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Name: Emily Moran

Major: Mathematics

Interests: Reading, music (both playing and listening), bike riding and mechanics

Final Paper: The Little Mermaid 
Final Draft:  Little Mermaid Final Draft.doc

Little Mermaid.doc

Moran Little Mermaid.doc


I will be looking at the graphic nature of the original tale and how it was changed for the Disney movie version. I will be examining how the messages about gender roles and sexuality evolved along with these changes. 

Thesis:
While the endings of the Hans Christian Andersen and Disney versions of "The Little Mermaid" are quite disparate, both versions carry very similar messages about the role of the female in society. Disney "cleaned up" the tale and eliminated the gore and sexual messages of the original tale, but it was done in such a way that helped to retain the same implications about gender roles.

 Sources:

• "The Little Mermaid: Icon and Disneyfication"

http://eds.b.ebscohost.com/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=6e2395d4-c4b2-4571-88d3-e72741ddaee9%40sessionmgr114&vid=5&hid=101  

• Zipes (pg. 193 >)

• Images of Animated Others: The Orientalization of Disney's Cartoon Heroines From The LittleMermaid to The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Visual Media Project: I will be comparing the Ford and Rackham illustrations for "The Emperor's New Clothes."
 

emperors new clothes.doc