Many sibling often quarrel over the most miniscule things . Frequently, these debates focus on the common issue of ‘what to watch next’. A common solution for children in the ‘90’s would be Mulan. A classical medium for all ages including both action and hints of romance, an overall disney crowd pleaser. However, the most radical piece of Mulan would not be the plot, but the strong female lead that is rare in Disney tales. Little girls all over the nation praised and accepted Mulan not only as the “Hero of China”, but their own personal hero. Children often take after leading role models in their life; therefore emulating Mulan and her honorable ways was probably a frequent occurrence. Each striving vainly to imitate their savior of China, …show more content…
This is proven by the harsh words exchanged in the midst of the drafting, ” Fa Zhou (Mulan’s father): ‘I am ready to serve the emperor.’ Mulan: ‘Father! You can't go!’ Fa Zhou: ‘Mulan!’ Mulan: ‘Please, sir. My father has already fought for… ‘ Chi Fu (Emperor's messenger): ‘Silence! You would do well to teach your daughter to hold her tongue in a man's presence.’ Fa Zhou: ‘Mulan, you dishonor me,’ ” this proves her radical sense of individuality that empowers her as a woman. After an examination of diminishing female importance, Mulan demonstrates an opposite behavior. She steps up to the opportunity of death and dishonor, which is highly valued in her culture, to replace her injured father in the war. Since, it is forbidden for women to join the army she takes possession of her father’s armor. Without any domination of other characters, the decision is completely her own, and therefore empowering her as a female. Here she sings the following, “ ‘Look at me... I will never pass for a perfect bride. Or a perfect daughter. Can it be, I'm not meant to play this part? Now I see, that if I were truly to be myself, I would break my family's heart. Who is that girl I see, staring straight back at me? Why is my reflection someone I don't know? Somehow I cannot hide who I am, though I've tried. When will my reflection show who I am inside?’ ”, this proves her own struggle to become more than just a bride. No longer is she an object that can only serve her country by producing sons, she is intelligent and admirable because of her strong thoughts and
Mulan goes through being rescued when she fights Shan-Yu on top of the roof of the Emperor’s palace and Mushu helps Mulan pin Shan-Yu down and blow him up with fireworks. Mulan‘s ego decreases when Mushu successfully tries to help her get rid of Shan-Yu. She considers herself a hero now and does not want Mushu to think she cannot fight her own battles. Mulan in the end disregards her ego in order for her to not die on the roof. Mulan crosses the final threshold when she returns to her home with the gifts from the Emperor hoping her family will forgive her for leaving the family to go fight in the war. Her father accepts Mulan’s new power and wisdom and told her that, “The greatest gift and honor is having you for a daughter.” Mulan’s return to the past is pleasant and safe knowing that nothing can change her family’s love and affection for her. In addition, Mulan enters into the final step in the hero’s journey: the freedom to live. Mulan shows her freedom to live when she invites her soul mate, Li-Shang for dinner. This event marks the end of Mulan dwelling on the past and makes her excited, but not concerned about what the future
When the emperor sent out a request to send the men in China to war, Mulan was scared. Her father was one of the many men summoned to fight....
William Shakespeare once said, “[My] honor is my life; both grow in one; take honor from me, and my life is done.” The idea is touched upon in both the book Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston as well as Disney’s Mulan were family honor is more important than anything else. Mulan was directed by Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook, and produced by Walt Disney Pictures. The film Mulan retold the story of a woman warrior who took her father’s place in battle and became a savior of China.The movie uses many elements from the original story told in the chapter “White Tigers,” but adds many modern twists in order to make the story more appealing for a newer generation. In both stories of Fa Mu Lan the elements of sacrifice, silence and voice, cultural practices of ancestor worship and filial piety, and Chinese stereotypes are present.
...sh and adore. However, next time, do not let yourself be so easily grabbed by the catchy musical numbers and seemingly revolutionary story that is told. Yes, Mulan is an unorthodox heroine who changes all the rules, but she does so by conforming to a flawed system and affecting change from the inside, under the guise of a man. In lieu of doing it as a woman, it is not as girl power filled as many of us would like to believe. She, for the most part, affects all of this change as a man. Once she’s discovered, all her hard work in the training and the relationships she’s forged are all tossed to the wind and she’s quickly relegated back to her place as a lowly woman. However, despite its flawed execution in being a girl power story, it embodies a quintessential feel-good, be true to your heart film that will leave you wanting to affect change in the world around you.
According to history in China, women had arranged marriages and were forced to marry the man her father chooses. The father had the final say on who his daughter would marry as women’s opinions were not taken into judgment (William, 2017). Females were not important to Chinese society, males were strongly respected and had higher “value”. When we look back at the Disney’s Mulan, “Fa Li, where is your daughter? The Matchmaker is not a patient woman”, Mulan is late arriving to her match maker session. The ballad of Mulan displays no evidence where Mulan goes to a matchmaker or even gets married. When it comes to the inaccuracies showcased in Mulan, there is one that is more prominent than others, women’s punishments. Referring to the Disney movie, women’s punishments are expressed incorrectly. Mulan goes to war in place of her father when she did not receive permission from her parents. “You shouldn't have to go!”… “Mulan is gone!” This is stating that Mulan left without consulting her parents first. Although, in the ballad of Mulan, there is no clear evidence that even her identity was discovered whilst she attended war, so there is no possibly that she had her life nearly taken away by a general. It is said that in ancient Chinese law, women who disobey their parents must be cut into pieces as a
After hearing the story about Mulan, I spent some time thinking about what it meant for a woman in ancient China to transcend beyond the boundaries of gender and culture for family, honor, and duty. Mulan became a true warrior - one who encompassed not only the combatant and the housewife but the struggle between them as well. Perhaps it is because she creates a steadiness between "work" and "wife." Instead of differentiating between a warrior and a woman, she combines the two entities and becomes a woman warrior, an example of the symbiotic relationship between what was originally considered an oxymoron. Mulan participated by taking "a part in something, from which one is, at the same time, separated," as Paul Tillich vividly describes. Mulan was a part of a war as a warrior, while still she was separated from the war si...
