Avatar Themes

A major theme in the film was rebirth- where a person is reborn spiritually, physically, and or mentally. The main character Jake Sully was the representation of that theme throughout the movie, where in the end he is physically reborn and now an Avatar. The film follows an ex-marine named Jake Sully who is paraplegic. He gets the opportunity to take his brothers place on a mission to a world called Pandora where he will be working with the scientists to learn, and understand the people who live on Pandora they are called Na’vi. These scientists also created their own version of Na’vi what they call Avatars. These Avatars were synchronized to each person specifically and since Sully’s brother was his identical twin he could synchronize to his …show more content…
To enter the environment of the Na’vi masks must be worn to breath. The Na’vi are very in tuned to their environment and the nature. The Na’vi people are like humans in the fact that they have the same body structure but the addition of a tail. The use of their tail is to connect to their environment and animals. They learned to become one with nature, animals and one another: “One of the more interesting elements in Avatar is the neural connection fibers that each living creature is born with on the planet. Animals, humanoids and even the trees have these neural connection fibers, allowing all living creatures to "plug in" to each other's neural networks. Once connected, they can feel each other's emotions and thoughts. They are, in essence, operating as one single being with expanded sensory awareness” (Adams). In the film, Jake learns how important it is to connect to animals and people with use of his tail. He is the hero of the plot as he takes what he has learned from his experience with the Na’vi people to help fight back against the humans. Jack Sully prays to Gaia to help save them, at which point the female character Neytiri Na'vi says, "[Mother Nature] doesn't take sides. She only maintains the balance of life" (Adams). His new sense of life helps him see that he was on the wrong side of the field. Learning to become one with nature with the use of his tail …show more content…
“The film climaxes with a battle between the united Na'vi clans of Pandora, led by Jake in his Avatar body, and the RDA forces. At exhaustive length, the battle finishes and the Na'vi emerge victorious” (Alessio & Meredith). He switched sides because of his rebirth on Pandora. Where he was constantly learning how the Na’vi communicated, how to fight, hunt and be like them. “He becomes more and more fascinated by their culture (his "passions" roused). He begins to perceive himself as one of them. He tries to convince them that he alone knows their needs, for example, to leave Hometree or to "negotiate," because he knows their culture so well” (Alessio & Meredith). However, the antagonist is Colonel Quaritch who does not care to understand the Na’vi just wants to destroy them and take what he wants which is the unobtanium. What really upsets him is when Jake who was supposed to be his spy turns on him “Jake, in his Avatar (faux Na'vi) form manages to infiltrate the Omaticaya, the clan of Na'vi at Hometree. He befriends Neytiri (Zoë Saldana), a female Na'vi, and eventually they fall in love, signifying the shift of Jake's loyalties away from the humans. However, Selfridge and head of security Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang) decide to relocate the Na'vi forcibly by destroying Hometree” (Alessio & Meredith). The reason he no longer stays