Aeschylus was a Greek playwright during the Classical Era of Greece, whose attitude about war was affected by the Persian wars he fought in and the histories of the Trojan War. Aeschylus wanted to transform the peoples’ ideas about cycles of revenge and bloodshed to those of democracy and transcendent law. Transcendent law is a high law that applies to everyone. When people kill each other for vengeance they are taking the law into their own hands. When the law is taken into the hands of each individual the people live in a state of lawlessness.
Traditionally, catapults were used for war. They would attach a harmful device at the “bucket” of the catapult and release it so it would target the opponent. The catapult was in great use when there was fighting going on back in ancient time. For instance, when the Romans back in 300 BC were fighting against the Greeks, the catapult was the biggest helped because it speeds up the process to launch the killing device to the other army force. It helped a lot, because it throws further and it was more efficient.
The Yanomamo tribes think very highly of aggressive men, because they seem fearless and they tend to imitate enemies. The Yanomamo tribes first start to show their aggression by using lengthy speeches, if this doesn’t work then they move on to the chest punching. This is familiar to my culture when two people get to arguing, they may continue to get physical. The difference between my culture and the Yanomamo culture is the Yanomamo tribe’s one person stands still while the opponent punches them full force into the chest. Then they switch roles this continues till the one of them collapses or is injured.
The different camera angles, the actors, the amazing cinematography, editing and the way the story unfolds in front of the audience are the things that make this movie so captive. The Hurt Locker is an intense portrayal of elite soldiers who have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world: disarming bombs in the heat of combat. When a new sergeant, James (Renner) takes over a highly trained bomb disposal team amidst violent conflict, he surprises his two subordinate, Sanborn (Mackie) and Eldridge (Geraghty), by recklessly plunging them into a deadly game of urban combat. James behaves as if he's indifferent to death. As the men struggle to control their wild new leader, the city explodes into chaos, and James' true character reveals itself in a way that will change each man forever.
It's a theme that expounds the struggles of each different character. Violence is in this novel a very important subject, because it establishes the whole state of mind of the tale. The acts of violence have a great effect on the progress of the story, though some of them don't seem to be that forceful. For example a situation with Assef, the big bully of the village. He tried to set Amir straight for socializing with Hassan, who is Amir's 'brother' and his best friend.
“I was looking for realism all the time”. This has been superbly done through a variety of cinematic techniques. The use of the shaky camera, and the camera following the actions and movements of the soldiers above and under water, really included the audience as if they were there, beside the soldiers and experiencing the horror and confusion of war. “I wanted to hit the sets much like a newsreel cameraman following soldiers into war”. The sounds of the heavy artillery, bombs exploding and screaming of the soldiers throughout the battle also add to the horror.
The wave of terrorism and the picture of Muslims as terrorist, invaded the world almost at the same time. Indian film industry took a benefit of this situation and they started to present Muslims as terrorists in their films. Movies were made on the subject of terrorism and only Muslims were shown as terrorists who were fostering terrorism not only in India but in the whole world. Indian film industry has also been showing the Kashmir freedom fighters as militants and terrorists. There was a great deal of work done by Indian cinema on Muslims in general and Pakistan in particular showing them as terrorists who were involved in all sort of terrorists acts whether it is in India, Kashmir or elsewhere.
‘Mao Tse-Tung was the last century’s most violent and vicious ruler – a power mad figure who dreamt of extending his rule to the entire world, a goal he pursued while engaging in murder, torture, rape and forced starvation, while demanding complete obedience to his every whim.’ The validity of this statement can be proven without much doubt that it is true from the many historical sources both primary and secondary of the horror that Mao’s rule and revolution inflicted on the many people of China that still suffices up to this day. This essay will look at how Mao inflicted fear into the lives of many while looking at both the disadvantages and advantages of his decisions and concluding on weather the statement is justifiable. Mao Tse-Tung was regarded both as a hero and a villain to the millions that served under his reign. Even after his death, he remains as the sacred symbol that China dare not touch. Mao adapted the ideas of Lenin into China’s countryside, focusing more on the peasants than anyone else to achieve military dominance and personal power.
Amphitheaters, from which these games took place, were designed and built to seat tens of thousands of blood thirsty spectators. Not only was the Amphitheaters used as a place for entertainment of such brutal games, it was also a place of social standing, politics, public punishment, martyrdom, and other recreational carnage activities. As for the gladiators themselves, an aura of religious sacrifice continued to hang about their combats. During these games countless men, animals, and even women, were slaughtered for mere entertainment. People cheered at the sight of limbs being torn by ravenous lions, the burning of a Christian at the stake, the slicing of another Gladiators throat, or whatever blood that was spilt in the Arena.
“Violence” in Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre ‘Violence: Behaviour involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something’. This definition of violence is quite classical. Whenever you would ask someone about violence, he would probably give you this answer or something similar but the notion of violence is something huge. This notion is vast and does not implies only physical pain; morality, society, otherness looks… Violence can be everywhere and in many ways. The vast subject that violence is always had a great place in literature: from Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey passing through romance of chivalry during Middle Age to the most recent crime novel, violence is a major topic and all its aspect is developed.