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.
How could 10 guards keep 50 prisoners under control? In the movie, “Cool Hand Luke”, guards used a variety of methods to control the prison inmates. They use three methods to discipline the inmate’s such as:“the box, leg-chains, and hard work.”
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
Still, Luke is a free spirit, true to himself, with no regard for the rules and regulations of other human beings. The crime he is arrested for is not one of violence toward any person, it is
Training camp was the first actuality of what war was going to be like for the men. They thought that it would be fun, and they could take pride in defending their country. Their teacher, Kantorek, told them that they should all enroll in the war. Because of this, almost all of the men in the class enrolled. It was in training camp that they met their cruel corporal, Himelstoss. The men are in shock because he is so rude to them; they never thought that war would be this harsh. Paul and two of his friends are ridiculed the most by him. They have to lie down in the mud and practice shooting and jumping up. Also, these three men must remake Himelstoss’ bed fourteen times, until it is perfect. Himelstoss puts the young men through so much horror that they yearn for their revenge. Himelstoss is humiliated when he goes to tell on Tjaden, and Tjaden only receives an easy punishme...
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
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.
...at he will be able to get through this, which shows the audience the fighter inside.
He is being forced to abide by the rules in prison and at first, does not get a warm welcome by his fellow prisoners because he refuses to abide by the captains order which is simply to get their minds right. He is soon challenged to a fight by one of his fellow inmates. Throughout the fight, it is clear that Luke is being brutally beaten. He can barely stand up on his feet but he refuses to give up. To me, this is a sign of resistance of power because he does not want to just face the fact that he lost this battle.
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
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
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.
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...
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