What Can Still Be Learned From Princess Mononoke

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Studio Ghibli films are well known for their beautiful art, fascinating stories, and wonderfully complicated worlds. However, as these films age, they are quickly gaining a reputation for timelessness. The lessons in Spirited Away about the dangers of rampant corporate greed are especially poignant today.

The lessons in Ponyo about love and acceptance also seem especially important in this day and age. Another of their stories however will be celebrating its 25 anniversary this year in December. With that in mind, it only makes sense to analyze whatPrincess Mononoke is able to teach us, nearly 25 years after the lesson was originally taught.

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Princess Mononoke follows a young man named Ashitaka as he journeys out into the wider world. He was originally a prince in his village but acquires a curse from a diseased Boar God. The village banished him for this and sent him out into the world to discover the root of the curse and hopefully cure himself. If he fails, the curse will kill him, but regardless he can never return home. Ashitaka finds himself in a small city nearby a forest and discovers that they are the source of the disease, although potentially obliviously.

While in Irontown, Ashitaka sees and falls in love with Princess Mononoke who was raised by a Wolf Goddess named Moro and therefore considers herself to be acreature of the forest. She is adamantly opposed to the humans of Irontown who do not respect the forest and whose actions threaten nature as a whole. Ashitaka futilely attempts to broker a peace between the two factions but ultimately must side with nature in the final conflict.

Despite their obvious affection for one another Ashitaka and Mononoke