Описание маугли из сказки маугли

«Маугли» главные герои

«Маугли» главные герои

В книге Киплинга соединены несколько рассказов, которые порою не связаны друг с другом. Литераторы не сразу определились с жанром произведения: сказка эта не похожа на классическую, перекликается с рассказом и мифом. Главные герои “Маугли” наделены человеческими чертами и именами, за которыми кроется определённый смысл. Сказка — кладезь мудрости, хорошего юмора, интересных и поучительных историй. В “Маугли” герои олицетворяют разум и величие самой природы. Характеристика персонажей может быть полезна для читательского дневника и подготовки к занятиям внеклассного чтения.

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Характеристика героев “Маугли”

Главные герои

Отец Волк и мать Волчица

Добрые, мудрые, заботливые родители Маугли.

Именно они спасли его от смерти, когда он был малышом: не отдали на растерзание тигру Шер Хану. Они заступились на совете за человеческого детёныша, обещая принять его в семью и воспитывать как собственного ребёнка. Волчицу-мать в молодости называли “демоном” за резкий характер и умение драться “насмерть”. Её боятся и уважают даже больше, чем волка-отца. Волки вырастили Маугли, научили законам джунглей, любят и защищают его. Верят, что когда-нибудь он отдаст долг и спасёт зверей, ведь человек сильнее и умнее их всех.

Маугли, человеческий детёныш

Главный герой, мальчик, которого воспитывали жители джунглей.

В начале повествования ему около года-двух. Родители, спасаясь от тигра, оставили ребёнка в джунглях, посчитав погибшим. Благодаря решению волков и их заботе он выжил, обрёл семью, научился жить в дикой природе. Умный, смелый, ловкий, добрый. В благодарность за заботу помогает обитателям джунглей выбраться из трудных ситуаций. Часто вынимает острые занозы (они причиняют мучительную боль беспомощным животным) из лап волчат и взрослых волков, такая работа под силу только человеку. Его любят и считают братом все лесные обитатели. Человеческая природа берёт верх, душа Маугли стремится к людям, все понимают, что расставание неизбежно.

Акела

Вожак волчьей стаи, старый волк.

За время его правления никто не остался голодным или раненым, волки не попадали в ловушки, капканы, не погибали. Он справедлив, добр, великодушен. На последней охоте его подставляет Шер Хан, из-за этого Акела промахивается. По закону джунглей, если вожак промахнулся на охоте, значит он стар, его убивает собственная стая.

Балу

Старый медведь, живущий в джунглях.

Воспитывает и обучает волчат. Неуклюж, ленив, строг, умён. Заботится о Маугли трепетно и терпеливо, иногда сгоряча шлёпает его своей большой лапой. Не умея рассчитывать силу, переживает, что ударил больно. Понимает превосходство человека над животными.

Багира

Умная, хитрая, добрая, справедливая, расчётливая пантера.

Родилась и росла в неволе, однажды инстинкт взял верх, и она вырвалась на свободу. С Багирой считаются в джунглях все, она внушает страх и уважение. На совете внесла выкуп (тушу буйвола) за то, чтобы Маугли оставили в стае. Учит и предупреждает человеческого детёныша об опасности. Умеет просчитывать события на шаг вперёд: предложила Маугли добыть “красный цветок”, чтобы защитить Акелу и наказать Шер Хана.

Шер Хан

Тигр, хромой на одну ногу.

Нарушает законы джунглей, стремится к власти. Труслив, хитёр. Из-за его набегов на домашний скот вынуждены страдать другие звери: люди устраивают охоту и пожар в джунглях из-за нарушения границ. Из-за него Маугли теряет родителей: Шер Хан набросился на них – люди сбежали, посчитав ребёнка погибшим. Пытается изгнать Маугли из стаи и убить. Ищет подходящего случая.

Каа

Горный удав, самый старый и мудрый представитель джунглей.

Всегда на стороне правды, иногда действует импульсивно. Харизматичен и уважаем среди обитателей джунглей.

Второстепенные персонажи

Лизоблюд Табаки

Шакал, прислужник Шер Хана.

Разносит по джунглям слухи, разжигает споры и конфликты, очень трусливый. Время от времени Маугли поколачивает его об дерево, схватив за хвост. Звери прогоняют его, никто не желает находиться в обществе болтуна и лгуна.

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Главные герои «Маугли» характеристика персонажей книги Киплинг для читательского дневника ?

В книге Киплинга соединены несколько рассказов, которые порою не связаны друг с другом. Литераторы не сразу определились с жанром произведения – сказка не похожа на классическую, перекликается с рассказом и мифом. Главные герои “Маугли” наделены человеческими чертами и именами, за которыми кроется определённый смысл. Сказка – кладезь мудрости, хорошего юмора, интересных и поучительных историй. В сказке “Маугли” герои – пример мудрости и величия самой природы. Характеристика персонажей может быть полезна для читательского дневника и подготовки к занятиям внеклассного чтения.

