Tango Of Two Deadly Sins: Video Analysis

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Can you imagine your child, the one who you set up playdates and buy things for because you love him or her, will turn out to be a mass murder? Perhaps, what is like to live with a person who you later find out to have hatred towards the world and humanity? Unfortunate, the surreal and unimaginable tale would unravel for the Rodger family on the tragic day May 23, 2014. Elliot Rodger, the son of Hollywood filmmaker Peter Rodger, went on a rampage that left three of his roommates stabbed to death, three others shot dead, and 14 innocent by-standers injured in Isla Vista, California. The event left many people traumatized, no one would have expected that Rodger can carry out the execution of innocent people, but while searching investigators …show more content…

As Jens Lange and Jan Crusius has refer in their article, “The Tango of Two Deadly Sins: The Social-Functional Relation of Envy and Pride,” they said that, “Envy is a negative emotional response to a situation in which someone lacks another’s superior quality, achievement, or possession and either desires it or wishes the other lacks it (Originally from Parrott & Smith, 1993; Smith & Kim, 2007)” (2). Rodgers in his manifesto and retribution video exclaim illustratively what makes him envious, particularly the cool kids at his school because he would describe how they make him fell inferior because of their look, behaviors, and ability to attract the popular girls at his school or the men in college, who Rodgers stated in his retribution video, who were attracting and obtaining love from all the girls. In his manifesto, Rodgers …show more content…

Furthermore, not only does he said he felt envious of the taller kids, it frustrated Rodgers so much that the envious attitude he has for taller people would, “Remain for the rest of his life.” He was annoyed by the fact that the taller boys would automatically get respect, and that makes him feels inferior. In another example, from his retribution video, Rodgers discuss talk about how he is envious of the, “ popular kids, who lives such life of hedonistic pleasures, while I Have to rotten in loneliness for all these years…They all looked down upon me every time I try to go out and join them… They all treated me like a mouse.” The point is, Rodgers is envious of not only tap people, but he envies popular kids who are living a life of hedonistic pleasure, while he rots in loneliness. Furthermore, he envy them because of the fact that they make him feels inferior, treating him as if he is a

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