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Sexual Objectification In The Little Mermaid
The thesis of this paper argues that The Little Mermaid presents themes of sexual objectification among the women by the male characers’ imposed hypermasculinity. This is to emphasize that this film, along with other Disney films presents traditional idealisms that inflicts strict gender roles and biases into its young, developing audience’s minds. As an academic paper, it was crucial that the conversation remain forma and its primary and secondary sources are scholarly, to legitimize the claims and the arguments being made. However the purpose of this paper aims at consciously engaging and exploring its readers’ mindset about female deamination. Therefore the rhetoric utilizes scholarly conversations to actively engage the reader, as well. Meanwhile, the tone clearly and confidently echos each claim, providing support and strength, as well as asserting legitimate authority. With the combination and the interworking of each of the courses, this paper has potential to not only adhere but also over substantiate the expectations of this assignment. Nevertheless, according to the reviews of the paper as a drafted whole, its thesis’s arguments need to be narrowed in order to avoid overgeneralizing and extending the length of this 15 page assignment. Better organization and placement of each argument within its context has been advised to improve upon this developing work. The thesis becomes clearer after the reader’s further and deeper read, and …show more content…
I also got rid of many extra details that could not all be addressed within a 15 page paper, such as patriarchy, because I could not also address a class issue while mainly confronting sexism. Also one of the book sources I used was referred to potentially being not scholastic and because I appreciated the source so much, I kept the source while adding another “scholarly” peer reviewed secondary

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