Achilles loss of his brother affects his sanity and enrages him to an inhumane vengeance on Hectors body. Achilles struggles to get a grasp on the loss of his broth Patroclus and takes all his anger out on Hectors body after killing him. Achilles convinced himself that his anger would stop after he had killed Patroclus’ killer, Hector. It just continued to enrage him further, as after every time he mutilated Hectors body it receded to a peaceful untouched state. The reader is able to understand the depth of Achilles and Patroclus’ relationship and the strong connection that they shared, which went deeper than just adoptive brothers and cousins they were soul mates.
The ego's solution to this conflict is to create a feeling of anxiety. This anxiety toward Nemo can be seen when Marlin the father becomes so obsessed by fear that he follows Nemo on his 1st day of school. In the movie, Marlin has many defense mechanisms. Marlin pushes back memories of Coral (wife) and children dying. He redirects his feelings of the death of his family to protect Nemo from anything and everything.
“Terry Malloy’s most important conflict is not with Johnny Friendly, but with himself.” To what extent do you agree? ‘On the waterfront’ is a film about a corrupted and treacherous wharf, which highlights the conflicts not only among the people – which include Johnny Friendly’s gang and the local longshoremen, but inner conflicts in the characters as well. The story’s protagonist, Terry Malloy, undergoes a tumultuous change in his life as he turns against his own “family”, battling with not only Friendly but with himself. He struggles with his conscience after he had indirectly caused the death of Joey Doyle, which creates the spark that kick-starts Terry’s personal quest in searching for the guts to make a change in his life. Though the conflict between Friendly and Malloy is the climax of the film, Terry’s internal conflict has a greater significance as it creates the base for the building of Terry’s character, the main element and theme of the film which drives the film, questioning one’s morality, conscience and judgement.
Just following this event, Marlin becomes frantic at the loss of his only remaining family member. Nemo takes this plunge into the depths to rebel against his father. Marlin’s inability to follow Nemo into the depths and rather scream to him from
He hurts his mom after telling her he does not love her and “felt sorry for his mother and she made him lie. He would go to Kansas City and get a job and she would feel all right about it” (Hemingway 77). Krebs means it when he says he does not and cannot love anybody which hurts his mother deeply. Because he has lost or weakened his values he hides how he truly feels and lies and takes it back. He decides that he will run away to Kansas only to escape the problems he cannot confront in his family.
Chad lost his good paying job and became stressed when he had to find another way to support our family. Unfortunately, he began to drink to lower his stress but drunken Chad was abusive. Whenever Chad drank, he drank, and anyone who got in his way would face his wrath, and unfortunately, that was me. He would come home drunk and take his stress out on me. He would yell at me, calling me worthless and stupid, and hit me in front of the kids.
Biff brings out Willy's vulnerability by forcing him to recall harsh memories of his affair. Biff also challenges Willy, and forces Willy to live outside of his psuedo reality. In one line Willy says, "She’s nothing to me, Biff. I was lonely, I was terribly lonely"(1924), remembering Biff's discovery of his affair. This memory as well as the crash of reality force itself on Willy everytime he argues with Biff.
Ed, after realizing Chris had read the letters, tells Chris not only that he lied about his mother’s death, but that he was also the one who killed Wellington after a fight with Ms. Shears! Chris runs away from home in a search to live with his mother, ashamed, and afraid that his father might kill Chris after murdering Wellington. Finding his mom is no easy task however. He must travel to London, a thing he his petrified of and dodge the policemen that have been sent out to find him and return him home. The overload of information makes Chris feel sick, as part of his disability includes extreme sensitivity to huge loads of information.
Commentary on Edwin + Mathilda In this excerpt taken from Laurence Fearnley’s Edwin and Mathilda , the narrator is extremely shocked when he discovers that his father has deceived him about the fact that his mother is alive; he experiences complete and total emotional distress when he realizes the reality that his mother left him. The text explores various forms of deception that are effectively conveyed through the third-person limited point of view, thus raising the theme of appearance versus reality and as a result, bringing forth the theme of emotional destruction as Edwin struggles with the reality of his mother’s disappearance. Various forms of deception are revealed through the third-person limited narrator in this extract, thus highlighting the theme of appearance versus reality. Edwin, the main character, is introduced with a rather strange image, in which he is eating a “ limp pizza”. This image is, although seemingly simple, is quite indicative of his current emotional state, mostly due to the use of the word “ limp”, which is a form of diction that emphasizes lifelessness.
This is shown through the use of costume - fifties clothes of boxer shorts, tie and shirt as he is as an insurance salesman. At the end of the film, Truman loses his insurance salesman uniform and then dresses in a costume of dark and masculine clothing as shown on the yacht (Santa Maria), wearing a sailors jacket and cap, showing he is like the captain. In fact he is now beginning a new journey in which he is the captain of his own life. This visual feature is important in illustrating that leaving is an important incident because it portrays that Truman is a changed person, and had eventually gained control of his life. Throughout Peter Weirs film, the “Truman Show”, cinematography was used to highlight that the important incident of Truman leaving was important.