The film Sophie Scholl reflects the repetition of the concept of the “hero from across the sea”. One of Northrop Frye's lessons on the biblical stories, he explores in detail what “the hero from across the sea” means. This theory consists of a wasteland that is ruled by the impotent old king, whose land is being destroyed by a sea monster whose only goal is to demand human sacrifice. In this story, the king's daughter “the princess tied to a rock” is chosen as a sacrifice to the sea monster, but luckily a “hero from across the sea” comes to her rescue, returning the “fertility” of the land. In the movie Sophie Scholl, this idea shows various of times throughout the film. There are three broad examples that represent this concept through …show more content…
When he offers her coffee is as if he’s also offering a way out of her eventual death, he tries to get her to confess against her brother and her beliefs so her conviction lessens. He shows mercy to her due to the methods that she used to convey her message across, she didn’t put a bomb anywhere or shot someone, she instead wrote pages and pages of well-written opinion leaflets, or how the detective describes the “peaceful means” (Sophie Scholl, 1:02:49). Due to her peaceful approach, he offers to aid her in exchange for her cooperation, but to do this she’s asked to abandon all of what she stands for to simply save her own skin. Naturally, she refuses to work with them and stands firmly in terms of her view of the war that Hitler and the nazis prologue. The detective, after she refuses his help becomes infuriated once again and dashes towards the window, yelling “God doesn't exist!” (Sophie Scholl, 1:08:59). After hearing this, Sophie pushes the cup of coffee the detective had given her, the cup of coffee that symbolizes his proposal to help her, away from herself. By doing this she expresses both her distaste towards him, resulting god as well as the fact her honestly, values and ‘consciousness’ can’t be bought or bribed. Nevertheless, he doesn't give up on the ‘princess’ and tries to make her understand that even if being tied to a rock is due to the …show more content…
First of all, once she already confesses to contribute to the making of the leaflets she never mentions any names, even is it can reduce her sentence - protecting her own skin isn't what’s important to her, but to change people’s minds for the best is. The detective pressures her multiple time to drop names of member of the white rose, due to all the “we” that are in the leaflets, but to this she replies that she and her brother alone were the ones to write the immense amount of leaflets, and that they are “the culprits he wants” (Sophie Scholl, 57:07). Also, when he fists mention the white rose she deny sit being a numerous group, or a group at all, she states “there is no group” (Sophie Scholl,
... middle of paper ... ... She needs to put him in his place, as she does not want to feel disrespected by Tea Cake. She threatens him, saying if he leaves her again without her permission she will “kill you” (124).
The tone does so as well. She goes from noticing small things such as "alabaster satin jackets" (16) to having the notion that she has to "defend them against the broken windows" (59) referring to the acts of violence committed by Nazis while destroying Jewish
She doesn't want to be the reason that her friends are tortured, so she can't name them. She has to let them torture her and she has to endue the unbelievable pain. When she can not imagine going on her faith saves her. Without thinking the words of "Hail Mary" come to her mind.
Brother and Sister Hans and Sophie Scholl are forever recognized for their gallantry, witnessed by their community, recorded in official court documents, and reestablished in a dramatic film directed by Macr Rothemund and written by Fred Breinersdorfer (IMDb). In their film, Sophie Scholl: The Final Days, the audience is introduced to “The White Rose”; a Nazi resistance group constructed in 1992 by a group of young Germans. Out of respect for human life, this group used powerful altercation reflected in the distribution of 6 leaflets (An Honorable Defeat). The film concentrates on The Scholl’s siblings final attempt to distribute copies of these leaflets, their arrest, and interrogation leading up to their execution.
I overheard from the guards saying how she incriminated herself during the trial when she answered every question honestly. She admitted to not releasing the prisoners, and allowing the flames to devour the church and the innocent people in it. She also admitted to writing a report that proved that she and her fellow guards didn’t release the prisoners. I couldn’t have imagined that such diligent woman was a cruel Schutzstaffel guard, and yet, I see these books on her shelf like nails condemning her to death. Through these books, I saw that she was trying to atone for crimes. But for someone who is already in prison, to read and acknowledge such horrific accounts of her own doings is just
The paradisiacal kingdom under the sea is symbolic of childhood. At the onset of the story, the sea kingdom is described: “where the waters are as blue as the petals of the cornflower and as clear as glass, there, where no anchor can reach the bottom,” and where “[one] would have to pile many church towers on top of each other” in order to reach the surface (Andersen 217). The sea describes the deep consciousness of the Little Mermaid as a young child, which is characterized by emotion, beauty, imagination, purity and innocence - representative successively of the water, flowers, the imaginative sim...
