In every society there are certain gender roles that men and women encounter either because they are forced or because it is tradition. Mulan and Brave both show two very different teenage girls being forced into gender roles. Mulan seems to want to respect her gender role within Chinese society; however, Merida makes her point clear about not wanting to accept her gender role within medieval Scottish society. Mulan is the story of a young Chinese girl, Mulan, who runs away to join the army in her father's place and then honors her family without following the traditional gender role she was almost forced into. Similarly, Brave is the story of a Scottish girl, Merida, forced into her traditional gender role. Although both of these girls had gender roles that they were expected to assume, they both made different attempts to avoid them. Mulan didn't know that she would change the role of women in her society when she went to war, but Merida knew that she would change the role of women in her society. Both of these girls knew the challenges that awaited them, but they didn't foresee the impact the challenges would have on them. Although both of these films show two very strong girls who overcome many obstacles to change fate, they also send a negative message about women to the audience. Mulan is set in ancient China, a time when women had no voice in government or its administration. house. Women during this time were expected to clean, cook, and only do things that their husbands approved of. The most important day in a woman's life would be the one when she was supposed to see the matchmaker and impress her. In China it was traditional for a woman to go to a matchmaker for marriage. In the film it is shown that this has become... half of the paper... he has seen women, even if Mulan did it unintentionally. Afterwards, Mulan and Brave both ultimately send negative messages about women for telling lies to their parents, breaking laws, running away from home, and disrespecting their parents. The people surrounding both girls facilitated the sending of negative messages. The women around these girls thought that women should be perfect and wanted their daughter to be perfect to meet their expectations of women. Mulan thought that women should not get married or go through a matchmaker to do so, similarly Merida thought that women should be able to choose their own husbands and thought that women should decide when to get married. In the end both girls changed their destiny, but that doesn't change the level of perfection they pushed until they showed their parents how to accept people..