Gender Stereotypes In Fairy Tales
Frozen is one of the Disney fairy tales that shows women as powerful and can make their own decisions and aren't dependent on men and both genders are strong and powerful and do not overpower each other and is written by a female, but the fairy tales that are written by men are presented differently. It is evident that males are more dominating and have more power and the females are presented as weak and have no voice/opinion. That being said in the fairy tale “Cinderella” written by Charles Perrault a man, has men be the more dominant gender in the fairy tale. He uses the men to show that men have power over the women. Furthermore he does not show the same type of dominance when it comes to woman but makes the women less than the men and makes them look cruel, passive, greedy, nurturing, powerless, and not able to make decisions on their own.
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In this and in many other fairy tales throughout history, women are portrayed as being inferior to men. Children being quite impressionable, begin to believe that they must dress and act a certain way in order to gain interest of a man or be considered the ideal woman, therefore that is why fairy tales are guided towards children because they want girls to grow up and think that in ordered to be happy or successful you need a man. This classic Disney movie, Cinderella may seem like an innocent love story of a girl whose dreams come true and falls in love with a prince. Cinderella established the idea that women have to depend on a man in a time of
In this and in many other fairy tales throughout history, women are portrayed as being inferior to men. Children being quite impressionable, begin to believe that they must dress and act a certain way in order to gain interest of a man or be considered the ideal woman, therefore that is why fairy tales are guided towards children because they want girls to grow up and think that in ordered to be happy or successful you need a man. This classic Disney movie, Cinderella may seem like an innocent love story of a girl whose dreams come true and falls in love with a prince. Cinderella established the idea that women have to depend on a man in a time of