She was forced to give away her first-born child, and she was locked in a tower her entire life. Gothel only took care of Rapunzel because if she's dead, there goes the eternal youth. Lemme know what you guys think. Fun Fact – Cher was the influence for Mother Gothel’s appearance! Mother Gothel is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Pictures' 50th animated feature film Tangled (2010). And when Rapunzel asks for new paint, which takes 3 days to journey to the place to get them mind you, Gothel agrees and actually goes out to fetch them for her!! Even though Rapunzel was taken as a baby, Gothel could have chosen not to take care of her but she still did and Rapunzel turned out amazing, beautiful, strong, and one of the most beloved Disney Princesses ever. Her positive attention and affection are completely focused on Rapunzel's hair (kisses her hair only, calls her "Flower," etc.). Thanks to Maximus, crime on the kingdom dissapeared almost every night. If she truly loved her, she wouldn't tell her lies or be harsh to her, as she did during "Mother Knows Best" and the reprise, and when she screamed "You are not leaving this tower EVER". She wears a soiled red dress with tattered golden piping in … So who did? She makes a salad out of it and greedily eats it. The world is dark and selfish and cruel. Without Gothel letting Rapunzel do all of those things, Rapunzel would have grown up to be a very different person indeed. I agree with you completely, In my opinion mother gothel did a great job caring for her for years, keeping her happy and healthy. Did she ever love Rapunzel? She was eventually proven to have been the biological mother of Cassandra, whom she abandoned for the powerful healing magics in the newborn princess' hair to sustain her youth and beauty for centuries on end. A question that if answered correctly could save her life. Gothel also mistreats Rapunzel's animals. She kidnaps Rapunzel and hoards the princess away to keep access to the magical youth restoring power of Rapunzel's hair. So in answer to my original question, I’m going to say that yes – I think that Gothel grew to love Rapunzel. Kids. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Every affectionate gesture is to Rapunzel’s hair, every compliment is immediately taken back, every bad thing she does is deflected to be Rapunzel’s fault. She instead abducts Rapunzel and raises her as her own in a secret tower. I guess it’s true that love really does vanquish the evil side, no matter what kind of love that it is. In fact, she’s the very first character we see on screen. I can say that Mother Gothel had an emotional "attachment" to Rapunzel. You can't be around someone for 18 years and not grow some sort of bond! In this one, I will try to explain why I believe that despite what most people may think, Mother Gothel is indeed capable of feeling love. The Queen’s daughter, Rapunzel, then inherited the magical powers of the flower. A question that if answered correctly could save her life. Obviously nobody should keep their daughter isolated forever, and this was still a bad story of kidnapping and selfishness, but Gothel wouldn’t have done any of those things I mentioned if she didn’t at least care for the child. Follow/Fav Did You Ever Love Me, Mother? Gothel… 2. When it comes to her relationship with Rapunzel, Gothel is practically a textbook case of an emotional abuser. By contrast, Mother Gothel dominates the story of Tangled from the beginning. Gothel presents herself with a theatrical flair, often flaunting her beauty and curvaceous appearance with much enthusiasm and dramatics. He's never told me otherwise. If it finds even the tiniest bit of sunlight, it destroys it.” She is bitter about how her youth and health declined, she is angry that her magical flower was taken by the kingdom and she is envious of Rapunzel’s authentic youth and beauty. ( Log Out /  It tastes so good that she longs for m… Maybe it was part of the deal that Rapunzel struck up with her, but she didn’t know what would happen if Rapunzel DIDN’T keep her word and betrayed her. Can Rapunzel heal herself? Any attention paid to Rapunzel herself is domineering, abusive, and meant to keep Rapunzel in the tower where no one will find her. Kids. Related Bible Stories. Did mother Gothel actually love Rapunzel? It all goes wrong when Rapunzel turns 18 and does the typically teenagery thing of rebelling hard and falling in love with a bad boy. And her one sliver of love that allowed Rapunzel to go to Flynn still ended in her downfall, turning her to dust and pushing off the end of the tower. Fanpop poll Results: Do you think Mother Gothel really did pag-ibig Rapunzel? So, Gothel kidnapped the princess and imprisoned her in a cosy tower for 18 years. But near the middle of the movie, as Rapunzel is telling Flynn about her hair's magical powers, she shows him that same strand and it hasn't grown an inch since she was a baby. I think, on some degree, she was still a good mother to her, raising Rapunzel up to be the beloved girl everyone knows and loved. Once she gets