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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThe story of Descendants involves two groups of children that are
differentiated by the labels they receive from their parents, which raises an issue
of labeling good and evil as well as its impacts to the children’s lives. This study
aims to discuss the instilment of good and evil as well as their effects to the royal
and villains’ children. I will use the theories of labeling, social identity, and self concept
to analyze the topic. Labeling theory is applied to analyze the ways the
labels good and evil are formed through the parents’ past interaction with each
other before they instilled it to their children. Social identity theory is used to
analyze the ways the children construct their identities depending on the social
group they live in. Finally, self-concept theory is applied in providing the ways
that the labels good and evil shape the children’s perspective and behavior toward
themselves. In the end, it can be concluded that the labeling of good and evil in
Descendants could be passed down from parents to children. The labels, along
with social groups and other people’s opinions could shape the children’s self concept
about themselves. From this analysis, it could be founded that even
though Disney shows that being evil is fun, it still sticks to the morality that good
is always rewarded.