Mulan
Confucianism Virtues in Disney’s Mulan
Mulan is a 1998 Disney film based on a two-thousand year old Chinese legend of a young girl, Fa Mulan, who secretly joins the Chinese army to bring back honor to her family. In China, one of the main religions practiced is Confucianism. Throughout the movie underlying themes of Confucianism virtues can be seen such as; honor for family and ancestors, duty to one’s self and devotion to order in society.(SpiritualityPractice). There are many examples of family honor and honoring ones ancestors in Mulan. The movie opens with Mulan preparing to impress the matchmaker to uphold her family’s honor while her father is praying to the ancestors that she will find a good match. Mulan’s meeting with the matchmaker ends in disaster bringing dishonor to her family(Disney‘s Mulan). Soon after a message from the emperor arrives declaring one male from every family must go to war. Fa Zhou, Mulan’s father, honorably takes his order to serve, because there is no son to serve in his place. Even though Fa Zhou is old and disable, he had rather die for his country than to dishonor his family by not going to war. Fa Zhou is the greatest example of the virtue of devotion to order in society in the film(Disney‘s Mulan). To restore her family’s honor and to keep her disabled father from going to war, Mulan disguises herself as a boy and joins the Chinese army(Disney‘s Mulan). In the film there is also a dragon named, Mushu, hoping to regain honor for himself. Mushu is a demoted guardian of the Fa Family. Mushu had previously dishonored the family and has since not been allowed to be a guardian. Mushu comes up with a plan to bring honor back to himself by going after Mulan to guide her to become a war hero(Disney‘s Mulan). As a girl, Mulan’s only duty to herself is to find a suitable husband that will take care of her throughout her life. Marrying well is also the only way Mulan can bring honor to her family as a girl. When Mulan
Mulan is a 1998 Disney film based on a two-thousand year old Chinese legend of a young girl, Fa Mulan, who secretly joins the Chinese army to bring back honor to her family. In China, one of the main religions practiced is Confucianism. Throughout the movie underlying themes of Confucianism virtues can be seen such as; honor for family and ancestors, duty to one’s self and devotion to order in society.(SpiritualityPractice). There are many examples of family honor and honoring ones ancestors in Mulan. The movie opens with Mulan preparing to impress the matchmaker to uphold her family’s honor while her father is praying to the ancestors that she will find a good match. Mulan’s meeting with the matchmaker ends in disaster bringing dishonor to her family(Disney‘s Mulan). Soon after a message from the emperor arrives declaring one male from every family must go to war. Fa Zhou, Mulan’s father, honorably takes his order to serve, because there is no son to serve in his place. Even though Fa Zhou is old and disable, he had rather die for his country than to dishonor his family by not going to war. Fa Zhou is the greatest example of the virtue of devotion to order in society in the film(Disney‘s Mulan). To restore her family’s honor and to keep her disabled father from going to war, Mulan disguises herself as a boy and joins the Chinese army(Disney‘s Mulan). In the film there is also a dragon named, Mushu, hoping to regain honor for himself. Mushu is a demoted guardian of the Fa Family. Mushu had previously dishonored the family and has since not been allowed to be a guardian. Mushu comes up with a plan to bring honor back to himself by going after Mulan to guide her to become a war hero(Disney‘s Mulan). As a girl, Mulan’s only duty to herself is to find a suitable husband that will take care of her throughout her life. Marrying well is also the only way Mulan can bring honor to her family as a girl. When Mulan