Stereotypes In Fairy Tales

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With evolution of visual media and animation fairy tales has evolved with the course of time to cater to different types of audience around the globe. Popular animation houses have created and re-created both the popular and unheard fairytales into beautiful motion pictures which has transformed once read tales into a visual celebration. The conventional stereotypes have been broken and new refreshing tales has evolved, tweaked and twisted to appeal to the new age audience. The front runner in the fairytale business Walt Disney has tried to break conventions and came up with movies like Brave, Tangled and Frozen in the past decade. Then and again the question which remains is that whether these new age fairytales really manage to untangle themselves …show more content…

Disney has tweaked the story in order to make it more about familial love than the romance. Kids along with adults fell in love with the strong independent snow queen ‘Elsa’ and her anthem of independence ‘Let it go’. Anna and Elsa who are portrayed as strong female characters with a mind of their own swept the hearts globally with their will and wit. They were the new age princess people could look up to. The movie eliminated the cliché of true loves kiss and instead the younger sister Ana is brought back to life with her own sacrifice for the elder one. The prince charming who have played a vital role in most of the old fairy tales is a con man who tries to trap Ana into marriage in order to gain hold in their kingdom Arendelle. But in the end of the movie the kingdom is ruled by Elsa, a woman breaking the patriarchal conventions. The movie is filled with girl power, feminism and familial love. The audience who were tired of seeing helpless damsel in distresses rooted and cheered for Ana and Elsa thus making them one of the most loved about princesses in the new …show more content…

But the question arises when one analyze the movie closely and pick out the conventional fairytale wrapped and presented in an impeccably masculine blue bottle. In the movie both the sisters Ana and Elsa are seen making irrational and illogical decisions just based on their emotions. Let it be Elsa running off to a mountain and creating a Himalayan winter for the whole country or Ana who falls in love too easily and then runs off after her sister into the mountain without proper gear or even clothes to keep her warm. This is a clear depiction of giving power to women is power in wrong hands and conforming to the age old concept that women are incapable of logical and rational thinking, and they are always over flowed with emotion. Whole lot of the logical thinking is done by Kristoff who later becomes Ana’s love interest – Characteristics of prince in poor

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