Mulan essay examples

Hayden Ikerd Mr. Wheeler AP Literature 12 April, 2013 Thomas Foster’s Themes Traced in Mulan In his book How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas Foster explains many reoccurring themes in literature, and shows how to recognize them and in some instances shows certain works where they occur.

However, Disney’s movie Mulan countervails these stereotypes as the main character and protagonist, Mulan, acts as a symbol of resilience by resisting the gender roles placed on her by society and as a result, is seen as a hero. Throughout the movie Mulan, there are many instances when women's gender stereotypes are present as well are reinforced.

Mulan’s Stereotypes While many people pride Mulan as being a movie in which gender stereotypes are broken, all this focus ends up doing is distracting people from many of the other stereotypes within the movie. In Mulan the character, designers, and writers make many of...

The emperor orders that new soldiers be drafted. Mulan, a girl who recently humiliated her family by failing the Matchmaker’s assessment, in order to save her aging father from death at war, steals her father’s armor and masquerades as a soldier.