Hyperreality has almost put a mask on the reality of love, particularly for girls. Most girls grow up watching a plethera of love movies and/or disney movies. These movies show a knight in shinning armer who pops in one day and takes the girl and they both live happily ever after and thats that. For instance, "You'll love me at once."(1) Most girls grow up thinking that love will just come one day with out any struggles or hardships. Like in the previous quote from Sleeping Beauty, young girls might believe that it comes that easy. Furthermore, "You'll love me at once, the way you did once upon a dream."(2) What they might come to realize is that there are hardships and bumps along the road and not just a perfect relationship that is handed to you. Sleeping Beauty is not the only disney movie that portrays this but pretty much every single one. In Cinderella, her literal knight in shiney armer comes and saves her one day and they fall in love that same day. Ultimately, although this is the common idea of love among these young girls, I'm pretty sure that they grow out of it.
Sources: 1 and 2 http://www.aquamarine.nu/lyrics/disney/sleepingbeauty.php
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