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Содержание

  • Характеристика героев “Маугли”
  • Главные герои
    • Отец Волк и мать Волчица
    • Маугли, человеческий детёныш
    • Акела
    • Балу
    • Багира
    • Шер-Хан
    • Каа
  • Второстепенные персонажи
    • Лизоблюд Табаки

Характеристика героев “Маугли”

Главные герои

Отец Волк и мать Волчица

 Добрые, мудрые, заботливые родители Маугли. Именно они спасли его от смерти, когда он был малышом: не отдали на растерзание тигру Шер Хану. Они заступались на совете за человеческого детёныша, обещая принять его в семью и воспитывать, как собственного ребёнка. Волчицу-мать в молодости называли “демоном” за резкий характер и умение драться “на смерть”. Её боятся и уважают даже больше, чем волка-отца. Волки вырастили Маугли, научили законам джунглей, любят и защищают его. Верят, что когда-нибудь он отдаст долг и спасёт зверей, ведь человек сильнее и умнее их всех.

Маугли, человеческий детёныш

 В начале повествования ему около года-двух. Родители, спасаясь от тигра, оставили ребёнка в джунглях, посчитав погибшим. Благодаря решению волков и их заботе, он выжил, обрёл семью, научился жить в дикой природе. Умный, смелый, ловкий, добрый. В благодарность за заботу помогает обитателям джунглей выбраться из трудных ситуаций. Часто вынимает острые занозы (они причиняют мучительную боль беспомощным животным) из лап волчат и взрослых волков, такая работа под силу только человеку. Его любят и считают братом все лесные обитатели. Человеческая природа берет верх, душа Маугли стремится к людям, все понимают, что расставание неизбежно.

Акела

 Вожак волчьей стаи, старый волк. За время его правления, никто не остался голодным или раненым, волки не попадали в ловушки, капканы, не погибали. Он справедлив, добр, великодушен. На последней охоте его подставляет Шер Хан, из-за этого Акела промахивается. По закону джунглей, если вожак промахнулся на охоте, значит он стар, его убивает собственная стая.

Балу

 Старый медведь, живущий в джунглях, воспитывает и обучает волчат. Неуклюж, ленив, строг, умён. Заботится о Маугли трепетно и терпеливо, иногда с горяча шлёпает его своей большой лапой. Не умея рассчитывать силу, переживает, что ударил больно. Понимает превосходство человека перед животными.

Багира

 Умная, хитрая, добрая, справедливая, расчётливая пантера. Родилась и росла в неволе, однажды инстинкт взял верх, и она вырвалась на свободу. С Багирой считаются в джунглях все, она внушает страх и уважение. На совете внесла выкуп (тушу буйвола) за то, чтобы Маугли оставили в стае. Учит и предупреждает человеческого детёныша об опасности. Умеет просчитывать события на шаг вперёд: предложила Маугли добыть “красный цветок”, чтобы защитить Акелу и наказать Шер Хана.

Шер-Хан

 Тигр, хромой на одну ногу. Нарушает законы джунглей, стремится к власти. Труслив, хитёр. Из-за его набегов на домашний скот вынуждены страдать другие звери: люди устраивают охоту и пожар в джунглях из-за нарушения границ. Из-за него Маугли теряет родителей: Шер Хан набросился на них – люди сбежали, посчитав ребёнка погибшим. Пытается изгнать Маугли из стаи и убить. Ищет подходящего случая.

Каа

 Горный удав, самый старый и мудрый представитель джунглей. Всегда на стороне правды, иногда действует импульсивно. Харизматичен и уважаем среди обитателей джунглей.

Второстепенные персонажи

Лизоблюд Табаки

 Шакал, прислужник Шер Хана. Разносит по джунглям слухи, разжигает споры и конфликты, очень трусливый. Время от времени Маугли поколачивает его об дерево, схватив за хвост. Звери прогоняют его, никто не желает находиться в обществе болтуна и вруна.

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Mowgli
The Jungle Book character
Mowgli-1895-illustration.png

Mowgli by John Lockwood Kipling (father of Rudyard Kipling). An illustration from The Second Jungle Book (1895)
First appearance «In the Rukh» (1893)
Last appearance «The Spring Running» (1895)
Created by Rudyard Kipling
In-universe information
Nickname Man-cub, Frog
Family Unnamed parents †
Raksha (foster mother)
Rama (foster father)
Messua (foster mother)
Nathoo (foster brother) †
Unnamed wife
Unnamed son
Religion Animism, later Hinduism

Mowgli () is a fictional character and the protagonist of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book stories. He is a feral boy from the Pench area in Seoni, Madhya Pradesh, India, who originally appeared in Kipling’s short story «In the Rukh» (collected in Many Inventions, 1893) and then became the most prominent character in the collections The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book (1894–1895), which also featured stories about other characters.[1]

Name[edit]

In the stories, the name Mowgli is said to mean «frog», describing his lack of fur. Kipling later said «Mowgli is a name I made up. It does not mean ‘frog’ in any language that I know of.»[2]

Kipling stated that the first syllable of «Mowgli» should rhyme with «cow» (that is, ) rather than «mow» ().[3]

Kipling’s Mowgli stories[edit]

The Mowgli stories, including «In the Rukh», were first collected in chronological order in one volume as The Works of Rudyard Kipling Volume VII: The Jungle Book (1907) (Volume VIII of this series contained the non-Mowgli stories from the Jungle Books), and subsequently in All the Mowgli Stories (1933).

