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World Building in Howl's Moving Castle - Coggle Diagram
World Building in Howl's Moving Castle
clothing
sophies clothing choices and the verbal refrences to how her clothing doesnt match her age infer sophie becoming an old woman.
sophies role as a hat and clothes maker at the start of the movie show how she was a quite an reserved person who rarley stepped out of her comfort zone resulting in character development. and over coming her fears
Transportation
Sophie's mum travelled by carriage when coming to visit her daughter
Planes from the war fly over the city conveying the setting and occurrences at the time of the plot
Steam trains could be seen travelling through the city
weather
windy
ominous
the weather at the start and middle of the film show the complications and negative events within the movie.
sophie
gains confidence and resilience when forced to be assertive to make her go back to her original form of a young girl as opposed to an old woman.
viewed as weak and shy at the start of the film but slowly builds courage and power when being faced with challenges,
realise that self deprecation is not beneficial which coveys an important message.
Sophie needs to believe in herself in order to break her curse. Whenever she is enjoying herself and thinking positively she turns young, but when she makes fun of herself saying that she is just an old lady she turns back into her cursed form.
learns and grows as a person when she builds a relationship with howl.
Howl's Moving Castle
The house is controlled by Calcifer, who is fire. He can only be moved by Howl and controls who can enter the castle. This fire is what allows the house to travel.
Has a door that can teleport them into certain worlds created by Howl
witch of the waste
casts spell on Sophie resulting in a major plot line
is rude to sophie which makes her stronger and helps in her character development.
the witch of the waste casting a spell on sophieforces sophie to live with howl resulting in complications and resolutions.
Howl
Throughout the movie we learn that howl to has had a curse placed on him, he does not have a heart.
When Howl was younger he turned calcifer into his heart, so when the fire demon dies, howl dies along with it. This curse was broken at the end of the movie when Sophie restored his heart, making him feel whole once more.
Howl is portrayed as being strong and powerful in the beginning of the film, wanting to be recruited for the war by both sides.
Curses
Almost all of the characters seen in this movie have had a curse put on them. We watch these characters try to find a solution and return to their human form. An example of this is turnip-head; to break his curse he had to be kissed by his true love, this is Sophie.
Magic
Magic plays an important role in the world development in Howl's Moving Castle. We first see this when Howl and Sophie walk on air, at this point in the film it is portrayed as fun and magical, however, as we continue watching we learn it can be dangerous.