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Jareth is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the 1986 musical fantasy film Labyrinth. Portrayed by David Bowie, Jareth is the powerful and enigmatic king of the goblins to whom protagonist Sarah Williams wishes away her baby brother Toby.
However, Sarah Monette of Uncanny Magazine refuted that Labyrinth is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast because Sarah does not reform Jareth, and wrote, "Just as Sarah refuses Jareth, Labyrinth refuses the incredibly dangerous myth that the “love of a good woman" can change a brute (beast) into a prince". [114]
Toby disappears and the Goblin King Jareth appears, offering Sarah her dreams in exchange for the baby. She refuses, instantly regretting her wish. Jareth reluctantly gives Sarah 13 hours to solve his labyrinth and find Toby before he is turned into a goblin forever. Sarah meets a dwarf named Hoggle who aids her to enter the labyrinth. She has ...
It has been over a decade since the events of Labyrinth, wherein Sarah Williams defeated the Goblin King and rescued her baby half-brother, Toby. Jareth, the Goblin King, has watched as Toby grows up into a teenager, secretly giving him everything he desired regardless of its attainability, propriety or scale.
Magic Dance" was written for a scene in which Jareth and his goblins entertain a crying baby that has been wished away to them by the film's heroine, Sarah Williams. In the film, Bowie performs the number with Toby Froud as the baby, and 50 puppets and 12 costumed extras as the goblins.
"As the World Falls Down" is one of five songs Bowie wrote and recorded for the film, in which he also starred as Jareth, the king of the goblins. [2] [3] A love ballad, "As the World Falls Down" was written for a dream sequence in which Jareth and the film's heroine, Sarah, dance at a fantastic masquerade ball. [4]
A decade later, on Christmas Day in 2011, McBride came out to her parents as a transgender woman. Her mother, Sally, said looking back, she’s not proud of how she and Dave initially reacted.
In the frame narrative, Sarah reaches the centre of the Labyrinth and defeats Jareth, returning home with Toby. Beetleglum asks Jareth what happened to the baby in the story, recalling that soon after Maria entered the machine with her baby, Jareth arrived in the Labyrinth as a fully grown man and assumed the goblin throne.