Monday, December 30, 2013

"Spirited Away" and Pantheon character comparisons



Several characters in Spirited Away stood out to me. The first one was Haku, who was one of the few people who wanted to help the young girl Chihiro find her family and warns her to go back across the bridge to get out of the spirit world along with her parents. He reminds me of Prometheus in spirit, because he was willing to be looked down upon by the others in order to help the humans. He, just like Prometheus was not liked by his peers when his name was mentioned. Prometheus of course stole fire for the humans and was punished by Zeus for doing so. Chibaba, the woman that gave Chichiro her job in the beginning of the movie and runs the place, reminds me of Hades. Just like Hades, she runs her world and has a way to get to and from it only using a ticket(she has a floating train, Hades has a boat and they both go across a river). She assigned Chichiro a job and a new name when she got her and stole her old one, just like how Hades calls the shots in the underworld and tells everyone what their place is in it.

1 comment:

  1. I too believed that Haku reminded me of Prometheus because of the way that he protected Chihiro, a human from the harms of the Spirit World at risk of him getting in trouble.

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