Individual Otherness in Disney's "The Little Mermaid" with Regard to Social Hierarchy and Gender E-Book

Hanna M. Stoll

• Herausgeber: GRIN Verlag
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2006

Beschreibung

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: The World According to Disney: Construction of Cultural Differences in American (Family-Oriented) Films, language: English, abstract: “Individual Otherness in The Little Mermaid with Regard to Social Hierarchy and Gender” deals with the role of royal characters and how they relate to so called non-elite figures. Additionally, male and female stereotyped characters will be examined with regard to royal male figures and superior and inferior female ones. The last point will be a discussion of the good-bad relationship by concentrating exclusively on Ariel and Ursula.