The Fairy Tale Frozen Is A Movie About Love

The last thing on the letter is that Anna was actually Elsa's mom. Once again, more bad news. She finds out that she is financially broke. So, with all this, she decides to disguise herself as a man, gold mine, and hunt down her husbands killer.

Few people can grow up within today's society without knowing the tale of Snow White. From the Grimm Brothers to Disney, it has been told and retold to children throughout the ages. However, what is often overlooked are the true meanings within the story. Fairytales typically have underlying messages that can be found written between the lines, generally in terms of the key themes. Snow White discusses the themes of envy and beauty, and shows how humans' obsessions can lead to their own downfall as well as the harm of others. When focusing on the relationship between Snow White and her step-mother the Queen, it is evident that the combination of these two themes results in a power struggle in which beauty

    In their early years, Elsa and Anna were both very optimistic and energetic children. Just entering her concrete operational stage, children ages seven to eleven who cannot reason about what might be possible or abstract (Gazzangia, 2015, p. 377), Elsa did not understand the strength her powers give her and only knows the fun in which they

Snow White is a fairy-tale known by many generations; it is a beloved Disney movie, and a princess favoured by many kids. But did you know the fairy-tale was made to teach young children, especially little girls, their duties in life? It also values beauty over knowledge, portrays women to be naive and incompetent, and assumes that women cannot understand anything other than common household chores. Throughout this criticism, I will be using the feminist lens to analyze the fairy-tale, Snow White, through the perspective of a feminist.

The dwarves are amazed by the girl’s beauty and allow her to stay with them forever as long as she handles all the household chores. Snow White happily obliges and begins to take care of the dwarves. Unfortunately, the evil step-mother gets word of Snow White’s death being a fraud and makes three attempts to trick and fool the princess. On the third attempt, the old hag is successful and upon biting in to a deliciously plump red apple sends Snow White tumbling to the ground. The seven dwarves decide Snow White is to captivating to be buried underground so they decided to encase her in glass and take turns guarding her remains. One day a handsome prince happens to come across the beautiful dead princess and begs the dwarves to let him purchase her. Reluctantly, the dwarves give the prince Snow White and a bump on the transport home causes the poisonous apple to fall out of her mouth and the princess magically comes back to life. The prince marries Snow White, and the evil step mother is forced to dance in hot-iron boots until she dies.

The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson has been told for almost two-hundred years. It is the story of a little girl and a little boy who are best friends that do everything together. One day, the little boy goes missing and the little girl must journey to find him and bring him home. The little girl, Gerda, shows bravery, selflessness, and relentlessness throughout the tale. Through these she shows heroism, which helps her through the journey to find the little boy, Kay. These values reveal Gerda's cultural background, and what her family expects of her. In each transformation of the text, "The Hero's Journey" is evident throughout. In the movies The Snow Queen and Disney's Frozen, viewers can detect the "The Hero's Journey" throughout.

The beginning and end of the story begins in the protagonists ‘ordinary world’. This is Arendelle, the kingdom where Anna and Elsa live. The major characters of this story are Anna, Elsa, Hans, Kristoff, Olaf, and the trolls. Anna, the youngest of the two princess sisters, lives with wealthy royal parents. As a child, Anna would play with her older sister Elsa, who has the ability to freeze, make it snow, and freeze things. One day, Elsa strikes Anna’s head internally with ice while playing and Anna almost dies. Anna is saved by magical trolls but has no recollection of the event as they were erased from her memory. As a result, Elsa must never use her powers in public or around her family because they are seen as evil. The girls parents later die in a terrible shipwreck and as a result, Elsa is left to control the kingdom.

Fairy tales are stories that range from originating folklore to more modern stories. The same story of the fairy tales can be found in the different version in various languages throughout the world. Those stories inspire people, especially the children, even though the stories made up false, but it builds up based on real life story. Going back to history, when women had no real power, the Brothers Grimm version of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves” tells a story about women who have no control over lives, or how a child can be neglected by the adults or what can be done for the legacy/status. This fairy tale story, “Snow White with the Seven Dwarfs,” talks about an evil Queen who is expecting to “fairest them of all,” who is Snow White; she is an innocent beautiful girl, who loves to sing and interact with people.

