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If you liked this glog, than you'll love the second glog, entitled 'Disney Villains Rock'
While Aurora is the Ultimate Woman, Maleficent is presented as unwomanly and unfeminine. She is powerful and strong-- a threat to masculine authority-- and so her womanly characteristics must be diminished. A "real" woman would be like Aurora: obedient, naive and passive. Aurora is so passive that she does not even touch the spindle on her own initiative. In other versions of Sleeping Beauty she reaches out for the spindle in curiosity at an object she's never seen before; in the Disney version she touches it because she is in a trance induced by Maleficent. Maleficent, of course, is active and clever and unruly. She is toweringly tall and devoid of feminine feature (such as hair) and the complete opposite of the standard of feminine beauty set by Aurora. Worst of all, she is a woman alone. The three "good fairies" have each other and are motherly figures who end up raising the princess, but Maleficent is without anyone. As the green fairy, Fauna, explains: "Maleficent doesn't know anything about love or kindness or the joy of helping others." A woman's life should revolve around love and the joy of helping others, but these are qualities in which Maleficent is deficient. By presenting Maleficent as unwomanly, Disney is able to make her a monstrous anomaly and therefore to deny the threat of feminine power. -Good Woman/Bad Woman Dichotomy in Disney's Sleeping Beauty, http://www.gwu.edu/~folktale/GERM232/sleepingb/Disney.html
Women Rule: Girls can do Anything
Maleficent Rules!!
fortwagner added this comment 2011-10-31 08:28:20-05:00
Yes!! Maleficent is the bomb!
fortwagner added this comment 2011-10-31 08:28:20-05:00
Yes!! Maleficent is the bomb!