and things we watch and children watch have a big impact on our adult lives. Whether we realize it or not. And the only consistent genre that children have had access to for almost 100 years is Disney. This article will show the effects of Disney films, Snow White, Cinderella, Pocahontas and Rapunzel, on young girls. As well as the subtle messages that observers do not see as children and sometimes even as adults. As well as how these subtle messages shaped girls of that particular decade's ideas about loving life and people. To determine what effect films have had on children it is necessary to analyze the films themselves. Starting with Disney's first animated feature film, Snow White: and the Seven Dwarfs. Most people nowadays know this story, Snow White is a princess whose mother dies and her father's new wife (Snow White's stepmother) is an evil queen who is very vain and has a magic mirror that shows her he says she is the most beautiful of them all. But then, after the king's death, the mirror tells the queen that Snow White has surpassed her in beauty. The queen then tells her henchmen to take Snow White to the forest, kill her, and bring back her heart. Because of Snow White's beauty he is unable to kill her and so tells her to run away. So Snow White runs and runs until she finds a cabin of seven dwarfs and lives with them. Snow White is eventually revealed to be alive, so the queen disguises herself as an old witch and gives Snow White a poisoned apple. Snow White falls into a deep, coma-like sleep and stays that way until Prince Charming wakes her with a kiss. Now, on the surface there isn't much to go on except the well known "being kind and humble makes you beautiful and being vain and greedy makes you... middle of paper... I come" home to them. Mother Gothal, the woman who kidnapped Rapunzel and locked her in a tower so that she could have access to Rapunzel's hair and be young and beautiful forever, does not want Rapunzel to see the lights knowing what they are. So, Rapunzel, after a strange man falls into her tower conveniently after Mother Gothal and her have an argument that forces Mother Gothal to leave for a while to calm down, decides to make the trip to see the lights. Works Cited1. David Derbyshire. “The Good Wife's Guide: Since 1939, a Chap Card (and No Chilly Toes, Please).” Daily Mail: 20. 2008. Print.2. Patterson, Martha H. The New American Woman Revisited: A Reader, 1894-1930. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2008. Print.3. Wood, Noemi. "Taming Dreams in Walt Disney's Cinderella." The Lion and the Unicorn 20.1 (1996): 25-49. Press.

Topic > and things we watch and children watch have a big impact on our adult lives. Whether we realize it or not. And the only consistent genre that children have had access to for almost 100 years is Disney. This article will show the effects of Disney films, Snow White, Cinderella, Pocahontas and Rapunzel, on young girls. As well as the subtle messages that observers do not see as children and sometimes even as adults. As well as how these subtle messages shaped girls of that particular decade's ideas about loving life and people. To determine what effect films have had on children it is necessary to analyze the films themselves. Starting with Disney's first animated feature film, Snow White: and the Seven Dwarfs. Most people nowadays know this story, Snow White is a princess whose mother dies and her father's new wife (Snow White's stepmother) is an evil queen who is very vain and has a magic mirror that shows her he says she is the most beautiful of them all. But then, after the king's death, the mirror tells the queen that Snow White has surpassed her in beauty. The queen then tells her henchmen to take Snow White to the forest, kill her, and bring back her heart. Because of Snow White's beauty he is unable to kill her and so tells her to run away. So Snow White runs and runs until she finds a cabin of seven dwarfs and lives with them. Snow White is eventually revealed to be alive, so the queen disguises herself as an old witch and gives Snow White a poisoned apple. Snow White falls into a deep, coma-like sleep and stays that way until Prince Charming wakes her with a kiss. Now, on the surface there isn't much to go on except the well known "being kind and humble makes you beautiful and being vain and greedy makes you... middle of paper... I come" home to them. Mother Gothal, the woman who kidnapped Rapunzel and locked her in a tower so that she could have access to Rapunzel's hair and be young and beautiful forever, does not want Rapunzel to see the lights knowing what they are. So, Rapunzel, after a strange man falls into her tower conveniently after Mother Gothal and her have an argument that forces Mother Gothal to leave for a while to calm down, decides to make the trip to see the lights. Works Cited1. David Derbyshire. “The Good Wife's Guide: Since 1939, a Chap Card (and No Chilly Toes, Please).” Daily Mail: 20. 2008. Print.2. Patterson, Martha H. The New American Woman Revisited: A Reader, 1894-1930. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2008. Print.3. Wood, Noemi. "Taming Dreams in Walt Disney's Cinderella." The Lion and the Unicorn 20.1 (1996): 25-49. Press.