Disney has a history of containing racist and stereotypical depictions of other cultures, and Mulan is no different (Breaux 2010). While there are many stereotypes within the film, the three characters that are the most stereotypical are Chi Fu, Shan Yu, and the Emperor. Chi Fu is animated much like the orientalist depictions of Chinese men with exaggerated features such as the flattened nose, the thin mustache and goatee, and the small slender proportions of his character (Huang 2010). In addition Chi Fu’s character has a thick accent, and his character is pompous and unlikeable. Chi Fu is much like a racist caricature of American fabrication (Eid 2011). Shan Yu is also exaggerated but in a different way. Shan Yu’s character is hulk-like with arms that are as wide as his head, grey skin, yellow eyes, pointed teeth, and thick downturned eyebrows. For a representation of a Mongolian, Shan Yu is grotesque. The last most overdone stereotypical character is the Emperor. The Emperor has long white eyebrows, long white mustache, and long white beard. His nose is also flattened, and his speech is peppered with fortune cookie adages such as “the flow...
When Mulan sneaks off at night to fight in the war disguise as a male. She did this to take her injured fathers place to protect him. This is an example of Ren from the Five Virtus Of Confucianism. She is showing love towards her father when taking his place to protect him.
In the Disney film Mulan, the character for Mulan plays an important part to support the example of a woman not satisfied with her state of being and subordinated position in society and therefore, takes action to show others her true capabilities and qualities. This prototype is scarcely depicted in today’s cartoons and films so that children rarely identify with this image. “Mulan” helps to promote this role model of an intelligent woman and could be the first step in breaking gender constraints. In addition, it might teach children that they have to find their own state of happiness rather than trying desperately to fulfill society’s expectations.
The main character Mulan decides to save her father’s life by taking his place in the Chinese army. Later, she is found to be a woman, but then she saves the entire country from the Huns. The movie Mulan exploits eastern ideals of patriarchy. Disney seems to appropriately replicate the struggles of a woman in an army where she would not have been allowed and with minimal sugar coating. One of the opening songs from the film called Honour to us All shows the role of women in their society.
Mulan tells that the story of brave Mulan. Mulan did not want her elderly father to fight in the war, so she disguised as a man and joined in her father 's army. Finally, Mulan defeated the Huns and Shan Yu (leader of the Huns) with her partners in barracks. This Disney film portrays the conflict perspective, feminism, and symbolic interaction perspective.
In the Disney movie, Mulan, the main character, Mulan, challenges society’s expectations of gender stereotypes by showing a disinterest of how women in a feudal society are supposed to act and as the movie progresses, she defies expectations of what it means to be a man and a woman. In the beginning of the movie, Mulan is being prepared to become a bride for a possible suitor; this is an example of stereotypical women’s roles. In China’s culture, the goal of children is to bring honor to your family- and in this case, girls /women honor their families by getting married, being a good wife and having kids. While the boys/ men bring honor by serving the Emperor, protecting the land and going to war. Mulan is labeled a misfit and viewed as an outside because of her lack of etiquette as she is messy, clumsy and a terrible housewife
During the Chinese Han Dynasty, the Huns started to invade China as the Great Wall failed to keep them out. To save China, the emperor established a decree stating the need of more men going into the battlefield. Fa Mulan, a young adult and tomboy of an honored family hurries to finish her chores, so she can make it on time to a village matchmaker. Mulan is given a cricket as a sign of good luck as she is prepped all poised and dignified. This cricket was the opposite of good luck causing chaos resulting in Mulan being deemed as “disgraceful,” as well as be told she will never bring honor to her family.
The classic Disney movie, Mulan, is often praised as a film involving feminist empowerment, but upon closer look just the opposite appears to be true. The classic storyline includes Mulan, a young Chinese woman, taking over her fragile father’s place in the Chinese army, disguised as a man named Ping. She trains among the other soldiers, becoming one of the very best with her accompanying guardian dragon, Mushu and a cricket her grandmother gave her for luck for the matchmakers by her side. She ends up saving all of China by revealing that the Huns are back and invading the country, and is honored as a hero. This movie breaks away from the typical damsel in distress princess story by having a single woman save all of China. However, on Mulan’s journey she faced extreme female shaming, and experienced stereotypes attempting to belittle her; all
Mulan reinforces the traditional ideas of masculinity in the song, “I’ll Make a Man Out of You” (Mulan 1998). The lyrics, “Let’s get down to business, to defeat the Huns. Did they send me daughters, when I asked for sons?”(Mulan, 1998) portrays the traditional gender roles of men; it claims that male is the only sex that is able to fight. The goal of this scene is to “make a man” out of the new recruits. The movie Mulan asserts that being feminine is detrimental to the war effort. Instead, the docile, feminine recruits have to be transformed into men. This song in Mulan argues that one should strive towards being a "man";