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This paper attempts to analyze Tangled, Disney’s animation movie based on Grimm Brothers’ Rapunzel, in relation to two poems that also parody the same story. The three re-writes of Rapunzel are similar in the sense that they all address the mother-daughter relationship and the process of female growth, which are not apparent in Grimm Brothers’ original story. Anne Sexton’s “Rapunzel” provides a name, Mother Gothel, for the witch who imprisons Rapunzel in the tower. In addition, it focuses on the extremely close relationship between Gothel and Rapunzel, suggesting that it borders on Lesbianism. Although the relationship needs to be broken so that the girl may enter the symbolic order, Sexton still puts a certain amount of value on female bonding. Song’s “The White Porch” presents an Asian-American girl who resists her mother’s control over her by throwing a rope and smuggling her boyfriend into her bedroom. This act shows that the girl severs the close tie with her mother in order to satisfy her desire for a heterosexual partner. Yet, instead of concluding her poem at this point, Song represents how the female subject ends up repeating her mother’s life. Disney’s Tangled also centers on a mother-daughter relationship between Mother Gothel and Rapunzel. The film appears to deviate from the typical pattern of a fairy tale in that it allows the heroine to cut her own hair and thereby rescue herself from the mother-witch’s rule. Yet, despite the presence of the lively female character who acts on her will, Tangled idealizes the marriage plot and the notion of romantic love. Moreover, the animation film reinforces the clearly binary opposition between a good woman and a bad woman, even connecting it to a series of differences based on race, age, and class.

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