In the 1931 film City Lights, Charlie Chaplin fell in love with a blind flower girl. The woman believed that Chaplin was a handsome, and rich man. Chaplin developed a theme of sight versus blindness by emphasizing the importance of the physical ability of sight and how it can alter events and or beliefs.
Chaplin introduced the blind woman calmly enjoying her day while sitting outside. Because of her inability to see, the woman was unable to visualize Chaplin’s appearance. The blind girl was unable to see that Chaplin was not the rich and handsome man she visualized him as. Her lack of sight resulted in the misinterpretation of the love of her life. She wanted to have the ability to see again because she wished to see the handsome and rich
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For instance, the butler working for the millionare was unable to realize that without the tramp, the millionare would be dead. Chaplin saved his life countless times and their friendship was built because of these events. The millionare was blind whenever he was sober. He did not admire, recognize, or care about the tramp unless he was drunk. The millionare did not acknowledge the tramp’s generosity and heroic actions. In order for the two individuals to get along, the millionare had to be drunk. The alcohol denied the millionare’s ability to see the type of man the tramp really was; he was a caring and generous to everyone, and was also a determined individual who was in love with the blind woman. The other characters were not aware of the tasks and complications that the tramp went through to get the money for the blind woman so she can pay the rent. No one else was aware of his generosity towards the blind woman. For instance, the tramp was willing to enter the ring and fight another man, even though they were both going to take it easy on each other and split the money. The paper boy was unaware of the tramps’ life and the complications he experienced. The audience would be forced to feel sympathetic towards the tramp because of the paper boy’s rude and inconsiderate
The book Blind, written by Rachel DeWoskin, is about a highschool sophomore named Emma, who went blind after being struck in the face with a firework. When she first lost her sight, Emma was placed in a hospital for over 2 months, and once she was released, she could finally go home again. DeWoskin uses the characterization of Emma throughout the beginning of the text to help the reader understand the character’s struggle more. Especially in the first few chapters, it was difficult for Emma to adapt to a world without sight. For instance, DeWoskin writes, “And sat down, numb, on our gold couch. And tried to open my eyes, rocked, counted my legs and arms and fingers. I didn’t cry. Or talk” (DeWoskin 44). As a result of losing a very important scent, she’s started to act differently from a person with sight.
They reveal a shared fondness for one another. In the same way the tramp becomes a companion to the screwy millionaire. Even though they come from different classes, they become partners in crime gallivanting through the city and getting into trouble at every turn. Also, Don Quixote is motivated by the code of the knight-errantry. He desires to make things right and fight the good fight. Similarly, Chaplin’s tramp genuinely cares about the blind girl’s welfare. He is upset, when she becomes ill. He wants to nurse her back to health? He wants to help her and her grandmother pay their debts, when he discovers that they will be evicted. The tramp desires to set things right for the blind girl and he genuinely appears to be a kind spirit throughout the film. It is this characteristic of sincerity that I most admire about both Don Quixote and the
His, "idea of blindness came from the movies", where, "...the blind move slowly and never laughed" (Carver 98). These misconceptions of blindness form barriers between the blind and the sighted. Carver breaks down these barriers as he brings the vastly different lives of these two men together. Those of us with sight find it difficult to identify with the blind. This man, like most of us, can only try to imagine what life is like for Robert.
My idea of blindness came from the movie. In the movie, the blind move slowly and never laugh. Sometimes they were led by seeing-eye dogs. The blind man in my house was not something I looked forward to”(4). This way, Carver shows how blindness can hold back people in the world today.
The characters in “Cannery Row” value morality a lot . Lee Chong owns a grocery store in “Cannery Row” and people living in “Cannery Row” usually have no money. Lee Chong is a benevolent person who doesn’t press charges at his customer. As one day a customer named Horace had his debt to high , Horace traded the money he owned with a building he had . Mack heard of the place and asked Lee Chong to let them live there. With some hesitations Lee Chong had allowed even though he knew he “suffered a total loss, at least his mind did not work that way”(Steinbeck , 12). Lee Chong may have lost a lot because Mack didn’t pay rent or anything.He knew it was a bad idea but his mind had told him a different answer. His mind was telling him that it was a good thing because he was helping out someone who have no home. Lee Chong had done...
Blindness is most often perceived as just a physical disability especially when preconceived notions are embedded in one’s mind by society. Moreover an individual can be so ‘blind’ by worldviews and perceptions that the true humanity of someone that is actually blind can be overlooked. In Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” (1938- 1988), Carver depicts a man versus man conflict in which the narrator was totally consumed with jealously because his wife had a ‘odd’ relationship with a ‘ blind’ man she befriended while working for him one summer.
