Mahatmas Ghandi, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the South Africans all have used disobedience in order to change an unjust norm or law(s). The most common form of disobedience which have been used in history is to simply not obey the officials of higher authority and protest in order to get the point across. These protests have been successful because of the mass numbers of supporters but also because they set out to change an unjust rule or norms. In the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke featuring Paul Newman, Lucas (Luke) has been sent to jail for "beheading" parking meters while intoxicated. During his time in jail, he disobeys both the de facto inmate leader and the wardens simply because he did not like to conform to their rules. Luke's, unlike the aforementioned disobedience leaders, lack of just cause for disobeying authority ultimately leads to his unhappiness and demise. The movie introduces a WWII veteran, Luke, who gets sent to jail and immediately dislikes the culture and norm. Luke witnesses the inmates take orders from both the de factor leader Dragline, as well as for the warden for nearly every task from working to eating. During their day labor, he also notices that the inmates work in unison; they work in a slow, steady pace where no one does better than the other. This dislike for uniformity creates a uncomfortable atmosphere for Luke, so he decides to start challenging authority. This is manifested when Luke enters a boxing match with Dragline. The boxing match ensues and Luke is determined to defeat Dragline, but his endeavor is futile as he fails to beat Dragline. This boxing match, though he fails to beat Dragline, demonstrates Luke's ability and eagerness to disobey authority. Instead of personally dis... ... middle of paper ... ...hat everything is just are laws, but laws are made to keep order; jails are there to rehabilitate and Luke should have accepted that rule for his own good. Luke's disobedience, with the lack of a just cause, ultimately led to his demise when he realized that fact at the end. His desire to disobey authority for no particular reason and construction of an image initially created tension among his inmates. Gradually, inmates started to idolize him, which the wardens saw it as a threat. His multiple escape fails to cement a clear reason for his disobedience; it was not until his recapture that he starts to lose his moral. He realizes this at the very end, however it has been too late. Cool Hand Luke demonstrates to us that disobeying authority requires a moral, just cause so that one can accomplish a more fair society and be one step close of attaining happiness.
...at he will be able to get through this, which shows the audience the fighter inside.
Another example of Luke’s non-conformity is when he is invited to join in on the prisoner’s card game and is asked whether he is “in or out” and Luke replies that he is “out” (Rosenberg 1967). The game is ritualistic and reinforces the power dynamics, attitudes, and beliefs within the prisoner 's social group. Through Luke’s rejection of the game, he also rejects membership to the group. Later on, when he starts joining in on the card games he is also conceding to their norms. This eventually wins him a nickname, “Cool Hand Luke”, as a symbol of his conformity to their rituals and his role in the
Anyone who has ever seen the 1967 classic movie, Cool Hand Luke, can agree that the main theme of the movie would be about nonconformity. The movie takes place in a southern prison, where the prisoners must participate in the intense labor of a chain gang and work everyday in the sweltering heat while serving their time. The inmates must follow the strict rules that are set, or they are punished in an almost cruel and unusual fashion. The outcast, war hero and true nonconformist is the main character, Lucas Jackson. After vandalizing parking meters, Jackson must spend two years in the penitentiary. While serving his short amount of time in the prison, the audience discovers that Mr. Jackson will do almost anything and everything in his power
More specifically, the movie A Few Good Men depicts the results of blindly obeying orders. Stanley Milgram, a Yale psychologist, also explores obedience to authority in his essay “ The Perils of Obedience”. On the other hand, Erich Fromm, a psychoanalyst and philosopher, focused on disobedience to authority in his essay “ Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem.” Milgram wrote about how people were shockingly obedient to authority when they thought they were harming someone else while Fromm dissected both: why people are so prone to obey and how disobedience from authoritative figures can bring beneficial changes for society. Obeying commands, even when they go against our morals, is human nature; Disobeying commands, however, is challenging to do no matter what the situation is.
