ASIA 326 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Great Stink, Noh, Spv Gmbh
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Fate of haku: (his river is dead/cemented how can he go back?) The stink god"s river is polluted but can still go back. Maybe he voluntarily left to study under yubaba. At least haku remembered his name he"s the god of the river. What happens to chihiro - she is still clinging to her mother, forgets the spirit world; forgets/finds again (once you recall something, you never forget it) She was standing taller now at end, more confident (something came through the end) Self-identity - yubaba take away name, lose self-identity, need self-identity to go back. Japanese identity of modern youth and japanese identity after wwii (youth losing identity of modern; bathhouse traditional but source of corruption) Blurred lines of good and evil (haku good to chihiro but steals seal) Moral boundaries of abject (chihiro is the abject of the spirit world) Bathhouse - place of cleansing, relaxation, purified contaminated, polluted. Elements of japan that has chinese influence.
