Princess Mononoke Themes

As little girls, women may imagine themselves as the princesses that they hear and see in movies and books. These princess often defeat the villain, meet the love of their life, the prince, and live “happily ever after”. Sadly, life is far from the things we see in these movies and books. The Princess bride, by William Goldman is a fantasy novel about a beauiful girl, named Buttercup, who is forced to marry the Prince Humperdinck after the love of her life, Westley dies. She is later kidnapped by three men, and two of those men, named Inigo and Fezzik, come together with the undead Westley to avenge an important death

The Cold War was a period from 1947 to 1991 that adhered erratic tension and constant threat of nuclear conflict between the two remaining superpowers that emerged from WWII, the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The 1964 film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, directed by Stanley Kubrick, depicts the overlying themes of the Cold War in a comedic fashion. This film’s full embodiment of the Cold War is seen through its representation of the time period, and the sheer competitiveness between the United States and Russia. Additionally, due to many of Kubrick’s movie decisions, the film has helped society

In the animated film Princess Mononoke, Miyazaki conveys several themes and main ideas. The themes and main ideas he conveys in the movie are that hatred corrupts and causes people to make bad decisions, shown through the boars, that greed corrupts and ruins,shown through Lady Eboshi, and that nature can only exist with help from humans, shown through Ashitaka.

In Jeannette Walls’ The Glass Castle, there are many important themes that pop throughout the book. Although there are many themes, the most essential one is how a hard past forces people to learn to rely on themselves to make their life better by pushing through their struggles, this changes how a person thinks and acts ultimately defining their identity. This theme is the most prominent throughout the book.

Ferris Bueller is a high school kid that enjoys skipping school and always comes up with excuses on how to make it possible. Pretty much, this kid is living every high school kid’s dream. In this movie, he makes every wild planned event that he comes up with possible.

From ever since I can remember, animals have never been able to hold a discussion with humans, but in the native american myths, animals were worthy of admiration and were given the ability to talk. Before the Europeans ever came to America, Native Americans did not use a written language, but instead spread their ideas and stories through verbal language. The stories they created were passed on from generation to generation through this oral communication. Further, they helped in the development of many motifs which can be seen in our twenty-first century society. The themes portrayed in the stories they told relate to how we live today in more ways than you may think. The themes that derive from Native American myths (the importance of competition,

Have you ever felt like you just want to scream your face off and run away from life and all the decisions associated with it? Have you ever just wanted to take the painless way out and have an easier life, or day? Lots of people do it, if somebody asks you, “Hey, drink this right now or I won’t be your friend anymore!” what would you chose? Sometimes you need to stick up for what is right, say NO, be individual. In the book Esperanza Rising the characters show that you need to take the hard path, make the hard choice. An important theme in the book Esperanza Rising is that life has challenges, but you need to stick up for what you believe in, even if it is the harder choice. In the book Esperanza Rising Esperanza and her family experienced a long and painful journey, but along the way they learned to be one force and to be do what you think is best. Even though Esperanza’s family lost their father and their home they stuck together in times of need and took it upon themselves to do what was right. This is important because it shows

In Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen, The theme is to fight for what you believe in. The reasons are because Nightjohn is always trying to teach Sarny. He already escaped and was free then came back to a plantation and teaches Sarny, and he escaped again and came back later to Sarny and others in his school. Nightjohn teaches Sarny how to be free and how to read and write.

Although there are several themes in this book there are 3 main themes. These themes are Loyalty, Fear and Courage. Star in the Storm by Joan Hiatt Harlow, touches all 3 of those themes but mostly Courage. This story's about a 12 year old girl named Maggie and her Newfoundland dog Sirius. But when Maggie learns about a new law passing saying that all non-sheepherding dogs are banned, she is forced to hide Sirius so that she doesn't loose her dog. But then a boat crashes into the rocks by her house and its sinking and Maggie knows that Sirius would be able to help the people on the boat but she knows that she might get caught. So because of the act that Maggie had to choose from, Loyalty, Fear and Courage fit this perfectly.

Among the thousands, millions of different stories throughout every medium of entertainment with narratives, there’s no story that perfectly captures the themes of “The Healing Myth” more than the comic book “Berserk”. Berserk is a Japanese comic book created by Kentaro Miura that began publishing in 1989, telling the story of “Gattsu”, or “Guts” as he is known in the west, and the people he encounters in the medieval fantasy world of Berserk. Guts’ life, from the day he was born, is a tragic ordeal- a common summary thrown around by fans of the series is “Everything bad that can happen to a person has happened to Guts”. Born under dark circumstances, abused as a child, and only encountering more tragedy as his life progresses, Guts is a broken

Throughout the film there is a major theme of oppression. The film is set in a future Britain that is oppressed by the Norsefire Regime. Daily life is filled with rules and restrictions and acting against these rules is highly punishable. The people in this society are nothing more than cogs. You are expected to obey and serve under Norsefire. This obedience and servitude is enforced through fear and manipulation. When the story starts off with Evey we learn that there are even curfews set to keep people under control. Most people don’t even realize how much they are being controlled until V begins his endeavors. This idea of servitude is hammered into the minds of this society by people like Prothero. One saying that Prothero repeats constantly

Another of Ghibli’s films, Princess Mononoke (1997), made emphatic this archetype. Mononoke is a movie about the warrior-princess San, who lives amongst wolf-gods and attacks the human villages that threaten her forest home; it is certainly not a film about a damsel in distress as are many Western films centered around a female lead. San is best described as an independent, ferocious, wild, but also virtuous individual. The prince and princess characters never enter into the realm of romance either in Mononoke, an occurrence very much contrary to the typical love-story arc that drives numerous other animated movies (Aladdin, Snow White, The Little Mermaid, etc). In fact when San first meets Ashitaka, the prince from a human village, she is sucking poison from the gunshot wound of a giant wolf and spitting blood into a river. She never swoons nor falters, but stares covered in blood and tells him to “go away.” Even later in the story when Ashitaka calls her beautiful, she recoils. "What is it, San?" asks one of the wolf-gods. "Want me to crunch his face off?" In her interactions with Ashitaka, San is indeed obstinate but later is forced to confront her human identity. This never comes across as him taming her however, but is a relationship of shared respect. This is seen in the conclusion of the film when- after the two characters have formed a strong friendship and have worked together

Fictional characters often show similar themes as well as morals, just as this connection can be made through the real world. Naomi from "Going to where I'm coming from" by Naomi Shihab Nye and Maria from "The Sound of Music" by Robert Wise both express many similarities as well as differences. Naomi is a teenage girl that is originally from Missouri and has recently just moved to Jerusalem. There she faces the hardships of prejudice and segregation as well as boy problems. Maria on the other hand is a grown woman as well as a nun in training. Her story takes place in Austria as she faces the tough discipline of the commander as well as the Nazi's that are out to get her and her family. Although Maria and Naomi may be different ages, live on different continents, and speak different languages; they went through similar experiences. Both Maria and Naomi left the place they realized where they truly belonged.

A team of five students, Takuma, Masaru, Shunsuke, Atsushi and Daigo are the exclusive members of the science fiction club of a school; however they never busy themselves with the club's purpose. The day the story unfolds, they are playing baseball, while Yui, a member of the photography club, takes pictures of them. It is the hottest day of the summer, and unfortunately for both of the clubs that share the same space, Daigo spills his soda on the remote control of the air conditioner that subsequently malfunctions

“I thought martial arts was my forte, but then I realized I wasn't the only person that could do this when I got into show-business. Compared to others, I wasn't really that good. So, I became a children's TV program host.” This came from the mouth of one of the famous comedy film directors named Stephen Chow.