«In the Rukh» describes how Gisborne, an English forest ranger in the Pench area in Seoni at the time of the British Raj, discovers a young man named Mowgli, who has extraordinary skills in hunting, tracking, and driving wild animals (with the help of his wolf brothers). He asks him to join the forestry service. Muller, the head of the Department of Woods and Forests of India as well as Gisborne’s boss, meets Mowgli, checks his elbows and knees, noting the callouses and scars, and figures Mowgli is not using magic or demons, having seen a similar case in 30 years of service. Muller also invites Mowgli to join the service, to which Mowgli agrees. Later, Gisborne learns the reason for Mowgli’s almost superhuman talents; he was raised by a pack of wolves in the jungle (explaining the scars on his elbows and knees from going on all fours). Mowgli marries the daughter of Gisborne’s butler, Abdul Gafur. By the end of the story, Mowgli has a son and is back to living with his wolf brothers.

Kipling then proceeded to write the stories of Mowgli’s childhood in detail in The Jungle Book. Lost by his parents as a baby in the Indian jungle during a tiger attack, he is adopted by the Wolf Mother, Raksha and Father Wolf, who call him Mowgli (frog) because of his lack of fur and his refusal to sit still. Shere Khan the tiger demands that they give him the baby but the wolves refuse. Mowgli grows up with the pack, hunting with his brother wolves. In the pack, Mowgli learns he is able to stare down any wolf, and his unique ability to remove the painful thorns from the paws of his brothers is deeply appreciated as well.

Bagheera, the black panther, befriends Mowgli because both he and Mowgli have parallel childhood experiences; as Bagheera often mentions, he was «raised in the King’s cages at Oodeypore» from a cub, and thus knows the ways of man. Baloo the bear, teacher of wolves, has the thankless task of educating Mowgli in «The Law of the Jungle».

Shere Khan continues to regard Mowgli as fair game, but eventually Mowgli finds a weapon he can use against the tiger – fire. After driving off Shere Khan, Mowgli goes to a human village where he is adopted by Messua and her husband, whose own son Nathoo was also taken by a tiger. It is uncertain if Mowgli is actually the returned Nathoo, although it is stated in «Tiger! Tiger!» that the tiger who carried off Messua’s son was similar to the one that attacked Mowgli’s parents. Messua would like to believe that her son has returned, however, she herself realises that this is unlikely.

While herding buffalo for the village, Mowgli learns that the tiger is still planning to kill him, so with the aid of two wolves, he traps Shere Khan in a ravine where the buffalo trample him. The tiger dies and Mowgli sets to skin him. After being accused of witchcraft and cast out of the village, Mowgli returns to the jungle with Shere Khan’s hide and reunites with his wolf family, but it is mentioned that he later becomes married and goes back to the man village.

In later stories in The Jungle Book’s sequel, The Second Jungle Book, Mowgli learns that the villagers are planning to kill Messua and her husband for harboring him. He rescues them and sends elephants, water buffaloes, and other animals to trample the village and its fields to the ground. Later, Mowgli finds and then discards an ancient treasure («The King’s Ankus»), not realising it is so valuable that men would kill to own it. With the aid of Kaa the python, he leads the wolves in a war against the dhole («Red Dog»).

Finally, Mowgli stumbles across the village where his adopted human mother (Messua) is now living, which forces him to come to terms with his humanity and decide whether to rejoin his fellow humans in «The Spring Running».

Play adaptations[edit]

Rudyard Kipling adapted the Mowgli stories for The Jungle Play in 1899, but the play was never produced on stage. The manuscript was lost for almost a century. It was published in book form in 2000.[4]

Influences upon other works[edit]

Only six years after the first publication of The Jungle Book, E. Nesbit’s The Wouldbegoods (1899) included a passage in which some children act out a scene from the book.[1]: 204 

Mowgli has been cited as a major influence on Edgar Rice Burroughs who created and developed the character Tarzan. Mowgli was also an influence for a number of other «wild boy» characters.

Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson used the Mowgli stories as the basis for their humorous 1957 science fiction short story «Full Pack (Hokas Wild)». This is one of a series featuring a teddy bear-like race called Hokas who enjoy human literature but cannot quite grasp the distinction between fact and fiction. In this story, a group of Hokas get hold of a copy of The Jungle Book and begin to act it out, enlisting the help of a human boy to play Mowgli. The boy’s mother, who is a little bemused to see teddy bears trying to act like wolves, tags along to try to keep him (and the Hokas) out of trouble. The situation is complicated by the arrival of three alien diplomats who just happen to resemble a monkey, a tiger and a snake. This story appears in the collection Hokas Pokas! (1998) and is also available online.

Mowgli stories by other writers[edit]

The Third Jungle Book (1992) by Pamela Jekel is a collection of new Mowgli stories in a fairly accurate pastiche of Kipling’s style.

Hunting Mowgli (2001) by Maxim Antinori is a very short novel which describes a fateful meeting between Mowgli and a human hunter.

