Recently I watched Howard Hawks’ Monkey Business (1952), featuring Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, and Marilyn Monroe, this film tells the story of a Barnaby Fulton (Cary Grant), a scientist, who is determined to create a vitamin to take people back to their youth. In a twist of comical proportions one of his lab chimpanzees creates the formula Barnaby has been after. Becoming the first human test subject Barnaby thinks his own formula is what has given him back his youthful spirit and vision. Later his wife (Ginger Rogers) takes an even larger dose, resulting in even further regression into childhood. This leads to talks of jealousy, divorce, culminating in one large hilarious mess. Eventually, Barnaby and his wife make amends and realize they …show more content…
He yearns for success, and wishes to obtain some aspect of his past youth. This yearning for success skews his outlook on how great his life really. At home all he can focus on is his work, and at work he lusts after the secretary (Marilyn Monroe). This need for success and longing to feel young again leads him to testing this new formula on himself. As he regains his eyesight and no longer has a need for glasses he deems his formula a success; little does he know the chimpanzee is the true creator of the successful formula. However, upon regaining the vision of his youth his lust for the secretary reaches a high point and he takes her out. The moral being betrayed in this scenario is envying status and success, and not realizing you are already successful in your own way. His moral decision to cheat and regress to his youth leads his wife to do the same. What comes about in her is jealousy and wanting a divorce. As any viewer can see, Barnaby’s quest for a revitalizing formula and success actually leads to him forgetting how good he has it, which leads him into an even bigger hole to climb out …show more content…
Instead of being disappointed it was not his formula or trying to create a new formula, he decides to be content with the happenings and comes to an important conclusion. In the final lines of the movie he tells his wife he has a new formula for youth. What he implies is not a physical formula but instead a feeling, an emotion. As he pulls her close he decides to be happy with getting older, because it doesn’t matter as long as there is love. This decision will having a lasting improvement on his life. Now he will be able to focus on being happy with his wife, and not as much on trying for success and missing the days of his youth. At the beginning of the movie they miss a party because he's too obsessed with his work and in the final moments of the movie they are planning on going out but instead of delaying because of his work obsession they delay so they can have time together alone. He learned that love is the secret to youth, love is the thing that
...age and the crisis of integrity versus despair however, the two characters had different characteristics that categorize them in different ends of the crisis. Throughout the movie, the audience is able to visualize what types of issues are dealt with as well as what type of problems the characters had to go through to resolve their crisis. Chelsea also had different issues than Billy due to the fact; each were facing a different stage as well as crisis. Personally this movie provide me a great understanding in human development; I was able to understand why each person does a certain action: for instance my sister is disrespectful and immature because she is facing the adolescence stage as well as the identity versus role confusion stage. I also learned that a crisis can truly affect a person in a negative; if the person is not able to fully deal with their crisis.
. . .” implies the narrator can only see through so much of the door, his sight is restricted to only his father. This allows for a very strong description of his father in the moment. The narrators’ father was walking towards his bedroom with his back to his wife. He had clearly dismissed his wife’s’ argument until she cruelly remarked “Well, I hope you 'll be satisfied when they come home knocked up and you 'll have had your way.” (Alistair Macleod 229). Without stopping, revealing how shocked he was to hear this, he turns around. He is mid stride, but so taken back that he spins to face her. The offence that he feels is a result of his opinion that it would be best for his children to find a better way of life than his own. His children have an opportunity for a much more fulfilling life and he wants nothing more than for them to pursue it. This would seemingly be a goodtime for him to explain to his wife the way he feels; instead he holds it in, knowing that she would not understand. By turning back around without saying a word the only statement he makes is that he is mad. In this moment he is described as looking old and hard worked, though very
He is sure that he will "triumph" over nature, and will willingly be "worshipped" by his wife afterwards. He is frustrated when his experiments for Georgiana's amusement fail and angry when she reads his "folio" of experiments. His striving for perfectionism cannot handle the fact that Georgiana now knows that he s not omniscient, but rather that in reaching for "pebbles" of science, which made him famous. He wants to be as flawless as he wants his wife to be. However, in pursuit of perfection, so that his wife should be the "highest and purest of earthly world", his conscience is blinded.
