The Logical Way to Look at Disney Princesses
Disclaimer: I do not own any fairy tales that the Princesses are in, nor do I own Disney, The Brothers Grim (original writers of these stories), or anything that has done a spinoff of these fairy tales.
Summary: Each chapter is just set up for one princess each and will go on until I cannot think of anymore Disney Princesses.
Chapter one: Cinderella
As many know Cinderella is about a young girl, who happens to be the only blood daughter of a count, who lives with her step mother and her two step sisters. After her father dies, her step mother takes over and turns her into the house keeper. This is some of the elements though out all versions of this story that have not changed. These elements would still make Cinderella nobility.
What is left of her family basically treats her like crap and she becomes humble because of it. The reason is that the step mother wants to keep her as a maid while her daughters marry royalty. In the Disney version, it only gives the reasoning of the step mother being evil and envious of Cinderella's beauty. Those are not very good reasons to stop a person from marrying a prince that she had just met, but what the hay, it is a children's story after all. Just meeting a prince is not a very good reason to marry him, but again this is a children's story. Children will not think of these things when they first see them, it is like dangling a shiny thing in front of the child's face or giving them unrealistic hopes.
This sets up my problem with this story, there would have been plenty of things she could have done other then go to a ball in hopes of marrying a stranger. She was educated like a noble before her father died. She could have used her knowledge how to get around the house that she uses while cleaning to take some of her inherited money that her greedy stepmother keeps to herself, put on better cloths, used this opportunity to sneak out of the house, leave the town because the stepmother and the stepsisters were gone for hours, and used her actual status as a noble to start her own practice as a semesters or open a restaurant. She has the education and the skills to do it. This would have been one thousand times better then hoping to marry a prince one day or staying with three horrible people who treat you like crap under the roof that should be inherently yours and not theirs.
My problem is not that she is lazy; it is that she does not use the skills and intellect she has to free herself without the use of a prince or mice. If she is unable to do that, she could just kick them out of her home, since it is HER home.
Next princess: Snow White