All right, first off a little history about myself. When I was a little girl I used to enjoy the little mermaid. Ariel was actually one of my preferito Disney princesses/movies.
Now that I am older however, I have just recently watched the little mermaid one, two and the third movie which is Ariel's beginning.
I couldn't believe what an awful role model she is and how selfish she is. I searched on the internet to find others with my similar view on her and I stumbled across this articolo here: link
My articolo here is solely debunking everything this particular person is going on about and finally displaying my evidence as to why Ariel is a selfish and poor role model.
The argument begins with Persephone713 explaining that people are using the word ‘selfish’ wrongly and that anyone who says so is not a true Ariel fan. I’d like to clear up right away that I am not an Ariel fan simply because I do not like characters who are bad people.
I used to enjoy her, yes, when I was a naive child who couldn’t see through all the fancy songs and cinematic stimulation. But I’ve grown and I’m not blinded da ‘hate’ o ‘loyalty’ in my new opinion of her.
Selfish means: “One who is devoted to caring for oneself and ones interests, regardless of others.”
Ariel displays her selfishness the very first early stages of her life. (Ariel’s Beginning) She deliberately disobeys her father’s order throughout the entire movie all because she’s ‘bored’ and wants to have ‘fun’.
1.) In the beginning of the movie, Ariel (15) is bored and complains about wanting to do something else instead of just walking with her family which they do every morning as a tradition. Her sisters are against her idea because they don’t want to get in trouble. So, she tries to bring it up with her father, but when she’s denied that she goes ahead and fools around anyways. Despite potentially getting her sisters in trouble. Why did she do this? Because it’s not about what her sisters want o her father it’s about what she wants.
2.) Another example is when Ariel stumbles across the Musica club and promises that she won’t tell anyone. But the very same giorno she returns home she’s tells ALL of her sisters. She does so because ‘she’ wants to share that with them and she doesn’t even THINK about her promise to the other members of the club o what would happen if they were caught. Which is 10,000% più likely when it involves every single one of King Triton's daughters.
3.) In the end because of her ignorance and selfish wants. Everyone eventually gets caught and all the band members are put in prison and the rest of her sisters are confined to the castle. Which she shows absolutely no remorse o regret for. Instead she attacks her father on his decision and brings up their mother... which is an excruciatingly painful subject for Triton.
All of her sisters can see the damage she caused their father and they all mostra that they care da telling her to stop because she’s making things worse. Ariel’s older sister Attina tells her that she just doesn’t know when to quit. But despite upsetting all of them and even her father... Ariel selfishly runs away because she can’t get what she wants from her father o her sisters. She LEAVES... all the while knowing how much she means to her father and that he had already suffered through the loss of his wife.
4.) Only at the end of the movie when Sebastian showed her the trinket that belonged to her parents, did she finally mostra some resemblance of care for her father and what he was going through. And even then she didn’t feel sorry for what all she had done and all the trouble she had caused. Instead she decided that she needed to mostra her father the trinket in order to bring back the ‘happiness he lost’ which is a very ignorant thought.
In fact Ariel does not achieve anything throughout this movie with the exception of getting her selfish want of Musica and a break in the boring, routine, structure her strict father had placed upon her and her sisters in Atlantica. The only reason her father changes his mind is due to the fact that Ariel is hit da torpedo-Marina and knocked unconscious thus causing King Triton to relive the death of his wife. I would go so far to say that it had nothing to do with the trinket and everything to do with a new found FEAR within the King that he may lose his rebellious fifteen anno old daughter if he doesn’t give in to her desires and whims.
5.) Which brings us to the successivo movie: The Little Mermaid. It takes place a anno later with Ariel now 16 years old and being completely absent to the hugely important concert, that she was staring in, taking place at that very moment. Sebastian even states that Ariel never even bothers to come to rehearsals. Ariel is no longer interested in the Musica that she had fought so hard for just a anno ago. If te will that was ‘so yesterday’ and now her newest interest was the humans and their trinkets. We see the exact same scenario playing out again as she sings about the stuff she has collected and how it isn’t enough—she wants more. She wants to be up there with the humans which is, ironically, the secondo thing her father has forbidden within the kingdom. Now is it just me o is this starting to REALLY sound like a rebellious teenager who wants all of the things that her daddy says ‘no’ to?
6.) Ariel is seen with her friend Flounder, who she’s seen clearly bullying and manipulating to have her own way which is to explore the ship. platessa, passera pianuzza is clearly frightened and just wants to leave, and Ariel’s solution is to più o less scare him into continuing to follow her.
