Elastic Girl From The Incredibles Analysis

Unlike the negative influence that heroines teach girls, few heroines teach the contrary. Because children have role models and are influenced by them, girls could learn about leadership and confidence. Rosemary Roberts says, “[a]s children’s lives unfold and widen to include and places outside the home, television and stories in books, so their choice of role models for their pretend play widens too […] encouraging children’s play gives a safe way to explore and begin to understand themselves, the people in their world and the situation in which they find themselves” (Roberts 23). If girls view heroines as their role model, heroines will teach them positive characteristics. One good role model is Elastic Girl from The Incredibles, she empowers

Wonder Woman is the most famous heroine and the reason behind this statement is that she is the most displayed character in media compared to other heroines. For this reason, it is easier for girls to imitate Wonder Woman and by doing so they are obtaining some of her qualities from her persona. A study on the brain and children’s drive to imitation, states, “[the] Theory of Mind depends to a considerable degree on an early capacity for imitation Merleau-Ponty (1962: 162) wrote that we are a ‘continuum of interacting embodied subjectivities’, and imitating and being imitated constitute one small aspect of how such interactions help us learn how to become a person within a given culture” (Music 78). Wonder Woman heroine’s qualities that girls learn are the following: helping others, promoting sisterhood, being compassionate, and use violence as the last resource. Also, this heroine encourages girl power, she has said “[that] girls are taught that if they ‘feel [they] can do things, [they] can do them,’ and women are exhorted to ‘get strong and earn your own living’’” (Emad 959). According to the empowerment theory, Wonder Women is encouraging girls to become better beings. Galleotti says, “Empowerment theory […] empowerment was defined as the process of building and instilling hope in order for an individual to improve their situation or

These heroines carried a healthy self-image and they are not misunderstood by stereotypes; thus, they empower the traits that sweet little girls have. The Powepuff Girls are little girls that saved the city every time there is trouble and they are no ones’ sidekicks. Also, the body image of these heroines is not link to sexuality. Donna, who study the Powerpuff Girls, said, “shows that feature females with super powers have historically been quite rare, and those that do find viewing slots inevitable depict women whose powers must either be contained in some way, typically at the behest of male characters, or their must be contingent on traditional sources of female power, such as physical beauty and sexuality” (Potts 1). This means that the Powerpuff Girls do not convey the message on sexuality like other heroines. Instead, they are cartoons and their human traits are limited to a certain extent. Thus, girls’ cannot really compare themselves physically, but they will focus on their strong girl power behavior. Also, “the show challenges the notion that stereotypically feminine qualities like sweetness and innocence cannot coexist with toughness […] and that being the tough one or the smart one is just as valued as being the sweet one’” (Potts 7). They teach girls that being tough does not mean that they have to give up their soft and feminine side. Girls