The movie 3:10 to Yuma uses complex characters to keep the audience involved and maintain a level of uncertainty towards the outcome of the movie. It takes a certain level of analysis to understand these characters; why they do what they do, the significance of the things that they do, and how the things they do effect the plot of the movie. One character, Ben Wade, is particularly deceiving. Often times, the persona that is normally exhibited by your typical villain is contradicted by the actions of Wade, thus, extensive analysis is required to understand him and his motives. This paper will analyze the character Ben Wade in the movie “3:10 to Yuma”.…
Only a fine line divides love and hate, and when the hero and heroine step over it they create a firestorm of passion and betrayal.…
The secrecy behind Dimmesdale and Hester’s tawdry affair emphasizes a sole, unique aspect within the three individuals that, when combined, create the crucial essences contained in each human being: the malicious facet, religious loyalty and guilt, and the need for redemption.…
The relationship between the two brothers in both opening numbers “Bounce” and “Waste” can be characterized as one with brotherly love and sympathy for each other’s past transgressions. In both opening numbers Addison and Wilson are overjoyed to see one another after years of separation. This suggests that despite the various criminal activities that Wilson manipulates Addison into, Addison’s love for his brother is enough to forgive Wilson for past actions. In these past actions involved Wilson persuading Addison to scamming many people from the Wilson’s vague hints in “Bounce” to the much more explicit acussiations by the disgruntled victims. Addison’s love for his brother and the Wilson’s frequient explotation of htat knowledge to commit…
Margot’s relationship with her husband, Raleigh, mirrors Franny’s relationship with her boyfriend, Lane: distant not-exactly lovers, “prestigious” males that don’t understand their partners. When Raleigh…
Dan McAdams (1995) believed there were imperative levels in, what do we know when knowing a person. Levels one and two helped us to figure out Melanie was a small-town girl who left and lost life relationships to only return and win them back. Level one (McAdams, 1995) expresses which traits Melanie is high and low in, her strengths and weaknesses. It is vital to attain the answers to the big five; also to not stop there but carry on to level two (McAdams, 1995). The second level shows us why Melanie acted that way and what impacted her life. She became selfish and a little white liar after her unfortunate high school experience. As McAdams (1995) wrote, “Good description is necessary for good…
"Nothing's okay, so it's okay" was the major turning point for Brad Stand and the existential detectives working on his case. Which in reality makes perfect sense, since life is chaotic and hectic, wouldn't it be perfectly normal for nothing to be "okay"? Since "okay" really isn't a state of being you really can't "be" "okay". However you sure can think that you are. Existentialism is the philosophy behind "being" and it can be interpreted in many different ways.…
There’s an old saying about children being like their parents that says, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. This saying is very true for Troy Maxson, the main character of the play Fences by August Wilson. Troy strived to be a good father to his children, but as a result of selfishness and not having a good father himself, he had a bad relationship with his sons.…
In a relationship, people must trust one another and express appreciation towards the other person. However, it is a certainty that they will commit wrong doings that negatively affect their counterparts. In August Wilson's “Fences”, Troy is a father and husband who make’s the decision derived from human imperfection and outside variables, to commit adultery and become involved in another relationship with a woman. By examining the racial tension of the late nineteen fifties, in combination with Troy's past life experiences and the events that unfold in the play, one can understand Troy's choice to commit adultery. This situation is clearly emphasized in Fences with Troy’s dissatisfaction about life. However, Wilson’s Fences is also based on family values, and life issues such as importance against major powers such as time and death.…
“I was ratting on myself all them years, and I didn’t even know it.” Terry Malloy’s eventual realisation in Elia Kazan’s film, On the Waterfront (1954), reveals the philosophical nature of allegiances that the story of an exploited waterfront community’s resistance to an oppressive mob is centred on. Set on the docks of Hoboken, New Jersey, the film explores how certain loyalties are detrimental to one’s dignity and integrity but necessary for survival. Whereas other loyalties are often innate to one’s being, born out of love and protectiveness. Kazan argues that ultimately, it is our moral conscience that decides where our dominant loyalty lies. Using a variety of personalities with conflicting morals and fluctuating loyalties, the director suggests to audiences that the most important loyalty we owe is to ourselves, that is, our moral conscience.…
The inclusion of Cathy’s enticing beauty and innocent facade along with Adam’s strong morals and kind-hearted soul insinuates virtuous character, yet both succumb to the sin of deception. While Cathy exploited others for pleasure and Adam for an idyllic world, both suffered as much as the other for failing to recognize what the outcome of their deception would have been. As in everyday society, people confront and attempt to handle deception in their personal or work-related lives—even the innocent and unsuspecting. They lie for satisfaction or status or to themselves, such selfish endeavors, without consideration that what small pleasures they experience only last…
This paper will focus on interpersonal relationships; more specifically, romantic partners and the development of a relationship in a scene from the movie Up. Relationship development has two spectrums of stages: coming together and coming apart. This paper will focus on the stages taking place in the coming together phase, the relational norms and outcomes, speed of stage advancement, character role in each stage and how they could improve on their interpersonal relationship.…
When we are born, we are like a blank canevas. Growing up, this canevas becomes more and more colorful, taking from the upcoming experiences, and erasing what does not fit in. What if to truly complete the masterpiece of art, living life and travelling as far as into the wild is necessary? What if after all this you are finally at peace with yourself? In the book Into The Wild, Jon Krakauer demonstrates how Chris McCandless was an outsider of society who after accumulating bits of his identity, finds a place where he can be all of himself.…
Fear and love often go hand in hand creating some of the ugliest situations in life. It is human nature to fear the unknown; often that fear arises when something we love is jeopardized. As Hirman Hillburn watches the events pertaining to the brutal murder of the innocent African American boy Emmet Till, he discovers that the South he craved for from his past has more flaws to it than meets a child-like eye. Through the view of an outsider in a segregated society, along with a mix of unconditional family love and clashing beliefs, we see the moral struggle humanity faces when its identity is put into question.…
The opening paragraph of the article “The Sandra Bullock Trade” catches the reader’s attention appearing to be sensationalist, but in reality it is only a means to an end; David Brooks catches the readers’ attention and before they realize, they’ve been tricked into reading a thought-provoking article about why we are approaching happiness in a wrong way. He opens up by asking, “Would you exchange a tremendous professional triumph for a severe personal blow?” He then proceeds to pretend to ponder over the question, listing some of the gains, Sandra Bullock might achieve from winning an Academy Award, such as, “She’ll make more money for years to come.” and “She might even live longer” - claims for which he provides research evidence. He then completely disregards these positive Academy Award spin-offs and claims that “[…] if you had to take more than three seconds to think about this question, you are absolutely crazy.” Once again David Brooks uses an unorthodox method of catching the reader’s attention; by insulting the reader, the reader is compelled to read on and search for an apology or at least a clarification as to why he/she has been insulted. David Brooks then elaborates as to why the choice that favors personal relations is preferable to the one that advocates career success, and by the fourth paragraph he has concluded the article, except, as it turns out, the article does not end here. While the article could have ended here, at the fourth paragraph, as just another sensationalist article in just…