Forum - View topicWestern stories reset into Japanese setting in anime?
|
Goto page Previous 1, 2 |
| Author | Message | ||
|---|---|---|---|
|
GeminiDS85
Posts: 391 |
|
||
|
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya mirrors many aspects of the plot of “The Blue Bird of Happiness”.
“First published in 1908 as L’Oiseau bleu (‘The Blue Bird of Happiness’), this is a children’s play by Belgian Nobel laureate Maurice Polydore-Marie-Bernard Maeterlinck. Like Tanigawa Nagaru, Maeterlinck first studied law, then turned to literature.[…] The play contains several elements that are congruent with the story of Suzumiya Haruhi and her merry friends. In the play, two children, a boy and a girl [Haruhi and Kyon], are sent forth by a fairy, to seek the mystical Blue Bird of Happiness. On their journey, they visit numerous locales symbolic of human thought and emotion, including the Land of Memory [Yuki Nagato], the Palace of Night [Itsuki Koizumi] and the Kingdom of the Future [Mikuru Asahina] (note how these mirror Haruhi’s companions). The children’s quest is futile, but upon returning home, they find that the Blue Bird has been in the cage all along [This mirror’s Haruhi’s realization that Kyon is her happiness and has been there the whole time]. The moral is that happiness can be found at home, and that the journey is as important as the goal.” (Suzumiya Translator's Notes: 5). |
|||
|
|||
 |
All times are GMT - 5 Hours |
|
|
|
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group