The Jungle Book: Last of the Species (2013) by Mark L Miller is a series of comic books that tells the story of a female Mowgli who unintentionally started a war between animal tribes after killing Shere Khan to avenge the fallen members of the wolf tribe.

Mi Hermano Lobo (My Brother Wolf) (2020) by Rafael Jaime is a short self published Mexican memoir written in Spanish in which the author details the deep emotional and physical impact Disney’s animated version of Mowgli had during his lonely early childhood years as a symbolic «surrogate twin brother» figure and role model after learning about his real twin brother’s death one day after their preterm birth. It also includes an exclusive interview with Diana Santos who voiced the character in the Latin American Spanish dub of the 1967 film.[5] [6] An audiobook version narrated by the author was uploaded on YouTube on September 21, 2021.[7] It is similar in tone to the 2016 documentary Life, Animated.

Feral Dreams: Mowgli and his Mothers (2020) by Stephen Alter is a novel which describes Mowgli’s harrowing process in trying to adapt to civilization and his coming of age within the walls of an orphanage located in the Gangetic Plain and run by Miss Cranston, an American missionary who christens him Daniel. At the same time, Mowgli recalls some of his adventures in the jungle prior to his abduction and desperately yearns for his freedom. In this story Mowgli is raised by an elephant matriarch.[8]

Movies, television and radio[edit]

  • The 1942 film version starred Sabu as Mowgli.[9]
  • Disney’s 1967 animated musical film version, where he is voiced by Bruce Reitherman, son of the film’s director Wolfgang Reitherman (David Bailey was originally cast in the role, but his voice changed during production, leading Bailey to not fit the «young innocence of Mowgli’s character» at which the producers were aiming),[10] and its sequel, The Jungle Book 2 (2003), in which Mowgli is voiced by Haley Joel Osment. On three special animated segments for the VHS releases of the Jungle Cubs (1996-1998) animated TV series, Mowgli is voiced by Tyler Mullen.

    Heroes of the Soviet animation film on a postal stamp of Russia

  • Around the same time – from 1967 to 1971 – five Russian short animated films were made by Soyuzmultfilm, collectively known as Adventures of Mowgli.[11]
  • Of all the various adaptations, Chuck Jones’s 1977 animated TV short Mowgli’s Brothers, adapting the first story in The Jungle Book, may be the one that adheres most closely to the original plot and dialogue.[12]
  • There has also been a Japanese animated TV series Jungle Book Shonen Mowgli (where Mowgli is voiced by Urara Takano in the Japanese and Julian Bailey in the English Dub) based on the Mowgli series and the U.S. live-action series Mowgli: The New Adventures of the Jungle Book (where Mowgli is portrayed by Sean Price McConnell).
  • There was also a BBC radio adaptation in 1994, starring actress Nisha K. Nayar as Mowgli, Freddie Jones as Baloo and Eartha Kitt as Kaa. It originally aired on BBC Radio 5 (before it became BBC Radio 5 Live and dropped its children’s programming). Subsequently, it has been released on audio cassette and has been re-run a number of times on digital radio channel BBC 7 (now BBC Radio 4 Extra).
  • Classics Illustrated #83 (1951) contains an adaptation of three Mowgli stories.
  • Between 1953 and 1955 Dell Comics featured adaptations of six Mowgli stories in three issues (#487, #582 and #620).[13][14][15]
  • Some issues of Marvel Fanfare feature adaptations of the Mowgli stories by Gil Kane. These later were collected as an omnibus volume.
  • A 1978 live-action sketch titled The Wonderful World of Ernie from Morecambe and Wise which parodied «I Wan’na Be Like You (The Monkey Song)». Danny Rolnick played Mowgli using a full costume, although lip-synching to Bruce Reitherman’s original recorded dialogue in the middle of the song.[16]
  • A 1994 live-action Disney adaptation titled Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, directed by Stephen Sommers, which starred Jason Scott Lee as Mowgli. He was also played by Sean Naegeli as a young child at the beginning of the story.
  • P. Craig Russell’s Jungle Book Stories (1997) collects three stories, actually adapted from The Second Jungle Book, which originally appeared between 1985 and 1996.
  • A 1997 live-action direct-to-video film The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo, which starred Jamie Williams as Mowgli. In this story, the character has no spoken dialogue.
  • In the 1998 live-action Disney adaptation The Jungle Book: Mowgli’s Story, he was played by Brandon Baker. Ryan Taylor also plays a younger version of the character at the beginning of the story. Fred Savage narrates the story off-screen as an adult version of the character.
  • A 1998 live-action television film titled The Jungle Book: Search for the Lost Treasure, which starred Antonio Baker as Mowgli.
  • A 2010 CGI animated TV series made by DQ Entertainment International where Mowgli was voiced by Emma Tate (seasons 1-2) and Sarah Natochenny (season 3).
  • A 2016 live action/CGI hybrid remake of Disney’s animated version of The Jungle Book directed by Jon Favreau, which starred newcomer Neel Sethi as Mowgli. Kendrick Reyes also played Mowgli as a toddler during a flashback sequence narrated by Kaa the python. In October 2018, Sethi confirmed that he will reprise the role in an upcoming sequel to the film.[17]
  • A 2018 live-action adaptation titled Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, directed by Andy Serkis, which starred Rohan Chand as Mowgli.[18]
  • In 1984-85, Jonathan Larson and Seth Goldman wrote an ultimately unproduced musical called Mowgli.[19]

