It oftens shows up in a few key scenes throughout berserk and I never really thought much of it. But when you examine this more closely you find out some interesting things:
As you can probably tell, the tree is healthy state and growing (except during his birth perhaps) throughout the golden age arc:
During Lost Children Arc the tree he rested under was outright possessed. Guts himself was pretty much a Lost Child back then too:
What’s also interesting: he is literally fighting the tree in Lost
Children. During Golden age, you usually find him resting against it or
taking shelter below it. Is that a metaphor for Guts fighting
against his own nature…?
And I absolutely love how the tree is normal, but all shrivelled up and dead when Farny joins Guts and Puck (very fitting to Guts’ mental state at the time!!!).
And considering all this, this page becomes even more intriguing:
Is it just me or is the tree a metaphor for Guts’ state of mental health…?