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Now I’ve seen arguments of others saying that she does care for her friend because when the squalo is attacking she goes back for him. We’ll I’m here to explain, that is completely invalid because SHE was the one who put him in that position in the first place. Why? Because SHE wanted to explore the ship. It wasn’t about the safety of her friend, that is not what mattered to her.
7.) successivo is when she remembers the concerto and returns to her father. She apologizes, but her sincerity isn’t there. Through her expression and how she lashes out moments after being scolded, mostra that she didn’t really care. She didn’t care that her father, her sisters and Sebastian were completely humiliated da her absence.
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Even as Sebastian scolds her further she has the same uncaring expression. It’s like she’s treating the whole thing as a joke and doesn’t see why they are getting on her case so badly. She ‘forgot’ and detto she was ‘sorry’ wasn’t that enough to put the whole thing behind them.
8.) platessa, passera pianuzza comes to her rescue at that point and tries to protect her, but accidently speaks of the seagull getting her più in trouble and she has the nerve to get momentarily angry at him.
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Then she has the audacity after what she’s done with the concerto to snap at her father and treat his concern again like it wasn’t a big deal. That she’s old enough to take care of herself and for him to più o less get off her back. Which is extremely selfish dato the fact that the reason why her father has forbid interacting with humans is because her mother was KILLED da humans. But that of course doesn’t at all matter to her. What matters is simply what she wants.
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9.) Now to debunk a few things detto in that other article. The person who wrote it Citazioni Ariel saying “If I become human I will never get to be with my father o sisters again.” This supposedly means she cares deeply for them. But this is the only time in the entire movie te see her think about that and to superiore, in alto it off after she says that Ursula tells her that she’ll have her man and that life is full of tough choices. In the end Ariel picks a man she’s only ever met once and never looks back.
10.) This one irks me the most. The person quoted Ariel saying “Daddy I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to. I DIDN’T KNOW.” Which is a ball faced lie. Ursula explained the ENTIRE scenario to Ariel and she KNEW 100% that Ursula was an evil witch. But she went ahead anyways to get what SHE wanted and didn’t care about the consequences o how it would affect everyone around her. She was just thinking about herself. The end.
Conclusion:
I am not saying Ariel didn’t care at all about anyone around her, but I am saying that she is selfish and caused a lot of damage to get what she want. It doesn’t matter if everything worked out in the end of the Film because that is simply placed there for the desired ‘happy ending’.
It also doesn’t matter if she sincerely detto “I Amore te daddy” at the end of the movie because ACTIONS speak much louder than words.
Ending Notes:
I’m sure people will argue over stupid things and nit-pick at this and that. But the evidence is all there throughout those two Film she was the main character in. te just need to open your mature little minds to see it.
Now that I am older however, I have just recently watched the little mermaid one, two and the third movie which is Ariel's beginning.
I couldn't believe what an awful role model she is and how selfish she is. I searched on the internet to find others with my similar view on her and I stumbled across this articolo here: link
My articolo here is solely debunking everything this particular person is going on about and finally displaying my evidence as to why Ariel is a selfish and poor role model.
The argument begins with Persephone713 explaining that people are using the word ‘selfish’ wrongly and that anyone who says so is not a true Ariel fan. I’d like to clear up right away that I am not an Ariel fan simply because I do not like characters who are bad people.
I used to enjoy her, yes, when I was a naive child who couldn’t see through all the fancy songs and cinematic stimulation. But I’ve grown and I’m not blinded da ‘hate’ o ‘loyalty’ in my new opinion of her.
Selfish means: “One who is devoted to caring for oneself and ones interests, regardless of others.”
Ariel displays her selfishness the very first early stages of her life. (Ariel’s Beginning) She deliberately disobeys her father’s order throughout the entire movie all because she’s ‘bored’ and wants to have ‘fun’.
1.) In the beginning of the movie, Ariel (15) is bored and complains about wanting to do something else instead of just walking with her family which they do every morning as a tradition. Her sisters are against her idea because they don’t want to get in trouble. So, she tries to bring it up with her father, but when she’s denied that she goes ahead and fools around anyways. Despite potentially getting her sisters in trouble. Why did she do this? Because it’s not about what her sisters want o her father it’s about what she wants.
2.) Another example is when Ariel stumbles across the Musica club and promises that she won’t tell anyone. But the very same giorno she returns home she’s tells ALL of her sisters. She does so because ‘she’ wants to share that with them and she doesn’t even THINK about her promise to the other members of the club o what would happen if they were caught. Which is 10,000% più likely when it involves every single one of King Triton's daughters.
