![]() ![]() Ultimately both Merida and Queen Elinor learn from their foray into nature, moving toward a “middle ground” that includes elements of both nature and culture and building a less traditional mother daughter relationship. The journey Merida and Queen Elinor take together to reverse this change, however, demonstrates the need for interdependent rather than hierarchical relationships between mother and daughter and between the human and natural worlds. Although the film begins with a human-centered focus on mother/daughter relationships in an epic Scotland setting, when protagonist, Merida (Kelly Macdonald) asks a witch (Julie Walters) to change her fate, she inadvertently changes her somewhat orthodox mother, Queen Elinor (Emma Thompson) into a bear. The Disney/Pixar animated feature Brave (2012) highlights both an extended clan-based vision of family and an unusual parent/child relationship.
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