In the end, ( SPOILERS!) Merida rescues her mom and herself rather than needing the rescuing (if you ignore the part where she needs her three younger brothers to help her escape from her room in which her dad locked her). At least she doesn’t wear pink or long for prince charming or needs to be rescued by prince charming, so there was some deviation from the princess trope. Much has already been written about Brave as yet another princess movie with the untapped potential of actually crushing gender stereotypes. In the Pixar movie Brave, which opened last week, the heroine is a young woman named Merida who is, of course, a princess. I’m actually not sure why Merida is even a princess except that the story is set it in medieval Scotland (and now she can be added to the Disney princess line-up and not be relegated to the sidelines like Mulan). Pixar finally released a film starring a female lead! In this post, Stephanie Medley-Rath explains how there are many reasons for marriage as illustrated in the film, Brave. Why do people get married? Love, right? Maybe not. Originally published at Sociology in Focus on June 27, 2012
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