(Please read Part I first)
Cloud Strife and his world have many archetypes, and one particularly obvious reference to certain greek creation myth. The Planet (also known as Gaia), is a single organism, joined together by a lifestream, which is like a river that contains the life force of everything. Every living being in The Planet contains a bit of lifestream, and when it dies, the lifestream, along with the being's memories, returns to The Planet's primordial river. Lifestream possesses a green color, indicating it's full of life (as it is pure life itself), and because it resembles a giant river, it fits with the river's archetype of life and its cycle.
However, Midgar, the city where the Shin-ra Company rules from, is sucking the lifestream out of The Planet, and nothing grows for miles around the city. Midgar is a dystopian city, stuck in an everlasting night, representing the evils that lurk in it. Midgar's architecture is composed of two levels. The plate level, existing 50 meters above the poor level below it, is home to the rich people. Those living below the plate live like hobos. The rest of the world is green, green, green with life. Midgar is ultimately destroyed, in an event that marks a new beggining for The Planet.
Another interesting thing about Cloud is that the weapon he carries is a giant sword, slightly shorter than himself. This sword represents the burden he carries throughout the story, and how he must overcome it. By bashing his way through the lies he lives, and creating a new life for himself.
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