down to my central point
The pure child wouldn't have eaten the fruit and would have shed the blood of its sibling (the director got it wrong). Ofelia's story is about a child who is helpless with what concerns her parents and the adult world and therefore she dreams a world where she can have an effect. She made the dream-- the nobility in her-- and if a sacrifice was what it called for then she would have done it (to save her mother's life or her ownl life so she could have gone on to save her mother). Instead we are presented with the idea that the fantasy was something different, a test by her dead father, something morbid and somewhat cruel.
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- “The historical sense (or the capacity for quickly guessing the order of rank of the valuations according to which a people, a society, a human being has lived; the ‘divinatory instinct’ for the relations of these valuations, for the relation of the authority of values to the authority of active forces)... has come to us in the wake of that enchanting and mad semi-barbarism into which Europe had been plunged by the democratic mingling of the classes and races: only the nineteenth century knows this taste, as its sixth sense.... ‘historical sense’ almost means the sense and instinct for everything, the taste and tongue for everything- which immediately proves it to be an ignoble sense... a dissatisfaction with what is one’s own, and admiration for what is foreign” -Nietzsche