What made Walt Disney’s cartoons unique when they were first introduced? Personification. Disney grabbed anything within reach and gave it human qualities–feelings, abilities, speech, etc. And the tradition continues in Disney’s later films. For example, from Beauty and the Beast: Mrs. Potts, the talking teapot, the clock and the candlestick–all inanimate objects brought to “life.” Even the beast himself is an example of personification.
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