Ambiguous Morality High Noon portrays Kane as a moral hero who is willing to sacrifice his new family for his honor and duty. Additionally, the film paints the townspeople, including Ramirez and Herb, as selfish and morally corrupt due to their desire to remain alive instead of fighting alongside Kane. Although the audience sympathizes with Kane, they understand the townspeople and their motivations. While the film depicts the difference between Kane and the townspeople as stark moral contrast between right and wrong, the cinematography and costume design in combination with the iconography of the genre suggest that the morals of the characters in High Noon are ambiguous. In the scene when Herb announces to Kane that he will not fight against …show more content…
The film introduces Ramirez as immoral since she owns brothel and a saloon and Amy as an ethical Quaker because she has stayed true to her values. Additionally, during their meeting, Amy wears a bright, white wedding dress. This costume design suggests that Amy is morally pure. In contrast, Ramirez is clothed in a black dress thus displaying that Ramirez may have improper morals. However, the difference in their backgrounds during this scene suggests another interpretation. Ramirez stands in front of a light-colored background, illustrating how she may be moral. Conversely, the film pictures Amy with a dark background, either the door or a shadowy wall, supporting how she might be immoral for leaving her husband or, later, for betraying her ideals and shooting a man in the back. This contrast between their costumes and backgrounds supports that both Amy and Ramirez have ambiguous morals. Also, in their meeting, the shot reverse shot editing differs the camera angle for Ramirez and Amy. Although their eyelines are matched, the camera films Ramirez from a low angle and Amy from a high angle. Since the women discus whether Amy is right or wrong to leave Kane, this difference in angle supports that Ramirez is in morally superior to Amy.
This quote proves that the conflict in the film is that Will Kane sent Frank Miller, a dangerous outlaw, to prison up north for murder. Frank was pardoned, and he is coming back for revenge on Will Kane. An example of the conflict from the short story is, “‘But they are men,’ said Rainsford hotly. ‘Precisely,’ said the general. ‘That is why I use them (for my hunting game).
Trauma in Dawn and Men in the Sun. The theme of trauma is addressed differently b y the authors of Men In The Sun and Dawn , though there have a few similarities , Gahssan Kanafani in Men In The Sun gives the readers a detailed description of not only the social realities , but the political and human ones as well that characterize the basic lives of the Palestinian people during a critical point in their history when the structure of their existence, as well as the traditional order have been significantly altered by the regional as well as international events .The author describes trauma by showing the struggles and hardships that are undergone by Abu Qais , Marwan and Assa who are all in the quest for a better life . Similarly, in Dawn, Elsie describes the wait of two men for a murder that is scheduled to take place in Dawn.
One the most important philosophy concept topic from the movie High Noon was the notion of Duty or the notion of Utilitarianism. The movie wanted to discuss Will Kane sense of duty throughout the film and the townspeople sense of duty too. The beginning of the film he was getting married to Amy and able to retired from being a marshal to live a good life with his new wife. The evil character Frank wanted to kill Kane for putting him in jail. The townspeople do not want him to help out; because he is not a marshal anymore.
Since High Noon also has several themes, but they are vastly different, it is quite difficult to compare the two. Because the movie takes place in a lawless town, most of the messages include the topic of society, such as who has the right to kill in law and order and the responsibility to your community versus your own self-interest. "I say we 're not peace officers here! This ain 't our job..."(Foreman 114). This citation comes from when Kane is desperately asking the townspeople for deputies, and this citizen is making up all kinds of excuses because the people are too self-interested and want to preserve their own lives before anything else.
The theme “things are not always as they appear” plays a huge role in the story. The one symbol that expresses the theme is Faith. She is the main character’s (Goodman) wife. In the beginning of the story on page 386 Faith is trying to hold back Goodman. Faith knows
Adam’s Rib presents a very important issue not only applicable to its era but also in today’s society: gender equality. In the disguise of a comedy, this film has tactfully deal with the problem in some of the most innovative ways I have seen. This film, in my opinion, definitely fits the description of a feminist film. One of the most interesting scenes I have come across is the climatic scene and Amanda’s resolution to it in court. She points out how the verdict should have been completely different had Doris been a man trying to protect the family and Warren the evil straying woman.