Actors who played the character[edit]

Mowgli has been played by many actors. In the 1942 film adaptation, Mowgli was played by Sabu Dastagir. In the 1994 film adaptation, he was played by Sean Naegeli as a child, and later throughout the film he was played by Jason Scott Lee. In The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli and Baloo, he was played by Jamie Williams. In The Jungle Book: Mowgli’s Story, he was played by Brandon Baker, Ryan Taylor and off-screen by Fred Savage. Mowgli was played by Neel Sethi and by Kendrick Reyes as a toddler in the Disney live-action reimagination, which was released in 3D in April 2016. Mowgli was played by Rohan Chand in the Netflix movie Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, released on November 29, 2018.[20][18][21]

See also[edit]

  • Rima, a jungle girl character from a 1904 book and 1959 film

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b
    Sale, Roger (1978). «Kipling’s Boy’s». Fairy Tales and After: from Snow White to E.B. White. Harvard Univ. Press. ISBN 0-674-29157-3.
  2. ^ «Kipling’s list of names». www.kiplingsociety.co.uk. 30 March 2007. Retrieved 2019-02-23.
  3. ^ Kipling’s list of names in the stories
  4. ^ The Jungle Play: UK paperback edition: ISBN 0-14-118292-X
  5. ^ «Entrevista a Diana Santos en… Talentos de voz. Parte 1/3». YouTube. February 7, 2022. Retrieved September 9, 2022.
  6. ^ «Entrevista a Diana Santos en… Talentos de voz. Parte 2/3». YouTube. February 7, 2022. Retrieved September 9, 2022.
  7. ^ «Mi Hermano Lobo (el Audiolibro) — (2021) HD». YouTube. September 21, 2021. Retrieved July 24, 2022.
  8. ^ «Feral Dreams: Mowgli and his Mothers». Amazon.
  9. ^ Kumar, Anu. «Sabu Dastagir, the actor who crossed over to Hollywood on the back of an elephant». Scroll.in. Retrieved 2022-11-14.
  10. ^ Bruce Reitherman (2007). The Jungle Book audio commentary. The Jungle Book, Platinum Edition, Disc 1
  11. ^ Smith, Patrick (2016-04-25). «We don’t wanna be like you: how Soviet Russia made its own, darker Jungle Book». The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2022-11-14.
  12. ^ «‘The Jungle Book’ is the king of Disney animated movies». Retrieved 2022-11-14.
  13. ^ «Image: jbcomic1-big.jpg, (722 × 1014 px)». p-synd.com. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
  14. ^ «Image: jbcomic2-big.jpg, (785 × 1110 px)». p-synd.com. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
  15. ^ «Image: jbcomic3-big.jpg, (783 × 1100 px)». p-synd.com. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
  16. ^ «Morecambe&Wise — The Jungle Book — I Wanna Be Like You — Disney spoof». YouTube. December 14, 2011. Retrieved September 8, 2022.
  17. ^ Hamad, Marwa (October 17, 2018). «‘Jungle Book’ actor Neel Sethi eyes superhero films». Gulf News. Archived from the original on December 7, 2019. Retrieved November 30, 2019.
  18. ^ a b Kit, Borys (20 August 2014). «Christian Bale and Cate Blanchett Join ‘Jungle Book: Origins’«. The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
  19. ^ «Jonathan Larson Papers».
  20. ^ Sinha-Roy, Piya (November 8, 2018). «Watch Netflix’s new trailer for Andy Serkis’ dark twist on The Jungle Book tale, Mowgli». Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved November 8, 2018.
  21. ^ Ford, Rebecca (6 April 2016). «Warner Bros. Pushes ‘Jungle Book’ to 2018, ‘Wonder Woman’ Gets New Date». The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 6 April 2016.

External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mowgli.

  • In the Rukh: Mowgli’s first appearance from Kipling’s Many Inventions
  • The Jungle Book Collection and Wiki: a website demonstrating the variety of merchandise related to the book and film versions of The Jungle Books, now accompanied by a Wiki on the Jungle Books and related subjects
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Mowgli
The Jungle Book character
Mowgli-1895-illustration.png

Mowgli by John Lockwood Kipling (father of Rudyard Kipling). An illustration from The Second Jungle Book (1895)
First appearance «In the Rukh» (1893)
Last appearance «The Spring Running» (1895)
Created by Rudyard Kipling
In-universe information
Nickname Man-cub, Frog
Family Unnamed parents †
Raksha (foster mother)
Rama (foster father)
Messua (foster mother)
Nathoo (foster brother) †
Unnamed wife
Unnamed son
Religion Animism, later Hinduism

