The Sacrifice For Success By Joss Whedon Analysis
The Sacrifice for success
Although Joss Whedon demonstrates that Self-fulfillment is something that cannot be achieved without either sacrificing love or compromising their ambitions in Dr.Horrible's sing along blog, however it could be suggested that the only way to achieve self-fulfillment is to both sacrifice love and compromise our ambitions.
There is more than one side to every person, Whedon shows us this in his short film. Meaning not all sides have the same ideals of self-fulfillment, or even have different ideals on the importance of love. Penny lived by the ideal that “Sometimes people are layered like that. there’s something totally different underneath than what’s on the surface”, in which Billy responded with “And sometimes there’s a third, even deeper level and that one is the same as the top surface one”. Two messages came out of this scene, the facade that an individual …show more content…
Good vs. Evil, Hero vs. Villain, Man vs. man, or man vs. Self, in the end a person needs to choose a side or at least abide by one of the rules of both. Just because a choice must be made to sacrifice one side of a person’s perspectives and beliefs, doesn’t mean it’s an easy decision or one that has to be made right away.As in the movie the protagonist isn’t exactly evil, or even willing to kill his nemesis “This appeared as a moral dilemma”. Eventually leading into the idea that Billy was dying and in his place, something horrible was rising. In his own way Dr. Horrible believes he’s not a bad guy, but instead believes he is doing the public a favor by changing the status quo. “Everyone’s a hero in their own way.” -Captain Hammer sings, towards the crowd before he gets frozen. Resulting in the public's cheers and singing voices, while when Dr.Horrible arrives they see him different than he sees everyone else. “Why can’t they see what I see, why can’t they see the
Although Joss Whedon demonstrates that Self-fulfillment is something that cannot be achieved without either sacrificing love or compromising their ambitions in Dr.Horrible's sing along blog, however it could be suggested that the only way to achieve self-fulfillment is to both sacrifice love and compromise our ambitions.
There is more than one side to every person, Whedon shows us this in his short film. Meaning not all sides have the same ideals of self-fulfillment, or even have different ideals on the importance of love. Penny lived by the ideal that “Sometimes people are layered like that. there’s something totally different underneath than what’s on the surface”, in which Billy responded with “And sometimes there’s a third, even deeper level and that one is the same as the top surface one”. Two messages came out of this scene, the facade that an individual …show more content…
Good vs. Evil, Hero vs. Villain, Man vs. man, or man vs. Self, in the end a person needs to choose a side or at least abide by one of the rules of both. Just because a choice must be made to sacrifice one side of a person’s perspectives and beliefs, doesn’t mean it’s an easy decision or one that has to be made right away.As in the movie the protagonist isn’t exactly evil, or even willing to kill his nemesis “This appeared as a moral dilemma”. Eventually leading into the idea that Billy was dying and in his place, something horrible was rising. In his own way Dr. Horrible believes he’s not a bad guy, but instead believes he is doing the public a favor by changing the status quo. “Everyone’s a hero in their own way.” -Captain Hammer sings, towards the crowd before he gets frozen. Resulting in the public's cheers and singing voices, while when Dr.Horrible arrives they see him different than he sees everyone else. “Why can’t they see what I see, why can’t they see the