I think most of us are familiar with the movie Brave. It is being released by Pixar Movie. In this movie they challenge the norms that people have about princesses. The princess of this movie princess Merida does not feature the characteristic or feature that is being expected from Disney princess movie. She doesn’t have a long or straight hair she is also being featured as tomboy type of princess. She wanted to create her own path in the movie and she doesn’t want her life to be arranged by her parents. As her parents wish that she will be able to married to the a guy chosen by her parents. So I think in this movie she manage to go against the norm that the society have about the perfect daughter should be.
Her family doesn’t want her to be such a tomboy and wanted her to act like a princess. As she is very skilled archer which her parents think that such skilled in not fitting with her roles as a princess. In one of the scene, Princess Merida is able to outperform all the other male in an archery contest. It demonstrated that female is just physically as strong as the men. It also challenges the stereotype that only strong men can practice military skill. Beside that, in that scene her mother doesn’t wanted her to demonstrate her archery skill as the people wouldn’t want to married her because they are expecting the male should be stronger than the female. In other word, it mean that the husband should always be stronger than his wife.
Princess Merida does not have those expectation people have about princess. As in general, most of the princess will need to be rescue by their prince. Yet in this movie, princess Merida fight for herself and her family.
