Compare the ways in which women are presented in one key scene from Disney's Sleeping Beauty (1954) and one from Disney's Mulan (1998).

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Mark Bannigan        Textual Analysis        Sleeping Beauty and Mulan

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Compare the ways in which women are presented in one key scene from Disney’s Sleeping Beauty (1954) and one from Disney’s Mulan (1998).

Mulan is a family film, animation, fantasy, adventure, comedy, and musical.  It tells the story of a young Chinese girl who decides to take her fathers place who, is ill and defends her country.  Only men can go into battle but she disguises herself as her father.  The tagline is: “The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of them all.”  

        Sleeping Beauty is a Fairytale, family film, musical, animation and romance.  It tells the story of a young girl, who has been put asleep by a fairy.  The spell cannot be broken until a prince kisses her.  The tagline is: “Wondrous to see, glorious to hear and magnificent new motion picture.”

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        Sleeping Beauty was made and produced in the 1950’s at this time of life, society was recognised in Disney films to be where the girl is blonde and wants to be saved by the strong prince and that is what the majority of girls wanted to be like at the time.  

        However Mulan is modern and it turns out that she is the heroine.  This proves how much society has changed and shows the different ways that women are presented during that period of time.  Cross-dressing is also the case in this film.  In the Chinese culture women ...

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