This is demonstrated through the earlier works such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty when the women find husbands through the ideas of love at first sight and love only due to physical attraction (Johnson). Snow White, Cinderella, and Aurora all marry their princes without knowing much about them. But, as the later works of Disney princesses were released, the princesses’ viewpoints of love evolved, showing that they are improving their standpoints and becoming more admirable for their ways in which they pursue love. In the modern works, the princesses learn that love takes time. Belle and the Beast do not initially get along, but instead, grow to understand each other. They learn from each other and show patience in developing the relationship leading up to their marriage (The Artifice). Conversely, Mulan does not even get married during her movie and chooses to fall in love with her suitor through a dating relationship first (Johnson). Ironically, the most current princess movie, Frozen, mentions this idea of love over time when Elsa advises her sister Ana that, “You can’t marry a man you just met” (Lueke). Not only do modern works show the evolution of the princesses learning to love over time, but they also show them as learning to love without sacrificing their dreams. “Belle, Jasmine, Meg, Tiana, and Pocahontas all reject,

It is hard to hear the words “let it go” without bursting into song, thanks to Disney’s 2013 animated feature film Frozen. Derived from the Disney princess franchise, Frozen follows two sisters, Elsa and Anna, as they inherit their family’s kingdom after the sudden and unexpected death of their parents. Elsa being the oldest of the two, is the newly crowned queen of Arendelle, but what no one knows is that she is hiding a secret. According to Linda Seger’s article “Creating the Myth” in Signs of Life in the USA “other myths revolve around make-believe characters who might capsulize for us the sum total of many of our journeys.” Meaning, that Elsa’s story

Elsa at times seems the very creation of a disembodied beauty and grace. However, she is more than a merely ethereal creature inspiring poetic reverie in Frank. Elsa is an extremely solid figure, possessed of a strength and resilience, a determined will that also acts as an example to Frank of refusing to accept the pity of others and striving to gain more measure of independence and autonomy. She is also highly perceptive and sees both herself and Frank as children who have been transformed by their disability. They are now “orphans”, figures who have been separated from their families and from the world of the physically able, consigned to the status of the disabled and dependent,

“Through the cheerful music, funny characters, and happy ending, the character of Snow White starts the Disney trend of a domestic woman who becomes a damsel-in-distress relying on a prince to come and save her” (Barber, 2015). The original 1812 tale of Little Snow White by the Brothers Grimm portrays Snow White as a small, naive, self centered little girl who can’t seem to listen to anything she is told, and who has to rely a prince she doesn’t even know to wake her up from the dead. Two hundred years later, in the 2012 movie version Snow White and the Huntsman, the director Rupert Sanders revisits the original tale of Snow White, but decides to change it up a bit. In this version of the tale, Snow White is a strong, independent young woman who seems to be able to do anything she decides to do. In Sander’s version, Snow White not only conquers the cruel queen, but she conquers the labels society often places on women. Unlike the Grimms Brothers, Sanders develops his Snow White's character in a way that fits with women’s empowerment that the current generation now fights for everyday.

Young girls are often stuck in a world of make believe, they are fed fairytales, dream up unimaginable views of reality and believe everyone will find their prince charming. This unrealistic perspective is formed through their experiences with different fairytales. As G.K. Chesterton tells the fairytale are a realistic world for children, “Fairy tales are more than true — not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten”. Fairytales lead these girls to believe that in order to find true love there is some sort of intense journey one must go on. This idea of a journey for love has created a specific ideology for what love is and how to achieve it. In the text Beauty and the Beast by Madame Le Prince

The makers of Frozen wanted to base their movie on this story but with a different and more of a “Disney” theme. Unlike in the story when Kai gets his heart frozen, Elsa, one of the main characters from Frozen, is born with her powers of snow and ice and accidentally freezes her sister Anna’s heart. Just like in the story, an act of true love can thaw a frozen heart; seeing what Elsa did to her sister she starts crying and apologies. Doing so she lets go of the fear that was controlling her from the beginning and accepts her and learns to control them. Frozen is a wonderful that teaches kids a lesson on that just because you are different that doesn’t mean that you have to lock yourself away and shut yourself from the world so you wont have to worry about the

Over time, many versions of common fairy tales have been released. Each one comes with unique differences, that separate them from the others. Snow White is an example. Commonly, what comes to the minds of many individuals when they hear the title “Snow White”, is Disney. They have the basic beautiful princess in a sticky situation, accompanied by their trustful sidekicks, in this case seven dwarfs. However, Walt Disney was not the creator of this story, or the evil queen constantly muttering ,¨Mirror, mirror, on the wall…”. It seems as though many in this world have fallen in love with this portrayal of the tale. Believe it or not, these ideas are based directly off a German version published by the Grimm Brothers. Both are very alike, and unlike too. Similarly, new versions, released in movies, have also changed the depiction of the common “Snow White”. These differences may be related to how society is beginning to view people, women, and heroes, or someone who is brave and courageous. This has helped shape these newer versions of the all-time classic.