out of the tower, you see her interactions with other people and you see how caring she is to other people around her, so clearly Mother Gothel wasn’t that bad. The official 'Tangled Junior Novel' (issued by Disney Press) specifically recounts how Mother Gothel learned the "Healing Incantation": One day, an old woman named Mother Gothel was singing softly to herself during one of her walks along a craggy hillside. The first written version of the Rapunzel story was written in the year 1600 by a writer named Giambattista Basile, from Italy. And as for this guy, well I assumed he's happy. Where my Rapunzel stans at? Rapunzel goes down to the dungeons to set things right and ask her a very important question. Mother Gothel as Satan. For centuries, Gothel relied on the healing powers of a magical flower to keep her young and beautiful. As revealed in "Rapunzel's Return", Cassandra is the biological daughter of Mother Gothel, though she was severely neglected and was often left to fend for herself in their cottage while Gothel went about her daily business. Ginny is described as being "dark-haired" in The Isle of the Lost. Evidence to suggest that Gothel did in fact love Rapunzel – There is the undeniable fact that Rapunzel has been nurtured to some I think that in the end she is scared that the world will be just as cruel to Rapunzel as it was to her. Rapunzel's hair was not cut and Gothel was taken prisoner. At the end of the film, you're not sure if Mother Gothel has ever truly cared for Rapunzel, or just what Rapunzel's hair did for her. Any attention paid to Rapunzel herself is domineering, abusive, and meant to keep Rapunzel in the tower where no one will find her. In this version, Rapunzel is sold to an ogre when she was a baby, all because her mother stole some parsley from a garden. A lonely couple, who want a child, live next to a walled garden belonging to an evil witch named Dame Gothel. Anyways, that’s all for now!! For somebody who has been up a tower for 18 years – Rapunzel is very well adjusted.The reading and the chess suggest intelligence, the painting and the paper mache demonstrate a strong creative streak and the fact that she’s kind to her ‘pet’ Pascal implies that she has learned caring behaviour. And she was irritated when the princess used part of her free time to paint her pictures. However, Mother Gothel (Donna Murphy) pulls the strings to get Flynn arrested and manipulates Rapunzel into returning to the tower. Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure is good but it's definitely aimed at a much younger audience. Rapunzel's hair was not cut and Gothel was taken prisoner. What Gothel loved was Rapunzel’s hair. Mother Gothel Mother Gothel. Like what kind of mother let’s their daughter decorate the inside walls with their own unique painting style? Well, obviously Gothel!! Donna Murphy believed that Gothel did really love Rapunzel in her own way. Mother Gothel: “I love you very much, dear.” Rapunzel: “I love you more.” Mother Gothel: “I love you most.” Mother Gothel Quotes Video As you pointed out, she could have forced Rapunzel to do what she wanted. And even when Gothel tricks Rapunzel back into the tower, she still offers to make her soup to cheer Rapunzel up. The man begs for mercy, and she agrees to be l… Flynn’s criminal ways and playboy attitude initially seem to confirm everything Gothel told Rapunzel about the outside world. Honestly, I think she did. Dame Gothel is described as an evil witch who lives in a walled garden beside a lonely couple whose window looks over the garden. Gothel tries to steal a lock of Rapunzel's hair to use the magic once again, but discovers that cutting the hair renders it powerless. Correct! Gothel raised Rapunzel to be the kind and adventurous girl she is today. I’m always secretly pleased when Tangled is pick of the day and not just because of the dreamboat male lead . However, Gothel ultimately chose her own survival over Rapunzel’s happiness whilst maintaining that all of the bad things she did were for Rapunzel’s own good – and by the end, I think she genuinely believed that. In this version, Rapunzel is sold to an ogre when she was a baby, all because her mother stole some parsley from a garden. Rapunzel would eventually come to discover the difference between the two, however, as Frederic's actions were out of love, whereas Gothel's were out of selfishness. Or doesn’t she? No person would ever do that for somebody that they’d didn’t love, even if it WAS their birthday and they snuck out. She is described as being a girl with dark frizzy hair with piercing grey eyes, like her mother. The world is dark and selfish and cruel. Not to mention, Rapunzel being caring, kind, fun, adventurous, trusting, talented, carefree, and more couldn’t have come from nowhere!! This website saves cookies to your browser in order to improve your online experience and show you personalized content. Or was it just her being a very WICKED manipulator? Season 2 She is seen in another dream-turned-nightmare made by another of Zhan Tiri's ghostly disciples in " Rapunzeltopia ". And though it is easier to be nice to Rapunzel, it is still time consuming. By: AsLostAsAliceAsMadAsTheHatter. Mother Gothel is the main antagonist of Disney's 2010 animated feature film, Tangled. It was all part of Mother Gothel's plan to convince Rapunzel that Eugene didn't love her though. Eighteen years before the events of Tangled, Rapunzel's parents, the beloved King and Queen of Corona, were anticipating their firstborn. Flynn Rider as Jesus. But, for the majority of the time that Rapunzel spent in the tower (disregarding what happened at the end of Tangled, where Gothel kinda goes, it can be argued, insane out of desperation), Gothel tried (or at least kept a pretense of trying) to keep Rapunzel happy. 