Analyzing the Frozen Phenomenon: A Story of Sisterhood

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The movie Frozen was directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee based on the story about The Snow Queen written by Hans Christian Anderson. The movie was released November 27th, 2013 and got $1.274 billion in the box office (Frozen). The movie is focuses on two daughters of a royal family in Arendelle, Elsa and Anna. The eldest, Elsa, develops ice powers from a very young age. While playing with her sister, Elsa hurts Anna and the whole family visits the magical Rock Trolls to save Anna. Along with it, her memories of Elsa using her powers are gone and Elsa is forced to keep her powers a secret. They grow up, but Elsa isolates herself from Anna, afraid of hurting Anna or anyone else because she has yet to learn to control her powers. Their parents, …show more content…

Their parents rush to the children when they are the commotion, and the father, the king, blames Elsa, “…what have you done? This is getting out of hand” (Del Vecho, Buck & Lee, Frozen). This shows the resentment towards Elsa’s power, which Elsa starts to feel about herself. She is only eight years old and she is already starting to doubt herself, with no help from her parents. Anna, who is five in this scene, and Elsa were best friends before that incident and Anna enjoyed Elsa’s powers. Anna encouraged Elsa to play with her that night and enjoyed the snow and ice Elsa created with her powers. Anna was, unknowingly, help Elsa learn to control her powers and helping her gain confidence over this difference that is already isolating her. It’s the parents that harm Elsa’s growth by shutting Elsa in her room, away from the kingdom, and away from her only supporter, Anna. Their parents move Elsa from the shared room between the sisters, to a new room, all by herself. A line that resonates with me is when young Anna sings “We used to be best buddies and now we’re not. I wish you would tell me why” (Del Vecho, Buck & Lee, Frozen). The sisters would do everything together, but in order to keep both of them “safe”, their parents separate them. However, they don’t realize that this is harming Elsa’s mental health. A little girl should get socialization and shouldn’t feel like she …show more content…

Elsa is terrified because she can’t let anyone know about her powers, or depression. As Queen, she is supposed to appear normal, and strong. Her powers prevent her from being normal, and her depression prevents her from being strong, in her mind. However, I disagree with the mindset because being sad and depressed doesn’t show weakness. Her feelings are valid and she is allowed to feel sad, especially after what she has gone through in her life. However, with show she was raised, conceal, don’t feel, she feels weak. Her worst fears come to life, she accidently uses her powers in front of everyone. The kingdom and all the visitors are afraid and call her a monster. She runs away and creates her own ice castle, away from everyone else, once again, isolating herself. Being called a monster reinforces her feelings of worthlessness, hopelessness, emptiness and guilt. All her signs of depression is shown in this

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