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Captain Hook is an allegory for fallen man (prideful, vain), at war with the world (piracy), the flesh (the lost boys representing the lower passions), and the devil (the crocodile), and the devils angels (Tinkerbell et al), but lacking the right hand of God (Jesus Christ).
The hook of his own fashioning a poor substitute for the shepherd's crook, his coat bright red, stained with sin.
Yet despite his fallen state he is yet less evil than his adversaries.
He thinks he is the cat's meow yet he is a bumbler who cannot defeat an army of children and faeries. This is how God sees us fighting against our passions.
He thinks he is the cat's meow yet he is a bumbler who cannot defeat an army of children and faeries. This is how God sees us fighting against our passions.
In the belly of the croc is a clock going TIC TOC TIC TOC reminding Hook of his mortality, of his impending doom in the belly of the beast. The croc lives in the ocean, like Leviathan the serpent.
Pan dresses in leaves, the lost boys dress as furries, they are symbolic of the natural state of man and his animal passions, who plague Hook and his men, mock them, make them appear foolish and inept.
Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?
Job 41:1-3
Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?
Job 41:1-3
Hook is not even native to the island he is anchored to. He is a stranger and a pilgrim in a sense. He is surrounded by hostile indian pagans, evil spirits, a cruel serpent, unruly passions, and fellow incompetent pirates. Without God, he has no true friend. We are all Hook.
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:Romans 5:12
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Romans 7:24
He tries to bind his passions at the foot of the mast (a wooden cross) by his own devices and his own power, but ultimately it proves futile.
Captain Hook is in a pickle. He's a wretched sinner but he's up against forces even worse, yet he is never able to fully defeat them. He knows therefore his destiny is to be eaten by the Croc. He needs to be pardoned for his piracy by the King, and rescued by the King's navy.
When you dispense with the Hookian pride and understand how wretched you really are and how many sins you've done, you'll have learned there is only one way out.
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Galatians 3:24
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Galatians 3:24
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified *FREELY* by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation *THROUGH FAITH* in his blood, to declare *HIS* righteousness for the remission of sins...
If you've understood the Hookian dilemma, you have the choice to ask for the King's free and eternal pardon, or to stiffen you neck in pride and try in futility to defeat pan and the croc yourself. The King of this realm is generous indeed though!
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