Friday 27 July 2012

Why does Jasmine allow Aladdin to continue wearing rags and going barefoot when she is a princess and his wife?

Why does Jasmine allow Aladdin to continue wearing rags and going barefoot when  she is a princess and his wife?

There is a cartoon called Disney's Aladdin. The hero is a poor boy wearing rags and going barefoot. He likes Jasmine, the princess, who is the daughter of the city's unnamed Sultan. In the end she says she wants to marry him. Therefore he would become a prince. And he would start dressing in richer clothes, right ? Wrong.

The Disney makers of the cartoon decided that even after he married her, he would continue wearing rags and going barefoot and it would seem normal to everybody. In the sequel "The Return of Jafar", he(Aladdin) is still barefoot and wearing rags WHILE living in the palace as a PRINCE.

Even in the video game "Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days", which at one point shows Jasmine and Aladdin talking about the Genie, a friend who left them in the original cartoon, Aladdin is still barefoot and wearing rags. Aladdin wants to repair some physical damage done to the city Agrabah. And Jasmine is smiling at him and telling him not to wear himself out , but she does not put shoes on his feet. What kind of love does she have? And even if the Disney characters were the kind of ones who do not worry what others think about them, it is still not good to move barefoot on certain kinds of surface, such as dusty ones where you can get jiggers.

Maybe the Disney creators keep him in rags so that he can be easily recognized by those of us who watched the original cartoon. But if that is their goal then seriously I think that they can simply improve his attire while keeping it in the same style.

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