Edward’s Death
Edward, the android-like being portrayed in Tim Burton’s film Edward Scissorhands, is essentially killed off from society because he falls victim to the malicious lies spread by the community and by the hatred that is cultivated by those lies. Although he never physically dies, Edward’s rejection from society leads to a life-long seclusion away from the outside world. The events that lead Edward into this isolation are brought on by a few misunderstood acts that he commits and the negative reception of those acts by an impressionable community. He is caught committing a break-in (a felony that is not completely his fault yet nobody gives him the benefit of the doubt) and is, from then on, seen as a dangerous criminal. He is also deemed a sexual predator because a townswoman claims that he sexually assaulted her. Also, his attraction to and love for Kim (the Bogg family’s daughter) provokes her jealous and violent boyfriend into harming Edward and trying to turn Kim against him. Edward is never given the chance to explain himself of the accused acts and so he finds himself the target of the town’s hatred; a hatred that is based upon and fueled by jealousy, lies, and rumors. The eventual shunning of Edward by the community is not surprising or shocking because Edward never really fits in with society to begin with. However, what is shocking are the justifications of hatred that are used by the community. Their emotions and attitudes are influenced by the lies and jealousies of a few people and by believing in the religious motivations and accusations of the erratic Christian woman who lives in the neighborhood. By being non-human, Edward is immediately suspected of being guilty of all he is accused of. Hi...
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Edward’s detachment from society is the result of a floozy’s lie, a deranged woman’s religious claims, and a teen with an inflated ego that all seem to hate Edward because of his differences and because they cannot tell what he is and what his intentions are. Edward is a good person and he is not even a real human being. He is more kind and uncorrupt then the real human beings who live in the community. It matters to Joyce, Esmeralda, and Jim that Edward be definable and that they can recognize him as something with emotions and motives. However, Edward does not make any sense to any of them at all and their prejudices continue to exist because they do not and will not take the time to figure out that Edward’s differences are actually not as horrific as they make them out to be.
The audience also begins to feel a sense of fear and helplessness in Edward's first paragraph, which he will also maintain throughout this piece. Additionally, Edward engages repetition in his speech in order to continuously build fear and suspense in his audience. Edward begins to use the noun “you” after the second paragraph in order to make his argument more personal and emotional. By saying the words “you” and “your” Edwards is speaking directly to his audience, in doing so he makes the audience envision themselves in the positions that Edwards describes and will make them subconsciously feel the need to convert to Christianity because they are now fearful of God, and the only way to abate this fear is to repent and convert.
Edward stares at the images of Kim before turning to look at Peggy talk and then gazes back at them again. The way he can’t stop looking at her indicates how Edward admires the young girl. When Peggy starts chatting about how Kim went to the high school prom with her boyfriend, Edward is in a world of his own. He concentrates on her face in the picture of the couple at their prom. Edward gazes at her pictures like she is the most fascinating person ever. Since Edward lived in the mansion with the inventor and unaccompanied for so long it is interesting to see his reaction to Kim. Furthermore, his infatuation with Kim just after seeing her pictures goes to confirm how isolated he is from
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No one likes to be alone and stand out from the rest. Edward the main character in “Edward Scissorhands,” struggles to fit in with everyone in the community. This movie is about Edward, who has scissors as hands. He lives in a big castle on a big mountain looking over the town. The person who created him was just about to give him normal hands, but he died from a heart attack. For a while now, Edward has been living alone. One day, Peg a main character in the movie decides to take him home with her. Throughout the movie he starts to slowly adapt to the new environment and overcomes a few challenges. In the movie Edward Scissorhands,Tim Burton uses camera shots and camera movements to show the variance between the way Edward’s appearance and the way he is like.
Would you let a man with scissors for hands in your, that you found in a dark evil-looking castle? I know I wouldn’t, but a mom named Peg would. Peg, who is very empathetic, decides to go sell Avon to the evil mansion across the street, but then finds a boy with scissors for hands and decides to take him home. Edward seems to be doing fine in the community, but is soon seen as a monster because he is framed by a bully name Jim. The movie is Edward, the protagonist, trying to recuperate his innocence and he won’t stop until he does. Throughout the movie, director Tim Burton used the stylistic elements of juxtaposition and symbolism to show the character’s personalities and to show how some places in the story are opposites.
