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Frozen - Beyond the Ice and Snow

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This animated film, "Frozen," features two beautiful sisters that have never had a real relationship until their parents die in a tragic accident. As one sister Elsa finally breaks free, the other sister Anna chases after to show that she will always accept her. Frozen brings out the themes of family, love and of course just letting go and being who you truly are. While this a heartwarming parable of sisterhood, the story itself has much more to tell behind the curtains. Behind the curtains, Frozen uses magic powers as a metaphor for puberty. This is a time when our emotions are raw, uneasy, unpredictable, and new. Elsa is the sister with magical powers. She has the ability to create snow and ice but from the time she was young she was told to conceal it. This could be because when going through puberty, girls go through changes in the body. Her parents did not want to allow the men to see that and chase after her so they locked her away. Her sister, Anna, who was a lot younger at the time did not understand which forced Elsa to feel like she could not relate to her anymore. This caused Elsa to completely shut Anna out. When it comes to women hitting puberty, the more they suppress it, the worse it comes out. When Elsa finally explodes she puts the entire kingdom under a blizzard of unstoppable snow. The new feelings and our urges to appeal to the opposite sex or same sex, could both be described as having powers. The hit song, “Let it Go” may present a deeper meaning to the story and certainly paralleling with Elsa and the theory of her coming out and being gay. Elsa lives by the motto, “Conceal, don’t feel. Don’t let it show.” Her parents hide her away in her bedroom, lock the gates so that nobody can see her powers. They say her nature is unacceptable as well as dangerous so is she forced to train herself to control it. They specifically say in the movie that she was not cursed with these powers but that she was born

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