At the outset, an insightful reader needs to draft the general boundaries of allegory and symbolism in the story. To put it most simple, the problem of distinguishing between good and evil undergoes a discussion. It is not difficult to notice that the Grandmother stands for good and the Misfit for evil. But such a division would be a sweeping and superficial generalisation, for both the characters epitomize good and evil traits. Moral evaluation is a very complex process and it is not the human who is to decide on that. There are rather various degrees of goodness and evil, both interwoven, also in their religiousness. Th...
She requests that Arden’s body be brought to her and, upon seeing him, she speaks to Arden and confesses to the murder, and expresses her guilt, wishing he were still alive, by saying “...And would my death save thine thou shouldst not die” (“Arden” 8). Though she previously conveyed how free she felt, the combination of the hand-towel and knife used to kill Arden, his innocent blood stains on the floor, and his distorted, unmoving body triggers Alice to feel an overwhelming and unbearable sense of guilt. Once this guilt comes upon her, she cannot stop herself from begging her dead husband for forgiveness, though he cannot offer it to her now. The guilt of her actions causes her to expose the people who helped her enact this heinous crime. Because Alice reveals the truth behind Arden’s murder, every character pays a penance for their
...aining tranquil and peaceful. In her own words, she explains, ‘God knows how entirely I am innocent. But I do not pretend that my protestations should acquit me; I rest my innocence on a plain and simple explanation of the facts…’ (women submissive sex).” Not only do her speech and actions demonstrate passivity, but the simple act of being framed proves her to be a submissive victim of a male dominated society.
In Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder teaches philosophy and it explains basic philosophical ideas better than any other reading book or textbook that I have ever read. The many philosophical lessons of the diversified thinkers of their own time were dexterously understood. The author has a wonderful knack for finding the heart of a concept and placing it on display. For example, he metamorphoses Democritus' atoms into Lego bricks and in a stroke makes the classical conception of the atom dexterously attainable. He relates all the abstract concepts about the world and what is real with straightforward everyday things that everyone can relate to which makes this whole philosophy course manageable. ''The best way of approaching philosophy is to ask a few philosophical questions: How was the world created? Is there any will or meaning behind what happens? Is there a life after death? How can we answer these questions? And most important, how ought we to live?'' (Gaarder, Jostein 15).
Sophie was a Polish women and a survivor of Auschwitz, a concentration camp established in Germany during the Holocaust in the early 1940s. In the novel we learn about her through her telling of her experiences, for instance, the murder of her husband and her father. We also come to learn of the dreadful decision she was faced with upon entering the concentration camp, where she was instructed to choose which one of her two children would be allowed to live. She chose her son. Later we learn of her short lived experience as a stenographer for a man by the name of Rudolph Hoss, the Commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. During her time there, Sophie attempted to seduce Hoss in an attempt to have her son transferred to the Lebensborn program so that he may have been raised as a German child. Sophie's attempt was unsuccessful and she was returned back to t...
In Sophie's sex phobia therapy group, Sophie is able to realize she is not the only person in the world with problems. Together, with the strength of the other woman and her own, Sophie is able to voice with conviction that she is a "beautiful woman with [a] strong body" (202). The group gives Sophie the self confidence she needs to feel good about herself and the strength to bravely admit who her abuser is. Each member of the group "wrote the names of [their] abusers in a pieces on a paper, raised it over a candle, and watched as the flames consumed it" (203). As Sophie got stronger, she no longer felt guilty about burning her mother's name. Through this procedure, Sophie is on...
...lost and is a mythical heaven. This woman is described as Abyssinian. Abyssinian literally refers to the inhabitants of a place in Northern Africa, but use of word “Abyssinian” also implies the word “abyss”. The speaker must revive the heavenly song, sung by the maid, inside himself to “build that dome in the air.” Just as the sacred river from the abyss makes possible of the creation of Kubla, the heavenly song of the Abyssinian makes possible the creation of the speaker’s “pleasure dome”. The speaker then speculates on reaction of people over his creation. He states that “all should cry, Beware, Beware!/ His flashing eyes his floating hair/Weave a Circle round him thrice/ And close your eyes with holy dread,”. The reaction of awe and terror that people have to the speaker’s heavenly vision demonstrates the power that the speaker feels is contained in that vision.
“The Fisherman and His Wife” is a tale that teaches us about moderation, greed, and that the magnitude of material objects one accumulates does not measure happiness. In this tale, the wife is never satisfied and constantly wants more. The Brothers Grimm identified “Fisherman and His Wife” as an ideal fairy tale because it utilizes magic along with juxtaposing character development as well as religious and progressively more violent symbolism in order to convey a battle between the sexes.
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