Mongol Empire Essay

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In the film Mongol, the characters go through a series of adventures that lead to the beginning of the Mongol Empire. As the film first starts out a young boy named Temudgin, goes to find his bride from the Merkit clan. His father is the khan leader of a different tribe, and is taking his son to choose a bride from the Merkits as a peace treaty for stealing his wife from them years earlier. As they go on the long journey to the other tribe, they stop in a smaller one. There Temudgin falls in love with a girl called Borte and chooses her as his bride, knowing that this would make the Merkits upset. The father even though he did not want this, allows it and is proud of his son for making his own decisions. Throughout the film Temudgin and Borte …show more content…

She threatens people, with a knife, to get the key to his cell and breaks him out. He then claims her new daughter, as his own recognizing how much she has sacrificed. Although Borte does not have children with Temudgin, the two children she does have were born to protect or save him. Her first child’s father is from the Merkit khan. As soon as she hears that he is coming to rescue her she kills her child’s father. When he sees that she is pregnant he immediately claims the child as his own knowing that she has had the child to protect him. Her second child was born when she goes to rescue him from the jail cell. Not having any money Borte is resourceful in going to rescue him. When a caravan man comes and is going where she needs to go, Borte finds an alternate way to pay him. After she rescues Temudgin she forgets about the caravan guy and Temudgin claims the child as his own again. This describes their unconventional relationship because even though they go through many tragic adventures together, they always are faithful to each other. Temudjin admires the way Borte is always there to help him and he is more than willing to father her children, even if they were not with

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