Antonio Madrigal

For my final passion blog post, I decided that I would talk about and analyze my most favorite character fromĀ Encanto. Antonio is the youngest of the entire Madrigal family. He is the youngest son of Pepa and Felix Madrigal and the younger brother of Dolores and Camilo Madrigal.

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Dolores Madrigal

This week, my passion post will be about Dolores Madrigal. Dolores is the daughter of Pepa and Felix Madrigal and the older sister of Antonio and Camilo Madrigal. Dolores’ power is impeccable hearing. In the songĀ The Family Madrigal, Mirabel sings “Cousin Dolores can hear a pin drop.” She uses her powers to both her and her family’s advantage to eavesdrop on the other people of the town. Further on in this song, Mirabel says “My cousin Dolores can hear this whole chorus a mile away.”

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Luisa Madrigal

For this week I’m going to be analyzing Luisa Madrigal. I’m honestly not the biggest fan of her, but there is so much lying beneath the surface of her character that I love to discuss with my friends. In the film, Luisa’s power is her strength. She helps wrangle in the donkeys and pushes houses back into the place they should be when they are leaning. Luisa is such an amazing character.

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Pepa Madrigal

To continue my segment of analyzing the Encanto characters, this weeks post will be about Pepa Madrigal. She was absolutely one of my favorite characters in the film and I related to her so incredibly well. Pepa is the middle of the three Madrigal triplets. She has three children—Dolores, Camilo, and Antonio, and she is married to Felix.

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Camilo Madrigal

Camilo Madrigal is the middle child of Pepa and Felix Madrigal. His mom controls the weather with her emotions, his older sister Dolores can hear a pin dropping a mile away, and his younger brother Antonio has the ability to speak to animals. Camilo has the ability to shape shift, and his ability and character in total go overlooked throughout the film.

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Bruno Madrigal

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This new segment of analyzing Encanto characters has to do with Bruno Madrigal. Bruno is by far my favorite Disney character to be written in recent years of Disney films. Bruno is the social outcast of the family. From the beginning that is made very clear. The family has been forbidden to speak of him, and even in the opening number, we do not learn about what power he received when he touched the doorknob.

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Mirabel Madrigal

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For this semester I decided to analyze the Encanto characters and why I love them. I’m starting off the blog with Mirabel Madrigal. Mirabel is the youngest daughter of Julieta and Augustine and is the only Madrigal cousin that did not receive a power. Mirabel was often overlooked by her grandmother and other members of the family, solely because she did not have a gift like the rest of them. She faces backlash from Abuela because the gift is deteriorating and Abuela believes that the root of all if the Madrigal family’s problems is Mirablel.

Despite the family’s harsh treatment, Mirabel is still happy and bubbly and she cares deeply for her family. She helps both of her sisters to embrace themselves and be who they are. She teaches them that they are more than just their powers. Her sole goal in life is to make her family proud, in fact she says it many times throughout the film.

Mirabel is an amazing example and role model for young boys and girls everywhere. Being powerless, she has nothing but her kind heart and her wits to guide her throughout the entire movie. Her family makes her feel inadequate on many occasions during the movie and at one point she even speaks on how nothing she ever does will be good enough for Abuela. Mirabel is not extraordinary, especially compared to the rest of her family. She is the one ordinary character in a family full of amazing gifts and talents. However, she never lets the fact that she’s powerless stop her. If anything, this is her driving force throughout the film. She knows that she is just as special as the rest of her family, in fact she says it multiple times throughout the film. She doesn’t let not having a gift stop her from achieving her goals.

Later on in the film, the family’s gift–and all of their powers–are in danger. With the threat of losing their gift, Mirabel devises a plan to save the miracle. She teams up with Bruno, the family outcast who can see the future, to find out what’s happening with the miracle and work out how to save it. Unfortunately, in the end, the candle that gave them their gift does end up blowing out and the family loses their powers.

However, even throughout all of this, Mirabel still doesn’t lose her hope or her love for her family. In the end, the whole town comes and helps the Madrigal family rebuild their house from the ground up, as it had been destroyed from the loss of the miracle. At the end, her youngest cousin hands her a doorknob with her initial on it, telling her that it was made specially for her. When Mirabel puts the knob on the door, the entire house lights up with gold, glitter, and magic. It ends up being Mirabel, the one that does not have a gift, to be the one to restore the gifts and save the miracle.