3.) In the end because of her ignorance and selfish wants. Everyone eventually gets caught and all the band members are put in prison and the rest of her sisters are confined to the castle. Which she shows absolutely no remorse o regret for. Instead she attacks her father on his decision and brings up their mother... which is an excruciatingly painful subject for Triton.
All of her sisters can see the damage she caused their father and they all mostra that they care da telling her to stop because she’s making things worse. Ariel’s older sister Attina tells her that she just doesn’t know when to quit. But despite upsetting all of them and even her father... Ariel selfishly runs away because she can’t get what she wants from her father o her sisters. She LEAVES... all the while knowing how much she means to her father and that he had already suffered through the loss of his wife.
4.) Only at the end of the movie when Sebastian showed her the trinket that belonged to her parents, did she finally mostra some resemblance of care for her father and what he was going through. And even then she didn’t feel sorry for what all she had done and all the trouble she had caused. Instead she decided that she needed to mostra her father the trinket in order to bring back the ‘happiness he lost’ which is a very ignorant thought.
In fact Ariel does not achieve anything throughout this movie with the exception of getting her selfish want of Musica and a break in the boring, routine, structure her strict father had placed upon her and her sisters in Atlantica. The only reason her father changes his mind is due to the fact that Ariel is hit da torpedo-Marina and knocked unconscious thus causing King Triton to relive the death of his wife. I would go so far to say that it had nothing to do with the trinket and everything to do with a new found FEAR within the King that he may lose his rebellious fifteen anno old daughter if he doesn’t give in to her desires and whims.
5.) Which brings us to the successivo movie: The Little Mermaid. It takes place a anno later with Ariel now 16 years old and being completely absent to the hugely important concert, that she was staring in, taking place at that very moment. Sebastian even states that Ariel never even bothers to come to rehearsals. Ariel is no longer interested in the Musica that she had fought so hard for just a anno ago. If te will that was ‘so yesterday’ and now her newest interest was the humans and their trinkets. We see the exact same scenario playing out again as she sings about the stuff she has collected and how it isn’t enough—she wants more. She wants to be up there with the humans which is, ironically, the secondo thing her father has forbidden within the kingdom. Now is it just me o is this starting to REALLY sound like a rebellious teenager who wants all of the things that her daddy says ‘no’ to?
6.) Ariel is seen with her friend Flounder, who she’s seen clearly bullying and manipulating to have her own way which is to explore the ship. platessa, passera pianuzza is clearly frightened and just wants to leave, and Ariel’s solution is to più o less scare him into continuing to follow her.
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Now I’ve seen arguments of others saying that she does care for her friend because when the squalo is attacking she goes back for him. We’ll I’m here to explain, that is completely invalid because SHE was the one who put him in that position in the first place. Why? Because SHE wanted to explore the ship. It wasn’t about the safety of her friend, that is not what mattered to her.
7.) successivo is when she remembers the concerto and returns to her father. She apologizes, but her sincerity isn’t there. Through her expression and how she lashes out moments after being scolded, mostra that she didn’t really care. She didn’t care that her father, her sisters and Sebastian were completely humiliated da her absence.
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Even as Sebastian scolds her further she has the same uncaring expression. It’s like she’s treating the whole thing as a joke and doesn’t see why they are getting on her case so badly. She ‘forgot’ and detto she was ‘sorry’ wasn’t that enough to put the whole thing behind them.
8.) platessa, passera pianuzza comes to her rescue at that point and tries to protect her, but accidently speaks of the seagull getting her più in trouble and she has the nerve to get momentarily angry at him.
link
Then she has the audacity after what she’s done with the concerto to snap at her father and treat his concern again like it wasn’t a big deal. That she’s old enough to take care of herself and for him to più o less get off her back. Which is extremely selfish dato the fact that the reason why her father has forbid interacting with humans is because her mother was KILLED da humans. But that of course doesn’t at all matter to her. What matters is simply what she wants.
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9.) Now to debunk a few things detto in that other article. The person who wrote it Citazioni Ariel saying “If I become human I will never get to be with my father o sisters again.” This supposedly means she cares deeply for them. But this is the only time in the entire movie te see her think about that and to superiore, in alto it off after she says that Ursula tells her that she’ll have her man and that life is full of tough choices. In the end Ariel picks a man she’s only ever met once and never looks back.
10.) This one irks me the most. The person quoted Ariel saying “Daddy I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to. I DIDN’T KNOW.” Which is a ball faced lie. Ursula explained the ENTIRE scenario to Ariel and she KNEW 100% that Ursula was an evil witch. But she went ahead anyways to get what SHE wanted and didn’t care about the consequences o how it would affect everyone around her. She was just thinking about herself. The end.
