Romantic love and Disney stories cross borders, many of us grew up listening to stories, watching animated films and dreaming of being one of the characters of the mythical industry, in childhood we are like sponges. We are attracted to everything we see, hear or feel, the world is a playground that has the power to constantly update, exaggerating a little, we could even talk about reality as an extension of the Disney world.
In this article we will delve into some of the messages that these classics project, questions that perhaps, even today, when watching a certain movie or reading a story, remain invisible to us because we continue to approach them as children in search of adventure, however, if some situations were moved to a different context, they would generate some controversy.
- Cinderella and Snow White are two of the best Disney stories that have survived over time and in them we find reasonable similarities.
- For example.
- The protagonists are two women whose purpose is to clean the house.
- Prepare food and serve others.
These are also two women who are? Saved from his sad life by a Prince Charming. In Cinderella’s case, she’ll put on a shoe she lost at the party, the same one the fairy godmother allowed her to go. In the case of Snow White, he falls in love, love with a prince This happens after he has saved him from a spell imposed by the evil witch.
However, in both cases, after being ‘poor’ and being saved by them, they will live in a beautiful castle and in their radical change of life they will also abandon household chores, such as cooking or cleaning.
Why do you have to pay attention to these stories?In this case, a girl can understand that to progress in life she needs a prince who comes to save her, in the meantime, can she feel condemned in one way or another to meet the demands of others?Unless a fairy godmother seems capable, to offer you a magical night to free you from your condemnation.
Every person, male or female, can thrive on its own. You don’t need anyone to change your luck or the course of your life. It may seem simple and even logical to understand, but at certain ages it can be very dangerous for this idea to be configured as a role model.
Beauty and the Beast is another Disney favorite classic, a phenomenon that has caused the story to be told several times in different formats, however, despite variations, there are dangerous messages that have survived most of the “changes” that have been made. history.
How many times do we laugh with the famous Lumiere, that funny French chandelier?However, if we look at it more closely, don’t you harass what you’re doing with the duster?
The development of the plot can bring a touch of humor, however, when we looked in the background, what would we think if this way of acting reached the children?On the other hand, the protagonist is called Bela, a paradox if thought to be a story that tries to convey the message that “beauty is inside”.
The same goes for the story of? Bela? And the Beast. We let our daughters see a story in which the young woman would be kidnapped, mistreated and locked in a room . . . For going where she wasn’t invited? Of course, after that, they spend a perfect day playing in the snow and end up falling in love with the kidnapper.
The Little Mermaid is another disney classic that unfortunately projects messages that we’re questioning today, Ariel doesn’t know what she wants to do with her life, but she doesn’t think about herself, just the prince. have legs and stop being a mermaid, and he doesn’t want to be human, but because he wants to be with the prince.
We identify another disturbing message when Ursula, the villain of history, takes Ariel’s voice because “men want women to shut up. “Fortunately, we now know that this desire is not true and that it is not women’s obligation to satisfy the desires of men either.
At one point, almost everyone wanted to move to Neverland with Peter Pan, now, in addition to this desire, let’s think about the image that Tink and Wendy project, both characters can be an example of what it is, well, to have a jealous behavior: Does this mean you ‘fight for the man you want’?
No one desires jealousy; In the end all it causes is suffering, however, the dynamics of history seem to tell us otherwise: feeling jealous can be positive.
Thus, the dangerous thing about this story is the positive and therefore misleading projection that makes jealousy, on the contrary, it would be good to create stories in which it is present that the intensity of jealousy is not associated with more or less love. , but with more or less suffering on the part of those who experience it.
When the titles cited were written, the time was different, Disney largely merely acted as a mirror of certain social dynamics that few people questioned, and therefore focused on the idealized romantic love of the time.
Fortunately, the figure of the woman Disney represents in some of these stories has changed, as have social concerns. The first clear example of this transformation, at least in intent, could be seen in the launch of Mulan, a young woman who did not. they correspond to the common factor that we have talked about so far: in addition to being able to save itself, it also saves others.
Disney understood that times and society have changed, with its stories it has the opportunity to be an important support for these advances to consolidate in the new generations.