Mowgli () is a fictional character and the protagonist of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book stories. He is a feral boy from the Pench area in Seoni, Madhya Pradesh, India, who originally appeared in Kipling’s short story «In the Rukh» (collected in Many Inventions, 1893) and then became the most prominent character in the collections The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book (1894–1895), which also featured stories about other characters.[1]

Name[edit]

In the stories, the name Mowgli is said to mean «frog», describing his lack of fur. Kipling later said «Mowgli is a name I made up. It does not mean ‘frog’ in any language that I know of.»[2]

Kipling stated that the first syllable of «Mowgli» should rhyme with «cow» (that is, ) rather than «mow» ().[3]

Kipling’s Mowgli stories[edit]

The Mowgli stories, including «In the Rukh», were first collected in chronological order in one volume as The Works of Rudyard Kipling Volume VII: The Jungle Book (1907) (Volume VIII of this series contained the non-Mowgli stories from the Jungle Books), and subsequently in All the Mowgli Stories (1933).

«In the Rukh» describes how Gisborne, an English forest ranger in the Pench area in Seoni at the time of the British Raj, discovers a young man named Mowgli, who has extraordinary skills in hunting, tracking, and driving wild animals (with the help of his wolf brothers). He asks him to join the forestry service. Muller, the head of the Department of Woods and Forests of India as well as Gisborne’s boss, meets Mowgli, checks his elbows and knees, noting the callouses and scars, and figures Mowgli is not using magic or demons, having seen a similar case in 30 years of service. Muller also invites Mowgli to join the service, to which Mowgli agrees. Later, Gisborne learns the reason for Mowgli’s almost superhuman talents; he was raised by a pack of wolves in the jungle (explaining the scars on his elbows and knees from going on all fours). Mowgli marries the daughter of Gisborne’s butler, Abdul Gafur. By the end of the story, Mowgli has a son and is back to living with his wolf brothers.

Kipling then proceeded to write the stories of Mowgli’s childhood in detail in The Jungle Book. Lost by his parents as a baby in the Indian jungle during a tiger attack, he is adopted by the Wolf Mother, Raksha and Father Wolf, who call him Mowgli (frog) because of his lack of fur and his refusal to sit still. Shere Khan the tiger demands that they give him the baby but the wolves refuse. Mowgli grows up with the pack, hunting with his brother wolves. In the pack, Mowgli learns he is able to stare down any wolf, and his unique ability to remove the painful thorns from the paws of his brothers is deeply appreciated as well.

Bagheera, the black panther, befriends Mowgli because both he and Mowgli have parallel childhood experiences; as Bagheera often mentions, he was «raised in the King’s cages at Oodeypore» from a cub, and thus knows the ways of man. Baloo the bear, teacher of wolves, has the thankless task of educating Mowgli in «The Law of the Jungle».

Shere Khan continues to regard Mowgli as fair game, but eventually Mowgli finds a weapon he can use against the tiger – fire. After driving off Shere Khan, Mowgli goes to a human village where he is adopted by Messua and her husband, whose own son Nathoo was also taken by a tiger. It is uncertain if Mowgli is actually the returned Nathoo, although it is stated in «Tiger! Tiger!» that the tiger who carried off Messua’s son was similar to the one that attacked Mowgli’s parents. Messua would like to believe that her son has returned, however, she herself realises that this is unlikely.

While herding buffalo for the village, Mowgli learns that the tiger is still planning to kill him, so with the aid of two wolves, he traps Shere Khan in a ravine where the buffalo trample him. The tiger dies and Mowgli sets to skin him. After being accused of witchcraft and cast out of the village, Mowgli returns to the jungle with Shere Khan’s hide and reunites with his wolf family, but it is mentioned that he later becomes married and goes back to the man village.

In later stories in The Jungle Book’s sequel, The Second Jungle Book, Mowgli learns that the villagers are planning to kill Messua and her husband for harboring him. He rescues them and sends elephants, water buffaloes, and other animals to trample the village and its fields to the ground. Later, Mowgli finds and then discards an ancient treasure («The King’s Ankus»), not realising it is so valuable that men would kill to own it. With the aid of Kaa the python, he leads the wolves in a war against the dhole («Red Dog»).

Finally, Mowgli stumbles across the village where his adopted human mother (Messua) is now living, which forces him to come to terms with his humanity and decide whether to rejoin his fellow humans in «The Spring Running».

Play adaptations[edit]

Rudyard Kipling adapted the Mowgli stories for The Jungle Play in 1899, but the play was never produced on stage. The manuscript was lost for almost a century. It was published in book form in 2000.[4]

Influences upon other works[edit]

Only six years after the first publication of The Jungle Book, E. Nesbit’s The Wouldbegoods (1899) included a passage in which some children act out a scene from the book.[1]: 204 

Mowgli has been cited as a major influence on Edgar Rice Burroughs who created and developed the character Tarzan. Mowgli was also an influence for a number of other «wild boy» characters.

Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson used the Mowgli stories as the basis for their humorous 1957 science fiction short story «Full Pack (Hokas Wild)». This is one of a series featuring a teddy bear-like race called Hokas who enjoy human literature but cannot quite grasp the distinction between fact and fiction. In this story, a group of Hokas get hold of a copy of The Jungle Book and begin to act it out, enlisting the help of a human boy to play Mowgli. The boy’s mother, who is a little bemused to see teddy bears trying to act like wolves, tags along to try to keep him (and the Hokas) out of trouble. The situation is complicated by the arrival of three alien diplomats who just happen to resemble a monkey, a tiger and a snake. This story appears in the collection Hokas Pokas! (1998) and is also available online.

Mowgli stories by other writers[edit]

The Third Jungle Book (1992) by Pamela Jekel is a collection of new Mowgli stories in a fairly accurate pastiche of Kipling’s style.

Hunting Mowgli (2001) by Maxim Antinori is a very short novel which describes a fateful meeting between Mowgli and a human hunter.

The Jungle Book: Last of the Species (2013) by Mark L Miller is a series of comic books that tells the story of a female Mowgli who unintentionally started a war between animal tribes after killing Shere Khan to avenge the fallen members of the wolf tribe.

Mi Hermano Lobo (My Brother Wolf) (2020) by Rafael Jaime is a short self published Mexican memoir written in Spanish in which the author details the deep emotional and physical impact Disney’s animated version of Mowgli had during his lonely early childhood years as a symbolic «surrogate twin brother» figure and role model after learning about his real twin brother’s death one day after their preterm birth. It also includes an exclusive interview with Diana Santos who voiced the character in the Latin American Spanish dub of the 1967 film.[5] [6] An audiobook version narrated by the author was uploaded on YouTube on September 21, 2021.[7] It is similar in tone to the 2016 documentary Life, Animated.

Feral Dreams: Mowgli and his Mothers (2020) by Stephen Alter is a novel which describes Mowgli’s harrowing process in trying to adapt to civilization and his coming of age within the walls of an orphanage located in the Gangetic Plain and run by Miss Cranston, an American missionary who christens him Daniel. At the same time, Mowgli recalls some of his adventures in the jungle prior to his abduction and desperately yearns for his freedom. In this story Mowgli is raised by an elephant matriarch.[8]

Movies, television and radio[edit]

  • The 1942 film version starred Sabu as Mowgli.[9]
  • Disney’s 1967 animated musical film version, where he is voiced by Bruce Reitherman, son of the film’s director Wolfgang Reitherman (David Bailey was originally cast in the role, but his voice changed during production, leading Bailey to not fit the «young innocence of Mowgli’s character» at which the producers were aiming),[10] and its sequel, The Jungle Book 2 (2003), in which Mowgli is voiced by Haley Joel Osment. On three special animated segments for the VHS releases of the Jungle Cubs (1996-1998) animated TV series, Mowgli is voiced by Tyler Mullen.

    Heroes of the Soviet animation film on a postal stamp of Russia

  • Around the same time – from 1967 to 1971 – five Russian short animated films were made by Soyuzmultfilm, collectively known as Adventures of Mowgli.[11]
  • Of all the various adaptations, Chuck Jones’s 1977 animated TV short Mowgli’s Brothers, adapting the first story in The Jungle Book, may be the one that adheres most closely to the original plot and dialogue.[12]
  • There has also been a Japanese animated TV series Jungle Book Shonen Mowgli (where Mowgli is voiced by Urara Takano in the Japanese and Julian Bailey in the English Dub) based on the Mowgli series and the U.S. live-action series Mowgli: The New Adventures of the Jungle Book (where Mowgli is portrayed by Sean Price McConnell).
  • There was also a BBC radio adaptation in 1994, starring actress Nisha K. Nayar as Mowgli, Freddie Jones as Baloo and Eartha Kitt as Kaa. It originally aired on BBC Radio 5 (before it became BBC Radio 5 Live and dropped its children’s programming). Subsequently, it has been released on audio cassette and has been re-run a number of times on digital radio channel BBC 7 (now BBC Radio 4 Extra).
  • Classics Illustrated #83 (1951) contains an adaptation of three Mowgli stories.
  • Between 1953 and 1955 Dell Comics featured adaptations of six Mowgli stories in three issues (#487, #582 and #620).[13][14][15]
  • Some issues of Marvel Fanfare feature adaptations of the Mowgli stories by Gil Kane. These later were collected as an omnibus volume.
  • A 1978 live-action sketch titled The Wonderful World of Ernie from Morecambe and Wise which parodied «I Wan’na Be Like You (The Monkey Song)». Danny Rolnick played Mowgli using a full costume, although lip-synching to Bruce Reitherman’s original recorded dialogue in the middle of the song.[16]
  • A 1994 live-action Disney adaptation titled Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, directed by Stephen Sommers, which starred Jason Scott Lee as Mowgli. He was also played by Sean Naegeli as a young child at the beginning of the story.
  • P. Craig Russell’s Jungle Book Stories (1997) collects three stories, actually adapted from The Second Jungle Book, which originally appeared between 1985 and 1996.
  • A 1997 live-action direct-to-video film The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo, which starred Jamie Williams as Mowgli. In this story, the character has no spoken dialogue.
  • In the 1998 live-action Disney adaptation The Jungle Book: Mowgli’s Story, he was played by Brandon Baker. Ryan Taylor also plays a younger version of the character at the beginning of the story. Fred Savage narrates the story off-screen as an adult version of the character.
  • A 1998 live-action television film titled The Jungle Book: Search for the Lost Treasure, which starred Antonio Baker as Mowgli.
  • A 2010 CGI animated TV series made by DQ Entertainment International where Mowgli was voiced by Emma Tate (seasons 1-2) and Sarah Natochenny (season 3).
  • A 2016 live action/CGI hybrid remake of Disney’s animated version of The Jungle Book directed by Jon Favreau, which starred newcomer Neel Sethi as Mowgli. Kendrick Reyes also played Mowgli as a toddler during a flashback sequence narrated by Kaa the python. In October 2018, Sethi confirmed that he will reprise the role in an upcoming sequel to the film.[17]
  • A 2018 live-action adaptation titled Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, directed by Andy Serkis, which starred Rohan Chand as Mowgli.[18]
  • In 1984-85, Jonathan Larson and Seth Goldman wrote an ultimately unproduced musical called Mowgli.[19]

