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The Feasts between both Vidal and The Pale Man are a metaphor for the inequality of resource distribution. Vidal hosts a meal with his members where they discussion of food rations but you can they are having a very healthy amount of food at their disposal on this table.

"From now on, one ration card per family. Take a look at them. One? Only one. Captain, I'm not sure it will be enough. If people are careful it should be plenty"

In the Pale Mans case, Ofelia is told before visiting to not eat a single piece of food, even though he has a plethora of food at his disposal as well. Ofelia disobeys and eats a singular grape and the pale man is instantly alerted.

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"Me? Ive had so many names...old names that only the wind and the trees can pronounce. I am the mountain, the woods and the Earth. I am...I am a faun"

The Faun in Pan's Labyrinth represents a vessel in which Ofelia decides her own path and fate through her decisions. The faun doesn't necessarily represent good or evil but will bear witness to every decision. He symbolizes nature in a way that it is always there and at time unforgiving.

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"A monstrous toad has settled in its roots and wont let the tree thrive. You must put the three magic stones in the toad's mouth and retrieve the golden key from inside its belly. Only then will the fig tree flourish again"

The life sucking toad in the colossal fig tree is a metaphor for the sometimes harsh reality of the creation of life. When the camera pans on the tree it very reminiscent of the female reproductive system. This situation resembles the same situation that Ofelia's mother is going through with her baby brother. Both the fig tree and Ofelia's mom are have the life sucked out of them by a "monstrous toad" inside of them.

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The watch is a metaphor for how Vidal runs his own life. He holds an extreme desire control and perfection. Vidal keeps a pocket watch that used to be fathers not to remember his father but out of the fear of his own death.

"The men in his battalion said that when General Vidal died on the battlefield, he smashed his watch on a rock so that his son would know the exact hour and minute of his death. So he would know how a brave man dies."