01:470:225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: List Of The Little Mermaid Characters, Consumerism, Sea Foam
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Suggests a movement up to the air. Play on shakespeare , character from the tempest. Moving down down down, air water below surface. Move more down, becomes increasingly more male. King triton under the sea, hyper masculine, looks like the beast in beauty in the beast, big, triangle looking physique. Opening musical number: puts females and female body on display, women are being conducted by a male figure (sebastian the crab) Sebastian is a play on sebastian bach. Mermaid conducted by men for men (king triton) right of passage, coming out party for little sister, ariel, who ironically is not there. Supposed to pop out of a seashell. Anderson: when ariel turns 15 it is overseen by grandma, female production and process. Disney: boisterous, self assertive, rebellious, eroticized , wearing seashells, object for male gaze. Wants a husband so she can get a soul. Aesthetic and religious attraction to human world.