Disney's Heros

As a child most young girls were brought up watching the famous Disney Princess movies with the typical story line being: girl meets boy, they fall in love,  something drastic happens to the girl and they can't be together, the boy rescues the girl and they get married. Right? Wrong. If you were to have a look at each Disney Princess movie individually you would see thats not the case.


The famous Disney Princesses
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Lets take a look at the first Disney Princess movie to be released, Snow White which was released way back in 1937. In this movie Snow White's step-mother was jealous of Snow White's beauty and sent her into the woods with a hunter to be killed. The hunter pitied Snow White and told her to run away and never return. In the woods she found a small, untidy cottage that she thought belonged to orphaned children. So she did what every woman was "supposed" to do and started cleaning and cooking for these "orphaned children". Eventually 7 dwarves come through the door and find Snow White asleep across their beds, so they decide to take her under their wing after hearing about Snow White's story. So Snow White stays with the dwarves and while they go to the mines to work, she cooks and cleans. Back at home her step-mother finds out that Snow White is still alive and decides to venture out and poison Snow White with a poisoned apple that will send her into a deep sleep to which the dwarves will thinks she's dead and bury her alive. So she does just that. The dwarves come home and find Snow White "dead" and to honor her, they put her in a glass coffin on top of hill. Then one day a handsome prince rides by and to pay his respects to Snow White, he kisses her that awakens her from her deep sleep and they ride off together and get married.

In this story it follows the typical storyline of having to be rescued by a prince in order to fall in love. And Sleeping Beauty (1959) is the same. She falls into a deep sleep after pricking her finger on a spinning needle and can only be awoken by a true loves kiss - which happens after the prince fights a dragon to be able to kiss her. However, these are the only two Disney Princess that have followed the "typical" storyline.

In The Little Mermaid (1989), Aladdin (1992), The Princess and the Frog (2009) and Tangled (2010) the girl is as big as hero as the boy is, doing just as much saving for the guy as he does for the girl. In Cinderella (1950) and Beauty and the Beast (1991) the girl saves herself in order to be with the prince. These two story-lines I can understand being mixed up to the boy rescuing the girl, because normally at some point in the movie the boy plays a part in being a big hero.

However in Mulan (1998), Brave (2012) and Frozen (2013) aren't any thing to do with being rescued by a prince. Mulan is about a girl who disguises herself as a man and joins an all male army to help save China so that she didn't bring shame on the family. Brave is about a girl who sets out to find a potion to bring her mother and 3 younger brothers back to human form after she accidentally turns them in to bears, and Frozen is about a girl who fights a snow storm to find her sister to help her bring back summer after her sister accidentally curses an eternal winter on their home town. These last three stories aren't anything to do with a man so it shouldn't be confused with a man saving a woman.So if you look at it literally, out of the 12 Disney Princess stories only 2 of them follow the "typical" storyline of the man rescuing the woman and the rest aren't.

As a young child, being brought up on Disney Princess movies and watching them over and over again - Disney Princess movies can highly influence the way you look at things and one thing that has stuck in almost every girls brains are the romantic love stories that Disney loves to sneak into every movie. And because of seeing this from a young age, when you get older its what you expect. A boy to sweep you off your feet because thats whats been slammed into your brains since you could pay attention for 2 hours (give or take). And this is why most teenage girls are obsessed with love nowadays. This could also be related to why girls get so insecure, because most of the Disney Princess movie characters are all teenagers, the youngest being 14! So when a girl doesn't fall in love by her teens she may start to think that its because somethings wrong with her - and not just because the disney movies are fake. So they start looking at the appearances and actions of girls in not only the Disney Princess movies but also other movies as well, and this is when teenage girls start turning into the stereotypes the media has displayed for them, so they can fit in (and get a boyfriend).