Contemporary Issues In the movie Million Dollar Baby, the main character Maggie was left paralyzed from the neck down after a boxing match with no likelihood of ever recovering. She requested that her trainer and close friend Frankie put her out of her misery and end her life. After he refused to do it she took the matters upon herself and attempted suicide by biting her own tongue, so that she would bleed to death. After she was unsuccessful, the doctors heavily sedated her so that she could not attempt to do it again. After that, Frankie could see her pain and agony, and how she truly no longer wanted to go on in life.
After Rasheed saves Laila and him and Mariam nurse her back to health, he stops paying attention to Mariam. Mainly because Laila is much more beautiful and she is able to have a child. This upsets Mariam. “It’s not so much what he says, the blatant lies, the contrived empathy, or even the fact the he has not raised a hand to her, Mariam, since he had dug the girl out from under those bricks” (Hosseini 191). Rasheed would soon ask Laila to marry him and she would agree because now she believe that Tariq actually did die.
Antigone’s virtuous personality and the need to do what is right for her brother, Polyneices, is why she is considered a classical Greek tragic hero. Antigone can’t stand the fact to see her brother humiliated so she immediately takes action. Antigone runs to the town square and gives her brother a proper burial process, even though it is against king Creon’s word. She understands that if she doesn’t take action and bury her brother, she will regret it for the rest of eternity. Antigone would selflessly die for her brother’s proper burial and freedom in the afterlife because she values her family more than anything on this earth.
This can be seen as a sacrifice .A mother putting her son who she loves unconditionally out of his misery and losing him forever. On another level it can be seen as a selfishness because of her motherly love for him she believed she had the right to decide what was best for him.“ Plum had developed an impact bowel, after listening to his piercing cries for days Eva lubricated her fingers with lard and dug the compacted stools out of him, saving him” (p.34).Eva felt that death was better than
One thing she hears the voice telling her to do is to kill her sister Mary. She convinced her sister is responsible for her relationship failing, because her sister did not like her boyfriend. She is upset with Mary because Mary told her that her boyfriend leaving her was for the best. Mary did not like Matt and thought that Anna could find a better man who would treat her better. So Anna has visions of murdering Mary by chocking her to death or pushing her down the flight of stairs at home.
He has physically harmed and emotionally damaged Orelanna and it was a freeing moment for her when she decided to get away from him and take the girl with her. It is too bad that it took the death of one of her daughters to see that him keeping the family in the congo was a dangerous decision. Nathan was very selfish because he was so desperate to try and get the people of the congo to believe in his God and get baptised, he was blamed for the death of his daughter. Leah went from following her father and never doubting him to going completely against what he asks of her. In the end, she marries someone who fights for the rights of the people in the congo.
If Tracey did not have cerebral palsy and other disabilities would Tracy have undergone several surgeries and been in pain? It was because of her disabilities that Tracy was having surgeries and was in intense pain therefore her life was ended because of her disabilities. Robert unknowingly discriminated against his daughters health issues and the effect of that was him killing Tracy and claiming it was out of mercy. We cannot say or even think of what Robert Latimer has done is morally right or ok. If we do we are saying that anyone who murders someone else who is suffering or is in pain has right to do so.
She cries out in tears that “[John] loved [her], and whatever sin it is, [he] loved [her] yet!” and she pleads for John to “pity [her]” (Miller 24). Abigail is reluctant to acknowledge that their relationship is over; she desires the physical love and lust because she wants more notice. Whether it be negative or not, she still wants
Because of this, her decisions have become blinded by her desperation, leading to chaos in her family, and to everything else. She quit her job, she ignored her children; she even tried to force Anna into a life-changing surgery that the said child was not willing to take. She refused to listen to others; the only thing important to her was keeping Kate alive until at last, she realized she was the only one not letting go just yet.
Antigone’s sense of judgment grew more and more unclear due to her pride as she ignores Ismene’s advice to bury their brother in secret, but instead she tells Ismene, “oh, oh, no! shout it out. I will hate you still worse for silence-should you not proclaim it, to everyone” (2040). Her pride is also the source of her bravery that enables her to accept her fate and believes that it will be good to die and lay by her brother’s side to stand up for her beliefs. Antigone’s inhibitions grew even stronger when she is summoned to face her uncle, Creon, about her disobedient actions.