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- Django Unchained
When the movie starts Django is in the forest surrounded by nature because he is a slave, and throughout the movie the viewer can notice the great change in both Django’s personality and appearance. Django leaves the forest and becomes a kind of citizen by means of Dr. King Schultz’s character, who provides him with proper clothes and a horse among other things. He learns how to ride and also how to shoot, he is becoming over the movie a sort of cowboy. At the end, he leaves Calvin J. Candie’s house with his wife Broomhilda and they both go away through a path which is near a forest.

- Brokeback Mountain
At the beginning of the movie Jack is coming towards the town surrounded by mountains, the sun and the valley (this beginning is very similar to the one we find on Shane), nevertheless, Ennis is already introduced to the viewer in town and they both meet while they are searching for a job. The clearest mode to explain these opposite introductions is to delineate that Jack represents the nature due to the fact that he has accepted his homosexuality, while Ennis represents the civilization because he does not accept his homosexuality until the end of the movie. Throughout the movie there is an opposition between nature and civilization by means of Jack and Ennis respectively, nature symbolises the truth meanwhile civilization symbolises the hypocrisy. In nature they can express their feelings with neither regret nor criticism, while in the town they have to contain their emotions due to the fact that they have wives and children. The opposition can be also seen through the difference of the colours that can be found as regards to the town, which represents the absence of colours and the mountains which are colour...

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... clear opposition of wilderness and civilization. The forest is where Hester can be at peace with no criticism or hypocrisy of the people and in the town there are people who try to judge her for her sins, however, in her cottage she feels protected because there are always people who is observing her. The forest symbolises the passion in the relationship between Hester and Dimmesdale, also the forest is important because it is a place where they can express their real feelings towards each other.

¬ ¬- Huckleberry Finn
The main character is a boy who runs away from society, he escapes from his family, thus he does not show any feelings for them, and also he does not want to obey any rule. Huck is isolated, as well as the other characters who live along the Mississippi river, so he rejects society and he is more acquainted with the wilderness that surrounds him.

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