Women's Roles In Disney Movie Mulalan

Most children and adults come across a Disney movie whether it be Mickey and Minnie Mouse to Snow White and the seven dwarfs. Although these movies are inaccurate to represent historical events they show us the roles that were retained by genders for centuries.

In the Disney movie “Mullan” we saw a great change in the theme of the role a woman plays versus what a man plays. During the scene where Fa Zhou is called to fight, Mullan overhears and interrupts. She tries to explain her father is ill, but she gets an insult make her family seem dishonorable. Mullan was subjected, she was treated equivalent to any other women. “Women are supposed to be obedient listeners with their heads facing to the floor just taking in what comes to them.”

Mullan

takes her father’s place, cutting her hair and dressing in his armor. Mullan challenges china’s authority and their rules. Although great consequence might come to her she takes the chance to overcome that barrier that was made for women in china.
For example, the article "The Oppositional Gaze" by Bell hook, explains in the first few pages the right to gaze was taken away from the black slaves. The owners of the slaves practiced dominance over them, punishing them every time they gaze. The gaze represented a rebellious act against the higher authority, threatening to challenge their authority.
In this case, women are being oppressed and the men are the oppressor or the dominance.
Mullan changes her reality by changing into a man and setting herself up to the image of a man. She changes her identity to ping a weak young man that acts curiously weird and out of the ordinary.