Disney Princesses Best Modern Trend Fixes An Animated Classic Mistake
Classic Disney princess movies like Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderellamake a mistake that a modern trend has fixed. While princesses from Disney’s origins in the early twentieth-century show admirable traits like kindness and sympathy, they tend to be overly trusting and rarely stand up for themselves. Most early princess movies give the impression that women can only achieve a happy ending by marrying handsome princes, who save them with kisses and thwart the plans of malicious Disney Princess villains. While these storylines align with early twentieth-century social values, attitudes have changed and Disney princesses have evolved with the times.
Older Disney princesses often patiently wait to be saved rather than facing challenges. Lacking survival skills, many are almost completely unable to help themselves and others. Snow White helplessly runs through the forest, and can only support herself temporarily by cooking and cleaning for the dwarves. Cinderella needs magical help from the Fairy Godmother to save her from a life of drudgery, and Aurora is totally unable to help herself from the second she pricks her finger and falls asleep.
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As such, it's perhaps wise that the trend for modern Disney princesses like Mulan from Mulan, Merida from Brave, and Raya from Raya and the Last Dragon is to make them more capable than their predecessors. The defiant Scottish Pixar princess Merida breaks many Disney princess rules, and is the better for it. Merida is far from helpless, as she bests all her potential suitors in a shooting match to preserve her independence as a single woman. Mulan and Raya are even more heroic as they protect themselves, their families, and
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