TangledIn many fairy tales there is always a damsel in distress who is beautiful and the male character always falls in love with her. In the tale Tangled, Rapunzel is placed in a tower and lives there most of her young life alongside her "mother" before her prince comes to save her. The difference between Tangled and Rapunzel the tale is that Rapunzel is the princess and her prince is actually a thief, who ends up falling in love with her. Tangled illustrates how a naive, beautiful heroine, an evil mother figure, and a shallow, selfish hero can end a fairy tale with love and marriage. As in many fairy tales we grew up with, the characters are always beautiful or handsome, with an evil mother who wants to destroy him. Baker-Sperry and Grauerholz state that: "The feminine beauty ideal, the socially constructed notion that physical attractiveness is one of women's most important assets and something that all women should strive to achieve and maintain... [ it is] largely seen as an oppressive and patriarchal attitude that objectifies, devalues ​​and subordinates women” (711). a nice one boy and everything they want. The characters in Tangled demonstrate the fact that every fairy tale follows the same guidelines; Rapunzel, Flynn and even mother Gothel are beautiful. Their characteristics are all the same: they are thin, they have straight teeth and they are beautiful 'appearance. If a person were described as having perfect looks, then they would be compared to a character in a fairy tale. . to have one. Mother Gothel, even though she was beautiful on the outside, was dark and evil on the inside, which is why she eventually died. In no fairy tale will the queen or the evil mother ever survive, because that's not what girls and boys want to read. They want to see the beautiful princess take her prince and the handsome prince kill the evil creature. All stories have a happy ending and that's how it should be, with the main characters living happily ever after, ever and ever. Works Cited Baker-Sperry, Lori and Liz Grauerholz. "The pervasiveness and persistence of the ideal of female beauty in children's fairy tales." Gender and Society 17.5 (2003): 711-726.JSTOR. Network. November 19, 2013. tangled. Nathan Greno, Byron Howard. Zachary Levi, Mandy Moore and Donna Murphy.Walt Disney Pictures. November 24. 2010. Blu-ray.