The Little Mermaid is a fairy tale written by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. The Disney movie was released in year 1989. It tells the story about a rebellious 16-year-old mermaid Ariel who is fascinated with life on land. On one of her visits to the surface‚ she falls for a human prince. Determined to be with that human prince‚ Ariel makes a dangerous deal with the sea witch Ursula‚ to become human for three days. As the price‚ she must give up her ability to speak and receive the pain
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Chunyan Su English 254 Dr. Randi Smith April 20‚ 2011 The Little Mermaid’s Self-sacrifice and Growth In fairytales‚ female characters are usually associated with self-sacrifice. For example‚ in the “Beauty and the Beast”‚ Beauty chooses to stay with the beast to save her father; in the “Goblin Market”‚ Laura trades her hair‚ which represents virginity‚ for the goblin’s fruits; in The Crucible‚ Elizabeth almost loses her life in saving her husband’s name by lying in the court (Miller 253).The
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company‚ founded in 1923‚ is still conquering the film industry almost a century later. The Little Mermaid‚ released in 1989‚ took the world by storm‚ winning the academy award for best music score. Frozen‚ released in 2013‚ outshines The Little Mermaid‚ winning seven different awards internationally. There came a time when people could not go anywhere without seeing Frozen merchandise. The Little Mermaid and Frozen are both products of Disney‚ but have multiple differences. These differences include
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Theseus from “Theseus” and Ariel from “The Little Mermaid” do. In “The Little Mermaid”‚ Ariel goes on a journey in which she finds true love and completes numerous obstacles while doing so‚ and in “Theseus”‚ Theseus travels throughout the Greek region and in turn‚ saves the woman from being killed by
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Gnostic Semblances in Disney’s The Little Mermaid At first glance‚ the suggestion that Disney’s The Little Mermaid portrays Gnostic themes and characters could seem comical. It is a movie from the early 90’s about a rebellious‚ love-struck mermaid that gets a happy ending. However‚ my first step towards seeing otherwise was recognizing the similarities between Ariel‚ the mermaid‚ and Sophia from the Apocryphon of John. Then I recognized a similar world structure: one above and one below but perhaps
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Feminist literary criticism Throughout the years‚ women have struggled for proper treatment and life style. They were oppressed and seen a male property. They were deprived for their simplest rights‚ even putting their thoughts into words. This situation led to the emergence of feminism‚ which is a set of ideologies that were meant to defend women’s rights in different areas of life‚ in other words it is the struggle for women’s rights. This set of ideologies‚ feminism‚ extended into
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Socialist Feminist Criticism: You Dropped the Bomb on Me‚ Baby Feminism and gender studies have been described as having the ability to "challenge literary and culture theory to confront the difficult task of assimilating the findings of an expanding sphere of inquiry" (Contemporary Literary Criticism 567). This area of study has taken center stage during the last fifty years‚ not only in our society‚ but also in literary criticism. Although the terrain Feminism traverses can hardly be narrowed
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Ironically the movies that were critiqued fall under the horror‚ action‚ and fantasy genres however‚ the resulting criticism opposes their purpose in which they fall respectively under feminist‚ queer‚ and Marxist criticism. Halloween being nationally recognized as a spooky day was the perfect setting for a woman to establish her equality. Likewise‚ an action film was critiqued as being the perfect setting to establish an LGBT presence as opposed to the drama stereotype and fantasy was viewed to
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didn’t realized that feminist criticism also fit for Trailer Frozen when I wrote my essay. Throughout reading the first and second body paragraph‚ I found that feminist criticism might be the one of the best criticism which is matching Frozen. The story which happened in Princess Anna and Princess Elsa shown women had a low social status in the past several centuries‚ but they never give up to find the true identities. In the movie Halloween‚ I know why you choose the feminist criticism. As the film critic
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Feminism is a form of criticism used by an author that wishes to expose how dominant men are over women. Feminism came to fruition in the 1960s‚ and is still used today. This form of criticism looks at how society and culture are inherently male dominant‚ another word for patriarchal. Feminist criticism critiques the economic‚ political‚ societal‚ and emotional oppression of women. This form of criticism emphasizes the activities women are prohibited and prevented from participating in. The theory
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