Women Equity Strive in Society Depicted through Animation Film Characters

Carlo Yannick Leon,Emilia Schmidt

doi:10.12928/notion.v3i2.4818

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to identify the female representation depicted in the Disney Renaissance and to investigate why Disney characters struggle to claim their equity as women in their society. The research methods used in this study are classified as qualitative and descriptive. The documentation method and taking notes techniques are used to collect data. The research also employs two method concepts to analyze the collected data, including a gender equity approach analysis and Simone de Beauvoir's second-wave feminism theory. The data consists of linguistic units from various Disney Renaissance stories. The writer discovered three parts in the description of female representations based on data analysis of the female representations depicted in Disney Renaissance: rebel, wise, and adventurous women; confident, intelligent, and repellent of domestication women; and masculine, loyal, and ambitious women. Furthermore, data analysis of Disney characters' struggles in claiming their equality as women in their society reveals that they outperform patriarchal expectations, reject domestication, and practice emancipation by appropriating masculine attributes and roles.

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Literature is written communication whether, in the form of poetry, drama, or fiction, and it always communicates human experience and uses narrative devices[1]
In the 1960s, women expended the courage and determination to seek equal opportunities, pay, advancements in the workplace and society
This research uses qualitative and descriptive research methods with a literature review taken from selected Disney Renaissance Stories

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Literature is written communication whether, in the form of poetry, drama, or fiction, and it always communicates human experience and uses narrative devices[1]. Film and literature are two different things with the same goal of creating the greatness of human imagination and understanding. Both film and literature work together to promote the progress of human civilization. One cannot replace the other, like letters and sounds in human communication. Film and literature inspire each other and sustain the human mind through actions, pictures, words, and replicating human life

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