“The major theme throughout is: you don’t have a choice.” There is a sense at the end that Bambi and all the other wild animals in the forest are merely “born to be killed.” They know they will be hunted - and they know they will die. He is alone, totally alone … It is a tragic story about the loneliness and solitude of Jews and other minority groups.” “Bambi does not survive well, at the end. But then, sadly, the old prince also dies, leaving Bambi utterly bereft.Ī screenshot from the trailer to Disney’s 1942 animated version of Bambi. Bambi is shot too, but survives thanks to the old prince, a majestic stag who treats him like a son (and may well be his father). And I think what shakes the reader is that there are also some animals who are traitors, who help the hunters kill.”Īfter Bambi’s mother is murdered, so is his beloved cousin Gobo, who had been led to believe he was special and the hunters would be “kind” to him. It soon becomes apparent that the forest animals are living out their lives in fear and that puts the reader constantly on edge: “All the animals have been persecuted. “It is a book about survival in your own home.” From the moment he is born, Bambi is under constant threat from hunters who invade the forest and attack indiscriminately. Salten’s novel, Bambi, a Life in the Woods, is completely different, Zipes said. Felix Salten wrote the original, much darker Bambi novel in 1923.
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