Why Meg From Hercules Is the Best Woman Character of Disney

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Anna rescues his sister, Mulan saved China, and Moana restores the balance in the world. However, as news of a Hercules live-action film hit the headlines, I remembered that one of my favorites of the woman to the Disney character is Megara, the woman who literally sold his soul to the god of the underworld for a man. Meg, wonderfully voiced by Susan Egan, is far from being a role model or icon feminist. But she is one of the richest, most developed characters of Disney from the library, one of those who do not talk enough.

Meg steals the scenes in Hercules with his magnetic presence. Based on the screwball comedy actresses of the 1940sshe has a beautiful charm. It is difficult to forget your bulky Fran Drescher hair, smoky eyeshadow and berry lip. And, let’s be honest, “I’m not going to Say (I’m in Love)” is a worm, and recently relaunched in the pop culture stratosphere with Ariana Grande, soft-as-silk cover. Egan original of the ballad is a classic, hitting the sweet spots of their sweet melodies, memorable tone.

Is Meg’s personality that immediately distinguishes a legacy of more fervent of the Disney princesses. The film loosely bases its take-off from Megara, Hercules’s first wife (Heracles s, cultural accuracy, even though the movie is far from faithful to the Greek mythology). She is sarcastic and carries herself with an air of indifference. I loved the moment in which it is presented — “Megara. My friends call me Meg. At least if they had friends.” She is a woman of the polis!

The choices that she makes that matters above everything else. Meg most important of the lines take place when she’s fighting the centaur called Nessus. When Hercules rushes in, she tells him, “I am a damsel. I am in distress. I can handle this. Have a good day.” From the beginning, Meg expresses her desire to be an agent of their own destiny.

Meg makes things happen for herself, not waiting for a Prince to come. After all, she persecutes Hercules, openly looking at him and his rippling pectorals throughout the film. If it is not so blasphemous to say so, Meg is one of the most trustworthy evidence to the Disney characters. Just before the “I won’t Say (I’m in Love)” sequence, she flirts shamelessly with Hercules, suggestively talking about your weak ankles. She even gives a casual the name of the pet — Wonderboy.

That’s not to say that Meg is an evil temptress, that is a stereotype just as damaging as the passive princess. She is morally compromised, of course. In debt with Hades, Meg Hercules leads directly to the Pain and the Panic, which are presented as innocent children. Their motivation for doing so is complicated. She had sold her soul to Hades to save her unfaithful lover, and help to Hades, and their nasty plan to win his freedom. Even so, Meg has a change of heart because of her feelings for Hercules. She sacrifices herself and saves him from crashing into a pillar. This breaks Hades’s contract, which states that Hercules was to retrieve his divine force Meg to get hurt. The Meg of the power — not the brute force, but by love.

It is easy to write Meg as a lovesick fool, a woman that would do anything for a man. But she is not the passive victim of love. She makes active choices due to this, the sale of his soul and risking his life. All your decisions were yours to make in the name of love. It is fair to say that she is the other hero in Hercules — and that is the truth of the gospel!