Courfeyrac Doesn't Need Your Stinking Participle (the_centre) wrote in valarnet,
Curious George does represent a sort of captivity narrative, in which the captive, ie, George, interacts with a world he does not understand, having been taken from his home into the position of subservient captive and dependent. Perhaps his behavior stands as a representation of the rebelious captive, instead of one who has adapted to the conditioning imposed by his captors, ie, Babar (not that Babar isn't cooler anyway but he's colonialized to an EXTREME).
I suppose that his behavior, in this case, can be seen as a bid for freedom of some sort, but it also has the negative effect of encouraging children to rebel against ALL authority like George, though the circumstances are far different.
One might also look to his relationship with the Man In The Yellow Hat (Yellow Hat, henceforth) as representative of a dysfunctional relationship, in which Yellow Hat takes on the duties of a downtrodden or abused partner/parent/friend, with a sense of codependency that enables George to carry on in his antics and increasingly societally dangerous behavior. He's cute now, but what happens when he has grown up a bit more, and graduated to flinging shit?
In either sense. it cannot end well and probably is NOT the best example for impressionable young minds.