FYS-020 Final Essay

Final Essay Change is good. A common phrase used by people in society today to express how they feel about certain events, people, or things that undergo a transformation potentially making old qualities, ideas, or aspects of one’s self into something new. Throughout the semester, my essays for this class have expressed this underlying theme of change. The 1st paper focused on female characters developing male traits throughout the films changing how they are viewed and in one circumstance changing how a male protagonist views himself. The 2nd paper embodied around the idea of how the male protagonist in given films go through a change due to a traumatic events sustained to them in the movie. The 3rd paper dealt with the feelings of homosexuality and homoerotic and how the men in the films are presented these feelings naturally through the environment and how the feelings change them from where they are at the start of them film. So in circumstances dealing with masculinity, is an ideal masculinity something that is established at the forefront of a person’s life that they embrace and design their well being off of or is it something that is developed from change; certain events or ideas that are presented to a person that will cause them to alter their perspective of themselves? To me, the ideal masculine person is formed through changes that they encounter in their lifetime and this is depicted being used in both positive and negative ways through the characters of Frankie in Million Dollar Baby, Tyler Durden in Fight Club, and Dennis El Mar and Jack Twist in Brokeback Mountain. All of these characters bring with them an established masculinity at the beginning of each film but with certain events and actions they sustain throughout the film they find themselves creating a new perspective on the lives they have been living and develop a change leading to benefitting the character or destroying what is beautiful in life. Frankie Dunn, in Million Dollar