Sleeping Beauty's represented as a happy well mannered girl whom falls in love, into a deep sleep and is woken by true loves first kiss. It is the romance in this film which is a false representation of what the perfect women is like. It is false because it is impossible, well... nearly.
To fall in love at first sight, touch or sound is quite fast paced and quite frankly wrong. It sets a bad example that even though she was told not to talk to strangers, if they are hot then why not? Why not just fall in love without even getting to know each other, not even your names? It is ridiculous and highly unlikely that this kind of moment would ever happen. It sets the expectation to find love highest above all as that is what all of the Princesses wish and dream for.
Just to make it even more important they make the power of true loves first kiss to be so powerful that it can wake someone from a coma. That is impossible. Unless if timing is right by some random chance, then that is not possible to happen. This symbol of power which the kiss has makes a first kiss a big deal. It is what has created the whole"first kiss" phenomenon. It makes little girls believe that their first kiss will be magical.
Sleeping Beauty is seen as the perfect women because of her beautiful singing voice, lips as red as rose, and sunshine gold hair. This representation of the perfect women has an implication on society that if you are good looking then you are perfect. If you have a beautiful singing voice then you are a perfect women. If you are always happy, cleaning, cooking, singing to animals, pretty (even if your a servant or have slept in the woods overnight or your hair has never been shampooed in its life because you've lived under the sea) then you are a perfect women.
These expectations are seen in society and have become a huge part of modern day life. Women are constantly having surgery procedures in order to enhance their bodies to look more beautiful and younger. More women are housewives than men. It is fairly obvious if you think about the amount of times you've heard the term househusbands... On adverts women are always cleaning to happy music, female children are seen in adverts for toy kitchens, laundry rooms etc. The representation of the Disney Princess Sleeping Beauty portraying the perfect women does have an implication on society and does give younger girls the idea of what they should look like and act like in order to be perfect.
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