Conclusion:
I am not saying Ariel didn’t care at all about anyone around her, but I am saying that she is selfish and caused a lot of damage to get what she want. It doesn’t matter if everything worked out in the end of the Film because that is simply placed there for the desired ‘happy ending’.
It also doesn’t matter if she sincerely detto “I Amore te daddy” at the end of the movie because ACTIONS speak much louder than words.
Ending Notes:
I’m sure people will argue over stupid things and nit-pick at this and that. But the evidence is all there throughout those two Film she was the main character in. te just need to open your mature little minds to see it.
In this articolo we wrote about Megara's opinion on the princesses with her personality at the END of the movie.
This articolo was written collectively by: princesslullaby, diluka96, DreamyGal, cromulanfav, JonnaSe, & Doggy
10.Aurora
Megara would think Aurora is the typical air-headed Amore obsessed blonde girl that she's trying to avoid. I t would bother her that Aurora is so sensitive, that she just started crying when fate told her she has to marry prince. Aurora might remind Megara of the girl who ha rubato, stola her boyfriend away.
9.Snow White
Megara would find Snow White too perky-positive,...
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This articolo was written collectively by: princesslullaby, diluka96, DreamyGal, cromulanfav, JonnaSe, & Doggy
10.Aurora
Megara would think Aurora is the typical air-headed Amore obsessed blonde girl that she's trying to avoid. I t would bother her that Aurora is so sensitive, that she just started crying when fate told her she has to marry prince. Aurora might remind Megara of the girl who ha rubato, stola her boyfriend away.
9.Snow White
Megara would find Snow White too perky-positive,...
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, the anticipated, the nerve-wrecking...
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Jayden-G
No doubt about it, he's very logical, down-to-earth, intelligent, creative, and has a great sense of humor! He seems like the kind of person who could grow up as a writer o journalist, and always works hard. This guy, like Roger Radcliffe, will never give up!
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Mongoose09
She's bold (literally),...
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Ack. This looks girly, I know. But I was in a rush, and I really liked this and so I just smacked on some fonts and... tadaaaa!
Let us start with...
Jayden-G
No doubt about it, he's very logical, down-to-earth, intelligent, creative, and has a great sense of humor! He seems like the kind of person who could grow up as a writer o journalist, and always works hard. This guy, like Roger Radcliffe, will never give up!
Next up is...
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Mongoose09
She's bold (literally),...
I already made one on Canto so I thought I'd sposta on to speaking..sooo yeah..This will probably be really short since I can't say much other than "ew te suck" o "you're pretty cool", so I decided to just do descriptions under the pictures because it's so much easier that way. Oh yeah and I'm not including Anna/Elsa since sorting out eleven voices is hard enough and I can't figure out where I'd place them. If I had to choose Anna would probably be around seventh and Elsa would be around tenth. Tell me what your lista would look like in the comments! Thanks for Leggere :)
11. Mulan-Finally a list that doesn't have Belle or Ariel at the bottom. Her voice is the only one that slightly annoys me. I just don't find it very emotional or interesting.
10. Belle-Well, Belle can only go so high when I'm making a list, but I'm really not being bias. Her voice still has a bit of annoyance to it and it doesn't really fit the character imho.
9. Ariel-Now we're to the voices I like. Ariel's voice is nice, but she has a bit of an accent that I don't really like. It's pretty expressive though.
8. Pocahontas-The only list you won't find Pocahontas high on. I love her movie, her personality, her beauty, her music, but her voice is just alright. It's not very expressive in my opinion, but it can convey excitement and anger, which I like.
7. Rapunzel-She's got a nice voice. Very expressive, very emotional, very wispy. It's just too typical to me. Her voice isn't anything unique compared to the ones above her.
6. Tiana-Tiana deserves a place in the top 5, but she just barely missed out. Now we're to the voices I LOVE. Tiana's voice is so rich and emotional. I really love it.
5. Merida-Merida's reached my top 5 for something! I love Merida's voice. It's so unique, so expressive. I can tell when she's sad or happy without even watching her.
4. Cinderella-I wanted to put her lower, but her voice is just so calming. It's like honey and I just love the way people spoke back in the olden days.
3. Aurora-My top 3 are far and away my favorites. I just love Aurora's voice. The maturity, the emotion, the pefectness of it is just so amazing. Her voice really fits her character.
2. Jasmine-I've recently become obsessed with Jasmine's voice. I literally spent an entire day just listening to her voice over and over again. While it's starting to wear off, I still love it. It's a bit nasally, but I love it anyway.
