Character types - Frozen
- charlotte2006lr
- Oct 6, 2023
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 13, 2023
When looking at film and TV there are 7 types of characters that have a typical role.
Hero
In frozen we see many characters that could be the hero. For example, Kristoff who rushes Anna back to Arendale to save her when her heart gets frozen. However, Anna is the main hero in frozen as she sets out the journey to find Elsa and get her to unfreeze the summer. This is a dangerous journey alone and in the cold but she wants the best for the town.
Helpers
Frozen follows the journey of Anna who is trying to get Elsa to bring the summer back after she froze it. Along the journey we are met with helpers who help the hero along their journey aswell as providing more characters to have dialogue with. If it was just Anna it would be very boring. In frozen, the helpers are Kristoff, Svenn and Olaf. In this scene, Anna, Kristoff and Svenn meet Olaf and ask him for help finding Elsa.
Princess
The role of the princess is used to show what needs saving. Once Anna has been unfroze, what she had set out to save was Arendale. This is what is next to be saved.
False hero
The role of false hero goes to Hans in Frozen. This is because we see Hans as a good character for majority of the film until we see Hans go after Elsa and later leave Anna to die as she believes "true loves kiss" will save her, this being Hans. He explains his plan to marry into royalty and kill elsa to become king.
Villain
Whilst Hans is the false hero, he could also be the villain as he plans to kill Elsa and marry into the family to become royalty. We only find this plan out towards the end of the film so the role of the villain is pushed onto another character. I have said that Elsa is the villain as many of the bad actions that take place in the movie (Arendale's summer being turned into winter and Anna's heart being frozen) are due to Elsa and her powers. Whilst Elsa does reverse these it would have been better had they not have occured in the first place.
The dispatcher
When Anna leaves Arrendale to get Elsa and bring her back to reverse the winter, Anna volunteers herself to go get Elsa as a pose to being told to leave. The Duke of Wessleton does say that she should bring her back but it was Anna who said she would travel to find her first.
The Donor
I believe the donor in Frozen are the trolls as the vision Grand Pabbie troll shows Elsa and her parents at the start of the film paves the way of the movie. They explain her powers and what she might go through as they get older. They explain she must hide it from Anna and that as they get stronger people will have opinions on her and their powers.
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