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

Scholarly Paper (Advanced Seminar) aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Kultur und Landeskunde, einseitig bedruckt, Note: 1,3, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin (Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik), Veranstaltung: The World According to Disney: Construction of Cultural Differences in American (Family-Oriented) Films, 24 Eintragungen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Englisch, 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.