My response essay

Putting down the crown means many things in the stories of books and movies; it is a symbolism. The movie "Brave" also contained that scene. Let me give you a summary of the movie “Brave”. It’s about princess Merida who wants to change her fate. She couldn’t be an archer and had to be married with a prince she didn’t know. So after, she fought with her mom Elinor the queen, she went to a witch’s house and turned her mother into a bear. (changing the fate=mom turning to bear) In the end, Merida regretted her choice and reversed the spell.

The scene of putting down the crown happened when Queen Elinor, as a bear, went to the lake to eat fish. The first meaning is Queen Elinor respected the crown. Crowns are made of gold, and who wants to leave them in the water? This scene means Elinor really cares about the crown and is able to show respect to it. Crowns often symbolize the place of the king and the queen. We can say “Queen Elinor respects the place of the queen. But we can’t be sure about Queen Elinor looking the crown

in it’s price and value.

The next possible meaning I recognized is that the scene could mean “The queen stopped doing traditional behavior.” Queens never do their own dishes. Queens also do not eat food with her hands. But Queen Elinor was a bear and she had no ladies to serve her. What could she do? She just had to abandon traditional behavior. ‘Putting down the crown’ means putting down the old and difficult traditional behavior. Not in this case, but putting down the crown also mean disappointments to the country in some movies, too.

Last of all, the scene might mean Elinor is learned. Elinor became a bear, nobody except Merida recognized her. Without her authority in human form, the only way to fill her stomach was to catch fish by herself.

She learned that the crown became useless for her life. It was just a gold object and didn’t make her food or a house. She thought her crown makes her a queen which is the reason why people served her. However it wasn’t. The thing that makes her a queen was her personality and generosity. Though her adventure, she actually learned something that couldn’t be learned in the palace!

In conclusion, I want to say that “Brave” many symbolisms. If I focused on the movie mores carefully, I might have found the many other symbolisms, since I just looked at the scene about putting down the crown and could guess 3 meanings! One that means Queen Elinor is showing the respects to the crown, second that means she buried her traditional behavior and finally, the other shows that Queen Elinor is learned.