Edward Scissorhands is more ‘human’ due to the fact that he lacks many of the negative emotions that the rest of the characters seem to have. The only time he feels anger and shame he takes these feelings out on walls, blinds, and bushes rather than other people. He never exploits anyone for his personal gain which is shown by him not caring whether he got payments for his many services for his neighbours. Along with this he never threatens anyone no matter what they attempt to do to him as seen when he doesn’t even consider ratting out Kim and Jim and gets himself imprisoned. The few times Edward has harmed someone is either by complete accident or is completely justified. For instance, he saves Kevin from being run over and inadvertently cut him and he accidentally cuts Kim because she comes too close to him while he is sculpting. The one time he purposefully harms someone, it’s to defend himself and Kim. It could also be said that he has quite an arrangement of emotions that would be considered ‘human’. Some of these include the obvious joy shown when he’s driven around town by Pam, the shame of being accused of a crime he didn’t commit and the infatuation with Kim. …show more content…
As a result of all these points, I thoroughly believe that Edward is more ‘human’ than the rest of cast due to his lack selfishness and unwillingness to betray or hurt anyone unless it is completely
Edward used 2nd person, which uses the word “you” a lot. He also had a very harsh and blunt tone about it. Using this point of view and style it makes it seem like the author was directing it towards the reader. he used real life situations to relate what was happening to the reader. “It gave him,to the very depth of his kind heart,to observe how the children fled from his approach.
Although they had much in common in terms of speaking they had even more differences. For example: King tried to motivate people, tried to make them feel good about equality. While Edwards hammered at his congregation using guilt and fear to get them to accept the Lord. Edwards portrayed God as being a less compassionate God than most people picture him as. "God has so many different, unsearchable ways of taking wicked men out of the world and sending them to hell...""...natural men are held in the hand of God, over the pit of hell..." are vivid examples Edwards used to scare his congregation. Edwards described man as loathsome weak people and they owed a great deal of reverence to God. Edward's opinions about man were so straight forward and strong that he even included mere children in his views of pathetic and evil man: "...the foolish children of men do miserably delude themselves in their own schemes and in their confidence and in their own strength and wisdom.
Possibly the first crime that Edward committed was killing his older brother. This has significance on the psychological level because Edward’s older brother began to disagree with their mother’s world perspective and I believe this was the motivation for this crime. He loved his mother very much possibly to the point of Parent-Child Relational Problems and could not handle that his brother began to discredit her. Edward was not charged with killing his brother because they were burning a marsh and it was determined to be asphyxiation from the fire. It is suspicious because his brother was not in an area that was burned and his body was found with bruises.
a human being has been contemplated for centuries. Numerous philosophers have read and debated this significant question and it is still reflected upon today. Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley plumbs the depth of this question with the example of a creature who is spurned by humanity despite being human in character. The discernment of creature from man is still misconstrued as shown in this tale, but its importance lies in the message Frankenstein that appearances matter very little when it comes to being human. The creature’s human qualities of its emotions, desire for companionship, and intelligence set it apart as uniquely human from simply a base and barbaric monster
In particular, this theme is revealed in many occasions in the book. On page 56, Edward comes out of nowhere and saves Bella from a car accident that potentially could have taken her life. “Two long, white hands shot out protectively in front of me, and the van shuddered to a stop…” In similarity, towards the end of the movie, Edward saves Bella (who is alone) from being attacked by James. This makes us ask, “How are both of these scenes related?” However, both of these scenes are prominent in the movie and the book because they are so vital to the story. This shows how despite being far away, his protectiveness over Bella made him save her. This inflicts very positive characteristics on Edward, such as: bravery, selflessness, and compassion. The idea of love is what caused him to commit irrational actions in the most necessary
In works of literature and television, most artists have a tendency to employ a minor character that not only serves in the plot’s general progression, but also to create one or more memorable situations in the story that regains the observer’s attention. In John Steinbeck’s famous novella Of Mice and Men, Curley’s wife is a minor character; she serves a purpose to the plot by creating a constant raucous amongst the ranch workers, but eventually leads to her spilling herself wide open about her utter misery within her nuptial arrangement to Curley, which is news to the reader. On Seth MacFarlene’s Family Guy, after a dramatic speech made by Brian to Chris and Peter, a character known as “greased-uped deaf guy” may run through the Griffin’s
Edward challenges the traditional gender roles in more ways than one. He has dealt not only with an absent father, but also is left to depend on his mother who was emotionally absent as well, making it difficult for Edward to experience a positive male role model in his life. Furthermore, he is a teacher, which is traditionally seen as a profession for a woman. In his mid-life stage at almost fifty years old, Edward has never been married, nor had any children. In the 1980’s, these factors may be seen by society as strange. Edward’s primary inner conflict with his role as a man and his masculinity comes from quietly dealing with issues of homosexuality.
