The movie Awakening is a film about catatonic patients who get a chance to claim their lives again. Several people experience awakenings in their lives during this movie, including, doctors, patients, and sometimes the audience. Some realise the patients they treat are people, others, they're not living their life to its fullest, and lastly, some experience a literal awakening. In this film an important life lesson is learned for everyone. This life lesson is learned in many different ways for many different people. The film Awakenings main character is Dr.Sayer, played by Robin Williams. He experiences an awakening near the end of the movie because of the catatonic patients he cares for throughout the movie. Dr.Sayer slowly learns that he is very good with people …show more content…
Sayer and the way he works with his patients. In the beginning, you observe two nurses who clearly hate their job and treat patients poorly. Nurse Castillo acts just about the same other than her doing her job correctly. When Dr. Sayer begins making progress with the catatonic patients, you see their attitudes for work become increasingly better and patient treatment become better. Because of the progress with the catatonic patients, the nurses learn they are real people who deserve to be treated with respect and cared for properly. The most important characters in the movie are the catatonic patients, who experience a literal awakening. The catatonic patients of the hospital in The Bronx were given L-Dopa dosages which had “woken” them up from their catatonic state. When woken up, the hospital becomes more lively and the patients are finally able to be themselves. Although the patients eventually go back to their state that they were in before, they were able to be themselves for a short period before they died. The experiences you see the patients have causes an awakening in the audience
The Awakening is a novel about the growth of a woman becoming her own person; in spite of the expectations society has for her. The book follows Edna Pontellier as she struggles to find her identity. Edna knows that she cannot be happy filling the role that society has created for her. She did not believe that she could break from this pattern because of the pressures of society. As a result she ends up taking her own life. However, readers should not sympathize with her for taking her own life.
Kate Chopin’s The Awakening takes place in the late 19th century, in Grande Isle off the coast of Louisiana. The author writes about the main character, Edna Pontellier, to express her empowering quality of life. Edna is a working housewife,and yearns for social freedom. On a quest of self discovery, Edna meets Madame Ratignolle and Mademoiselle Reisz, falls in and out of love,and eventually ends up taking her own life. Kate Chopin’s The Awakening shows how the main character Edna Pontellier has been trapped for so many years and has no freedom, yet Edna finally “awakens” after so long to her own power and her ability to be free.
“Do you have the slightest idea what a moral or ethical principle is?” Deontology, or the adherence of one’s actions to a certain moral or ethical principle of operation, stands as an intruiging philosophy by itself. The opening sentence of this essay clearly possesses relevance to deontology. However, the quote does not originate from any philosopher, but instead from Jack Torrance of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. The film, from a superficial point of view, stands as an atmospheric horror film. However, instead of providing audiences with just a technically proficient film, Kubrick weaves the grounds for a foreboding subtext throughout his film. This essay examines The Shining by examining Robert Tonkin’s distinction between religion and
In the novel “The Awakening” it follows the final months of the story 's protagonist Edna Pontellier. By the end of the story Edna ends her own life after what I believe was a failed attempt on her trying to ‘break’ her cultural boundaries. This is all before she goes on an adventure one summer in pursuit of breaking the chains society had put on her. Something that the reader can follow her on and understand why she did what she did that summer. This novel in my eyes was portraying what cultural boundaries can do to people and how far you can push them before you begin to feel the pressure on you . In my eyes it is also the story of the oppressed, people who could not say anything about how they felt, in this case that is Edna a married woman
Sayer continues with his interesting experiments with the patients and comes to the realizations that the patients can be reach through hearing familiar music, experience human touch, etc. Sayer also learns that one of the patients, Leonard Lowe, is a able to communicate through the use of a ouija board. At one point in the movie, Dr. Sayer attends a conference which discusses a drug by the name of L-Dopa and its impact of patients with Parkinson’s Disease. Through this conference, Sayer crafts a hypothesis in which he believes the drug can be utilize to aid of the “frozen” patients. After getting permission from the hospital and Leonard Lowe’s mother, Leonard becomes the first patient to undergo the drug treatment. After Leonard experiences an awakening, Dr. Sayer is motivated to get funding in order to start the drug therapy of the other patients. Soon enough, the rest of the “frozen” patients experience awakenings themselves as well. The patient begin to adjust to their lives and Leonard get involved with another patient daughter name Paula. Soon Leonard, meets with the board of the hospital as he hates being unable to have the freedom to travel anywhere
...wakening, despite her tragic death, the protagonist Edna Pontellier experiences an awakening, revival, and transformation through her fatal swim thus freeing herself from a life of entrapment and oppression.