In “Return to Return”, French Edward, who is a brain-damaged tennis player, and Baby Levaster, who is his unofficial manager, are the most unstable pair. French Edward is considered the happiest and the prettiest man on the court. Edward and Levaster first became familiar with each other when they were high school athletes. And their life has changed since a local tennis coach, Dr. James Word, begins working with Edward. The novel’s title signs one of the writer’s primary themes. The main character French Edward, in his role as The Tennis Handsome, acts as a standard for all other characters. The title also reinforces meaning of “to return serve”. It is a tennis phrase demonstrating the move of hitting the ball back to the opponent; the constant
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
Edward is pretty scary on the outside but like the T-rex his inside is harmless, he's a sweet person who makes bushes into child fantasies, like the T-rex, but you can't see his inside unless you look past the outside. The audience can see that the T-rex is out of place and that edward was the one who cut it to be like that. The audience probably was a kid once, some probably obsessed with dinosaurs making them understand that edward is a kid at heart. It makes them understand he wasn't trying to cut out a scary monster, he was just cutting out a cool dinosaur that is extinct now. His intentions were pure just like when a kid paints a picture of their family on the wall. Its overly obvious that it's out of place which was the director's intention, he didn't want you to have to find a hidden meaning, he wanted it to clearly be seen and make it easy to relate it to edward. We as humans judge people who don't fit in or are different in certain ways. This setting is where they patronise Edward, speaking with kindness yet looking down upon him like dirt, we do that a lot in our society. We always have this feeling that we are superior to everything and anything, even if that's not the
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
Specifically social isolation. Social isolation is the lack of social interaction with society or friends (Miller, 2011), neither which Edward had because he was not fully educated by his creator yet. Edward was all by himself in the mansion up the hill after his creator died. Because the creator died before he could teach Edward the basic lifestyle etiquette, Edward had hid himself in the mansion the whole time void of social interactions until Peg decided to venture into the mansion in hopes of selling cosmetics and ended up bringing Edward back to her home. The social isolation that Edward experienced since the death of his creator was quickly eased from him after he got introduced to the townspeople. The talent Edward had for having scissor as his hand was impeccable. He managed to capture the attention and trust of the townspeople in a short amount of time he was there. However, the attention that Edward had when introduced to the townspeople was short lived after he was arrested by the police for breaking and entering a home. Edward went back to his mansion after a few unsuccessful attempt of reconciliation with the townspeople. The study by Ahmetoglu, Swami and Chamorro-Premuzic, (2010) stated that reconciliation tactic was used to maintain positive relationship but it did not worked for Edward when he was trying to get back on the good side of the
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At this point, Edward has a hostile reaction towards the scent of Bella’s blood. Bella tells him that she does not care and trusts that he will maintain control. They soon become close friends and start to have a mutual relationship between each other. Then on, Edward introduces Bella to his family, the Cullens. The family lives on the outskirts of town. The family soon takes Bella out to a game of baseball until some of the Cullens’ rivals show up. Bella then sees that they are a threat and Edward warns her to stay away from
The War of the Roses was a civil war fought in England from 1455 to 1485 over the control of the throne. The two houses feuding were the Yorkists and the Lancastrians; both descendants of King Edward III. Before the war the Lancastrians were in control until 1453 when king Henry VI “lapsed into insanity,” and Richard, third duke of York was appointed as “protector of the realm,” because of his position as head of “a great baronial league” (Encyclopædia Britannica).When Henry VI recovered in 1455 is when the true conflict arose between both houses as they now felt threatened by each other.
Until his father passes away, every single letter of complaint that Edward has written to him has been about heated-wooden floors or anything else that is minor in comparison to other things that were going on. But, when Ted Stanton tragically dies because of a heart attack, Edward decides to face all the emotions that he has kept through all the years, in his final letter to his father, Edward writes, “The 178 previous letter of complaint is full of indignation about ways in which you slighted me or made me feel bad or disregarded me… Had I known that it would end this way, I would not have taunted you yesterday in Jay L. Lamb’s office… Wherever you are Father, I hope you have regret about what happened yesterday. Finally, I will close with the hope that you have taken care of Mother now that you are no longer here. She is deifying you, which I will not do. I am not a bad son...You weren’t a deity. You were my father. I love you.”(pg 232) This quote shows how even though Ted Stanton isn’t in Edward’s life anymore, by confronting his injustices, Edward feels closer to his father than he ever was while Ted was still alive. It’s important to address someone with any problems that you may have with them because you never truly know how long they’ll be standing around, waiting for you to say