Themes in the cartoon series a little princess sara

THEMES IN THE CARTOON SERIES “A LITTLE PRINCESS SARA”
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Cartoons themselves are metaphors of how human experience life on a deeper level. The
producers themselves create a universal language using symbols and metaphors to help the
viewer to comprehend the abstract concepts. Furthermore, through the employment of symbols
and metaphors, the filmmakers develop the plot, themes, and character in a deeper way to relay
the intended message. The metaphorical language used is relayed through use of symbolic
objects using different scenes that are recurring and unifying ideas that allow us to comprehend
more deeply the characters and their role in the society today. The cartoon series, “A Little
Princess Sara” presents several dominating themes that reflect the value and motivations we
encounter in our day to day activities. This paper, therefore, seeks to analyze the themes
represented in the cartoon series “A Little Princess Sara” and how it represents life.
Social Class Treatment
In the cartoon series, Sara and Mr. Barrow pull up to Miss Minchin's Select Seminary
for young girls so that she can be enrolled
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. What stands out is that Sara is a wealthy pupil and
therefore, Miss Minchin provides nice living quarters and a playroom for her social status in the
boarding school
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. The dolls she is given represents how the society pampers a culture of wealth.
She is also allowed to have numerous expensive toys and clothes including a doll named Emily,
and Miss Minchin throws an expensive birthday party for her social status. Sara's class reflected
in our culture is clear throughout the cartoon seriesand when it becomes different, it's quite
amusing to find out how each of the characters eventually react. Miss Minchin treats Sara as a
special pupil because she’ rich. However, “when the lawyer informs Miss Minchin about the
death of Papa Crewe,” Sara is forced to be a maid and forced to sleep in a tiny attic room
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Weiss Edith, A Little Princess (Brooklyn: Heuer Publishing LLC, 2015), 21
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Ibid., 5
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performing all sorts of chores
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. Furthermore, Miss Minchin takes away the meager scraps of
food which she has been living on” leaving Sara to go on an empty stomach
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. Similarly, class
matters so much in the society. The well-off people are considered rich and therefore should be
treated in an indifferent manner compared to the underprivileged. Class, in this case, is a social
rank in terms of income presented by the doll. The social class identity, displayed by how Sara is
offered numerous toys and dolls, affects us on a deeper level since it influences how we treat
others. Everyone is placed at a disadvantage when they have limited resources to obtain a secure
sense of purpose. As a result, they have deprived of basic materials and experience forms of
deprivation.
Child Abuse
From the film, it is evident that child abuse is a more elaborate theme. From the relevance
of Becky who is fourteen years of age, she is forced to work to fend for her family. Well, at the
age of fourteen one would be “normal.” The culture portrayed in the cartoon series reveals how
Becky ends up as a scullery maid in the seminary revealing how the poor people in the society
were dependent on “child abuse” for a living. In the society we leave in children start working at
a tender age and spend most of their childhood toiling and being denied their right to education,
health, and care. In the developing phase of a child, the challenges and the influences
surrounding the child ultimately depicts an important role in humankind social environment.
From the cartoon series, Becky is abused by James the cook and her wife Molly who most often
refer her as being lazy neglecting the fact that as a child she becomes tired of doing most of hard
labor without food. The normalcy that lacks thereof in the story presents asocial context and a
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Ibid., 25
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Ibid., 27
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better understanding of how we live today. Becky and Sara are forced to live in the attic with no
food and care. Most children in our society grow up without the basic necessity and facing the
harsh cultures of life with the vicious circle of poverty.
Attachment
Children who lack responsive and contingent parenting most often may find solace in
other people or objects to find the attachment that is a basic human need when infants are
developing. Similarly, Sally becomes attached to her doll to seek the innate comfort and the
pattern of interaction formed during the early stages of developing. She even describes to Lottie
that a doll understands human talk
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. Most importantly, children don’t have the ability to express
what they need and therefore more than enough they constantly communicate through their
behaviors. The doll, in this case, is the comfort a child desires. This reveals the bond that is
necessary when a child is developing as it is lifelong process attachment the child develops
between the caregivers and the social environment in the society we are today. Furthermore,
Lottie is scolded by Miss Minchin for crying after being slapped by Lavinia. He, therefore, goes
to confides in Sara and Sara takes up the place to be Lottie’s mama at the school and calls Sara
mama.
Education
The concern for equity in the education without the underlying social class biases has
been and continues to be a strong policy to be in effect in the education system. In the fancy
boarding school run by Miss Minchin, talents are not appreciated. Miss Minchin ought to be
resentful of all pupils despite their social class. However, it is evident from the movie that Miss
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Ibid., 23
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Minchin at first embraces Sara to be in the school on account of all her money. Despite the fact
that the pupils were taught responsibility through chores and to be polite to others, the education
system at the seminary lacks the proper representation to achieve the education goals. Social
class has come in between learning and therefore it affects the school’s wholly educational
achievement.
Suffering
In the cartoon, series suffering is used by the directors to develop the strong character of
Sara to the viewer. Sara is thrust into a situation of rough tides when she is forced to work for her
keep at the boarding school she once attended as a star pupil. However, the survival nature
makes her “triumph in the end where she inherits the Crewe’s”
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. She never finds the situation
unbearable and survives through the ideals encouraging Becky and Lottie along. Despite some of
her lowest points, she manages to adjust by staying true to her personality and opinions.
Similarly, in our personal lives we face objections that test our emotional mettle. The deeper
capacity to survive and come out better and stronger depends on how we handle the reality
principle.
To sum up, this paper, therefore, seeks to analyze the themes represented in the cartoon
series “A Little Princess Sara” and how it represents life and how culture is portrayed. The
metaphorical language used is relayed through use of symbolic objects using different scenes
that are recurring and unifying ideas that allow us to comprehend more deeply the characters and
their role in the society today. The cartoon series, “A Little Princess Sara” presents several
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Ibid., 27
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dominating themes that reflect the value and motivations we encounter in our day to day
activities.
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Bibliography
Weiss, Edith. A Little Princess. Brooklyn: Heuer Publishing LLC, 2015.

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