When a coin is flipped they are two likely outcomes heads or tails. The results are based on luck and chance. “We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.”
(Ken Levine) whether or not we make the right choice, we have to deal with the consequences. In No Country for Old Men the three main characters are faced with various numbers of choices.
Moss makes the choice to take the money, which doesn’t belong to him, and put the life of his wife and his own at risk; Bell gives people a choice based on fate or luck ; and Chigurh has a choice to kill people or let them live. The way the dealt with the consequences are an absolute reflection, of the types of person they are. Each character had an option to do the right thing but they struggled in those choices which cause the ruination of all three men.
Lleweyln Moss was the first characters to make a choice, which greatly leads to this character failure. While hunting, Moss encounters a hoop of vehicles and dead bodies tossed down the ground from an enormous drug deal gone bad shoot out. Without any doubt, Moss makes the decision to find the drug money and keep it for him. Moss makes a selfish decision to not think , what would happened if those drug dealer came to look for their money;
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Ironically this selfless decision precedes the first selfish decision he made. Moss has put himself and his wife, Carla Jean, at great risk by going back to the crime scene. He knew that his decision was risky but he did it anyway. Moss unlike his first decision, decides to put someone else needs before his own which in return leads to his own quietus. Although this decisions was selfless he knew the risked of trying to help that man. Moss vindicated the consequence that went with his
The cruel and unnecessary death of Tim’s best friend, Jerry, had a major impact on his choice of neutrality. Losing anybody in your life can make a drastic impact on a person’s life but it was the way Jerry had died that really made Tim think about his choice. Jerry had been taken by the
it hard to choose an alternative. “When resolving moral dilemmas one is presented with two or
Llewelyn Moss is willing to steal a satchel filled with millions of dollars although he is aware of the consequences. During this novel Moss is the character that most people can relate can relate the most to. This is partly due to the fact that he is an ex military sniper and lives in south texas in a mobile home. Austin Cooper agrees with this statement saying,”Moss is shown to be the underdog. He is just a common guy trying to make off with the satchel of money and fighting for his life throughout. Moss’s determination and resourcefulness in front of such
Another link between these three characters is their family ties. They highly regard their elders, and consider the effects of the decisions they make on t...
... Redford shows that every character in the movie is highly depended upon their moral decisions to determine their outcome. Charles Van Doren was persuaded by the producers of the show to make decisions which when against his ethics and morals. Herb Stempal was also pressured by both producers, Enright and Freedman, to “take a dive” in the show, Twenty-One, and allow Van Doren to become the show’s new champion. He had to make a decision which conflicted with his ethics and morals. Richard Goodman also thought ethically when he made his own decisions. He wasn’t persuaded by the producers, like Van Doren and Herb Stempal. Robert Redford demonstrates that decisions of the main character in the movie were influenced by their ethical thinking. Some of these characters made decisions based on their ethics and morals and some didn’t, which lead to inevitable consequences.
The chosen sequence I will analyze is the Production/Editing of the film No Country for Old Men. This film which came out in 2007 was based on the novel written by Cormac MaCarthy of the same name. The movie was written/adapted, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen (a.k.a. the Coen brothers). The film is often referred to as a neo-western thriller due to its degree of genre mixing as it tells the story of an ordinary man whom by chance stumbles on a fortune that is not his, and the ensuing cat-and-mouse drama as the paths of three men are brought together into the desert landscape of 1980s Texas.
“Fate is nothing, but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence”, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Choices define people. What they choose to do and how they choose to act around people shows who they truly are. Every choice has its consequence. And every choice has a ripple effect that can either positively or negatively affect someone. While the choice is made, consequences are not usually thought through. A bad choice can cause a person to live in regret evermore. In the play The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare illustrates a great tale of choices. The choices that are made affect everyone and leaves no one unscathed. Choices leave a trail and can impact many people. One choice can determine the fate of many others. Lives are precious and fragile. Caution and thought must be put into action before caving into impulses. Bassanio, Portia, and Shylock are all prime examples of how choices can affect people’s surroundings significantly.
During the film No Country for Old Men, directed by Ethan and Joel Coen, the main antagonist can be seen categorized as deviant, and even other infamous descriptions throughout the film. The main Antagonist, Anton Chigurh, played by Jaiver Bardem, far exceeds what society would consider deviant. Anton will do anything and everything to track down the large satchel of evidently dirty money. Anton forces himself through a multitude of situations including, murdering multiple victims, casually breaking and entering, and even exploding a car by a pharmacy to steal medical supplies from a pharmacy. Anton basically has no rules or laws applied to him in regards to anyone’s safety, wellbeing, or really any sort of respect for anyone. Based only on
Humans enjoy choices. Whether the decision is putting on a coat in the morning or participating in an exhilarating activity like skydiving, every decision starts with the ability to make a choice. That ability to decide reflects a state of free will. Free will tells us we are essentially is in charge of our choices. Fate guides those who have no control over their choices. While the origin of fate and free will remain a mystery, these ideas can be traced back for centuries and found in our daily lives: in our code of ethics, politics, and religions. Kurt Vonnegut wrestles with the coexistence of fate and free will, ultimately arguing fate dominantes.
Choices are defined by decisions made between multiple possibilities. There are many factors that come into play during the process of making decisions which may affect the choice made. William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth demonstrates how emasculating comments and actions affect choices made by Macbeth and other men in the play. The motif of manhood in The Tragedy of Macbeth exhibits the idea of threats to a man’s masculinity can drastically affect their choices, as indicated as Lady Macbeth questions Macbeth’s manhood before killing Duncan, Macbeth’s threats to the manhood of the two murderers of Banquo, and Lady Macbeth questioning whether Macbeth is even a man while he hallucinates Banquo’s ghost.
Though the characters fulfilled their appalling destiny their fate was beyond their control. In the play it had been made clear that the characters
We live in a world where every action we make leads to unpredictable consequences. Some believe that destiny rules our world, and in the end nobody if free of it, nobody can stop events to happen, because the future is unpredictable. Some of you may believe that life ruled by karma or as simply as the butterfly effect in our lives.
choices brought them the fate and ending that they deserved. Even though the witches did tempt them but it was still their own fault for believing and falling for the witches’ tricks. This theme from William Shakespeare's MacBeth teaches that it is the choices that you make that leads you to where you are and you are responsible for your own fate .
t is intriguing that when a person is presented with the ideas of free will or determinism, they usually jump rather quickly to the conclusion of free will. Most people appreciate the genuine freedom that accompanies choice, but do we really possess it? Complete free will would mean that our decisions would be unrelated to other factors such as the environment or genetics. In reality, our free decisions are based on factors that are beyond our own control. When exercising certain choices, we conclude that we have acted freely and distinguish our actions from situations in which we believe were not in our control. The events that are not in our control are pre-determined for us, which lead us on a path to a determined life. Even though we may be making our own unique decisions, they all connect to form a single planned outcome.