Disney Princesses: Dream or Reality?

Disney animated films, universally beloved by people of all ages, can be seen as a reflection of Western ideals on femininity throughout history. Feminist scholars have divided Disney heroines into four groups: The Classics, The Good Daughters, The Princesses, and The Tough Girls. We’re going to tackle each group one at a time, and it's only fair to start with the ones who started it all: Snow White, Cinderella, and Aurora. The original princesses have very similar personalities and traits. They are all kindhearted, innocent, beautiful, asexual, goodnatured, and musical, and two of them (Snow White and Cinderella) are used to forced physical labor. Also, all three princesses lack a decent mother figure; Cinderella and Snow White suffer from cruel stepmothers, and while Aurora has a biological mother, her mother is unable to protect her and she spends 99% of the movie unaware of her mother's existence. The evil woman who is after them is conniving, intelligent, calculating, and often hates the heroine purely because she is innocent and beautiful, while the villainess is depicted as over-sexualized and evil on all accounts. So Walt's original creations all have very similar stories, but they have personalities of their own that are worth exploring.
EVOLVING DISNEY PRINCESSES.

Snow White was made into a movie in 1937 by the Walt Disney Company, after a remake of the popular Grimm Brothers fairytale. Make Snow White into a beautiful princess and turn the movie into a musical for entertainment value.

Feminist response Snow White came out after fighting for women‘s suffrage and helping with World War I efforts. Feminists feel that Snow White‘s only goal is for marriage and love, and all she does is wait until her prince finds her. She is the quintessential housewife by caring

for the dwarves and only knows how to be pretty and sing. The Walt Disney Company produces Sleeping Beauty in 1959, following another remake of a Grimm Brothers fairytale. There is not