Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Context for
Pan's Labyrinth
- Socially
- Fascist ideals are in place after winning
the Civil War, meaning many people
hadto devote themselves to supporting
fascism and general Franco.
- In the film there are women and children beingf
treated as second-class, for example, how Ofelia's
mother, Carmen, is opressed by her husband, and
how Mercedes is never suspected of helping the
rebels as she is not deemed capable of doing so
- Politically
- The Fascist regime had just won
the civil war, although pockets of
left-wing rebels has survived
- General Franco had begun to lead a military style
dictatatorship, and opponents to the regime were
at risk of persecution from the new government
- Ideologically
- The nature of Franco's dictatorship
made it dangerous to have ideas that
contradicted fascist ideals
- For example, devotion to a strong leader, emphasises the military, so this
ideology was dominant
- Del Toro's influences
- His influences aren't so much associated
with society and history, but mythology,
fairytales, and specifically, his film 'El
Espinaz del Diablo'
- The story of the film itself is in the style of a fairy-tale, containing typical aspects. There is also a fairy-tale told within the
film, and Ofelia is constantly reading such stories The opening of the film, and Ofelia is constantly reading such stories.
- For example, the number three as Ofelia is given three tasks