5. Fun Fact – Cher was the influence for Mother Gothel’s appearance! Did Mother Gothel love Rapunzel? Although she would rather regain Rapun… As long as nothing threatened Rapunzel's hair, she would have loved her always. This is what makes her character so confusing, and why Rapunzel is taken in by her for so long. Her positive attention and affection are completely focused on Rapunzel's hair (kisses her hair only, calls her "Flower," etc.). I’m not trying to force my opinions out on you guys. She runs a great risk of being out there in public so who’s to say she didn’t do all of those things just to make Rapunzel happy? She's certainly aging despite regularly singing so there's no major reason to imagine that the other powers would also work on her. It doesn't make much sense. Now, I love me some Mother Gothel. When Mother Gothel tracked her and asked her to come back to the tower with her, she did. After Rapunzel had returned the crown that she had been using as incentive for Eugene to help her get to town, Eugene had been on his way to return it when Gothel and her goons set on him and framed him, making it look like he was abandoning Rapunzel. Gothel does everything for her “daughter”. Mother Gothel is mysterious, manipulative and a heinous villain. 1 Background 1.1 Layout 2 Appearance 3 Appearances 3.1 Season One 3.2 Season Two 3.3 Season Three 4 About the Tower 4.1 Season One 4.2 Season Two 4.3 Season Three Rapunzel's Tower is hidden in a large rock … I know she only kidnapped her for her hair, but they did spend 18 years together. She is the main antagonist of Disney's 50th full-length animated feature film Tangled (which is based on the 1812 German fairytale Rapunzel by Brothers Grimm) and a posthumous antagonist in Tangled: The Series and its comic book series. The wife, experiencing the cravings associated with the arrival of her long-awaited pregnancy, notices a rapunzel plant (or, in most translated-to-English versions of the story, rampion), growing in the garden and longs for it, desperate to the point of death. 60 fans picked: A little bit, but it's mostly her vanity and the hair's power 48%: No, she only loved herself and the hair's power 45%: Yes, although she did it initally for vanity, she does have love for Rapunzel. Gothel could have come to love this child. Rapunzel never even came close to abandoning Mother Gothel. Fellow Tangled fans, what do you think about the character of Gothel? Rapunzel grabbed what she could and ran all night to the tower. SUBSCRIBE: http://tinyurl.com/hfq9jmv Isaac theorizes on how Mother Gothel hid her tower and Rapunzel from the kingdom of Corona. ... I’d love to wear that mega-braid any day! Rapunzel is one of the heroines, the wife of Eugene Fitzherbert and mother of Ruby. Rapunzel goes down to the dungeons to set things right and ask her a very important question. Madame Gothel, better known as Mother Gothel or also simply known as Gothel, is the overall secondary antagonist of Disney's Tangled animated franchise. Upon learning that the romance between Rapunzel and this guy could ruin his plans, which consisted of promoting a war between the kingdom of Rapunzel's father and the kingdom of the prince, Gothel demanded that Rapunzel speak the boy's name, which the princess really did not knew. I mean, I guess it was Rapunzel’s dream to look at the stars for her birthday and Mother Gothel didn’t do that because... well obviously. The Tangled team decided to upend the traditional Brothers Grimm story by making Rapunzel’s love interest a thief, rather than a prince. I’m pretty sure a person who kidnaps someone wants to cut off their connection to the real world as much as possible but Gothel brings those books for Rapunzel so she could learn more!! Mother Gothel was the main antagonist of Disney's 2010 computer-animated feature film, Tangled. In the Tangled movie, Mother Gothel - naturally - doesn't let Rapunzel out of the tower, for fear of losing her "flower".. By: AsLostAsAliceAsMadAsTheHatter. I’m going to preface this article by saying that I love Tangled, and I love Disney.Tangled is one of the bridges that connects Old Disney to New Disney; it keeps the joy and magic of older Disney films while bringing in new styles and stories that are most enjoyable to younger generations. Finally, let’s look at Rapunzel herself. ( Log Out /  So those are all the