Characteristics Of The Cinderella Complex
When you are a girl and watch movies such as Cinderella, you dream of being a Cinderella princess. But what does that mean? Sure Cinderella was hardworking, graceful, beautiful and polite. However, instead of being an independent woman, Cinderella only eluded her bad situation. If it wasn’t for Prince Charming fell in love with her, she would have still been wishing and daydreaming for her stepmother to set her free. According to the book The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence by Colette Dowling. She describes those characteristics as Cinderella Complex. “The complex is named after the fairy tale character Cinderella. It is based on the idea of femininity portrayed in that story, where a woman is beautiful, graceful, polite,
supportive, hardworking, independent, and maligned by the females of her society, but she is not capable of changing her situations with her own actions and must be helped by an outside force, usually a male.” Many Disney movies apply the ideas of Cinderella Complex. In those movies, female character is beautiful but poor, hardworking but helpless and always waiting for their princes to rescue them in someday.
supportive, hardworking, independent, and maligned by the females of her society, but she is not capable of changing her situations with her own actions and must be helped by an outside force, usually a male.” Many Disney movies apply the ideas of Cinderella Complex. In those movies, female character is beautiful but poor, hardworking but helpless and always waiting for their princes to rescue them in someday.