The director Guillero Del Torro uses many motifs and parallels in his film Pan's Labyrinth. The most obvious parallel in the film is the parallel between the real world and the fantasy world of the character Ofelia. Both worlds are filled with danger. At any second in both of these worlds your life could be lost. Del Torro separates the real world from the fantasy world with many visual motifs.…
The Whites felt like the Indians didn’t have any guidance. Indian women made their food, nurse, and raised the children. It was stated in the story, “If we could examine the manners of different nations with impartiality, we should find no people so rude, as to be without any rules of politeness; nor any so polite, as not to have some remains of rudeness.” That’s where the differences took…
An important conflict in the film Little Miss Sunshine, directed by (Jonathan Dayton and Valeria Faris)…
In the Noble Prize-winning novel, Lorde of the Flies, it is a fact that all the characters are male. It is also a fact that the majority of people become savage. Lives were lost, tears were shed and anger thrived. Would the endgame have changed if there was an equivalent number of girls to boys? Would it have been better. Would it have turned out worse? The answers are the endgame would not have changed, they would have been rescued. It would have not turned out better, because men believed they were above women, while women strived to prove themselves. This would have created an even deeper divide.…
The numerous characters who experience the adventures in the stories of Lord of the Flies and Peter Pan are very much alike having multiple corresponding roles, motives, and personality traits. Peter Pan’s character, you would at first think is particularly representative of Ralph’s persona from Lord of the Flies; believing that he be the protagonist of the story, like Ralph; a leader, a kid who initially only wanted to have fun, and enjoyed the idea of having no adult figure around. However, with careful contemplation, we can come to realize, that Peter Pan is to a greater extent like Jack. In the beginning of Lord of the Flies, when Ralph becomes conscious of the fact that there are no grown-ups at all on the island where all the boys have been stranded, “the delight of a realized ambition overcame him. In the middle of the scar he stood on his head and…
Ebenezer Scrooge is the focus point of the story, and as the lead role he is the most important part of the book. Each section (stave) of the novel shows how Scrooges personality is undergoing a change from the beginning when he is greedy and cold-hearted, to the end of the novel when he treats others with kindness and generosity.…
For generations, Walt Disney films have been a “must watch” by parents, children and their families. However, these people may not see the hidden meanings behind Disney films. Currently, children are constantly exposed to media and opinions inherently presented within television, films, radio, books and more. Disney films are no exception. The films Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty all reinforce traditional gender roles, and the idea that lightness is supreme and will help when it comes to goodness conquering evil.…
Good or bad, Was it is good or bad that Bruno was naive of the Holocaust?. Bruno, a 9 year old German boy was naive about the Holocaust because Father didn’t want Bruno to know about what happens on the other side of the fence because he wanted Bruno to feel comfortable at out-with and not want to move back to Berlin because of the Holocaust which is “a Jewish sacrificial offering that is burned completely on an altar”. In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, it was good that Bruno was naive about the Holocaust throughout the novel because it allowed him to develop a friendship with Shmuel and it made him want to stay at Out-With instead of Berlin.…
Welcome to Neverland, an imaginative place where anything is possible. J. M. Barrie introduces Neverland and its inhabitants, the Lost Boys, who never grow up in his novel Peter Pan. Their leader, the titular character, refuses to grow up, and spends his time on countless adventures. While often selfish, Peter shows strong decorum during his battles. One antagonist he battles is Captain James Hook; he got the name “Hook” after Peter inadvertently cutoff his hand, and James replaced it with a hook. Although often seen as a brash pirate, Hook is described as a refined person who strongly values rightness. In Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie portrays Peter as a spontaneous and cocky boy, yet a boy who is overcome by a blind devotion to the principles of fairness when facing impediments, or as Captain Hook calls it, “good form.” Barrie shows how…
One may think that Pocahontas is only a child's story created for entertainment and that children outgrow the image of the Indian princess or realize there are women that do not fit the other category of Indian squaw. However, once logic and reason begin to develop, the childhood Indian vision remains mythical. As Rayna Green explains in "The Pocahontas Perplex," "we cannot ignore the impact the story has had on the American imagination" (183). Instead of mentally revising our perceptions of Indians and Pocahontas, we have based an American culture on a fairytale, told to suit white consumption. Evidence that Americans have not outgrown the fantasy image of Pocahontas is revealed in that few Anglo adults know the true story of Pocahontas and can only associate her with the Americanized, Disney-like image.…
Disney stereotypes from a far seem to be changing for the best and leaning towards pleasing the new generations. Yet after analyzing the newer films there are still problems with stereotyping races, and dehumanizing women into fairy tale princesses. For this paper I choose to study how Disney continues to slide by and get away with racial stereotypes and comments by using just enough “good” so that many people do not notice. This essay is trying to answer the question, what scholars Old Disney and how does new Disney challenge it? First I plan on talking about older Disney paradoxes such as race stereotypes starting with older films like Dumbo and ending with the 90’s film The Lion King. Next I discuss the classic “princess” paradox which occur in Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Beauty and the Beast, and The little Mermaid. After this I…
To Kill a Mockingbird shows how society’s aspects can be seen differently. Children are innocent and unaware to the flaws and issues with the human race, such as rape or cursing. They are also naïve, they think that things are fair, equal, and things are perfect, but unaware that in their time African-Americans are discriminated. Kids don’t see the flaws and dishonesty of their…
Disney Fairy tales have always been used as a tool to maintain white supremacy, racial stereotypes, and internalized racism. Despite its use for entertainment; fairy tales have commonly been used as a strategy to inform and educate children about the real world. However, the information children received while watching these fairy tales are often filled with unrealistic stereotypes. This is mainly because many, if not all Disney films are used to produce a negative image for people of certain minority groups. Although Disney tries to make the stereotypical representations very subtle, they still manage to destroy any minority groups image in the growing mind of the children who…
Stereotypes about the Native people nowadays still persist. Stereotypes such as the Indians savagery or the color of the Indians’ skin are seen in some of the recent movies. The stereotypes present in our society affected and influenced people minds. It has created “familiar characters with predictable role” (Matthews). The stereotypes show the white man as being the hero, whereas the Indians as the antagonist. “It’s the white men [….] making the world safe from savages(Matthews). Even if todays Indians “had nothing to do with those movie Indians”, the wildness of Indian stereotypes still remain (Matthews). In the movie Pocahontas, released in 1995 by the Disney Corporation, the stereotypes about American Indians still persist. The movie shows Pocahontas as a good Indians since she saved the life of a white man. One of the key theme in the movie is the interpretation of the good versus the bad Indian. The movie depicts Indians as “savage” and aggressive compared to English settler who are seen as good people. The song in the movie contains also stereotypes. This can be shown by the song’s title “Savages, Savages”, which is a term that prone the idea that the Natives are not civilized people. In the song, it says that “their whole disgusting race is like a curse”, and that “they must be evil”. In the gift to Cochise, Cochise is illustrated as civilized and not as a savage chief. In the movie, Peter Pan, the Indian tribe also contains stereotypes, such as the red face of the character or even the movie’s song “What makes the Red Man Red”. In the story of Louis L’Amour, the author never mentions the term “red-skin”. Myths about the skin color are still present in the society, even though “not all Indians are dark skinned (and none actually have red skin) with high cheekbones and black hair tied up in braids” (Fleming). In sum, the stereotypes about natives still remain in…
Although she writes under the pen name "J. K. Rowling" her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply "Joanne Rowling". Her publisher Bloomsbury feared that the target audience of young boys might be reluctant to buy books written by a female author, and requested that she use two initials, rather than reveal her first name.…