This is a very powerful scene that told me tons about elsa: a lot of people say she represents the creative, the outcasts, and even the socially rejected ill, but I recognized this immediately as marking her as a"responsible gifted". They are the people who have great gifts and share their benefits with others, to the point where people become dependent on them. At some point, the gifted run out of energy or reach the limits of their ability, and try to say they can't meet the latest challenge or can't summmon the energy to give more, and yet people keep demanding that they produce what they themselves say they cannot ("I Can't! I-I don't know HOW!") I've had times like that, when people really depended and relied on me and what I can do, or had bigger expectations than I knew, and kept trying to get me to produce or perform what I kept telling them I could not: I did what else did, which was to be honest, grab at my hair of hit myself, warn them of what they are risking pushing me, and they just kept on and on, thinking that their mere presence and desire was sufficient fuel and inspiration for me to do what I couldn't do. finally, I just f*cking EXPLODE, like Elsa screaming "I CAN'T", only winding up hurting people even more.



And feeling bad because I think the problem was my lack of control, and I pace around, like elsa, telling myself to get it together, only msaking it even less possible to fix the original problem.



(The final thing about elsa that makes her like the responsible gifted was when she heard the phrase "An act of true love will thaw a frozen heart", thinks about it, and the tumblers suddenly "fall into place", and she suddenly is able to lift the winter and bring back summer. She doesn't have to defy gravity, but makes the snow and ice defy it! People think that's crazy and unrealistic, but they are very, very wrong. I get those all the time, stressing out about something, only to get a random fact from some place or read it in the internet, or have the Holy Spirit shove a single thought or realization into my head, and POW, it's all simple and OBVIOUS, and I feel kinda foolish for not noticing it earlier.)



The latest craze I hear is "Divergent", with the five factions. Elsa would be classified as "Abnegation Etrudite".



Thank you for this pic: I wanted something to illustrate a journal entry about this aspect of elsa.