Elsa's powers were based on the concept of anxiety: The filmmakers wanted Elsa's powers to represent something deeper than just magical abilities. They chose to base her powers on the concept of anxiety, which is something that many people can relate to.
In "Let It Go," Elsa's powers are described using metaphors that convey her feelings of being out of control. For example, at the beginning of the song, Elsa sings "The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside." Here, the wind is used as a metaphor for the turmoil Elsa feels within herself.
Elsa, princess of Arendelle and heiress to the throne, is born with the ability to create and control ice and snow. As a child, she uses her abilities to create a winter wonderland to play in with her younger sister and best friend, Princess Anna.
Strong and independent. Alongside from Sadness from Disney's Inside Out and Eeyore from the Winnie The Pooh franchise, Elsa is a metaphor for mental health. Ever since she was born, she's always been different while her parents, her sister and her royal subjects are literally powerless.
As the Fifth Spirit, Elsa is able to awaken the four nature spirits of the forest: fire, air, water and earth. Despite her newfound connection with the elements, however, her powers are still primarily ice-based.
Elsa is never properly identified as asexual or aromantic, something that would help immensely to increase visibility and awareness. Considering Disney's record with LGBT characters (remember the underwhelming 'gay moment' in Beauty and the Beast?)
The simple version is that her ice powers were a gift from the spirits, bestowed on her because of the actions of her mother, Queen Iduna, in saving her father, King Agnarr, during the battle between the people of Arendelle and Northuldra.
Although Elsa's disability is encoded as a magical ice power, the language the film uses to talk about her condition maps on to the experiences of people with physical, mental, and intellectual disabilities in recognizable ways.
In the film, Olaf represents the happiness Elsa and Anna shared as young children. His desire to experience summer is symbolic of how Elsa wants to return to the old days of her childhood with her sister as her best friend.
The implication, and it's only ever just that, is that Elsa and Anna's mother is herself somehow attuned to the magical forces such that Elsa was given the gift of superpowers. (Why Anna never received such powers is equally vaguely defined: just as Elsa and Anna's father had no powers, so too would she be power-free.
Elsa is one of the most powerful Disney princesses thanks to her magical ice powers. The heiress to the Arendelle throne is easily capable of manipulating ice, snow, and water.
These strong female characters certainly have their weaknesses; they wouldn't be very interesting characters if they didn't. Elsa can be distant to the people she loves, she has trouble accepting help, and she fails to recognize her own limitations.
“'Frozen' uses the idea of magic powers as a metaphor for coming of age, a time when feelings are raw, unpredictable, terrifying and new,” writes Britt Hayes at ScreenCrush.
If the plot of the first movie is looked at through the lens of a gay allegory, Elsa realizes as a child that she is “different”, is traumatized when she realizes that her “differences” could be harmful to her family, and she shuts herself off from them while committing to hiding this part of herself forever.
Elsa fears she will not be accepted by her sister or her town. This feeling worsens as her parents pass away. Now with no one having knowledge of her powers the pressure increases for her to stay hidden. As she becomes required to attend her coronation, she begins overthinking how she will keep her powers hidden.
The story is about two sisters, two princesses Elsa and Anna. In terms of Colour Types, Elsa is either a Cool/True Winter or a Bright/Clear Winter and Anna is either a Warm/True Autumn or a Warm/True Spring. At the beginning of Frozen, right before and after the coronation, Elsa wears Deep/Dark Winter colours.
Framed as a story set in the Frozen universe being told to two children, it tells the tale of the origins of the four elemental spirits, and includes the fifth spirit in its story too, which it describes as "the human spirit." Interestingly, the fifth spirit was not originally among the others, but instead was born " ...
In a few attention-grabbing works shown here, two of Disney's most prominent characters, Cinderella and Snow White, use a wheelchair, while Pocahontas and Jasmine deal with their own circumstance.
Be Bold. Perhaps the most obvious message in Frozen is that it's good to be courageous. Elsa fleeing her home to live on her own was bold; Anna following her was even more so. Having a feisty streak can be a very good thing!
She died and was reborn to take on her true form like has happened in so many stories before. With that transformation, Frozen 2 has made Elsa an immortal spirit now. Like how Frozen 2's other four spirits appear as animals but more than just that, Elsa still appears human but is more than just that.
It was after that the decision was made to fully commit to the voice calling to Elsa being that of her mother, Iduna. As Marc Smith, Frozen 2's Director of Story, notes in the documentary, the idea "unifies the movie" since it starts with a flashback featuring Iduna and Agnarr, and it brings those elements together.
Anna isn't immortal, but just an ordinary person despite how extraordinary her sister is. Kristoff is as ordinary as they come, along with everyone else in Arendelle. This means that Elsa is likely going to outlive all of them. She'll see Anna's kids grow up to take the throne, then even they'll die.
