How Is Pocahontas Not A Mature Woman

In this day and age, many are led to believe that Pocahontas was a beautiful, mature woman who saved John Smith’s life and married him out of pure munificence and love. A good amount would be surprised if they were told otherwise. In the movie, Pocahontas was portrayed as a beautiful, mature woman at the time of her marriage with John Smith. However, she was married to John Rolfe at a very young age. Disney’s Pocahontas certainly did not help the cause of correctly informing the children and adults. The movie did not accurately depict the real experiences Pocahontas had to go to through and how she actually lived her days. In order for the movie to be “child friendly”, many changes had to take place from the actual story of Pocahontas. To further illustrate, Pocahontas was not a voluptuous young woman at the time meeting with John Smith, but in reality she was ten to twelve years old, while John Smith was confirmed to be in his thirties. Disney interpreted Pocahontas as a woman in her twenties when they found each other, but this is not an accurate
Pocahontas did not choose to be with John Smith nor John Rolfe, but instead she was forced to be with Rolfe. She was kidnapped, raped by the English colonists, and then was forced to marry the tobacco planter. They also failed to mention that when she had a kid with John Rolfe, she was taken back to England so that Rolfe could show her off, basically making the statement that he “tamed the beast”. The following year, she became severely ill and died before she even got to return to her tribe. Before the movie was released, many Natives tried to tell the producers and writers that the chief should refer to Pocahontas as “daughter” and not “Pocahontas”. None of them listened, resulting in the inaccurate form of communication with the chief and Pocahontas to be put in the