Humans do not belong in the jungle, since they can harm it.
They made all that belongs: the mountains, the trees, the birds in the trees. Where they blew their trunks the leaves fell. Where they made furrows with their tusks the rivers ran. Bagheera tells Mowgli to bow for them as a sign of respect: A fact which is made starkly visible when we meet the elephants for the first time. Humans are not of the jungle, they do not belong in that place. These characteristics of the Law of the Jungle are all explained to us in the first scene of the Jungle Book, which emphasizes the importance of the law for the story.Īccording to the Law of the Jungle, man has no place in the jungle. Furthermore, the other jungle creatures also rever the law: according to that law the water truce is installed when water is very scarce. They recite the law in a special ritual, which you may only enter when you fulfilled certain requirements (which Mowgli for example has not).
Law of the jungle quote full#
(for the full text of the law, you can read the original poem of Kipling here.) The wolf that shall keep it may prosper, the wolf that shall break it must die.Īs the creeper that girdles the tree trunk, the Law runs forward and back.įor the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack.” “Now this is the Law of the Jungle, as old and as true as the sky. In one of the very first scenes, the Law of the Jungle is introduced by the wolf pack: The phrase is also used in Disney’s new version of the Jungle Book, and there it reveals that the jungle has a law. This saying normally denotes a lawless place, a place (the jungle) where the strongest is the mightiest. The Law of the Jungle – the Changeable Law in Disney’s New Jungle BookĪnd another note: i draw from memory for this essay, please forgive me any mistakes.
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