The Future, Magic, and Journey Rapped Around Howl’s Moving Castle

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Adrian Newman March 19,2012 The Future, Magic, and Journey rapped around Howl’s Moving Castle The movie Howl’s Moving Castle depicts the journey of young woman named Sofi who is cursed. She later escapes her life to begin new one but then stubbles upon a magic house; and falls in love with a Wizard (Howl) while helping him overcome his own issues. This tale focuses on a world of magic, and supernatural events. It covers three main genres popular in children’s literature such as Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Folklore displays multiple elements of each. One of the elements of Science Fiction are explored in Howl’s Moving Castle is the Future. These futuristic machines are the moving castle, flying aircrafts, and war battleships. For instance, when Howl, Sofi, and the Wicked Witch of the West escape from the Queen’s castle they soar in the sky in a futuristic like air craft while being hunted down by soldiers. This development is the prediction of a future aircraft on the basis of existing technology in both reality, and fiction that allow its users to fly. Another similar machine is Howl’s Castle. For example, the structure of the castle resembled a beast but was made of machinery and walked on all fours. This enabled the characters to travel to every destination or location with ease. The producer uses his imagination to create remarkable objects of science and advanced technology that appear exaggerated; but less supernatural to give the audience more excitement. The elements of Fantasy that are tremendously focused on is Magic. In this movie, magic is viewed as normal and a natural constructive art. Wizardry allows characters to manipulate themselves or their environment in supernatural ways. For example, the young wizard Marco transforms his facial features; growing a huge stringy beard out of thin air to appear elderly. This gave him the ability to

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