The film follows the complicated character of Marcello, a homosexual man with a traumatic homosexual experience in his childhood, which results in him becoming ashamed of his sexuality and begins to fear being shunned by society for it. Marcello deals with this shame by shutting down any homosexual desire he may have and becomes his idealized figure of normal; which at this time was a loyal and disciplined Fascist. Marcello learns how to conform perfectly by becoming a Fascist spy, but two significant people in Marcello’s life disrupt his path to becoming
There comes a time in every young man or women’s life where he begins to start building up and finding identity. Adolescence includes finding one’s identity because the youth really do not have much of a clue who they want to become as an adult. This is reflected in Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey in the first step of The Ordinary World. The Ordinary World is where the story begins in The Hero’s Journey; it is where the hero lives their everyday life. In this world the hero is trying to figure out who they are and what they want to become. George Lucas’s first film in the Star Wars Trilogy is A New Hope. In this film the protagonist, Luke Skywalker, is introduced...
Despite the belief that fighting with violence is effective, civil disobedience has been tried throughout history and been successful. Fighting violence with violence leaves no oppertunity for peace to work. By refusing to fight back violently, Martin Luther King Jr. took a race of people, taught them the value of their voice, and they earned the right to vote. Henry David Thoreau presented his doctrine that no man should cooperate with laws that are unjust, but, he must be willing to accept the punishment society sets for breaking those laws, and hundreds of years later, people are still inspired by his words. Mohandas K. Gandhi lead an entire country to its freedom, using only his morals and faith to guide him, as well as those who followed him, proving that one man can make a difference. Civil disobedience is the single tool that any person can use to fight for what they want, and they will be heard. After centuries of questioning it, it appears that the pen truly is mightier than the sword.
The film Dawg Fight can be viewed through the lens of general strain theory. Robert Agnew’s theory focuses on delinquency as the result of the various negative pressures put on a person. The theory identifies three distinct types of strain: negative-based, failure-based, and loss-based. The fighters in the film each demonstrate failure-based strain. Most of the fighters have criminal records and have served time. When they come out of the prison system they find that though the system claims to have rehabilitated them, potential employers view them as criminals and they are left without any prospects of a career. Their failure to get a job means they are unable to support themselves or their families, which leads them to get involved in backyard
Fight Club is a story about the never-ending struggles between classes. The Project Mayhem is formed in an attempt to overthrow the upper class who undermines the lower class. There are a number of scenes in the story, which highlights the struggle between classes. For instance, when Tyler pees in the soup of an upper class person, when he splices pornography into films and the scene when a mechanic takes the unnamed narrator to steal body fat. The characters here do all they can to fight against the upper class people and to get revenge.
The more you fight in the fight club the tougher and stronger you become. Getting into a fight tests who you are. No one helps you so you are forced to see your weaknesses. The film celebrates self-destruction and the idea that being on the edge allows you to be beaten becuase nothing really matters in your life.
Luke is then awoken 500 years later in the year 2505, to a world full of idiots. Luke is then forced to take an IQ test where he is discovered to be the most intelligent man alive, and is looked upon to bring civilization back to its glory. In this future, people have become so obsessed with the media, brands, and other insignificant things that the real issues are forgotten and never resolved. This resulted in a society where people live their lives solely on what the corporate media tells
At first, the boys are taken to a room where a nude woman is dancing. When the boys turn their heads away, they are yelled at for not looking. The tone of the rebuke implies that the blacks were not entitled to most of the ‘good’ things being white could bring them and that they weren’t really good enough for them. The boys then compete in the Battle Royal. This classic example of symbolism shows the fight African Americans have been putting up against an unfair system over time and how it was necessary to persevere and have courage even when hope diminished. The boys fiercely beat one another. This may perhaps also represent in some small part the extent to which a united community’s harmony may be disrupted and damaged...
Boxer is uneducated and unable to figure things out on his own. He is widely respected for his strength and character, rather than his knowledge.
So powerful is the compulsion of the law, that even if a man slays one who is his own chattel [i.e., his slave] and who has none to avenge him, his fear of the ordinances of god and of man causes him to purify himself and withhold himself from those places prescribed by law, in the hope that by so doing he will best avoid disaster.
Obedience has always been in society. It is how we live our everyday lives. It is how we drive on roads everyday. It is how people are to walk on sidewalks rather than the streets themselves. How people accept certain authority and how they take it seriously determines if people would obey law/rules, and that means to what extent they would do so. Luke seemed as a regular man. He was drunk at the time of when he cut of the heads off of parking meters. And so he was then directed to pay the consequence of what he did in that moment, which was getting arrested for his wrong doings. Luke was then sentenced to prison in Florida. Upon arrival, Luke made the prison seem awfully unappealing. He made the prison seem like somewhere he did not want to