CHILDREN’S DREAMS:READING BEYOND THE IDOLIZED DISNEY’S KING AND PRINCE.

Disney’s the Little Mermaid (1989), and the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) exert a certain message in illustrating a gender role. The Prince Peter, and the King Triton become the center characters to be analyzed in this research. The essence of ‘happily ever after’ in both movie tends to direct children focused to the Disney’s highlighted characters and portrayed as good as possible. The good characters as portrayed on the movie may lead them become children’s idolized characters. Thus, the idolized characters are well significant to contribute to the successful of Disney’s doctrine toward children by its message. Masculinity is a concern to this literary research. This literary research applies the gender roles approach, and use the descriptive qualitative research. Moreover, as a result, the influence of ‘happily ever after’ to the reflection of masculinity traits as portrayed by Prince Peter and King Triton may lead children to react the same as their idolized characters in the real world.