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Princess Mononoke and Disney's Pocahontas: Both Provide an Excellent Basis for Study of Female-Nature and Human-Nature Relationships

nce to the conformity of Japanese society" (Napier 26). Princess Mononoke includes "the idealized concepts of the premodern Japanese as a homogeneous race living in harmony with nature" that "offers a vision of cultural dissonance, spiritual loss, and environmental apocalypse" (Napier 176).

The film starts with the statement "Long ago, this country was covered by deep forests, in which, from ancient times, there lived the gods" (Napier 178). This tranquil beginning is soon disturbed by the violence of a dying boar that has a metal ball lodged in its side and that, as it dies, imparts a curse upon one of the characters, Ashitaka. The clear message is that man has killed the boar(or rather, metaphorically, nature in general(and has brought the curse upon himself. In contrast to man and mankind, with their disregard for nature, stands Lady Eboshi, who has "constructed Tatara as a utopian refuge" for outcasts and lepers (Napier 179). The other significant female character is San, Princess Mononuke herself, whose name means "possessed princess," and she is "possessed by nature" (Napier 179). San was raised by a wolf and "detests all things human and lives only to destroy human civilization, re

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