Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Disney finds away to add in huge arching themes for the gender roles of women. Disney decided to have the women in his version be very needy and wait to be saved by the oh so strong males (usually a prince). In the Fairy Tales the women are stronger and have more of a purpose. The focus is not always on their beauty compared to their status and placement in society. In the Fairy Tales there is more of a presence of families and direct relation of how real people can be really evil. The disney version is all about scary monsters and over the top distant family relations.
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I think it's interesting that this is what you took away from Zipes' essay. I do agree that the way women are portrayed changes for the Disney movies, but I also think that the women's roles have changed many times with all the different versions of these fairy tales.
ReplyDeleteThe idea of self-figuration seemed to be a broader topic in the essay that still had to do with the roles of different characters.
I strongly disagree with this analysis. To say Snow White or the Female is stronger than the Female of the fairy tales is a stretch. Snow White is for lack of a better term green to the world. But if we examine, for instance, the Juniper Tree we also see a wicked step mother and a girl who is also green. So green in fact she actually believes she knocked her brother's head off.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I agree that Disney kinda destroys the image of the families, I disagree that he excludes the idea that real people can be really evil. The audience is lead to believe that the stepmother, a real person, is evil basically from the beginning of the story. And I disagree with your ideas about the female. Most of the early fairy tales display the female as flat and not very strong for example in the Brother and Sister story, some versions of Red Riding Hood and the Snow White stories.
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