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Ethical Issues In The Fantastic Planet

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Introduction This essay will discuss the relationship formed in the movie, the Fantastic Planet. It will also explore the competition and interdependence of the characters; a personal view of the economies of each species and the final point will explain some similarities between the movie and real life historical and modern-day events. The Relationship Formed Ethics describes the principles or standards of human conflict. In the case of the movie, the standards between Draag and Om. In the movie the viewer is introduced to the Draags, blue alien beings and the Oms, the humans. Immediately we see some sort of human conflict emerging. Since the Draags are fairly larger in size than the Oms, the Oms are belittled and treated as pets. This …show more content…

To me it was clear that the Draags were in control of everything. They owned the Oms. The Oms on the other hand have no choice but to confirm to the ways of the Draags. They’re smaller and have little to offer, nor do they possess any weapons to fight with. Terr who is an Om, becomes a pet of a Draag girl but soon escapes from his Draag host and joins a league with the wild Oms who are hidden in an abandon Draag park. Here the Oms are independent and fend for themselves. They even learn for the first time, gaining new knowledge to broaden their intelligence spectrum. Making them aware of the urgency to flee the Draags planet and to move to a new artificial planet called Terr. The new palnet was named after the Om, Terr, who later becomes the saviour for all Oms. In terms of being independent the Oms needed the Draags for their food and intelligent feeding head band. This head band helped the Oms to gain knowledge. They learnt to read and write for the first time. The Draags also needed the Oms for a place to reside peacefully, without any chance of another war. I thought that it came across that both species depended on one another and that the Oms really weren’t that necessary for the

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