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Group 9 Zipes

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Group Presentation

  • 150 points (15% of total grade).

 

Directions:

Each group will give a 10-15 minute presentation on one of the assigned critical readings. The presentation should:

  1. Identify the thesis and central claims in the article/chapter. 
  2. Give an example of the way the author supports these claims.
  3. Evaluate the argument. Is it strong? Does it use strong evidence? How does it relate with other scholarship we have read in this class?
  4. Post the material for the presentation on the class wiki.
  5. Sign up for group BELOW by putting name and WSU email on group page. Limit: 3 people per group. 

 

Sarah Root- fb1555@wayne.edu

Emily Moran-ez9649@wayne.edu

Myanna Allen- el3940@wayne.edu



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Thesis/central claims:

In order to conform to society's standards, Disney had transformed the Grimm's fairy tales to meet the expectations of the modern family

 

Examples of the author's support of the claims

  • "There us a strong dose of a cleanliness fetish connected to Disney's desire to make the world more pristine and safe." (Pg.202, Zipes)   
    • In the Grimm's story "Beauty and the Beast",  the beast attempted suicide by starving himself due to his broken heart and longing of Beauty. Whereas in the Disney movie Gaston had shot an arrow at him which almost killed him.

      In the Grimm's story, the beast had told the father to pick a daughter to die in his place, whereas in the movie Belle finds her father locked up in his dungeon and proposes that she'd take his place and live with the beast forever.

  • Zipes had implied that Disney wanted to remain true to the original Grimm tales while making it more appropriate for children. By making it appropriate, Disney still incorporated the gender stereotypes that the children will adapt to as they grow up.
    • An overall example is how with every Disney movie, the Princess or the female heroine has to have a man in her life at some point to remain happy and to incorporate the famous Disney happy ending.
             An example of this in Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" is that there is constantly a man in Belle's life. She leaves one male figure to the next figure. At the beginning of the movie she is living with her father and taking care of him. Gaston is trying to marry Belle and to conform her to a stereotypical housewife and then Beast appears and eventually he lets her have her freedom but he is still there on control. This is Disney brain washing the females of society into thinking that they need a man in their life to take care of them even if they don't think they really need a man to be happy (Belle and Gaston).

 

Evaluate the argument

     Zipes makes an exceptionally strong argument that focuses on Disney's conformity of the Grimm's fairy tales.
"He (Disney) robs the literary tale of its voice and changes its form and meaning" (Pg. 199, Zipes). Along with this quote, the evidence Zipes incorporates is just as strong. Other pieces of evidence includes women stereotypes, Disney's safer tales, and focusing on the underdogs.

This is very relate-able  with other scholarship that we have read in class. An example that focuses on Disney's gender stereotypes would be in the stories "Little Red Riding Hood" and "The Little Mermaid"

  • The Little Mermaid
    • Disney's version is Ariel taking extraordinary measures to please a guy and to be with him by selling out her voice to a sea witch in return for legs. After some conflict, she ends up marrying the Prince and living happily ever after and becoming a noble housewife. But in the Grimm's version, she ends up killing herself because she cannot kill her love. But she ends up being a spirit of the wind with immortality and she's happy without a guy because she's alive in a different way. 
  • Little Red Riding Hood
    • At the end of the Grimm's story, Little Red Riding Hood had to be saved by a male figure (the huntsmen) implying that women need the assistance of men in order to be safe and to live happily. In the Disney movies the same implication is created. For example, in "Sleeping Beauty" Aurora's curse has to be lifted by Prince Phillip with a kiss. This is also implying that in order to get a happily ever after, a woman must be with a man at all times. 

 

 

 

 

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