While reading George MacDonald’s children’s story The Princess and Curdie, one cannot help but recognize the character integrity and formation of feminism that MacDonald incorporates into the character of Princess Irene. Is she not a suitable role model for young girls to emulate? So how does Princess Irene compare to the degenerating starlets of today? She is somewhat famous, having the King for a father of course. She also has Curdie at her beck and call - a possible starlet? I think so!
What makes Irene so much more suitable as a role model in comparison to the emanciated, intoxicated, and generally inebriated ladies that young girls seem to look up to today? Is it her capability to kick some degenerating-populace-butt? Irene is shows bravery and courage when she states, “I will go with Curdie and the Uglies” (MacDonald 240). Irene will not step aside and let her kingdom be taken over, and she definitely will not be inactive and ‘pretty’ as she watched from the sidelines.
To follow the George MacDonald way, Lindsay, Britney, and Paris et al. should all be made into members of the Uglies. Forget jail time; take away their good looks and force them to live life by improving their personalities, just as MacDonald has made Lina do. Imagine Paris with “a very short body, and very long legs made like an elephant’s…her head…something between that of a polar bear and a snake…[and with a] throat [looking] as if the hair had been plucked off” (MacDonald 76). That’s Hot!
MacDonald unknowingly tackles current society’s issue with degenerating human beings that degrade any sense of the way a good female should behave. The issue of degeneracy and the downward spiral of the general populace applies because it is not only the starlets that are falling over themselves, it is the public’s compulsive obsession to watch them fall, while going through great lengths to obtain photographic evidence, that is fueling their behavior. Societies general belief that any publicity is good publicity is degeneracy unto itself!
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