Individuals efforts to create a lasting legacy with significance Individuals often want to create a legacy that they can be remembered for. The desire to leave a mark helps us come to terms with death. However, as we tend to create a lasting legacy, it is easy to lose sight of our morals when driven by materialistic desires. In the hope of having a lasting contribution, the allure of wealth and greed can stray individuals away from a meaningful life. The film “There Will Be Blood,” a commentary on the nature of capitalism and religion, serves as a cautionary tale of the consequences of being entangled in moral ambiguity and leaving a meaningful footprint. It does so through the protagonist, Daniel Plainview’s journey of creating an oil empire. …show more content…
Driven by his ambition, drilling occupies his sole attention. It is apparent that Daniel is an opportunist and exploits people to get further in his career as he tells the families whose lots he’s infringing upon to “settle for less”. While the families unleash their wrath at each other about how their lots should be divided, Daniel sneaks away with his son. His early leave is indicative of how his interest relies on himself. Willing to exploit others and their resources to get ahead, he pays no attention to how he’s building his own legacy from taking bits of others’. As he explores further prospects, he continues to lie about his wife that “died at childbirth. It's just me and my boy.” Willing to lie about a son who is not his own and his unknown mother to assert himself as a family man just to gain sympathy from prospects reveals his manipulative self. It is further shown during his interaction with the Sunday family, an opportunity presented by a young man promising an oil deposit near their ranch. After exploring their land and finding an abundance of oil, Daniel claims to be interested in buying their ranch to “hunt for quail” hoping to buy it for a far lower price. Abel, the ranch owner, a frail, worn man, who he decided to take advantage of reveals Daniel as a dishonest man, whose greed and ambition outweigh his morals by far in his pursuit of creating an empire. In hopes of leaving a legacy of significance, Daniel’s unchecked greed not only strips him of his morals, but also the prospects of their
Differences present between immigrant and non-immigrant families in terms of opportunity, social inclusion and cultural acceptance is a prominent issue in the world today. In the novel, Brother, David Chariandy shows how these inconsistencies affect the opportunities present for second-generation migrants. Francis, Michael and Aisha are all children of migrants residing in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough or “Scar-Bro” as Michael refers to it (Chariandy). This suburb is home to immigrants of colour struggling to raise families on minimum wage jobs and the institutional racism present. This essay will first examine how the opportunity of second generation migrants is affected due to the preconceived idea of what opportunity is from the first
Caleb, the father, constantly manipulates to his own advantage. One may think Caleb was a superficial character who speaks softly in a cruel manner. Throughout the book if he feels one of his children have disrespected him he will quietly tell his wife. This sets up manipulation as the children have learnt early on if the do not behave their mother will fall more of a victim to their father. Any decision that is made comes from him. He keeps his children close to the homestead in fear of them running off and he needs them to keep the farm running. His thought would be he would rather have free labour from his children then have to pay for farm hands. He
When thrown into a foreign country where everything new is particularly strange and revolting, the Price family would be expected to become closer; however, the exile from their homeland only serves to drive the family farther apart. In Leah’s case, as a impressionable child in need of guidance in a dramatically foreign country, she remains loyal to her father, idolizing his close-minded ways. This blind devotion unknowingly
Throughout Saunders’ stories: “ Pastoralia”, "Brad Carrigan, American”, “Jon”, and "In Persuasion Nation"; are themes of violence, dependence, and fate. With these themes Saunders is relaying how money and power are reflected in everyone unconscious mindset: from the higher ups to the “people at the bottom of the heap”. Saunders points out that with that type of mindset is how America is declining not just economically, but as people of morals. We may be trying to “keep positive/think positive” but maybe money is the reason why we’re sinking so low into idleness, impatience, selfishness, and whatnot (Saunders).
Due to the hidden charges for the house, he finds that he is dreadfully wrong. Eventually, all of the family members must seek work, just to survive. Life becomes a hand-to-mouth proposition. Even after the family loses the house, things do not get any easier.... ...
