Pan’s Labyrinth – Literature Review I. Introduction – historical background The Spanish Civil War lasted from July of 1936 till April of 1939. The intensely ferocious war was between the Republicans and the Fascist nationalists, lead by General Francisco Franco. Victory was in favor of the nationalists and General Franco ruled Spain for the next 36 years after the war, up until his death in 1975.
Peter Pan is destined to remain on the island because of his immersion in the lake of starstuff water and his transformation into the boy who will remain a boy. Molly, distraught, must go back home with her father, but in future years her daughter will return to the island and visit Peter
“When we was coming down I looked through one of them windows. I saw the other part of the plane. There were flames coming out of it”(Golding 8). The novel “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding starts with a group of boys whom their plane is shot down, as the story takes place in World War Two. The British boys are stranded on the island with no adults around.
“Wanna fly, you’ve got to give up the [stuff] that weighs you down” is a quote from Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, an extremely well-known piece of literature in American history. This quote about flight, about shedding the things to hold you down, is an idea reflected in and throughout the story, from the beginning to the end. The opening scene in Song of Solomon features a man who attempts to fly away off the top of a building. This concept of flight continues throughout the book, from birds to airplanes to even the protagonist, Milkman. Milkman is obsessed with the idea of flight, and later discovers that his ancestor, Solomon, supposedly flew away from the oppression of slavery.
L. Frank Baum uses three main symbols that create an allegory and represents the political circumstances during the late 19th century. Baum did not intentionally do this, but as you read the novel you will see the connections throughout. During the final years of the 1800s, industrial cities, with all the problems brought on by rapid population growth and lack of infrastructure to support the growth, occupied a special place in U.S. history. For all the problems, the cities promoted a special bond between people and laid the foundation for the multiethnic, multicultural society that we cherish today. During the time of the Industrial Revolution many things affected the farmers, factory workers, and William Jennings Bryan.
The cast entertains audience members as Mary Poppins flies in and out of scenes, kites are flown over the audience, and a disco ball transforms the auditorium into star filled heavens. A special effect unique to high school productions, flying characters across the stage required some additional expertise. The school hired a company called Flying By Foy out of Los Vegas. The company came in, set up the equipment, and trained the cast and crew on how to use the system. Mary Poppins flies more than just a few times in this play and Maryn Tueller loves it.
Ben and Harriet have a very close relationship and, “There was something free and wild in Harriet because of Ben” (Petry, 36). She learned all about the nature, woods, and the weather from her father Ben. Yet in The People Could Fly, Toby and Sarah have a bond as well, but not as close. They were both able to fly and were taken away from Africa to become slaves. This father-daughter relationship shows you that they were going through hard things together.
The physical landscape serves as a metaphor for her internal reflection. Maddie’s fond memories are engraved with British literature, such as Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons, and J.M Barrie’s Peter Pan, and associated with her landscape. These texts exemplify British exploration, aviation, and inquisitiveness. Playing a vital role in the establishment of the empire, these traits define Maddie’s character. After seeing the state in its entirety, she is “…in the cockpit weeping,” because her childhood dream of operating an airplane has come to fruition ().
As children grow up, they tend to forget the stories that once made up their lives and look down upon what they deem as “child’s play”; however, these stories raise children where parents are not present. Fairy tales characters for children are the construction workers of the adult world, and as the children mature into adulthood, the gates of imagination are opened and the storybook characters morph into newspaper headlines; suddenly, the clock strikes twelve and the glitz and glamour disappear as the realization that “human nature is not innately good, that conflict is real [and] life is harsh before it is happy” (Tatar 306) sinks in. James Braddock, as he attends the ball, assumes the role of Atlas, holding the weight of the working class
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), directed by Guillermo del Toro, is a gorgeously realised tale of fantasy and horror, set against the backdrop of post-Civil War Spain. The story follows a young girl, Ofelia, who travels to the countryside with her ill mother to live with her new stepfather, Vidal, a captain in Franco’s Fascist army. The film explores how Ofelia uses her imagination as a copying mechanism to deal with the monstrosities of her reality as well as to interpret the horrific events unfolding around her. Del Toro employs a number of cinematic devices including cinematography, sound and editing to effectively draw parallels between Ofelia’s reality and imagination, ultimately creating a powerful film that condemns the nature of Fascism.
She is the one to recognize the complications and brainstorm solutions throughout the story and film. “Why don't we shut the whole house off for a few days and take a vacation?" In contrast, in the film Wendy and Peter, called their parents by their first names, whereas in the story, the two children called their parents mom and dad. In all, there are various resemblances and differences associated with characters throughout film and
Imagine having to live without a mother or a role model. This is what life was like for the lost boys ever since they had fallen out of their baby carriages and were never found again. In Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie, Peter and the lost boys spent their lives in Neverland without a mother or an adult role model. This is why they took Wendy Darling in as their mother. This was a big thing throughout the book which can be seen through the theme: loving mothers are important for individuals to have.
Barrie also wrote novels such as Half Hours and multiple plays. Throughout Peter Pan, the reader is taught different life lessons while enjoying a story about a boy who never grows up! Peter Pan is a story of a magical lost boy who believes he can fly and refuses to grow up. At the beginning of the novel, Mr. and Mrs. Darling get married and soon have three children, Wendy and her two little
What does it represent? The conflict is revealed on the first page. The nursery builds on the conflict with the parents and the children. Peter and Wendy soon begin hating their parents as they depended on the house for many of the parent’s jobs.
Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a novel that’s shaped by its representation of childhood and adolescence. Golding portrays childhood as a time marked by tribulation and terror. The young boys in the novel are at first unsure of how to behave with no adult present. As the novel progresses the boys struggle between acting civilized and acting barbaric. Some boys in the novel symbolize different aspects of civilization.