1. Snow White-I'm sure by now you all have seen my obsession with Snow White blossom recently. I'm basically obsessed with all things Snow White, and her voice is no different. HER LAUGH AHH. Her voice is just the sweetest thing I've ever heard.
Rapunzel’s brow lowered in determination, and she reached out…
I just wanted to write a lista but I remembered that I have already write one with the Prettiest Female Heroines in the Childhood Animated Movie Heroines club (the link is at the comments). I didn't want to write the same things about the same princesses, so I'll mention only the princesses that I don't think they are so beautiful. Let's begin.
Anna
Placement in my Prettiest Disney Princess List: 13th
Sorry Anna! I just don't find her so pretty. I don't like her nose and her lips are too thin. I like her eyes, their color is amazing, but sometimes they look kinda odd, like they're too close...
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Anna
Placement in my Prettiest Disney Princess List: 13th
Sorry Anna! I just don't find her so pretty. I don't like her nose and her lips are too thin. I like her eyes, their color is amazing, but sometimes they look kinda odd, like they're too close...
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Here's my countdown of my preferito princesses!
My decisions aren't set in stone- they change every other week! So, this isn't permanent- except for the lucky princess who ha rubato, stola first place! ;)
10. Tiana
I like that Tiana brings in variation to the line up. I Amore her- she has a strong determination, she's smart and she does have a little humour in her. Her loyalty to her father is so sweet, she never gives up on her father's dream :') The movie just goes downhill for me when she turns into a frog, it goes downhill- she loses...
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My decisions aren't set in stone- they change every other week! So, this isn't permanent- except for the lucky princess who ha rubato, stola first place! ;)
"I like that Tiana brings in variation to the line up."
10. Tiana
I like that Tiana brings in variation to the line up. I Amore her- she has a strong determination, she's smart and she does have a little humour in her. Her loyalty to her father is so sweet, she never gives up on her father's dream :') The movie just goes downhill for me when she turns into a frog, it goes downhill- she loses...
♥ Excuse my laziness. I'm fucking tired.
9. Aurora
They should call her A-bore-a. Hahahahahaha. I have a comedic gift. That was so punny. Anyway, te snooze te lose and since that's exactly what she did for the majority of the film, she gets ninth spot. She seems very sweet and is extremely pretty though. She actually has one really funny moment that people seem to forget.
Phillip: When will I see te again?
Aurora: Oh never! Never!
Phillip: Never?
Aurora: Well, maybe someday.
Phillip: When, tomorrow?
Aurora: Oh no! This evening!
8. Tiana
She's super cute as a kid and has an awesome solo...
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9. Aurora
They should call her A-bore-a. Hahahahahaha. I have a comedic gift. That was so punny. Anyway, te snooze te lose and since that's exactly what she did for the majority of the film, she gets ninth spot. She seems very sweet and is extremely pretty though. She actually has one really funny moment that people seem to forget.
Phillip: When will I see te again?
Aurora: Oh never! Never!
Phillip: Never?
Aurora: Well, maybe someday.
Phillip: When, tomorrow?
Aurora: Oh no! This evening!
8. Tiana
She's super cute as a kid and has an awesome solo...
I've written this type of articolo before, but I haven't ranked my preferito songs from each DP Movie yet so I decided to give it a try, also decided to do this so I could add songs from Ribelle - The Brave and Frozen which I didn't do in my precedente articolo since I wrote it before the Film where released. I don't dislike any of these songs so just because a song is last on this lista it doesn't mean that I don't like that song. So anyway let's get started :D
12. A Whole New World
Just a few years fa this song was very popolare and very overrated imo, while majority of people has realised that this song...
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12. A Whole New World
Just a few years fa this song was very popolare and very overrated imo, while majority of people has realised that this song...
Okay, this is da far the EASIEST list- WAAAYY easier than my link. I change my mind ALL the time but I think I can be content with this list. Let me just kick if off and say that NONE of them are ugly.. some are just prettier than others. :-P Now, let's get on with it...
10. Rapunzel
Okay, I think that her eyes are so MASSIVE! Also her head is too big for her body. Unless she has a REGULAR head but a SMALL body? o.O She looks so young- maybe 13?- she definitely does not look 18. On the bright side, she'll Amore it when she's older! She looks cute and pretty in half the scenes, the others...
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10. Rapunzel
Okay, I think that her eyes are so MASSIVE! Also her head is too big for her body. Unless she has a REGULAR head but a SMALL body? o.O She looks so young- maybe 13?- she definitely does not look 18. On the bright side, she'll Amore it when she's older! She looks cute and pretty in half the scenes, the others...
Meet the band (Found off of Pinterest)
