Gender Roles In Alice In Wonderland

In Disney’s Alice in Wonderland, Alice starts off as a “bad girl,” but eventually becomes a “good girl” via her actions. Thus, the narrative arc of the story is that she will conform to traditional gender roles; Disney states that a woman will only be able to thrive in society if she conforms to her prescribed gender roles. A “bad girl” is characterized as being violent, aggressive, worldly, and often monstrous; whereas, traditional gender roles favor a “good girl” who is identified as gentle, submissive, virginal, and angelic. In the opening scene, Alice is deemed the “bad girl” because she is confident, curious, educated, which does not fit into traditional gender roles for females. She does not want to pay attention in her lesson, and she