Introduction

“The Prince lifted Snow White onto his white horse. Together they rode off into the golden light of the setting sun”.
Disney animation is known to be the leading influence on children’s life throughout their years of growing up. The Disney Company is appreciated for their depiction of family values. But their portrayal of stereotypical and gender-limited princess characters is detrimental to children’s cognitive growth. Women are portrayed either as a rich delectate princess, evil step-mother or the poor love-stricken servant. Their daily actions include fainting, screaming, and spending their day doing chores around the house. They are always at the service of men. They always need a man, either a prince or a father figure to save them from disaster. There is a Madonna Vs. whore syndrome in a sense that whenever the women are shown to have power they are portrayed as wicked. As contrary to this the powerless princesses are shown to be sweet and nice. Happiness in these animations is always tied to being rich and powerful or being married to a prince. Their achievements are limited to being a princess or being a servant and they do not have any goals set for themselves unless it is meeting a prince and falling in love. No wonder that young children especially girls want to be young princesses because it’s shown to be so and easy to become one and magical.


Source :- Read to me Grandma, Snow White and the seven Dwarfs