a compliment. I believe that Ariel also found this to be normal for girls to get dressed up and look nice. She already identified with her gender role since she was two. When Ariel was little, she used to think that women could not be police officers or firefighters. She also believed that boys weren’t allowed to play with dolls or dress up. We didn’t want Ariel to think that there are gender roles specific since American culture has

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