• M. Aishwarya

Fairy tales have been an inevitable part of everyone’s childhood. Through it’s fantasy and romance, fairy tales have instilled certain stereotypes in the minds of the children. With all these false notions of a probable ‘Prince charming’ and a ‘happily ever after’ life, the teenagers tend to approach life with unreal expectations. Most fairy tales have the same structure of plot, with a ‘Damsel in Distress’, a Witch, a Prince charming to save the Damsel in Distress. Frozen is a movie that breaks all these stereotypes, nevertheless has all those magic and fantasy pertaining to a fairy tale. This paper attempts to show how the protagonist of this movie Elsa, evolves into a ‘Damsel’ who can let herself out of the ‘distress’. This paper elaborates on the feministic portrayal of Elsa and Anna. This movie also shows the nature of real love. Anna, who is waiting for the ‘true love’s kiss’ to save her, realises that neither Prince Hans nor Kristoff is her true love. When Elsa saves Anna, it is revealed that it was Elsa who is the true love of Anna. Anna for her whole life thought, it is a man who is capable of being ‘A true love’ of a woman. But this story breaks all these stereotypes and emerges into a feministic fairy tale.

feminism, deconstruction, stereotypes

"Breaking the Stereotype of ‘Damsel in Distress’ : Frozen, a Feministic Fairy Tale", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no.65-67, March-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAF06017.pdf

"Breaking the Stereotype of ‘Damsel in Distress’ : Frozen, a Feministic Fairy Tale", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no. pp65-67, March-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAF06017.pdf