But Roland’s stated desire to have an army suggests fairies may be equally if not more aggressive than goblins. Roland and Marianne both demonstrate goal-oriented aggression as well, and Marianne and her father both show protective aggression. There’s always a reason for the conflict, even if the characters in the fight end up having a good time.) (Actually, I don’t remember anyone in the movie starting fights for fun, unless Griselda is secretly amused by how annoyed Bog gets when she tries to find him a girlfriend. We don’t even know if Bog had an army, or just a lot of guards, or just a lot of staff plus citizens eager to volunteer aid in a crisis. But, other than their enthusiasm when Bog rallies them to retrieve the love potion, I’m not sure we ever see a goblin start a fight just for fun. Other goblins are also pretty vicious to that end - watch Thang and Stuff chasing Sunny or tackling the fairy guards, for example. I’ve also been reading a bit about animal behaviour, specifically the difference in aggression between carnivores and herbivores.īog is very much predatory in that he is aggressive in the pursuit of his goal and the protection of his territory. Fame seems to be his secondary goal, or the means by which he seeks to achieve his true goal (power) at first, and I’m not sure anyone looked up name meanings before naming characters, but it works. I looked up the name ‘Roland’ and it means ‘famous land’. Then it occurred to me how the person a lot of conflict is centered around is named Dawn (aka, bringer of light), and we’ve got a guy named Sunny (full of light), a girl named Marianne (a flower, ie, needing light and making use of it), and a guy named Bog (a natural space made beautiful or eerie or frightening depending on the lighting) … and Roland. While the Fairy Kingdom is all bright and floral and cheery, but they’ve got heavily implied racial segregation (no elves at the fairy Spring Ball except one personal friend of the fairy princess many of the elves at their own Spring Dance wearing patched work clothes never even learning what the fuzzy people were called, let alone interacting with them or even seeing them after that one scene at the beginning and the simple fact that, despite being a multispecies culture, it’s called the Fairy Kingdom) … also they’ve got Roland. Bog certainly gets less vicious once the primroses are gone. The Dark Forest seems scary and gloomy and creepy, but we don’t see anything there that’s really all that bad other than occasional violence, which may be just a seasonal thing. Then I started thinking about contrast you know, the idea that the brighter a source of light is, the darker the shadows are. The sun, the light, comes from the Dark Forest. Of course the fields are so bright that’s where the sun goes.īut from the perspective of the fay, it seems ironic. And if we assume this is a world where the sun rises in the east …įrom a goblin perspective, it makes sense. But if they follow the usual map conventions, with ‘up’ being North, then the Dark Forest is east of the Fairy Kingdom. I’ve noticed before that the map has the Fairy Kingdom on the left and the Dark Forest on the right - which makes narrative sense for the order in which they were revealed.
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