Comparison and Contrast of the Films Aladdin and the Little Mermaid

The following sample essay is a comparison and contrast between Aladdin and The Little Mermaid. Read the introduction, body and conclusion of the essay, scroll down.

In all of the movies that we had watched in class, Aladdin and The Little Mermaid has the best relationship between comparing and contrasting. In both of the movies, there is one daughter in each movie who rebelled to find their true love. In The Little Mermaid, Ariel rebelled and went to the surface to search for her prince, but in Aladdin, Jasmine rebelled the law by not accepting the prince who came to see if she’s the right girl for them.

Not only the daughters whom rebelled, but, the main villain in each of the movies also share a similarity for how they hunger for power. Although the villain may grew into a giant monster, they were too obsessed with their power that they didn’t realize what kind situation they were in.

One of the similarity in both of the movie is rebellion. Rebellion is defined as a “resistance to or defiance of any authority, control, or tradition”(Dictionary). In the movie Aladdin, Jasmine rebelled her father by not accepting the princes who came to her father’s castle who came see if she’s good enough to be a wife.

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She rejects the princes who came to her father’s castle because she wants to marry somebody that she loves instead of arrange marriage. In the other movie, The Little Mermaid, Ariel rebelled her father because of her selfishness.

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She is deceived by the human world and fell in love with a human. She rebels her father by disrespecting her father’s love that she doesn’t see and “risks her freedom, her royal identity and her life in exchange for the slim chance at fulfilling her desires”(kbonikowsky, 2008).

She sacrifices her voice to change her fins into human legs so that she’ll get a chance to walk in the human world and find her love. The difference in their rebellion is that Jasmine is defying authority, control and tradition. The Authoritarian are the one who makes the law. Her father is the one who is controlling her and in her tradition, every princess must be married to a prince. But in The Little Mermaid, Ariel is only defying her father’s control. But her father’s control was meant to protect her which she doesn’t see it like any other people’s strict parents.

The major difference in their rebellion is that Ariel is the one who is looking for her love other than Jasmine who sits around in her father’s castle waiting for a prince. Another similarity in both of the movies is power. Power is what the main villain desires. The main villain in Aladdin is Jafar. Jafar is “the sinister grand Vizier to Agrabah’s Sultan who desires power over Agrabah and lusts the Sultan’s beautiful daughter, Princess Jasmine”(Wikia, “n. d. “). The other villain in The Little Mermaid is Ursula.

Ursula is a sea witch octopus who is also obsess with power and willing to help people who are in need while achieving her own goals. In the movie Aladdin and The Little Mermaid, both Jafar and Ursula grew into a giant monster after getting the power they wanted. Jafar was being careless that he failed to use his power properly and made the wrong decision of transforming himself into a Genie. Ursula on the other hand, was too obsess with her new power and she failed to kill Ariel also because of her carelessness.

In result of watching both Aladdin and The Little Mermaid, I noticed that rebellion and power plays a role in these movies. Although both jasmine and Ariel were rebelling, they were different from how Ariel rebels to go find her love unlike Jasmine who stays in her father’s castle to wait for a prince. On the other hand, power also plays a role in each of the movie. But, thanks to Jafar and Ursula’s obsessive need of power, it made them careless after it have been obtained.