Mulan Stereotypes

Malala Yousafzai once said, “We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back”. This means that women cannot succeed when they have less power and rights than men. Mulan is an example of how women are held back in a society. She has to follow the stereotype of women by getting married and taking care of her family. She later disguise herself as boy to go to war in her father’s place. By breaking the stereotype, she has decided her own faith. In the Disney movie Mulan, Robert D.San Souci portrayal of Mulan shows that women can be successful and bring honor to their families in other ways.
Mulan was expected by her parents to follow the typical woman’s life by getting married to honor her family. Disney shows us that the only way for a Chinese women to bring honor to their family is to be suitable for marriage. In the Chinese
When the one man per family draft came, Mulan was mad that they made her old and weak father go to war. She took matters into her own hands by taking her father’s armor and disguised herself as a man to enrolled in the war. If the army finds out who she really is, they will execute her. Due to her women stature, she wasn’t as strong or skilled as the men. This weakness only made her stronger because she trained harder than them. With her leadership and wits, the Chinese army were able to take down the Huns and save the emperor from their leader’s wrath. At the end of the movie, the emperor found out that she was a girl, but instead of executing her, he rewarded her with the council's position. Even though she had broken the law, she was able to honor her whole country. She also succeeded in making her parents proud and setting a role model for the young children. She inspired other women to be strong and that marriage is not the only way for women to honor their families. She had successfully found her own path instead of following what was expected of