Titanic’s Hidden Mythology Detail Makes The Ending Even Sadder

One of the saddest scenes in Titanic has a hidden mythology detail that adds more emotion to it and makes it even more heartbreaking.

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Titanic is packed with Easter eggs and small details, and there’s one in one of the most heartbreaking scenes in the third act of the movie that makes it even more tragic. James Cameron has explored a variety of genres throughout his career as a filmmaker, and in 1997, he visited the realm of disaster movies with Titanic, his most ambitious project at the time, and which further established him as one of the most respected filmmakers in the industry.

Titanic is an epic romance and disaster film based on the accounts of the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912. It tells the story of Rose DeWitt Bukater (Kate Winslet) and Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio), two passengers from different social classes who fall in love aboard the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyage. Through Rose and Jack, the audience gets to meet many other passengers from different social classes, of which some have a direct impact on Rose and Jack’s relationship and others are simply minor characters. Out of those characters that only appeared briefly were a mother with her two children, who appear in one of the most heartbreaking scenes in Titanic, and their minimal dialogue holds a lot of meaning.

In the final act of the Titanic, while Rose and Jack struggle to stay together while the ship sinks, the movie shows a couple of scenes of other passengers and their own struggles and tragedies. One of those scenes is all about an Irish mother putting her children in their beds and telling them a story as the ship sank, as they couldn’t be among the ones to make it to the boats due to them being third class. The mother tells them about “Tír na nÓg, the land of eternal youth and beauty”, which is a place from Irish mythology, and the story behind it makes that specific scene in Titanic a lot sadder.

Tír na nÓg (or Tír na hÓige) is the Celtic Otherworld and appears in the tale of Oisín and Niamh. Tír na nÓg is described as an island paradise and a supernatural realm of eternal youth, beauty, health, abundance, and joy, and its inhabitants are described as the Tuatha Dé Danann, the gods of pre-Christian Ireland. In different tales, some Irish mythical heroes get to visit this land through an invitation from one of its residents, and it can be reached by entering ancient burial mounds or caves, journeying through a mist, traveling across the sea for three days on an enchanted boat, or going under water. The mother in Titanic is telling her children the tale of Oísin, and it’s hauntingly fitting that she tells the story of a place that can be accessed under water as the Titanic sank.

The montage that shows this heartbreaking scene of the mother and her children is also the one that shows the final moments of the Straus couple – Isidor and Ida, Macy’s owners –, a real-life couple who refused to board the lifeboats, with Ida famously telling her husband “where you go, I go”. As mentioned above, Titanic is full of little details, of which some, like the tale of Tír na nÓg, elevate the scene and add a lot more emotion to it.

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