An Analysis Of Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs

Women should only cook, clean and keep house, they should never do anything intellectual.

For example in the Disney film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, After Snow White finds the little cottage in the woods her immediate reaction is to clean the house for the owners of the house, Snow White says upon arrival “we’ll clean the house and surprise them, then maybe they’ll let me stay” snow white believes that she will get keep if she cooks and cleans because that’s what disney believes women do, Snow White then goes on to say “and if you let me stay i’ll keep house for you, i’ll wash, sew, sweep, cook…” she bargains with the dwarfs to be able to stay in their cottage by cooking and cleaning for them but she is practically becoming their maid.

The villager all come together and sing “ with her nose stuck in a book, a puzzle to the rest of us is belle” Belle is seen as abnormal to her whole village because she is doing something intellectual. The villagers call her weird and speak behind her back because she is reading. Gaston, the most handsome man in the village says to her “the whole village is talking about it, it 's not right for a women to read, soon she gets ideas, thinking”. Disney puts across the message that if a woman reads a book she will get ideas and this to me implies they don’t want women to become more powerful and become equal to men. The critical text Becoming a Princess: The Transition From Individual to Sex Object by Ali Wachutka supports this, In the article Wachutka states that this scene puts across the message “that it is not a female 's role to be reading and intellectual pursuit.” This explains itself by saying that Disney makes out that this is not a woman 's role in society, that her role is to cook and clean, and if she were to do anything educational or even slightly intellectual, that she is weird and will start to get ideas that