Comparing Mulan, Enchanted And The Princess And The Frog

For young girls growing up watching Disney movies, there is usually a classic plot of the princess or young girl wanting more out of life and using marriage to a prince to achieve their goal. However some of the more recent Disney films strive to change this and make a difference in terms of empowering women. Some of these new films do a better job than others, while a few still fall back on the classic Disney fairytales where all the women can seem to do is wait around for their prince to save the day. Mulan, Enchanted, and The Princess and the Frog are all chances for Disney to showcase young women as powerful role models for all the young girls watching. These three films are some of the more modern Disney films, and they all make an attempt
At first, Mulan struggles to keep up with the men, but over time she proves to herself and to others around her that she can be just like the men (or even better) in terms of strength, intelligence, and skills needed in the war. Mulan is a strong character who does make a difference in terms of empowering women in Disney films. Despite her lack of training, she jumps into the war effort because she wants to protect her father. Instead of waiting around for love like other Disney lead female characters, Mulan is active and is not concentrated on love as her main goal in life. She simply wants to fit in, and to have her outer appearance match how she feels on the inside. Her family believes honor comes from finding a husband, but after being told she will never bring honor to her family by the matchmaker she has a different idea in mind of how to bring that honor to her family (Ma 2003). Honor is a consistent theme throughout the film, and everyone desires to bring honor to someone that matters. Whether it is Mulan bringing honor to her family, or Li bringing honor by training his soldiers to be the best fighters possible, everyone desires honor in one way or