Serafina wrote:- Snow White: Got married by a Prince because she is beautiful. No meaningful interaction between the two is portrayed.
Honest question here: When did you get any meaningful interaction between people who marry in fiction?
- Sleeping Beauty - duh, look at the name, also got married by a Prince because she is beautiful, without any notable interaction between them.
Yeah, what about that name. As I recall, they called her briar rose in the movie.
- Jasmine: You have a point about her rebelling. However, she mostly rebelled because she didn't want to marry someone she was not in love with, not because she didn't want to marry at all.
And? The mere concept of somebody wanting to marry is not abhorrent. I want to get married as well.
- Ariel: And yet they still ended up married.
Again, what is it with that fixation about marriage? As for the rest of your points:
The Prince didn't just look for her because she saved him, but also due to her physical appearance.
Did you watch the movie? He did not even get a good look at her. If he had, he would have recognized her. All he saw was a blurry figure with long hair. That is all. In fact, the central point of the movie is that he only knows her voice.
They also married without interacting in any meaningful manner.
The movie shows them basically living together for an extended period of time.
- Cindarella: How is the fact that the Prince didn't know that she is a hard worker disprove the accusation that he married her because she is pretty, not because she is a hard worker, at all? If anything that confirms it.
I find it very hard to blame somebody for something he does not know at the time and I find it doubly hard to condemn somebody for falling in love with somebody physically attractive.
Meanwhile, none of the Princesses presented here show any notable skill whatsoever to their Princes, nor engaging personality traits (with the exception of Belle and Jasmin). They get married solely because they look pretty, and that marriage is shown as a fulfilling, happy reward.
Are you kidding me here? In Ariel's instance she saved his life. Not once, but twice. I call that pretty skillfull. Also, just because marriage happens to be the end of the story does not mean it is the big reward in itself. No, the big reward there was bridging a gap between two hostile cultures.