Edward exercised excessively, almost punishing himself, he was on the verge of anorexia, he worried constantly about the way he looked particularly about the thinness of his legs, he had slight OCD, an unusual manner of speaking, social insensitivity and had nervous tics such as constant fiddling, some believe Edward may have suffered from Autism or Asperger's...
Before Sweeney Todd got his close-up on the silver screen in 2007, and even before he made his Broadway debut, Sweeney Todd made his first appearance in The String of Pearls, a Victorian penny dreadful from 1846. Penny dreadfuls were cheap fiction that were usually released in a weekly manner and were sold for a British penny. The story of Sweeney Todd takes place in the boom of Great Britain’s Industrial Revolution, when new technology was appearing on every corner, along with old fears rearing their ugly heads once again. Penny dreadfuls were meant for opening up all of humanity’s most basic fears, death, gore, and most prominently, cannibalism. They were written to terrify the public, to act as a cheap thrill for the common folk. The premise
Edward is different in every way, both physically and mentally. Edward is a creation of whom his inventor died, leaving Edward incomplete and living in a dark, creepy and unwelcome looking mansion on top of a mountain away from suburbia. No one had ventured there until Peg spotted the mansion from
All in all, what we can see Eddie is a protagonist whom we all respect
Although I didn’t love Eddie as a character, I think it was meant to be that way. He had a few redeeming qualities in the end, and I did end up feeling bad for him. His tragic flaw is the bubble that he lives in, the constructed world he has built for himself, but is unable to escape or recognize.
Throughout William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Helena evolves from being a heartbroken, desperate girl to a strong woman who effectively advocates for herself. In the beginning Helena is a young woman who struggling with a heartbreak, she had a prior relationship with a man named Demetrius, who is now moving on and not interested in her. He is falling in love with a woman Hermia, who happens to be the best friend of Helena. Slowly Shakespeare uses the literary technique of characterization to show how Helena grows as a person. Helena overcomes her obsession with Demetrius, and is able to stand up and defend herself when everyone seems to turn against her.
Edward Scissorhands is a character loved by many for his kind and sweet personality along with his abnormalities. However, in Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands, society does not. The community becomes crude and keeps distance from Edward after some certain events. It is seen as a common theme in Burton’s movies to see instances of atypical protagonist and ideal, yet judgmental settings show the idea that society is against those not normal.
As the handmaiden of Olivia, Maria is considered today to play a relatively minor role in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, but despite her minor role, Maria is the driving piece in the subplot to trick Malvolio by writing a letter in her lady’s script, and she is, at the end of the play, married to Olivia’s cousin Sir Toby. Maria is typically interpreted as being “feisty, witty, and outgoing” (Marshall 217), but some would argue that this is not her personality in Trevor Nunn’s rendition of Twelfth Night. Here I will discuss the differences between Twelfth Night as a play by Tim Carroll verses Twelfth Night as a movie by Trevor Nunn; between these two renditions, Maria is more true to character in Carroll’s rendition than Nunn’s because