Archetypal Motifs In The Prestige

There are many motifs and archetypal symbols throughout the whole movie of The Prestige. The central theme of this will be the astonishing Bird Cage motif. It explained the 3 parts of the magic trick. The first part of the movie was brought out as The Pledge. This is where they show something normal where the audience don’t suspect anything. Then there was The Turn, This is basically the most of the movie. Now this is where something normal changes into something humanly impossible. Lastly, there was The Prestige, it is where the movie comes to a conclusion, the denouement. Based on these points Christopher Nolan presented I would infer that the movie is actually a big magic trick. As I identified in the beginning of the movie Cutter explained the 3 parts to a magic trick. These 3 parts were incorporated into the movie by Nolan. The first component of a magic trick was the Pledge, Angier and his wife were having a happy life by having a job that they love with no problems financially. Their magic performances were successful with no mistakes, in other words it was flawless. The act consisted …show more content…
The second time Angier’s wife does the trick she drowns because she couldn’t escape the knots tied around her hands. Angier knew that it was Borden’s fault and sunk into a journey of revenge. Another peculiar event also happened during the turn in the movie, Angier has bought The Machine. It can duplicate anything, in other words real magic. When Angier was doing his act Borden snuck down under the stage to see how the trick was performed. At the same time Angier was sent through the trap door into a water tank that was locked. Cutter knew something was suspicious and also went under the stage. He saw Borden looking at Angier drowning. This ultimately sent Borden to jail and hang but Angier was still alive because the Angier that Borden witnessed dying, was but a copy of