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fandomsecrets2012-12-20 06:44 pm
[ SECRET POST #2179 ]
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(Anonymous) 2012-12-21 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)I mean, that was the point. Literally the point. The big speech that calms the clans down? Is explicitly about changing destiny. And in this case, it's changing destiny to not involve, you know, forced marriage against someone's will.
Merida wasn't completely opposed to getting married in concept, which is why the solution was to give them time and allow love to develop. What she didn't want was to be a prize, since that was all she literally was considered to be, and she didn't want it to be now. When she was talking to Angus, she quite plainly stated, "I'm just not ready" - which is completely fair enough!
The whole point of the movie was about reaching compromises, seeing things from someone else's perspective (Merida sees the repercussions of her earlier, impulsive, and yes, selfish behavior, and Elinor gets to see why Merida is so opposed to the idea) and making social change in that way.
Sure, it doesn't run concurrent to the real Scotland in that period, but I doubt Scotland in that period also had people cursed into being bears...