Idealism Similarities Between The Devil And Miss Prym

Defeating the Odds Two stories, which send a female protagonist on a quest to defy the fate of humanity, they are Disney’s Moana and Paul Coelho’s The Devil and Miss Prym. They are also confronted with the archetypes of Joseph Campbell and the philosophy of idealism. Moana has been brought up in small village being told that she cannot leave. Her grandmother tells her that her world will perish if she doesn’t travel across the sea and restore the heart of Te Fiti. She must decide if she will leave or stay and what the consequences will be when she does. Chantal is confronted by a stranger who she comes to find is named Carlos, he tells her about his family dying and says that he wants to find out the true nature of humanity. If someone in her village is willing to kill another person he will give them his gold. She is tempted with the thought of …show more content…
Idealism are the ideas and thoughts that are the fundamentals to reality (Philosophy, 22). In Moana, she is told that she is not to go beyond the reef barriers of their island because it is dangerous; when she challenges the thought of going outside, it is immediately shut down with simply, it is dangerous (Clements, 2016). The idea that nothing good is outside the reef means that nothing could exist at all because the people living in Motului pretend that it does not exist. It was not until Moana’s grandmother told her about the stories of her people originally being voyagers who travelled to different islands that she really believed she needed to go on her journey. Carlos travelled to Viscos with the preconceived notion that humans were naturally evil in nature; this is derived from his family being killed earlier in his life. He is reluctant to see that humans can be inherently good in nature at first until Chantal helps to convince him that humans are neither good nor bad, they are just humans