Danforth and Hale are involved in an argument over the Salem witch trials now that the court is now in session. Danforth gets angered and fiercely tries to imply (without proof) that the “fear” in the county is being caused by the witches and nothing more. According to Danforth, the goal of the witches is to overthrow the belief of Christ in Salem. Danforth’s use of words was a combination of all rhetorical devices. Logos was used to structure his argument, the vivid language led to the use of pathos, and lastly ethos was associated with his authority and confidence in yelling out the true “problem” in Salem. Danforth clearly states that he thinks the daughter was the “villain” and in his mind he is the hero for realizing that the use of witchcraft
To Thoreau, life’s progress has halted. It seems people have confused progression with captivity driven by materialism. To Krakaeur, people are indifferent to pursing the sublime in nature. To Christopher McCandles the world around him is forgetting the purpose of life. People are blind to nature. In the eyes of these men the world is victim to commercial imprisonment. People live to achieve statuses that only exist because man made them. Fame, money, and monotonous relationships do not exist in nature; they are the pursuits of soulless fundamentalism. The truth is that people pursue meaningless goals, and people don’t want to hear or know how they are foolish. When exposed, reality is so unsettling that it seems wrong. Yet, to be free of the falseness in life is in essence the point of singularity that people realize if there is no truth in love then it is false, if there is no truth in money then it is worthless, if there is no truth in fame then it is undeserving. Without truth everything is a worthless pursuit of a meaningless glass ceiling.
When he notices the extravagant living style of Van Tassel’s family, his “mouth water[s]”(5) and “he picture[s] to himself every roasting pig running about with an apple in his mouth.” His desires grew to marry Katrina because the person who marries her will “inherit these domains.” and thought “with the idea how they [may] readily [turn] into cash” and buy “shingle palaces in the wilderness.” The greed for money drove Ichabod, a skinny guy against Brom Bones “the hero of the country”(6).
If I got lost in a desolate desert , I would survive because I value things that are essential and beneficial for survival. King Tut would have died if he got lost because he values items like gold and jewelry, whereas I bring the essentials. This is a good habit because money does not bring happiness into anyone’s life. It is the moments that they spend with their family that bring true happiness into their life. When people value material possessions greater than their own or their family's survival won’t live a happy life. This essay will include “The Necklace”, “Civil Peace”, and “The Thrill of the Chase”.
But this nuclear patriarchal family creates many of the problems it should be solving. & nbsp ; What represses the Dead is the father, Macon: his single-minded ambition, his unscrupulous greed, his materialism, and his lack of nurturing his family. Macon does not concentrate on being a loving and nurturing father; instead he concentrates on another aspect of paternity, the acquisition of property. Macon aspires to own property and other people too.
Organizations have been leading the world for a recorded 5000 years. 1984 and Fight Club predict that mankind will fall as figurative slaves to large organizations. Both share an identical theme: figurative slavery to organizational bodies. The novel and film mirror the mechanics of figurative slavery in the modern world through various forms of propaganda shown within the plot, the characters’ ideologies revealed in their methods of escapism, and their display of rebellion.
He was labeled a terrible graphic designer in the nineties. His agonized typography drove a clique of critics to indict him of not being serious and of destroying the origins and foundation of communication design. Now, the work and techniques of David Carson dominates design, advertising, the Web, and even motion pictures.
Despite knowing that this violence will only continue, her precariousness makes her feel unable to leave Daniel. Moreover, she doesn't want her kids to grow up without a father. After Leymah gives birth and her parents arrive, she expects them to invite her home- as that is the African custom- but when they don't, Daniel is quick to use this against
The last four films we watched showed how twentieth century film directors depicted various organizations, ranging from criminal organizations that operated on the docks, to big corporate organizations that oversaw large workforces, and how they affected the individuals that functioned within them. We also observed how success was obtained in these diverse films, what success meant for the main characters and how their perceptions of success evolved during the film. All of these films displayed success as related to individualism, moral integrity and honesty. This type of morality was usually achieved when the main character either went through a personal transformation, or when they finally took a stand and resisted the adverse forces imposed by the organizations that encouraged dishonesty, exploitation and sometimes-criminal behavior. The common thread of success in these films is that an individual’s morality is more desirable than an organization’s corruption, which was significant to Cold War audiences because they were left with a clear perspective on what really defines success and how to achieve it.
Kaneto Shindō’s Onibaba,through its stark portrayal of the animalistic side of human life, engages with the questions of sin and evil. ‘Onibaba’ are women who have turned to demons as a result of negative karma. As the retelling of a popular mythological tale, the film inverts the traditional story of the ‘onibaba’ or demon hag who is punished by the Buddha for thwarting a young girl’s spiritual ambitions. Kichi’s old mother and widowed wife live by ambushing warriors and selling their armour and samurai swords in return for the luxury of a few sacks of millet. A conflict of interests develops between the two women when Hachi, a friend of Kichi’s, returns from the battlefield to seek asylum in the old woman’s hut and the young woman transgresses