Ok, I’ve been up late again and can’t sleep. So I started thinking (uh-oh).
But I rembered reading an article (I think it was in TV guide), about Disney characters and how many were motherless…the article was questioning if Disney had something against motherhood roles in its animated films.
According to the article many of the characters did not have mothers, they were either already dead or getting ready to get killed. If there was a mother figure in the movie she had a very small role or the mother was replaced with a stepmother who was always potrayed as being evil.
So being bored this late I tried my best to go back and remember all the main characters and tried to see if the argument was valid.
So here is what I came up with, if you can think of anyone else just input it. Maybe this useful info could come in handy for someone…like me.
Characters who had mothers were:
Dumbo: who was momentarily seperated from his mother were reunited in the end.
101 Dalmations: probably the only happy ending of both child and mother in any of the Disney films, here the mother figure was shown in a positive light.
Peter Pan: No mother, but Wendy and her brothers had a mother but her role was very miniscule.
Lion King: Not since 101 Dalmation has the mother role been seen in a positive light.
Mulan: Mother role very small. You’d think after Lion King that mother roles were coming back, but NOT!
Now for characters with no mothers or mothers didn’t last to the end:
Bambi: Mother died in the fire
Snow White: Mother died. Evil Stepmother
Cinderella: Mother died. Evil Stepmother
Pinocchio: No mother
Sleeping beauty: No mother
Peter Pan: No mother
The Jungle Book: No mother
The Sword and the Stone: No mother
The Rescuers: No mother
Beauty and the Beast: No mother
The Little Mermaid: No mother
Aladdin: No mother
Hunchback of Notre Dame: No mother
Tarzan: Mother killed.
Lilo and Stitch: No mother
Thats all I can come up with…so what do you think?
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