Sunday, February 24, 2008

Princess Mononoke Notes

GOOD VS. EVIL TROPE
(Love vs. hate)


Wise woman-prays to the God to not punish her people, medicine to treat the wound, stones that reveal fate, reveals the prophet

Paradise trope-untouched, unchanged, vast and strange to outsiders

Destruction of paradise(evil)
the curse represents how hate consumes those who seek revenge
the boy is supposed to be something pure that is consumed by the hate
Naga the war god is blinded by revenge for his warriors and of his forest and so he turns into a demon because he too is consumed by hate

iron balls cause pain and suffering which leads to hatred for the person responsible for the pain

Forest God- life, death and rebirth
if you kill life, all you are left with is death, and death consumes all in a search for revenge to take back its head

Message is that hatred and revenge and selfishness only cause more of it, but the people and the forest and the animals can all live together if they stopped fighting.

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