Comparing the Shojo character of Chihiro (Sen) from Miyazaki's Spirited Away with the character Alice from Disney's Alice in Wonderland

In this essay I will be discussing the similarities and differences between

the character Alice from Walt Disneys Alice in Wonderland and the character

Chihiro (Sen) from Hayao Miyazakis film Spirited Away. These characters are

both of comparable ages and their personalities share some(prenominal) qualities which go

through the identical metamorphosis towards the end of the films. Both characters

experience new, exciting and even hard situations that challenge them

more than they could ever have imagined before. Miyazakis typical Shojo

character is notably strong-minded and active, courageously confronting the

variety of obstacles before her in a manner that skill well be described as

stereotypically masculine, as opposed to the genuine Shojo character, which

tends to be passive or dreamy with ultrafemininity. However, Disneys typical

female character is commonly not nearly as forthright as a Miyazaki character and

they tend to be more passive and less(prenominal) fiery. The character Alice from Alice in

Wonderland seems to be one of the exceptions.

Hayao Miyazakis Spirited Away came for many with built-in

expectations. After the exhausting but highly successful employment of Princess

Mononoke (1998), the director announced his retirement from filmmaking. It

was a promise he reneged on when meeting the ten-year old daughter of a

friend.



This lady friend provided the breathing in for Chihiro, the little heroine at the

centre of Spirited Away, a film aimed at ten-year old girls but universal enough

in its appeal to break all(prenominal) box office record on its home turf, outlet on to not

only become the highest grossing film of all time in Japan, but attaining that

status in record time.

What struck Miyazaki about the real-life girl who served as the

inspiration for Chihiro was not only the fact that she seemed jaded to the

attention her parents were big her (something he subsequently noticed...

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