Disney Movies have been everyone’s favourite. Me being a girl and now a girl’s mother, have ensured that I have watched each of those movies innumerable times and those characters have somewhere shaped my actions and reactions to various situations.
So, here’s what I have learnt from 5 Disney Princesses.
1. Cinderella
Cinderella is a story of a girl who gets to her prince with the help of her fairy godmother and her friends- a dog, mice and birds. It’s one of the most favourite stories and its popularity can be known by the fact that Disney made a new movie this year on this princess!
Apart from the fact the loving animals can help you become a princess one day, the key thing of this movie that has remained with me is its first song, A dream is a wish your heart makes…If you keep on believing, the dream that you wish will come true. In this day and age, when so many scholars are talking about positivity of life, here’s a 1950 movie, which has been teaching the exact things to the kids! Isn’t this what Rhonda Byrne talks about in The Secret, released in 2006?
Cinderella hopes and dreams of a good future, and she gets it. And so we all can, if we keep believing in our dreams.
2. Snow White
Now, this is a 1937 movie and probably that’s why this is the only princess that looks too young. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is the story of a princess whose evil mother wants to kill her because the mirror says that Snow White is the most beautiful. Snow White finds refuge with the Seven Dwarfs and they eventually throw the evil Queen down the valley and get Snow White back to life.
Honestly, I find Snow White to be one of the most childish Disney princesses and hence there’s nothing in her style or demeanour that pleases me. However, what I do love is the Seven Dwarfs. All 7 of them have different personalities, and yet they are one. Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy and Dopey are adorable and tell us how a family show be. They walk together, they work together, they sleep together, they sing together and they have lots of fun together. No riches of life can bring so much happiness as can the closeness and love of family members.
3. Ariel
The Little Mermaid was released in 1989 and Disney surely made one of its most beautiful princess then. Ariel is a mermaid who doesn’t like being under the water and dreams of a life like a human. Things follow and she ends up as a Princess, transformed into a human being.
I guess the Little Mermaid is the only Disney movie, which has focussed so much on the love factor between the two protagonists. A handsome prince (one of the most handsome Disney Prince), a beautiful princess, this movie is surely a must-watch for all romantic die-hards. There is this one scene in which Ariel is holding a fainted Prince in her arms and singing to him. The passion in her voice is so much that the voice gets etched in the Prince’s memory and without even remembering Ariel’s face, he falls in love with her. The sacrifices Ariel makes to reach to her prince, it is one of the most powerful animated love stories one could see!
4.Beauty
Beauty and the Beast was released in 1991. Beast is actually a Prince under a spell. The spell can only be broken, if he falls in love. Destiny brings Beauty to his palace and they both fall in love. The beast becomes Prince again and they live happily ever after.
We all have some amount of beast in us. None of us is lucky enough to have the perfect Prince in our life. Either by fear or by choice, we make ourselves get closer to the beast we love. The Beauty in us lets us hang on to our love, no matter how ugly his beast-ful side is. Ultimately, the true prince does come out and we are back to feeling lucky and happy!
This shift between the Beauty and Beast side of our loved ones and even in our own selves continue forever. The mantra is to know that this side is just temporary, the other one will show up soon!
5. Rapunzel
Tangled is one of the most recent ones. Released in 2010, this is a story of a Princess who has magic hair. A wicked lady steals her from the palace and lives with her in a tower house. Rapunzel, with the help of floating lights and a thief, gets to her real parents.
If I am not wrong, then this is the first Disney movie, where the male protagonist is not a Prince. In fact, he is a thief! It’s a likeable movie, in fact a very sweet movie. However, my best scene of the movie is where Rapunzel is struggling with her own thoughts when she steps down from her tower. “She will hate me” “this is the best day of my life” She is scared, yet so happy. She cries and laughs all at the same time. And that’s what makes Rapunzel so real.
All of us go through these diverse emotions every now and then. The best part is that she chooses to do what she wanted to do, leaving her doubts and fears behind. And that’s what should keep all of us going, isn’t it?
Disney princesses are all so lovable and they teach us such wonderful things; I am glad my girl loves them as much as I do. If you have interesting stories to share of your favourite Disney Princess, then do write in!
very educative well done