Abstract
While Walt Disney's Frozen (2013) has been prominently cited for its connection to Hans Christian Andersen's ‘The Snow Queen’ (1845), perhaps just as intriguing is the film's relationship with Andersen's lesser-known story ‘The Snowman’ (1861) – a work influenced by his desired (and doomed) relationship with Harald Scharff, a well-known dancer thirty years his junior. This article analyses Andersen's complicated usage of the snowman to illustrate alterity and inevitability, while also presenting a brief overview of the snowman's subsequent utilisation as an allegorical construct for taboo desire in international children's literature and film. ‘The Snowman’ offers a tragic resolution to the duelling concepts of difference and desire present in Andersen's own biography, and its dialectic of reality and utopia provides an existential model for the snowman's subsequent application in children's media.
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