Choosing from the list of movies to watch for this assignment, I was intrigued most by Awakenings. First, the actors in this film are two of my favorite of all time. Robin Williams and Robert De Niro are the perfect pair of neurologist and patient. Dr. Sayer is not your typical doctor. His entire career is based upon experiments, studies, and little experience with hands on medical attention, especially with patients as complex as those in the medical ward he is about to embark upon.
For this assignment, the movie “The Help” was chosen to review and analyze because it presents a story of fighting injustice through diverse ways. The three main characters of the movie are Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan, a young white woman, Aibileen Clark, and Minny Jackson, two colored maids. Throughout the story, we follow these three women as they are brought together to record colored maids’ stories about their experiences working for the white families of Jackson. The movie explores the social inequalities such as racism and segregation between African Americans and whites during the 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi.
In short, The Awakening is the tragic story of a woman who in a summer of her twenty-eighth year, found herself and struggled to do what she wanted to do; be happy. Although ?from wanting to, she did, with disastrous consequences?(Recent Novels 96). For those who wanted it to be a truly, and ironically, life achieving instead of life ending end, it was. But those who disagreed with Chopin?s choice ending found themselves losing
The short novel, The Awakening, begins at a crisis in Edna Pontellier's life. Edna is a free-spirited and passionate woman who has a hard time finding means of communications and a real role as a wife and a mother. Edna finds herself desperately wanting her own emotional and sexual identities. During one summer while her husband, Leonce, is out of town on business, her frustration and need for emotional freedom leads to an affair with a younger man. Her search for identity and love leads her on a wild ride against society and tests her strengths to the end.
A theme in which plays an important part in the novel, The Awakening, is that choices have inevitable consequences. This is connected with Realism because a big belief in Realism is; ethical choices are often the subject, character is more important than action and plot. In multiple cases in this novel, the reader sees the type of choices the characters make and the effects and outcomes that follow after them. Also in some ways, people change their personality and their change in character adds a part in their future. Leonce choice of how he views Edna and he treats her have an effect on him and consequences on and her. Edna is a big part of this novel being the main protagonist and all of her ethical choices that have an enormous consequence on her. Some of these choices are, wanting to be with Robert, to follow the path of Mademoiselle Reisz and becoming an artist, and ultimately deciding to take her life.
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, tells one woman’s story of her attempt to awaken to her true wants and desires for her life. When Edna Pontellier spends the summer on Grand Isle, she begins to think beyond the role of wife and mother that she has played so far. She begins to think of herself as a separate person with independent thoughts and feelings. Her transformation is difficult and she has great trouble deciding what she really wants in life. Edna attempts to discard all of the traditional values of her life to find her independence. Confused by the new feelings these experiences bring, Edna’s awakening is a failure because she does not have the necessary skills to become independent. Despite her attempts to change and embrace a new life, Edna is defeated because of her weaknesses that are symbolized in her art, the water, and her relationships with men.
The Awakening opens in the late 1800s in Grand Isle, a summer holiday resort popular with the wealthy inhabitants of nearby New Orleans. Edna Pontellier is vacationing with her husband, Léonce, and their two sons at the cottages of Madame Lebrun, which house affluent Creoles from the French Quarter. Léonce is kind and loving but preoccupied with his work. His frequent business-related absences mar his domestic life with Edna. Consequently, Edna spends most of her time with her friend Adèle Ratignolle, a married Creole who epitomizes womanly elegance and charm.
1980. Warner Bros. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Music by Wendy Carlos and Rcachel Elkind. Cinematography by John Alcott. Editing by Ray Lovejoy. With Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd.
Dedication. Dr. Sayer did not stop his research about the cure of the diseases and poured his heart in everything he does. If dedication would be on top of everything, the goals set would be easier to achieve. Through the story, we are also taught not to lose hope. It is to hold on to what we believe, even if others do not understand us. It is showing a combination of passion and role fidelity. It gives us the courage to believe in what we can do, and to believe that maybe someday we can make a change not just in our lives but also in others. The film depicted the value of believing, helping and hoping.