Paloma Cerda Mrs. Koehler ENGL-1301-566 September 20, 2017 In A Rose for Emily written by William Faulkner, the story of Miss Emily is told through a very loose format. Through this narration, there is a long and drawn out suspense built up through little hints left by the reader without fully giving away the dark truth behind Emily and her house. Until the end of the story, the narrators ambiguity cleverly points the reader towards the climax of the story where Emily is discovered to be Homer Barron’s killer. This ambiguous element is important to the quality of this short story as it drives it forward and keeps the reader interested.
On one side, Andrea is then faced with a terrible choice, as her sister she should protect Amy. Yet, because Amy is no longer herself, Andrea feels it is her responsibility to make sure that she doesn’t harm anyone else. This situation has caused Andrea to experience role conflict. In the show, this difficult situation causes Andrea to choose to end Amy’s life. Teamwork, front stage, back stage, and role conflict can be seen throughout The Walking Dead series.
Márquez’s novella ‘Chronicle of a Death Foretold’ tells the story of Santiago Nasar’s murder. It is based on the real-life incident that occurred in the 1950s in a small Colombian town, Sucre. Cayetano Gentile was murdered by the brothers of Margarita Chica for having allegedly stolen her virginity. This was revealed when she was returned to her family after her newlywed husband had discovered that she wasn’t a Virgin. In his novella, Márquez displays the influence of the social mores and shows how these supersede the law of the statute books and the authority of Catholicism, which was otherwise so important and therefore how these social mores affect the characters and their actions.
In the novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, contradiction is used to emphasize concepts like gender and religion in the Vicario family. Angela and her mother, Pura, have an interesting relationship. Besides forcing her daughter to love a man she does not love, insisting that, “Love can be learned [...]” (Marquez 26), she also shames Angela for losing her virginity in the first place as if Santiago wasn’t the one who took it away from her. Because of this, Angela’s mother jumps at the chance for Angela to marry Bayardo in order to cover up the dishonor of Angela’s pre-marital affair.
(Connell 16). Rainsford and Kane both faced internal conflicts about how they are going to survive. They can either run away, die like cowards, or they can stay and try to survive against their problems. Kane does not deserve to be alone in his fight against the antagonist, Frank Miller, because he has helped his town so much, but no one shows gratitude by volunteering as a depute. In this film a character named Baker states “I don’t believe it!
The image of this milkmaid is an intricate symbol of her sexual availability1,2 (13) perceptible by several elements throughout the image. Milkmaid is an oil on canvas, Dutch painting done by Johannes Vermeer in 1657 and finished in 1658. It is a realism modeling painting of a woman, who is a milkmaid, standing around a still life image of a table of food in a kitchen pouring milk out of a pitcher into a bowl around the food. In this essay, I will explain my analysis and interpretation of this painting through describing elements and defining my own meaning from thoughts on research.
In the movie High Noon, Marshall Will Kane is faced with a moral dilemma just has he is about to leave town with his new wife. With his desires to leave town and move on with his wife, he is faced with a dilemma in which he feels that he has an obligation to stay and resolve this issue to make sure that the town is safe once and for all from the former killer, Frank Miller. As Marshal Will Kane has a decision to make, this essay will identify and explicate what his duties and obligations are as the Marshall of the town and whether he should leave town or have a show down with Frank Miller. As throughout the movie we saw that Kane was constantly struggling with finding former deputies to help him in his assist with taking down Frank Miller, but as a result no one wanted to stand up to this guy because they were all afraid of him and what he could do.
In the short story, “The Second Bakery Attack”, Haruki Murakami shows the plights of a young married couple struggling with a peculiar hunger that can only be solved through the illegal act of attacking a bakery. Although there is immense detail about the struggles of the couple and how their “curse” develops, key ideas such as their names, year they were married, and their backgrounds are left out of the narrative completely. Ambiguity in “The Second Bakery Attack” gives the reader a sense of the unknown and possibly supernatural themes to create the image of a curse. This along with the introduction of the curse itself is a reflection of statements Murakami was making about life. Murakami uses the curse and the unsettling vagueness to symbolize supernatural ideas and create the idea that the marriage of the couple is unsatisfactory.
As a Puritan man married to “Faith”, his choice to continue into the unknown leads him to contemplate and create new opinions of his religion. This scene also shows many instances of symbolism that refer to the devil and sinning. Goodman Brown encountering the old man is significant in his transformation because it displays his crucial decision that leads