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Disney Princess Who is a better role model?
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Elsa.
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Ariel.
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Ariel confronts her problems. Elsa denies responsibility, and runs away. Ariel for me.
I wouldn't say Ariel confronts problems though. Just the opposite. when Triton destroys her collection, she does run away. but Elsa does do it way more I admit.
In fact, she doesn't even take responsibility. Even when she apologizes, she still makes excuses. "Daddy, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to. I didn't know." "Didn't mean" to what? Go to the sea witch? Sign the contract? "Didn't know" what? That Ursula has a reputation for being evil and untrustworthy? Has a whole garden of "poor unfortunate souls" who came to see her before? Would own your soul and likely turn you into a polyp if you didn't meet the terms of the contract you knowingly signed?
In fact, even after Ariel's father gets turned into a polyp, she still does not admit fault for her actions. Every time I watch the scene where he shrinks in front of her, I half expect Ariel to whisper, "What have I done?" INSTEAD, she glares at Ursula and shouts: "YOU MONSTER!" While Ursula indeed shares fault, when all's said and done she didn't force Ariel to come to her lair or sign the contract. She didn't keep the terms of the contract hidden from Ariel. Heck, she didn't even try to hide how sadistic she is, or how many victims she has under her belt.
Ariel knew the risks going in, chose to do it anyway, and STILL makes excuses for herself ("I didn't mean to, I didn't know") and shifts the blame onto someone else ("YOU MONSTER!") instead of admitting "It's all my fault," "What have I done?" or "I shouldn't have done this." That's not "taking responsibility" for me.
And it's not like Elsa doesn't try to make things right in her own way. She may say "I don't know how" when Anna and Hans ask her to unfreeze it, but she doesn't let herself off the hook either. She still spends the rest of the film torturing herself over the winter, trying with all her might and main to suppress her emotions and thus suppress the winter. She only stops actively trying to "Conceal, don't feel" when she's, you know, hunted like a dog, about to be killed, dragged into prison and about to be executed.
Could she have handled it better? Yeah. Should she have allowed Anna to try to help? Yes. Should she have tried a new method instead of locking herself away chanting "conceal, don't feel" when she KNOWS that has never worked? ABSOLUTELY!
But if you want to talk about denying responsibility, Ariel's got Elsa beat six ways to Sunday.
What's the lesson that Ariel has learned?
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