Saturday, September 14, 2013

Cinderella- Singing and Cleaning

Cinderella singing "Sing Sweet Nightingale." In this video the idea of the perfect women cleaning and singing is represented. The Disney Princess has a beautiful voice as apposed to her ugly step sisters. Cinderella appears to be in a dream land singing and happily scrubbing the floors. This gives younger girls the idea that to be the perfect women they must be happy and sing while cleaning, yet another example from the Disney Princesses.
Then there is the animals. Not only is Cinderella friends with all of the goods animals and kind to them but she's also not happy with lucifer the evil stepmothers cat. This is portraying that everything the evil villians are and have is not good. That even their pets are not good because they are associated with the evil people. This forces an implication on society that if someone is mean or not a good person to you then everything about them will appear bad. This stereotype is seen throughout society right down to the name of a person. For example if you really like the name Christabelle but then you met a girl who was awfully mean named Christabelle, then that would change your thoughts on the name.
What is portrayed from Cinderella is that in order to be the perfect women you must enjoy cleaning and like all good things and expect the things close to the bad people to be also bad. This is reflected throughout society so strongly that it narrows down racism as well as sexism.

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