reasons why I think Mother Gothel loves Rapunzel. But they clung to it tight, they let it blossom. Anyways, let’s find out if it’s true or not!! Gothel collects parsnips for Rapunzel in order to make her favorite food, hazelnut soup, for her birthday treat. ‘Me, I’m just your Mother, what do I know? The hand-drawn Princess And The Frog was meant to serve as a glorious return to form, but it underperformed at the box office. She passed herself off as Mommy and used Rapunzel’s magical hair to stay young and healthy. The character is voiced by actress and singer Donna Murphy in her voice acting debut; Murphy auditioned for the role spontaneously upon learning from her agent that Disney was auditioning actresses for the film's villainous role. Not to mention, if she does go to the market, she runs the risk of anybody recognizing her and realizing that she’s not aging making them suspicious and following her back to Rapunzel’s tower. I can't say that she didn't love her, but I equally can not say that Rapunzel's hair was not an incentive to care more for Rapunzel. In the Tangled movie, Mother Gothel - naturally - doesn't let Rapunzel out of the tower, for fear of losing her "flower".. I honestly feel she definitely deserves a spot on the classic Disney villains list. Gothel trusted that Rapunzel would keep her word and leave everything and forget that she is the long lost princess. I think she came to love her, but she loved her hair WAY more. This is just to show you all what I think). Gothel did not love Rapunzel. The 2010 reworking of the classic Rapunzel fairytale is a well loved addition to my daughter’s DVD collection and it’s definitely one of the more watchable ones – in fact, it’s just straight up enjoyable. That makes it sound like Eugene did cut her hair after being healed.Which would not have saved Rapunzel from Gothel. I mean, she was only with her parents for a day at most so they never really left an imprint on her personality. I mean Gothel should have cared about her to some degree to let her do all those things which includes reading books from the outside world. I think that over the years, Gothel believed that she almost deserved to use the power of Rapunzel’s hair in exchange for the way she had cared for the princess e.g. Analysis, Disney, Drama, Dramatic Arts, Fairytale, Film, Film Essay, Flynn Rider, Kids Films, Love, Mother, Mother Gothel, Musical, Rapunzel, Review, Tangled, Theatre, I have seen Disney’s Tangled more times than I would care to admit. Rapunzel's Parents as God. Ten years ago, Walt Disney Animation was in crisis. So those are all the reasons why I think Mother Gothel loves Rapunzel. I only bathed and changed and nursed you’ – Mother Knows Best. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Mother Gothel is the main antagonist of Disney's 2010 animated feature film, Tangled. She allowed Rapunzel to read books that came from the outside world, do ballet, puzzles, chess, darts, play guitar, knitting, candlemaking, and even PAINTING ON THE WALLS!! The prince does not see her, think she’s beautiful, and marries her on the spot. She … How do you think she stands apart from other Disney villains? She arrived in the late morning, finding her prince in the old farmhouse, blinded and near death from a push from the tower's height. And that is why I believe Rapunzel is a tale of true true love. Gothel did not love Rapunzel. Did she turn to dust?\r \r (If you have a mentally ill parent or a friend with a mentally ill parent, you’ll likely notice a lot of parallels.) Change ), There is the undeniable fact that Rapunzel has been. I think Mother Gothel would always put herself over Rapunzel (She did use her to maintain some of her youth + put her down), but that she did care for the girl at least a little bit. In all honesty Gothel did everything a typical not "ideal" mom would do for their daughter. Even though what Rapunzel was saying to Gothel to sneak out of the tower, Gothel still tried to make her birthday a special day for her. Even though Rapunzel still isn’t allowed to go outside, Mother Gothel still makes a ton of sacrifices for her. Once she gets out of the tower, you see her interactions with other people and you see how caring she is to other people around her, so clearly Mother Gothel wasn’t that bad. I think it was obviously a completely dysfunctional, accidental and Lima Syndrome-esque kind of love, but it still set her apart from the classic Disney Villain format making her a scene stealer of character and giving the film an unexpected emotional depth. She locks a girl away all of her life, makes deals with criminals and is willing to kill people to preserve her young appearance, but why does she do this? In fact, she’s the very first character we see on screen. Evidence to suggest that Gothel did in fact love Rapunzel –. Did Mother Gothel love Rapunzel? The Tower was the childhood home of Rapunzel, the place where Mother Gothel had raised her as her own daughter for eighteen long years, and where she and Flynn Rider had first met. Within the main canon of films and novelisations