'Interpreting The Wilderness In The Revenant'

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In the movie The Revenant the landscape being the wilderness, in this case, is viewed the way that people in Medieval Europe saw the wild. In Medieval Europe, the wild forest was said to be evil land which is portrayed in the movie as well. When the main character, Hugh, goes out on his own leaving his crew into the deep forest it is when the trouble all begins. At that point in the movie, you can tell that “it constituted a formidable threat to his very survival” because the scene was very gloomy and dark then, a bear comes out and attacks him threatening his ability to live (Nash, 1967). You can also tell that “there was a quality of mystery about the wilderness, particularly at night, that triggered the imagination” because when he happened

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