The husband in Raymond Carvers “Cathedral” wasn’t enthusiastic about his wife’s old friend, whom was a blind man coming over to spend the night with them. His wife had kept in touch with the blind man since she worked for him in Seattle years ago. He didn’t know the blind man; he only heard tapes and stories about him. The man being blind bothered him, “My idea of blindness came from the movies. In the movies, the blind moved slowly and never laughed. Sometimes they were led by seeing-eye dogs. A blind man in my house was not something I looked forward to. (Carver 137)” The husband doesn’t suspect his ideas of blind people to be anything else. The husband is already judging what the blind man will be like without even getting to actually know him. It seems he has judged too soon as his ideas of the blind man change and he gets a better understanding of not only the blind man, but his self as well.
The Blind Girl in Charlie Chaplin's Romantic Comedy “ City Lights and Kitty King in Buster Keaton's drama film “ Steamboat Bill Jr” both compare and differ to each other from their social standpoint, treatment in the films, and the directors’ different portrayal of them. Both these women in the films share a lot in common in the films’ forte of treatment of women. Both the women in the films have to be wooed or liberated by the main characters the Tramp and William Canfield Jr acts of kindness and actions to win their heart over. In Both these women also, we see that there is a sense of approval they have to gain from the women's elders such as the Blind Girls grandmother and John James King, the father of Kitty king and liberation. In “
In the word of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior ‘Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved (Mark 16:15-16). The requirement is just as to go into the world and do what everyone else does in this rat race of life, but we are to engage the world through culture and radically change it. We do this not with weapons of mass destruction or by forcefully converting others to our will, but we evangelize the lost through the same methodology the Christ himself utilized the principles of love and charity. The Lighthouse seems to follow Christ example by way of changing the culture through love.
Charlie Chaplin created amazing films with his career as a director, screenwriter, actor, producer and musician. City Lights is a story of the tramp who falls in love. He is blown away by the unexpected love affair with the flower girl. He does everything in his power to help her and along the way befriends the millionaire. The story shows the contrasts between the two very different worlds of the rich and the poor. The tramp befriends the damsel in distress millionaire and sparks a friendship where the tramp then sees the lives of both worlds. The mise en scene is a way that shows how different each scene is by the way each character lives their life. Not only in the contrast between the rich and the poor, but also a contrast to happiness verses the unhappy. The mise en scene shows symbols of props that represent how the characters are feeling and what we are suppose to be feeling as we watch what is going on onscreen. Mise en scene is used to tell the story and there are many aspects that come together. The composition, props,
When Marie-Laure was first introduced in the novel it was made known that she lost her sight due to cataracts. Already at very young age, Marie-Laure had to learn how to adapt to her own disability and make some changes. Although it was very tough for her to adapt, Marie-Laure was very determined to live a normal life. “Sixteen paces to the water fountain, sixteen back. Forty-two to the stairwell, forty-two back. Marie-Laure draws maps in her head, unreels a hundred yards of imaginary twine, and then turns and reels it back in” (Doerr 44). This shows how super intelligent and imaginative she was when it came to dealing with her disability. She found different ways in using her four remaining senses in order to learn a new way to make it on her own in life.
This theme goes hand in hand with the theme portrayed in Hills Like White Elephants. In the story the narrator, whose name is never mentioned, has something against his wife’s blind friend, Robert, due to the fact that he cannot see. Robert visits the narrator and the narrator’s wife for company. It seems that the narrator had a preconceived idea that all blind people are boring, depressed, stupid, and are barely even human at all based on the fact that they cannot see the world. Robert, although he is blind, is a caring and outgoing person who is extremely close with the narrator’s wife. The fact that Robert is extremely close with the narrator’s wife should be reason enough for the narrator to accept him as a person, but he is a cold and shallow person with no friends. His relationship with his wife is lacking good communication and seems very bland. Robert’s wife recently passed away, but their relationship was deep and they were truly in love with each other. The narrator was blind to how a woman could work with, sleep with, be intimate with, and marry Robert as has he talks about how he felt sorry for her. The narrator is superficial and does not understand true love or
In the essay, “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self,” Alice Walker writes about how she lost her eyesight in one eye due to a childhood accident. Alice communicates to the reader how, when losing an eye, she cared much less about the loss of her eyesight and more about how she appeared to others. In the story, Alice recalls different points where the accident affected her life. To her, the loss of her eye was not just a physical impediment, but a mental one as well. Once she had a surgery to remove the “glob of whitish scar tissue,” she felt like a new person, even though she still could not see. Alice says, “Now that I’ve raised my head,” and can stop holding herself back from being the greatest she can be. Just as Alice is affected by
Willy Loman’s tragic flow leads him to purse the idea that reputation in society has more relevancies in life than knowledge and education to survive in the business. His grand error of wanting recognition drove him crazy and insane and lead to his tragic death. Willy’s hubris makes him feel extremely proud of what he has, when in reality he has no satisfaction with anything in his life. Willy Loman’s sons did not reach his expectations, as a father but he still continued to brag about Biff and Happy in front of Bernard. Willy Loman caused the reader to empathize with him because before his tragic death he did everything he could for his family. Empathy, Hubris , and Willy Loman’s tragic flow all lead him to his death that distend for him the beginning.