

After reading the manga Berserk for a second time I noticed a particular scene
that when I first read it I didn't give even the slightest attention, this
scene is from the chapter "The Golden Age (3)".

The scene starts when Guts had to kill Gambino (which would leave him strongly
marked in the future), and he begins to escape from his former comrades
because they didn't really know what had happened. The persecution happens on
horseback and when Guts reaches a cliff is hit by an arrow, making him fall...
and here is when one of my favorite scenes occurs in berserk... after the life
of Guts went to hell Kentaro Miura shows us Guts watching the vastness of a
beautiful starry heaven, after that Guts kept fighting for survive...

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8jQKh.jpg)

Somehow it made me remember a scene from the manga Vagabond, chapter "Heaven
and Earth", which is when Miyamoto Musashi (Shinmen Takezo) is fightning with
Inshun (which was his worst enemy so far), and just when Inshun was going to
attack Musashi recalls an advice that Takuan had given him long ago, and he
start thinking "Beneath the vastness of These starry heavens... Inshun and I,
both, are insignificant...", which made Inshun feel threatened.

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/EH8Jk.jpg)

I think this scene has a deeper meaning, and that is more or less the same
line as the scene of Vagabond, which I think it's: "When we realize how
insignificant we are is when we can bring out our true potential".

What do you think?


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In the Berserk manga, what was the interpretation when Guts was lying on his back looking at the starry heaven?


To my knowledge, there is no official interpretation of the symbolism behind
this scene. Your interpretation is a good one and might be exactly what the
author intended.

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My interpretation is different. I see the sky as a symbol for limitless
opportunity. The sky goes on forever and there are countless stars, just as
human potential for growth is limitless and there is no limit to the number of
paths we can take in life.

I took this interpretation because in the same scene, **Guts asks the same
question twice in a row: "Where should I go?"**. The repetition indicates the
importance of the phrase.

In other words, the sky represents the endless destinations and possibilities
that exist in human life, like bright stars against a black nothingness.

![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/L8Cf6.jpg)

![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5rZ4f.jpg)


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