Gender Stereotype
- Aurora: Princess Aurora was represented as a sensitive, innocent, weak and emotional. This is shown by breaking into tears when a problem occurred, the dreams she had about meeting her true love and lying down waiting the strong and powerful prince to come and save her. Thus, showing women as weak and helpless, always waiting for heroine males to come and save them.
- Prince Philip: Prince Phillip is the love interest of Princess Aurora and the leading male protagonist of Disney's 1959 film Sleeping Beauty. Phillip is known to be brave and heroic, he appears to be fairly easygoing. At times, he is able to subtly persuade people to do as he wants.
- Flora, Fauna, and Marryweather: Three main characters of “Sleeping Beauty” are the Good Fairies, On Princess Aurora’s 16th birthday, the three fairies tried to bake a cake and sew a dress without using magic, yet they failed and the only solution was using magic. Thus, the message behind those scenes is making children understand that life is difficult. This in turn, creates a fantasy world for children to live in illusions, in a world of magic and dreams that would never come true. This eventually, will make children uncertain about what is real and what is not.
- King Stefan: Stefan is portrayed as a humble figure, living father, and the more forceful side of the kingdom's monarchy consisting of himself and his queen, Leah. When confronted by Maleficent, he remained silent, mostly, but with a stern, and fairly intimidating expression. Aside from that scene, Stefan is mostly seen as a soft-spoken man; specifically during his scenes with the more boastful King Hurbert
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