The movie Princess Mononoke is a movie evil and hatred. It is also full of love and goodness. The two characters that I felt truly embodied good and evil were Lady Eboshi and San. Lady Eboshi was the leader of Iron Town. She took women out of brothels and gave them real jobs and taught them to use guns to take care of themselves. Lady Eboshi also took care of a group of lepers. She cleaned their rotting flesh and gave them jobs making light weight guns for the women in the town. Even though Lady Eboshi had all these good qualities, she did have her evil moments. Lady Eboshi was the one who shot the boar who came to Ashitaka’s village. The mining of Iron Town destroyed the forest. Lady Eboshi also had the job of cutting off the head of the forest god. Doing that could change the forest forever.
San is the princess of the forest. Her mother is the wolf god, leader of the wolf clan. San truly loves the forest and she loves the inhabitants of the forest. She goes to war alongside the boar clan because their leader is blind. She knows that this could mean certain death, but she doesn’t care. She knew she had to help protect the forest. But she too had an evil side. Her main goal in life is to kill Lady Eboshi. She had this deep hatred inside of her heart that completely blinded her.
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In my heart I truly believe that there is good in everyone, you just have to look deep enough. That statement is evident in this movie. With the help of Ashitaka both Lady Eboshi and San realize that they are full of hatred, and in the end they turn it around. After the forest god destroys Iron Town Lady Eboshi says that she will start over. What that means, no one really knows. We hope it means that she will rebuild the town but this time in harmony with the forest. San realizes that she no long hates Lady Eboshi, though she still doesn’t like humans, she hates them a little less.
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