POCAHONTAS
1995 Disney movie
daughter of a chief = princess
THE NOBLE SAVAGE
inspired from real facts
she stopped the conflict between her tribe & the British
Pocahontas & John Smith = in a secret love relationship = symbol : impossible love + peace between the 2 communities
the colonizers
look for gold for the king of England = money in a civilized world / be wealthy (=rich) / is money essential to our well-being or is it a plague (=fléau)?
embodies the concept of the indigeneous wild man
not corrupted by civilization
the idea that humans are essentially good
"Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours" (18th century) Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Father of the US nation.
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symbol: the clouds = bad omen which foreshadow (=announce) the threat, the imminent death of Smith => the weather : illustration of the actions
symbol: the forest = native environment of NA : their home where their laws prevail
Smith is lying on the ground
Smith is kneeling down
Pocahontas = a woman
Smith's "execution attempt"
Pocahontas = a child
P's father lifting his club
P's father (headdress) watching the scene