The 1992 winner of the best movie of the year, Unforgiven, is viewed by many to clash with the society of 1992 involving certain aspects of feminism and racism just to name two. This movie won four academy awards including best picture, best supporting actor, best director, and best editing but it was actually nominated for nine which is pretty phenomenal considering the amount of money it cost to make the film. In this movie, morality is in question throughout the whole film, as well as the power money actually has on people. The plot of Unforgiven focuses on the character William Munny (Clint Eastwood), who gave up his life as a thief, murderer, and villain for the love of a woman and to raise the family they were soon to have. Unlike most other movies of that era, Unforgiven didn’t seem to have a good ending with the death of Ned Logan played by Morgan Freeman and certain other factors that will be mentioned later.
There are many resemblances between the 1992 society, which was when the movie was made and the dystopian society displayed in the film. Terrorism could bear a resemb...
John Proctor John Proctor is considered the most significant character in the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller. The play mainly focuses on guilt and the forgiveness of oneself. Miller illustrates this concept through the actions of Proctor. Miller takes John’s guilt as an example and shows in the play how he struggles with his guilt and forgives himself. John Proctor is a well-known farmer and respected person within Salem village, who struggles with his guilt of committing adultery.
Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Pardoner's Tale," a relatively straightforward satirical and anti-capitalist view of the church, contrasts motifs of sin with the salvational properties of religion to draw out the complex self-loathing of the emasculated Pardoner. In particular, Chaucer concentrates on the Pardoner's references to the evils of alcohol, gambling, blasphemy, and money, which aim not only to condemn his listeners and unbuckle their purses, but to elicit their wrath and expose his eunuchism.
One impaction is caused by war. In the movie “Children of Men,” the idea of a dystopia reoccurs just like the
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Unforgiven (Eastwood 1992), is a western unlike any westerns that we have watched for class. This meaning, I really enjoyed the interpretation of a western that Unforgiven portrays . Clint Eastwood, the director of Unforgiven and the actor of the protagonist William (Bill) Munny, is no stranger to the western genre. In many of his westerns, Eastwood stands by the ideas of “purgative violence as a central path to cultural and personal restoration” (Plantinga 1998), but in Unforgiven, has a very apparent approval for violence. It is said by Plantinga, in the same article that “the traditional Western embodies an American ideology of redemption and purgative violence.” This simply meaning, what we all know about the western genre, that the genre
In the movie, Unforgiven, William Munny is a reformed outlaw who takes on the role of the hero in the twisted landscape of Big Whiskey. The normal characterization of a hero portrays a character exempt from the temptation of evil, and shines as a light in the darkness for the society. However, within Unforgiven the movie perverts the idea of a hero, and shapes it to meet the personality of Will Munny.
“Bullying is repeated, aggressive behavior intended to hurt another person and with the purpose of gaining power over the person being targeted,” by Joy Huffman. Bullying is described as having power over someone else, therefore, power is the essential aspect in gaining control of anyone. The people who are being bullied are targeted to feel powerless and hurt because they are under the control of another person. In “Sinners In the Hands Of an Angry God”, Jonathan Edwards vividly conveys God as a harsh and superior bully through the representation of spiders, floods, and storms.
George Orwell’s 1984 and James McTeigue’s V for Vendetta both have similar views on totalitarian societies and the impact this has on an individual’s physical state but even more so, their psychological state. Both works demonstrate themes of power and control through techniques of manipulation and propaganda. Techniques used by first-time director, James McTeigue, demonstrate the rebellion against the injustice of an oppressive government and similarly George Orwell’s dystopian vision and concept of total surveillance under brainwashing propaganda.
Often we are told that our wrongdoings will prevent us from going to heaven. In the world of religion, the people who act as saints are the ones who achieve a celestial life. However, that does not put a halt to people’s sinful acts. Sins often make us feel a sort of pleasure and happiness in the moment, yet our guilt overshadows those thoughts afterwards. It is the thought of doing something outrageous that excites us, not the action of doing it. In spite of this, one cannot expect a person to be fully virtuous for that is not how nature molded us. Achieving happiness from a corrupted act becomes a problem, once it is done constantly, but I see no wrongdoing in gaining some contentment once in awhile from our vices. Consequently, I believe there is no way to solve the problem completely, only ways to diminish it by reminding ourselves that guilt may haunt us sometimes.
Before diving into Johnathan Haidt’s, The Righteous Mind, I was curious about how he would explain the dividing factor that seems to split different religious and political groups. Even after just reading the first part in this book, I gained a new perspective on how we make decisions and knowledge on some of the factors that can play an influential role in the decision-making process that might set us apart from others. Specifically, this reading has made me rethink my definition of moral reasoning, led me to understand how we may have no initial justification to our thoughts and actions, and how we may benefit from understanding moral reasoning.
In the Crucible, the main idea Arthur Miller is trying to get across is the thought if one should die for what they believe in or live without morals. Certain characters in the short story face the reality of death. These characters conclude that, dying for what you believe in, is better than living without morals.
Would you choose to do what you know to be right, even if the consequences might kill you? The dissension between moral law and state law is one that mankind has argued since the beginning of time. There are many individuals who stand by their personal moral law opposed to the laws given though the government. The argument that “who is to determine right from wrong” becomes the basis of moral law, the idea that one makes a decision based on their inner conscious despite the possible repercussions. The conflict between moral and state law is one of the main duels in Antigone, the Greek tragedy written by Sophocles. The core of this tragedy is the battle held between ones moral duty and their duty to their state. The battle between the two laws
A central theme of the play is the reversal of moral order. Morals are a person's standards of behavior or beliefs concerning what is and is not acceptable for them to do and unfortunately, Macbeth faces an utter reversal of morals for the worse. You see this continuously throughout the play, so much so that by the end of the play Macbeth seems to have lost touch his humanity. As Macbeth loses touch with his morals he becomes continuously more evil. If Macbeth had never gone through a reversal of morals he would have never murdered Duncan, which means that he would have never murdered the guards or Banquo. The reversal of morals within Macbeth are demonstrated various times. Inferences in which Macbeth displays this reversal would include when
In class over the winter week we watched a movie called V for Vendetta. James Mcteigue directed the film and published it in 2006. This movie comes from a graphic novel series written by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. This movie is in the genre of dystopia, as it aligns with many common traits of dystopian fiction. These characteristics that it contains are: State propaganda, Strict conformity, Advanced technology, Constant surveillance, a protagonist who questions society, a brutal unjust penal system, Origin in some disaster that cause dramatic changes to society, and A nation-state ruled by an upper class.
Set in the near future, James McTeigue’s V for Vendetta (2005) serves as an allegory of historical and contemporary political climates while glorifying violence and the idea of an armed revolution to fight fascism and injustice in a dystopian political environment. The film depicts an autocratic government that rules over an oppressed society through means such as mass media mediation and corrupt state-sanctioned police. V for Vendetta presents contentious messages as it highlights the negative effects of several past dystopian regimes such as Nazi Germany as well as current social unrest caused by events such as 9/11 while portraying a terrorist, V, as a freedom fighter who condones violence for both his personal vendetta and to overthrow