He mentions “I kept hearing voices in me/telling me not to cry, don’t cry, don’t cry/Boys don’t cry”. He would only be hurting himself if he cries. Baca describes how hard it was to hold back his tears, how he
Dumas showed the readers that forgiveness ultimately leaves one feeling more satisfied than revenge. The theme of fate vs. free will is dealt with mostly by the count, but also by others seeking to control the fate of themselves and those around them. The count thinks he is sent as an instrument of God, and the only reason he was freed from prison, was to give the men who wronged him their deserved fate. Even the count realizes he can’t control fate once an innocent boy is killed because of his actions. Mercedes is also, when talking to Edmond, talking about how fate has turned her old, and her lack of faith his why it did so.
When Romeo kills Tybalt right after marrying Juliet, it is clear that he is still extremely loyal to his friends and family, even though he knew that Tybalt was Juliet’s cousin. His revenge killing was one of loyalty to his friend. It is clear from the beginning that Han’s loyalties lay with his father, especially after going to prison for him. By the end of the film however, it is clear that Han’s loyalties in his family and his people were misplaced. Although sad at his father’s suicide, he feels no guilt about killing Kai.
In the novel, Montag made Mildred friends cry. After he made her friends cry from telling them the truth they all left hurt. However, in the movie John almost killed a man because he thought the man killed his son. John felt bad at the end, because he was not looking at his son’s killer. Even though, he didn’t kill the man, he still hurt him physically and emotionally.
In this movie there are a lot of quotes which I love, but when Augustus said with an unlit cigarette hanging from his lips, “It’s a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.” Augustus shows that when his health is surely not the best, he associates the unlit cigarette with taking control over his health, which often feels out of his control. This novel, one of the many things it taught me is that everyone dies. Well that is command sense, but never really thought about it because of the fear of dying. There is nothing we can do to stop the process of dying, or all the side-effects of dying. Cancer and depression are just side-effects of dying.
Leonard Shelby cannot remember anything that has happened since the death of his wife, so according to Locke’s viewpoint he should have remained the exact same person since then. But over the course of the film it he has gone from a mild-mannered insurance investigator to a cold-blooded killer. And even though Leonard cannot remember all the killings he has done, they still seem to have affected him in some way. The fact that he is so willing to use his condition to set himself up to kill teddy say’s something about how his psyche has changed since the
A Critical analysis of ‘A Clockwork Orange’ (Pages 78-79) From this passage from chapter four of ‘A Clockwork Orange’ by Anthony Burgess, the reader understands that the "vitamins" Alex believes he has received have something to do with his intensely bad reaction to the films. It appears that the doctors are conditioning or what I thought was brainwashing Alex to associate violence and criminality with dissatisfaction. Alex's free will to watch the films at the beginning is quickly undermined and, by the end of the chapter, he has no free will over either his reactions or the doctors' actions and therefore suffers the undeniable consequences of the video clips. I think that the choice of a war torture film and other such violent clips is not subsidiary; the doctors are sadistic torturers themselves, revealing in their aggressive examination on naive Alex. Their sarcastic remarks to the powerless victim are evocative of the sarcasm Alex and his gang used on the victims that they beat and sometimes raped.
Tony Rurup Jill Clateman English Composition 121 7 February 2013 Critical Analysis of the Film “Law Abiding Citizen” Law Abiding Citizen is a movie that gives an example a broken legal system and that doesn’t hold individuals accountable for their actions, legal loopholes, and a man’s mission to teach a lesson of personal responsibility. After the murder of his family, Clyde Shelton seeks out the help of Nick Rice, a successful and upcoming attorney who has a conviction rate of ninety-six percent. Unfortunately, Nick’s main concern is his reputation and not justice itself. When faced with potentially losing a case he would much rather take some sort of a plea deal regardless of guilt. Nick states, “Some justice is better than no justice at all.” Clyde seeks justice for his family, but when none is found he takes it upon himself to teach a lesson to the broken legal system he feels has betrayed him.
Hamlet even seems to have forgotten the main reason why he is avenging his father’s death. Hamlet makes many decisions from not killing Claudius while he was praying to killing the innocent Polonius, and disobeying his father’s ghost’s instructions by tormenting his mother, and Laertes can be seen as the very opposite of Hamlet because he is everything that Hamlet is not. Hamlet’s delay of vengeance can also be seen as another
Throughout the course of the play we see how he changes from ‘Valour’s minion’ to his death and a ‘Butcher’. He was not given the chance to repent like Faustus was yet he was easily influenced by his wife showing his lack of willpower. We feel more respect for Macbeth as his death was more dignified with him fighting to the last. ‘Why should I play the roman fool and die on mine own sword?’ this contextual reference is showing how he will not commit suicide as it was customary for the roman generals to do so in the face of defeat. His wives death was an omen of his ultimate death as she was always there on his rise to power and without her he is not as powerful as he thinks he is.