there's no indication that she can heal herself. I know she only kidnapped her for her hair, but they did spend 18 years together. This ties into the fact that she is a phenomenal actress, dangerous manipulator, and is very intelligent, while it also indicates that in her actual life-time before discovering the flower, she was indeed an actual stage actress and performer before she retired to due to her aging. Welcome to Disney Amino, where Disney fans can unite and where dreams come true! Gothel is willing to take a three day trip to procure a special type of paint made of white shells for Rapunzel’s birthday. After Rapunzel had returned the crown that she had been using as incentive for Eugene to help her get to town, Eugene had been on his way to return it when Gothel and her goons set on him and framed him, making it look like he was abandoning Rapunzel. What Gothel loved was Rapunzel’s hair. Mother also did nice things for her, like making her favorite hazelnut soup and going on a 3 day journey to get the shells she wanted. It helps that Donna Murphy’s vocal performance is superb – sweetness and light one moment, dripping with sarcasm the next: Rapunzel: How did you find me? With her patience wearing thin, Gothel desperately claims her actions were out of love, but her manipulations no longer have any effect on Rapunzel. ( Log Out /  Unfortunately, very late in her pregnancy, the Queen fell ill with what would surely result in her death, as well as her child's. Follow/Fav Did You Ever Love Me, Mother? But Gothel let her own selfish desires leech away any love she may have had. But then I got about thinking Mother Gothel and Rapunzel’s relationship. When her prized rapunzel plant (or, in most translated-to-English versions of the story, rampion) is stolen by the man to feed his pregnant wife, Dame Gothel captures him the second time and accuses him of theft. No, the prince and Rapunzel had to work and suffer for their love. Well the point of Mother Gothel telling Rapunzel she loves her all the time is to show the audience that the only thing Gothel REALLY cares about is her magical hair. 1 Answer. Where my Rapunzel stans at? By contrast, Mother Gothel dominates the story of Tangled from the beginning. Although she did steal Rapunzel, she also raised her. But other than that, Mother Gothel didn’t restrict her from doing anything else. - Read the results on this poll and other Disney Princess presinto At the end of the film, you're not sure if Mother Gothel has ever truly cared for Rapunzel, or just what Rapunzel's hair did for her. The first written version of the Rapunzel story was written in the year 1600 by a writer named Giambattista Basile, from Italy. Disney Princess Do u think Mother Gothel loved Rapunzel? You don't get that closure, which is so realistic. She loves to see herself in the mirror, reveling in her beauty. She makes sure Rapunzel has a happy birthday. It helps that Donna Murphy’s vocal performance is superb – sweetness and light one moment, dripping with sarcasm the next: Rapunzel: How did you find me? [Rapunzel shoves past Gothel in disgust] ... And this guy, well he eventually found true love. 3. Conclusion. Never saw a blog i was so agreeing with ! Once again, selfishness overtook what could have been love, and Rapunzel got caught in the crossfires. She wants things to unfold following her design and gets very angry the second the situation starts escaping her. Sure she doesn’t really let Rapunzel to go outside to see the stars that have been her dream, but she does try to make up for crushing her dreams in any way that she can. ( Log Out /  It all goes wrong when Rapunzel turns 18 and does the typically teenagery thing of rebelling hard and falling in love with a bad boy. Gothel definitely falls on the more nuanced end of that spectrum. The studio had lost its identity in the years since its 1990s renaissance, churning out generic computer-animated fare like Chicken Little and Meet The Robinsons. This shows prominently when her \"sweet mother\" act quickly slips away as Rapunzel expresses a desire to see the outside world. Even though Rapunzel was taken as a baby, Gothel could have chosen not to take care of her but she still did and Rapunzel turned out amazing, beautiful, strong, and one of the most beloved Disney Princesses ever. In order to keep the confined and isolated Rapunzel content, Gothel teaches her to … Mother also did nice things for her, like making her favorite hazelnut soup and going on a 3 day journey to get the shells she wanted. Even when she left the tower, she had every intention of going back. Yes, yes, yes. But, for the majority of the time that Rapunzel spent in the tower (disregarding what happened at the end of Tangled, where Gothel kinda goes, it can be argued, insane out of desperation), Gothel tried (or at least kept a pretense of trying) to keep Rapunzel happy. It’s important to remember that Mother Gothel is a manipulative, controlling, mentally ill individual. It was all part of Mother Gothel's plan to convince Rapunzel that Eugene didn't love her though.