{"id":1126,"date":"2023-11-14T06:38:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T06:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/history471.teresafelipe.org\/?p=82"},"modified":"2023-11-14T06:38:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T06:38:43","slug":"film-post-disneys-frozen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.mcclurken.org\/HistoryOfMentalHealth\/uncategorized\/film-post-disneys-frozen\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Post: Disney\u2019s Frozen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Disney\u2019s hit movie <em>Frozen<\/em>, one of the main characters, Elsa, obviously struggles with mental health issues. During her childhood, after Elsa accidentally struck her little sister Anna in the head with her ice powers, her parents decided the best course of action for her was to conceal her powers, and thus her true self. Her parents closed the castle gates and moved Anna to another part of the castle, effectively isolating the young girl. Furthermore, throughout her life Else had been told over and over again by her parents to \u201cconceal it, don\u2019t feel it, don\u2019t let it show.\u201d This was a mantra for the scared young girl who grew up into a paranoid and anxious adult.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This isolation reminds me of how people during the colonial period, discussed in Grob\u2019s history, were treated. They were put under something similar to house arrest, which is like what Elsa experienced in her adolescent years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-tcwr-wECCxw\/VBBa9dcroYI\/AAAAAAAAErs\/om7aduRe19w\/s1600\/conceal%2B2.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>After the untimely demise of her parents, the King and Queen of Arendelle, Elsa is forced to become queen, which causes her to open up the castle gates and welcome guests after a long period of isolation. She can be seen in the song &#8220;For the First Time in Forever&#8221; as being anxious about being around people for \u201cthe first time in forever.\u201d This anxiety is understandable since she was not socialized as a child and was instead told to conceal herself because she was different from everyone else.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Frozen - For the First Time in Forever HD\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_UA3xY0OxI4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Elsa\u2019s powers set her apart from everyone else around her. She was deemed by her parents as outside of the \u201cnorm.\u201d In this sense, Elsa\u2019s parents, the king and queen of Arendelle, determined what is and what is not \u201cnormal.\u201d This question of what is normal and who determines this norm is one we as class have been grappling with all semester. More often than not those who are deemed to act outside of this norm end up being isolated and ostracized by society. We saw this trend happen with women in asylums, as well as with Black men during the Civil Rights era. Elsa herself was ostracized by Arendelle after it was revealed at her coronation that she had ice powers. This caused Elsa to run up to the top of the mountain and sing her infamous song \u201cLet It Go,\u201d effectively putting herself back into the isolation her parents put her into when she was a child.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Frozen- Elsa Flees From Arendelle Clip (HD)\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AiX-WvMNDPc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Disney&#039;s Frozen &quot;Let It Go&quot; Sequence Performed by Idina Menzel\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/moSFlvxnbgk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In a sense, Elsa retreated back to the same \u201ctreatment\u201d method that she grew up with because she did not know any other way to deal with her powers. Similar to how many people throughout history, and even today, struggle with knowing and understanding how to deal with their own mental illnesses. Many people only learn how to deal with their illness after seeking the help of psychiatrists, or in the past many people turned to drugs. For Elsa, she learned that the answer to her problems was \u201clove.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/pjQpX6ZB58LRzpeMNdbcvd-1200-80.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Disney\u2019s hit movie Frozen, one of the main characters, Elsa, obviously struggles with mental health issues. During her childhood, after Elsa accidentally struck her little sister Anna in the head with her ice powers, her parents decided the best course of action for her was to conceal her powers, and thus her true self. 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