CONTINUIDADES E RUPTURAS

UMA ANÁLISE DISCURSIVA DA FIGURA DA PRINCESA NO FILME VALENTE

Abstract

This article aims to reflect, from the theoretical-methodological framework of Discourse Analysis, on the figure of the princess. Coming from fairy tales where she’s portrayed as beautiful and defenseless, this figure has been changing: she’s no longer just the hero’s prize. On this context, we take the film Brave as a corpus of analysis, in which we have a rebellious princess who fights against the traditions that are imposed on her, since she wants to follow her own path and choices. With Princess Mérida being the focus of the story, we observe, in our analyses, the suppression of the romantic couple and the opening of territories little explored in Disney films, which produce other paths for a new generation of princesses. Although talking about the social place of a princess, we conclude that Merida is inscribed in a feminist discursive place, producing cracks in the sayings of the royal FD.