Just as the Spanish people persevered through the suffocating and stultifying Franco years with their national dignity intact, so too Ofelia never succumbs to the unrelenting pressure of Vidal to conform to his brutal will. At the conclusion of the film, Vidal tries to remove the baby from her arms with an appeal to obey his order. She resists to the end and pays the ultimate price for retaining her humanity and honour. It is through her sacrifice that her brother is born and later saved from Vidal’s clutches. In the final scene, in which Ofelia dies and enters the world of the Labyrinth as the Princess she had earlier been foretold to be, del Toro tells us that the sacrifice of the martyrs has not been in vain. That it has a reason. And that reason is the explosion of creativity and democracy personified in Spain. Ofelia, in this final fantasy sequence joins her dead father and mother sitting on enormous throne-towers in a sort of Holy Trinity of Spanish royalty. In the penultimate resolve, the director returns us to Ofelia’s dying body as blood drips from it onto the stones of the Labyrinth. The next image we see is of the mythical date tree (pictured in the film poster above), which had been afflicted with disease borne by the noxious Toad. But after Ofelia has slain the Toad and watered the tree with her blood, we see in the final shot the tree in all its towering majesty. This brings to mind Thomas Jefferson’s famous quotation: The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. The housekeeper has shed Vidal’s blood, Vidal has shed Ofelia’s blood, Carmen has shed her own blood in conceiving her son. All of which allows the Tree of Liberty to flourish in the form of a gloriously reborn Spain. El Resumen del texto El Laberinto del Fauno trata de una joven inocente y su madre, que acaba de casarse con un capitán fascista en 1944, unos años después de la guerra civil española. El matrimonio es uno de conveniencia para la madre embarazada, y el Capitán violento solo quiere un heredero.
Just as the Spanish people persevered through the suffocating and stultifying Franco years with their national dignity intact, so too Ofelia never succumbs to the unrelenting pressure of Vidal to conform to his brutal will. At the conclusion of the film, Vidal tries to remove the baby from her arms with an appeal to obey his order. She resists to the end and pays the ultimate price for retaining her humanity and honour. It is through her sacrifice that her brother is born and later saved from Vidal’s clutches. In the final scene, in which Ofelia dies and enters the world of the Labyrinth as the Princess she had earlier been foretold to be, del Toro tells us that the sacrifice of the martyrs has not been in vain. That it has a reason. And that reason is the explosion of creativity and democracy personified in Spain. Ofelia, in this final fantasy sequence joins her dead father and mother sitting on enormous throne-towers in a sort of Holy Trinity of Spanish royalty. In the penultimate resolve, the director returns us to Ofelia’s dying body as blood drips from it onto the stones of the Labyrinth. The next image we see is of the mythical date tree (pictured in the film poster above), which had been afflicted with disease borne by the noxious Toad. But after Ofelia has slain the Toad and watered the tree with her blood, we see in the final shot the tree in all its towering majesty. This brings to mind Thomas Jefferson’s famous quotation: The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. The housekeeper has shed Vidal’s blood, Vidal has shed Ofelia’s blood, Carmen has shed her own blood in conceiving her son. All of which allows the Tree of Liberty to flourish in the form of a gloriously reborn Spain. El Resumen del texto El Laberinto del Fauno trata de una joven inocente y su madre, que acaba de casarse con un capitán fascista en 1944, unos años después de la guerra civil española. El matrimonio es uno de conveniencia para la madre embarazada, y el Capitán violento solo quiere un heredero.
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