As Merida and Elinor try solving the witch’s riddle, tensions back at the castle build between the clans gathered to complete for Merida’s hand. Unfortunately, the witch is gone, leaving a message for Merida: “mend the bond torn by pride.” Also, the witch warns Merida that if she cannot mend this bond by the second sunrise, this spell with be permanent.

Merida and Elinor, now a bear, leave the castle, seeking out the witch to reverse the spell. However, when she returns to her castle and puts the spell on her mother, the change that occurs is not what Merida hoped it Elinor changes into a bear. There, she bargains with the witch for a spell that will change her mother. Irate, Elinor drags Merida into the castle Merida and Elinor argue, during which time Merida rips a tapestry Elinor made for her and Elinor throws Merida’s bow into the fire.ĭevastated, Merida flees the castle, wandering through the woods and into and witch’s lair.

The day of the Games, Merida selects archery as the contest to earn her hand and, after all the men shoot, Merida stands up, declares herself an eldest child, and shoots for her own hand, annihilating her competitors. Feeling as though she is not ready to marry, and wanting to select her own partner, when the time eventually comes, Merida voices her concerns, only be countered by her mother, the queen, who insists the competition, called the Highland Games, are tradition and tradition must be upheld. But, when Merida learns her parents have invited men from allied clans to compete for her hand in marriage, Merida rebels. Princess Merida, the eldest child of King Fergus and Queen Elinor, defies the typical “princess” role with her fiercely independent, adventure-seeking, sporty (she loves archery) characteristics, not to mention her hearty appetite.

In short, Brave takes place in the Scottish Highlands, following members of the royal Dunbroch clan. And, not only does Merida, the princess in question, have a mother (Elinor) who plays an active role in the princess’s life, Merida and Elinor’s relationship is at the center of the film’s plot. It took some time, and a bit of outspoken frustration from film audiences, but in 2012 Disney, in collaboration with Pixar, gave viewers a princess film in which the princess has… a relationship with her mother.

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