Actors who played the character[edit]

Mowgli has been played by many actors. In the 1942 film adaptation, Mowgli was played by Sabu Dastagir. In the 1994 film adaptation, he was played by Sean Naegeli as a child, and later throughout the film he was played by Jason Scott Lee. In The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli and Baloo, he was played by Jamie Williams. In The Jungle Book: Mowgli’s Story, he was played by Brandon Baker, Ryan Taylor and off-screen by Fred Savage. Mowgli was played by Neel Sethi and by Kendrick Reyes as a toddler in the Disney live-action reimagination, which was released in 3D in April 2016. Mowgli was played by Rohan Chand in the Netflix movie Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, released on November 29, 2018.[20][18][21]

See also[edit]

  • Rima, a jungle girl character from a 1904 book and 1959 film

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b
    Sale, Roger (1978). «Kipling’s Boy’s». Fairy Tales and After: from Snow White to E.B. White. Harvard Univ. Press. ISBN 0-674-29157-3.
  2. ^ «Kipling’s list of names». www.kiplingsociety.co.uk. 30 March 2007. Retrieved 2019-02-23.
  3. ^ Kipling’s list of names in the stories
  4. ^ The Jungle Play: UK paperback edition: ISBN 0-14-118292-X
  5. ^ «Entrevista a Diana Santos en… Talentos de voz. Parte 1/3». YouTube. February 7, 2022. Retrieved September 9, 2022.
  6. ^ «Entrevista a Diana Santos en… Talentos de voz. Parte 2/3». YouTube. February 7, 2022. Retrieved September 9, 2022.
  7. ^ «Mi Hermano Lobo (el Audiolibro) — (2021) HD». YouTube. September 21, 2021. Retrieved July 24, 2022.
  8. ^ «Feral Dreams: Mowgli and his Mothers». Amazon.
  9. ^ Kumar, Anu. «Sabu Dastagir, the actor who crossed over to Hollywood on the back of an elephant». Scroll.in. Retrieved 2022-11-14.
  10. ^ Bruce Reitherman (2007). The Jungle Book audio commentary. The Jungle Book, Platinum Edition, Disc 1
  11. ^ Smith, Patrick (2016-04-25). «We don’t wanna be like you: how Soviet Russia made its own, darker Jungle Book». The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2022-11-14.
  12. ^ «‘The Jungle Book’ is the king of Disney animated movies». Retrieved 2022-11-14.
  13. ^ «Image: jbcomic1-big.jpg, (722 × 1014 px)». p-synd.com. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
  14. ^ «Image: jbcomic2-big.jpg, (785 × 1110 px)». p-synd.com. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
  15. ^ «Image: jbcomic3-big.jpg, (783 × 1100 px)». p-synd.com. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
  16. ^ «Morecambe&Wise — The Jungle Book — I Wanna Be Like You — Disney spoof». YouTube. December 14, 2011. Retrieved September 8, 2022.
  17. ^ Hamad, Marwa (October 17, 2018). «‘Jungle Book’ actor Neel Sethi eyes superhero films». Gulf News. Archived from the original on December 7, 2019. Retrieved November 30, 2019.
  18. ^ a b Kit, Borys (20 August 2014). «Christian Bale and Cate Blanchett Join ‘Jungle Book: Origins’«. The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
  19. ^ «Jonathan Larson Papers».
  20. ^ Sinha-Roy, Piya (November 8, 2018). «Watch Netflix’s new trailer for Andy Serkis’ dark twist on The Jungle Book tale, Mowgli». Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved November 8, 2018.
  21. ^ Ford, Rebecca (6 April 2016). «Warner Bros. Pushes ‘Jungle Book’ to 2018, ‘Wonder Woman’ Gets New Date». The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 6 April 2016.

External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mowgli.

  • In the Rukh: Mowgli’s first appearance from Kipling’s Many Inventions
  • The Jungle Book Collection and Wiki: a website demonstrating the variety of merchandise related to the book and film versions of The Jungle Books, now accompanied by a Wiki on the Jungle Books and related subjects
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