A Princess?

張貼日期：May 14, 2013 2:26:11 PM

A Princess?

Nancy Lee

 When I was a child, my mother would hold me in her arms and tell me a fairytale every night before the bed time. My favorite story is Snow White, who is so beautiful that she is poisoned by her jealousy stepmother and unfortunately goes into a coma. The Prince Charming kisses her and saves her, and then they live happily forever. My dream is to be a princess and meet a handsome and brave man someday. However, when I grow up, “princess” changes into a negative lexicon which is used to describe a spoilt female, especially a teenager, with really different personality and nature from the princess in the stories. This type of girls is called “princess” because they are suffer from the so-called Princess Syndrome.

    I do not talk about the real princesses in the fairytales and the monarchic countries. There are many princesses in the series of Disney, such as Ariel--loves to sing and sacrifices herself to save the Prince, Cinderella--is diligent and kind but tormented by her stepmother and two stepsisters, and Belle--takes her freedom to change her father’s. These girls are beautiful, kind, assiduous, and willing to help others. In reality, there is a “princess” beside me in the senior high school whose name is Mandy. She is also beautiful, tall, and confident but she is much unlike the princess in my ideal and childhood. What is more, her father is like a king because he is rich and powerful. She does not like to study and go to the library. Also, she never takes a broom or a mop during the clean-up time because she says only the maid does the cleaning.

    Mandy is so overbearing that she looks down upon everyone. She has two followers, Amber and Nikita; some people call them M.A.N. All three of them are the numbers of the dancing club. Many boys like Mandy because of her appearance. She enjoys ridiculing those who are poor and not good at dancing. She regards herself as a princess, so she is self-centered and does not think of others. I remember that she once played a joke on a poor girl by scrawling on her books and putting fake cockroaches in her bags.

    Contrastive to Snow White who has many animal friends around her, Mandy does not have any true friend. She never treats others sincerely and enthusiastically. I do not think Nikita and Amber are her friends; they just want to flatter and please her. For instance, they have to do the homework for her, carry her bag, and be an accessory to her. Although most her boyfriends are handsome and tall, they are dandies. It seems that their love is built on the appearance and fascination rather than devotion and affection.

    In all honesty, I would rather be a confident, hard-working, and tolerant ordinary person than being a princess. In my opinion, those girls are spoiled by their parents, friends, and boys, so they think they can do everything they want and nobody will blame on them. I am still now fascinated by the princesses in fairytale, and I believe there must be some good princesses who can be a realization of my ideal, fairytale princess.