How do you think about Disney?

Have you heard any story from Disney? Is your child addicted to the fairy tale world? When I was a child, I was also attracted to fantasy stories. However, while I grew up, I realized everything is different from the stories I read. I start thinking about what’s the real life be, how they affect me. Parents usually thought Disney fairy tale can bring children happily and satisfy, but they never know it influences their children deeply, not only belief but also behavior. Those stories make children have deviant behavior, believing illusion and they never know what real life is going to be after the happy ending. In fact, Disney fairy tales influence children negatively.

We all know “Snow White,” which is the most famous fairytale in the world. The princess whose beautiful appearance was jealousy by the evil queen then suffered murder. But actually the title of the story is “Snow White and the seven dwarves,” so the evil queen and Prince “Charming” weren’t the main point of the whole story. Nevertheless, recalling how did Snow met the seven dwarves: she entered a strange house rudely and slept deeply on the bed she didn’t know who own these. According to it, we can figure out she is a person who really impolite and without a sense of crisis. She influences children to consider that irrupt someone’s house unauthorized could be fine and they won’t concern about whether here is a safety or not. The other weird stuff that normal maiden won’t do in the story stays with seven strangers. I don’t think this would be okay for any father tells the bedtime story to his daughter. Disney princess truly influences children’s behavior a lot, they’ll probably think those manners are fine and allow; because these men are nice so she can live with them? This is not a correct “pro-social” behavior. Children won’t know if one day they will occur any problem even more dangerous situation. This deviant story is affecting children’s behavior.

These are not the biggest illusion problem I want to talk about. In most of Disney fairy tales, the princess is weak and beautiful. “Sleeping Beauty” is a good example of this. She was depicted as extremely demure, rarely taking a proactive stance in the story. She just waits for the prince that she only met once and come to kiss her then break the curse until the ending. It makes little girls dream about that they don’t need to do anything then someday there will be a guy fall in love with her and give her a true love kiss to save her whole life. On the other hand, little boy should be a hero and save girls. They are going to face lots of challenges just for a girl he might never have met her before. Little boys imagine their girlfriend even wife should be the most beautiful woman in the world in the future, and get her without afraid any difficulty. Therefore, it also makes them fantasize to be a hero of a pretty woman. Children believing illusion cause the fairytales seriously, aren’t they?

Children don’t know about the real life after the happy ending. Prince and princess lived happily ever after,” every fairytale give this wonderful ending. The problem in married life is much more than being single. In the case of Disney’s stories, the princess is obedient and weak, all of them need to be protect by a prince. She seems can’t survive without princes, once they lost him, she’ll get into trouble. But in real life, marriage needs mutual to maintain. Some children just dream about fall in love with his/her “charming” and get married to him/her. They thought this is the awesome conclusion for their life, but it is totally wrong. In fact, they’re starting a new life that more difficult than they consider before. We can still give an example from the fairytale characters but it doesn’t show after the end: prince and princess become king and queen of the kingdom. The king would be so busy with lots of affairs, it proves the king must have no time to accompany with the queen, they might get some problem just doesn’t let children know that.