Finish with a rhetorical question or other? TEEL Introduction The film ‘On the Waterfront’ by Elia Kazan demonstrates in a very realistic way how an unrelenting evil controls and corrupts a seemingly powerless community. The longshoremen’s life depends on the job that the ‘boss’, Johnny Friendly provides them with. There is a shape-up to select the work force which condemns them to a life of constant uncertainty and economic hardships. However, those who are brave enough to stand up to this corruption, often result in their death by the mob.
Everyone has flaws, no matter how small the flaws may be. In addition, even the strongest of men can be hurt. The speech also shows the effect that war can have on a man. In this case, it has an effect on everyone in the scene, because deep down, the men understand Captain Miller not only as their captain, but as a good friend. They can relate to his pain because they have all been there too.
[4] Peter's frequent travels left Russia unmanned, often for months at a time. His absence often spawned revolts and rebellions among the people. [5] When Peter returned he showed no mercy in putting down the rebellions and asserting his absolute power over the country. This is when Peter's true cruelty was shown, his brutality in sentencing those who rebelled brought out a different man, a man who loved to see people suffer, a man we would see more often as his reign progressed. People who expressed negative thoughts about Peter's decisions were often executed before they had a chance to gain followers and rebel against the Tsar.
The smog filled, dirty environment in which these men stand, slouching and hunched over, enables the viewers to see the unhappiness present on the Waterfront. The extreme cold, in which this film was shot, enables us to see the breaths of the dockworkers which suggests the extremely harsh conditions they work in and the harshness with which they are treated. Another way in which the longshoremen’s poverty is depicted is through the clothing they were. When Pop Doyle brings Dugan Joey’s jacket, due to his ‘having more holes in it than the Pittsburgh infield’, we are drawn to the details of the men’s holey jackets, and inability to afford new ones to keep them warm. This again demonstrates the amount of poverty in which they live.
Elia Kazan’s ‘On the Waterfront’, is a story of Terry Malloy’s ultimate journey of fulfilling his dreams on becoming a contender and becoming a man from a ‘bum’. Two of the most influential people, Father Barry and Edie Doyle constantly remind Terry to listen to his conscience. ‘On the Waterfront’ takes the audience on a journey through terry’s life, which gives them an insight into his life and dilemmas which he faces along the way. Terry’s redemption took time and was aided by the support of others. When Johnny Friendly’s gang murders his brother Charlie, Terry realizes the union corruption makes the decision to go against the union and make them pay, now that he’s felt the pain personally.
On The Waterfront reveals the powerlessness of the individual against a corrupt ruling group. “You know this city’s full of hawks?” Kazan’s On The Waterfront discusses how corruption and greed is always prevalent within society. The 1954 film follows the story of Terry Malloy, a man trapped between his loyalty to his conscience and the mob run by Johnny Friendly. The film illustrates how many characters attempt to seek justice and freedom from the corrupt union with differing results. The characters of Joey Doyle and Dugan both attempt to stop Johnny Friendly’s hold over the waterfront but ultimately are unable to make a change alone.
They do stop and stare at him. This gives him a powerful presence because, from what the audience sees, is that characters such as Mr and Mrs Birling have an arrogant, intimidating and powerful presence from the start of the play and so on through to the end, but only at places such as this point, the Inspector takes the power and control of the play and makes character like Mr Birling seem quite powerless and not so intimidating anymore. And also the Inspector only uses one word for them to stop arguing, which show how he doesn’t need to give a whole sentence for them to be quite and only one word. All of the power in just one word gives him authority over the other characters that are present. Another moment where the Inspector has a powerful presence on stage is when he gives his final speech about Eva Smith and leaves and the stage directions tell us, “He walks straight out, leaving them staring, subdued and
They are also annoyed because they get blamed for all the things the Socs do because of the Greaser stereotype. Near the end of the novel, the Socs and the Greasers have a rumble. The Greasers beat the Socs, but this didn’t really disprove any of the stereotypes that people thought about the
They all never stood up for themselves until that day. That day they represented the new black men for the future black men to look up to. Mathu is one of the minor characters in the novel who did not narrate a chapter, but yet stood for a lot and felt strongly for what he believed in, Unlike the rest of the black men that gathered at his house that day, Mathu was the strongest of all the old men and stood up for his pride against the Cajun’s. He looked at himself as different from everybody around him because his skin was darker than all the other old men around him. Even though all the old men were black, in Mathu’s eyes they were not equal to his skin tone therefore they were not equal to him.
The white and Native Americans are the one’s who get the jobs as supervisors and of course the place is ran by a white man while the Mexicans and African Americans do the dirty work. LeDuff also notices that there is much tension between the Blacks and Mexicans yet they do not realize that while they are against each other, the White boss is against them both. “The blacks who kill will become angry with the Mexicans who cut, who in turn become angry with the white superintendents who push them.” (Leduff 2000:366) How can the American Dream be accomplished amongst minorities when they are holding each other back and not helping one another? Especially when our race itself is already a set