JBR, on "Meg Got Nerve."

So, I am an English/Theatre/Film/Religious Studies Student at Memorial University. I am (basically) in my last year and one of the profs here decides she is going to offer a course in Religion and Disney. Me, being the biggest Disney dork ever born obviously had to get into this class. In this class we study issues that scholars think run through Disney movies on a Religious basis. A couple of things we looked at were religious themes in the movies, and other things effecting religion, like feminism and homosexuality, the Baptist Boycott and the list goes on!

This Fan Video is made for the course. It is dealing with Megs from Disney's Hercules. Megs is not listed as one of the Disney Princess (although I think she should be). One of the topics discuessed is how Disney women only live for their men, they sit around waiting for the day their Prince will come. Snow White is afraid in the forest, Cinderella is afraid of her step mother, Aurora (Briar Rose or Sleeping Beauty) is hides 16 years of her life in the forest, and Jasmine is betrothed to Jafar and although she is unhappy, she listens to her dim-witted father.

This video is showing that not all the Disney Females follow these passive guidelines, although there are others, like Esmeralda and Mulan, I stuck with my fave, Megara (or Megs) from Disney's Hercules.

In this video you will see many things. #1, Megs do not live for her man, in fact she's sold her soul to take revenge on men because she thinks they are all the same, dirty cheating scum. #2, the many run ins she has with Hades and she don't even flinch, this is a change from Snow White who was afraid of the dark. #3, she don't sit around and wait for her man to come to her and she isn't betrothed to someone she dispises, she goes after her man and makes him feel weak in the knees, almost a role reversal. #4, She is afraid of heights but when Hercules, and the world is at stake, Megs jumps on Pegasus back and flys to the rescue. #5. Meg saves Hercules life. He has his god like strength gone and a pillar is about to fall on him and Meg jumps in and saves him from the falling pillar, She, in a sense, is a heroine. FInally, #6. It is Meg who brings about Hercules' godliy hood again. When she saves him from the falling pillar, she is sent to the underworld where Hercules has to give up his life to save her, making him a hero and in turn, helping him regain his god powers.

All in all, Megs is one sassy chick who shouldn't be messed with. She is no passive Snow White, Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty!