The Gender Role in the movie Mulan.

             Gender role-swapping usually happens where a particular gender tends to perform duties expected for the other gender. Someone feels much comfortable doing the activities expected of opposite gender than of own gender.

There is over-feminism where powers and roles held by men in the society are taken by women as seen in the movie Mulan.

            The females have taken a step of searching for males for love rather than waiting for the males to search for them (Fruzinska, 123). Mulan takes a step of finding herself a spouse and she manages to find the most handsome boy of who marries her.

There is gender immune where people happen to do activities of both genders.

             In the movie, Mulan learns gender when she combines the two; feminine and masculine. She acts as the popular heroes by masking and going to fight in the army dressed as a Ping (Fruzinska, 121). The society realizes this later and they only accept and acknowledge the uniqueness in her. She also assumes the masculine role by looking for a boyfriend instead of the men looking for her. She finally succeeds showing that she can comfortably do what male gender usually does in spite her being a female.

            There is genderless where there is lack of typical qualities associated with either gender as outlined in the movie.

            Mulan feels genderless when she tries to imitate men under recruitment in the camp. She happens to act like a spectacle, overdrawn and clumsy (Fruzinska, 116). She assists to spill the tea but at the same time she provokes fight in the camp. This shows that Mulan is unable to fit in either gender and appears to be in between masculine and feminine.

            There is gender roles transgression where the feminist gender breaks the rules and does what is expected of masculine gender.

             Mulan breaks the rules by doing contrary to the wishes of her father when she goes for the war (Fruzinska, 117). When the empire asks each family to produce one gentleman to join in the Champion army, Mulan takes the armor that belongs to his father knowing that his father was the only elderly male in the family and left for the war. She believes that she will bring victory back to the society by fighting the Hun. She also does contrary to the expectations of the society when she decides to find a man for her marriage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reference

Fruzinska, J. (2014). Emerson Goes to the Movies: Individualism in Walt Disney Company's Post-1989 Animated Films. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.