[ SECRET POST #2216 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2216 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't find her bratty, just unrealistic. Given the era, she would have known that she would grow up to marry for the good of her kingdom, just as her brothers would eventually grow up to do as well. Arranged political marriages were just how it was done, especially with the firstborn. Her shock and dismay over the whole thing felt anachronistic to me and very annoying. (So to, for that matter, did her need to blame her mother for what both parents had decreed and her decision to use potentially malicious magic against her mother, as another anon pointed out.) I wouldn't have minded it so much if she had been portrayed as pointedly ignoring it out of horror over the whole concept, but it felt to me like she had honestly never thought it would apply to her at all.

But if she was a brat, is that really a bad thing to acknowledge? I mean, look at all the various Disney heroes and heroines out there. Most of them start out immature and flawed. It's one of the big points in a hero's journey to watch them mature and come of age.

[morieris]

I wouldn't really be surprised if she thought it would never apply to her, but her complete disbelief at it is...a stretch.

[(Anonymous)]

All of this. The fact that she didn't even know completely destroyed my suspension of disbelief. Maybe if they implied that she did know, but had purposely ignored/forgotten it, I wouldn't have minded as much, but seriously? She didn't know at ALL?

Nope, I cannot believe that.

Maybe if she was shown to live in a more cloistered situation, where she didn't know much about the outside world, and was very sheltered, I could believe it, but that's not the character we were introduced to. :/

[ketita]

Agreed. It bothered me how anachronistic her reaction was. But a lot of stories these days are guilty of that sort of thing...

[sparklywalls]

I guess Merida's reaction might have been 21stC writers projecting their reaction/feelings on the matter. However, I imagine there were historical women who secretly weren't very happy with the situation even if they knew it was expected or had no other choices. It's just not the sort of thing they'd probably vocalise very loudly in most cases.