• Jintu Alias

According to Ani Kojoyan, “fairy tales have been stories created by women, for women and about women”. But once they became a literary genre, the stories were misrepresented with an intention to perpetuate patriarchal ideologies and to sustain gender hierarchy. The female protagonists of the Disney Movies assert this notion through their portrayal of the “perfect princesses” who enforce and comply with the underlying chauvinism. The Disney princesses including Cinderella, Sleeping beauty or Aurora possess little agency. However, the 2013 animated film Frozen, successfully redefined its ingrained perceptions of a meek, docile and deferential princess. The movie effectually promotes and bolsters feminist ideals of equality and agency. Unlike the former cadaverous heroines, Elsa, the protagonist of the movie, frees herself from the ideological confinements and dauntlessly accepts her immense powers which have been stigmatized by her society as negative. The purpose of this study illustrates the change in Disney princess franchise and tries to prove that Frozen promotes a narrative of feminist ideals of equality, empowerment and female agency. The study investigates the feminist ideals portrayed in Frozen, from the perspective of visual and cultural representation, situating my analysis within the context of feminist studies.

Fairy tales, patriarchal ideologies, agency, feminism

"Against the Ivory Tower: The Movie Frozen as a Feminist Fairy tale", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.1078-1080, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907295.pdf

"Against the Ivory Tower: The Movie Frozen as a Feminist Fairy tale", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp1078-1080, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907295.pdf