What is the significance of the powers of the Madrigal family?

‘Encanto’ was the 60th animation released by Disney studios, and follows the story of the Madrigals, an extraordinary family who, surrounded by magic, all have unique powers. All except the protagonist: Mirabel.

However, the gifts of the Madrigal family go beyond super strength or even the power to heal, and reveal the personalities of the characters, showing the difficulties, skills and history that each one carries. Check out!

bruno

With the gift of predicting the future, Bruno was judged by the community who found his predictions frightening and treated them as curses.

This situation made grandma Alma’s triplet son hide for years and become a superstitious person, living as discreetly as possible.

Juliet

By healing injured people through her food, Juliet restored everyone’s health quickly. The power of Alma’s third daughter represents altruism, showing that the character’s kindness and support calms anyone who seeks help.

pepa

Controlling the climate with emotions indicates that Pepa has many feelings and they intensify as the emotion grows in the character. This skill makes the daughter of ‘abuela’ create different methods to calm herself down in order to improve the well-being of everyone around her.

Dolores

Dolores has the gift of superhuman hearing. This power allows her to know anything about any subject that runs through the community, however, the character is not very good at hiding secrets.

Furthermore, because she is always connected with what everyone else is doing, Pepa’s daughter is unable to focus on herself and pursue her goals.

Camilo

Dolores’ brother can transform into anyone. Camilo’s gift brought entertainment to the community as well as cheering up everyone around him.

isabella

With the power that inspires perfection, Isabela creates flowers in all imaginable shapes and colors. However, the pressure of never failing became the character’s dilemma.

After accidentally creating a cactus, Julieta’s daughter realized that her gift could be used to create things that weren’t perfect and understood that she also didn’t need to follow the standards to please everyone.

Antonio

Little Antonio has the ability to talk to animals. As the youngest in the family, Antonio can feel separate from the rest of the Madrigals, however, this power helps him to have friends wherever he goes and never feel alone.

Luisa

With the gift of super strength, everyone in the community looked for Luísa to do the heavy lifting, which made Mirabel’s older sister feel mentally exhausted by carrying the expectations that everyone placed on her shoulders.

Mirabel

As the only member of the family without powers, Mirabel felt that she was the Madrigals’ disappointment and tried hard to be useful even without her magical abilities in order to make them proud, despite not feeling that it was enough.