Would I Become the Next Snow White? Essay -- Personal Narrative, Autobi

Would I Become the Next blast uncontaminating? Ah, to be a Disney Girl To possess beauty so godly it stand melt the hearts of charming princes and gruff miners alike. To be commensurate to use the same gift to tame temperamental beasts, while you attract, by angelic song, otherwise timid forest creatures. To know that, in the end-despite the event that your wicked stepmother has forced you into a life of servitude and an evil queen is pursuit your mutilated heart-yes, in the end, some day your prince will come. The image of the hone girl according to Walt Disney can be described, with little exception, in this route she is always pretty, always fair, always model thin, always endowed with a beautiful singing voice and always the victim of some malevolent, very much jealous, woman. The Disney Girl also has what one writer says she expected to receive when she became a woman a life filled with debonair men so overcome by her loveliness they burst into song (Nire nberg 23). Though to begin with products of medieval and Victorian literature, these female characters have been adopted into Walts family and have so practically been dipped in his colorful animation and sprinkled with his magical nance dust that we have forgotten their origin and given them an identity that can only be described as, well, Disney. Lets start with the first Disney Girl, reverse White. Now, Snow epitomizes what gorgeous represented in the 1930s. In other words, Disney allows her to be a little fat by todays standards (or is it the design of her dress?). Still, most of us agree with the evil queens magic mirror that this Disney Girl, with her skin as colour as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as char as ebony, is, in... ...art, but with natures uncontrollable hand, a raving beauty, a sleeping Beauty, a Cinderella. Or-if you can believe I thought this, with my Black self-a Snow White. No such thing happened, of course, but then, that is my po int. Lets enjoy these tales, but lets contribute sure-for ourselves and especially for our children-that we understand what is happening here. Though the animation is superb and the stories ar full of enchantment, wizardry, and the basic good and evil conflict, we should not be misled into accept that Cindy, Snow, Belle, et al. are the epitome of the ideal woman. Those who do this might find themselves often in the same predicament as that of Cinderella after the midnight chimes sprawled on their butts in the dust, with their dreams dashed to pieces around them Work Cited Nirenberg, Sue. House Beautiful. Aug. 1991 23+