She is fairly new to the work world and has lied on her resume’ to get hired, and realizes that the job is harder than she first thought. All hope is not lost because Violet assures her that she can be trained. She ends up succeeding at the company and telling her husband she will not take him back after he comes back begging for her love again.
The speaker's relationship with her husband had to go over a few changes. At first, she did not want anything to do with her husband, she was still fourteen years old consequently feeling unready on handling such a big responsibility, but she had no other choice but to stay with him as she was a part of an arranged marriage. Later on, the speaker accepts her relationship with her husband and
overcome before he can move up in the Hollywood society. Todd’s life begins to go downhill as he
dream for a better life gave him a sense of purpose. Daisy's purpose in life
Another aspect of the dull factory work highlighted in the film is the grim, stern boss/CEO of the factory, an authority figure who despite his supposed great wealth and success, spends all his time dismally watching his gloomy workers and ensuring they never veer off their given tasks. After his invention of the Bliss Glasses, the main character is named Greatest Invention Ever, and lauded as a hero in his community as he grows wealthy and ascends to CEO of his own company. Despite his honorable intentions to translate his inspiration into something meaningful, the protagonist, once a lowly worker, became the menacing boss who spends all his time dreadfully keeping watch and yelling at his employees. This ironic twist of fate proves once again that in order to realize his dream, once the momentary happiness he attained through his invention and success has fled, he has lost his true self and, as a result, transformed into the authority figure he once
This situation is beyond comprehension for him, how to be with someone, "without his having ever seen what the goddamned woman looked like" (213) Through his short, somewhat clipped description of his wife's former marriage and attempted suicide it is clear that he is not quite in tune with her emotions. The tone in which he describes her suffering leads us to believe that his connection to her ...
was that he wished she had been a boy. Her high hope of working with her husband
his re-visitation of his old school when he is thirty-two. And although the older narrator seems
Gatsby’s dream was to become a wealthy man in order to reunite with Daisy and win her heart. Daisy wanted a man who could ensure her financial stability and Gatsby believed that attaining wealth would guarantee that they could be together. As Gatsby consumed his time of becoming rich, it destroyed his emotional sense of feeling guilty or sadness from wrongdoing. This was because he did not have an emotional conscious from achieving his wealth illegally. In the novel, Tom Buchannan said to Gatsby, “He and this Wolfsheim bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter… I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him, and I wasn’t far wrong.” Gatsby politely says, “What about it?... I guess your friend Walter Chase wasn’t too proud to come in on it” (110, Fitzgerald). This quotation occured further into the novel when Tom accused Gatsby of his illegal work. Gatsby retorted in a simple manner and it was evident that that his accusations not phase Gatsby that he had done illegal work. Furthermore, his aspiration of wealth made him strive to a point where forgot the remorse and sadness behind his acts, which destroyed the emotional conscious of his character. Similarly, because of a dream Frank Lucas wished for,
As the audience watches the film they can come to realize that sometimes people need to open their eyes to new ideas. They become aware that one person can make a difference in another person’s life. This film is about that, changing your life. Billy Elliot would not have ever thought to become a dancer, yet is willing to take the risk and he discovers that he loves it. The audience can connect to the main character because they understand that sometimes risks have to be taken. Mrs. Wilkinson shows that it is okay to change and do something different.
...e barn is because she had a chance to achieve everything she wanted; fame, fortune and glamour and because she fails at becoming an actress and spends her life with a man she hates with only glamour of the three she wanted, she gets very angry and when people do not pay attention to her, such as when Lennie, Candy and Crooks are all in Crooks’ room and she goes there for attention but is told to go away she resorts to anger telling them that she could get them “strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny” and this showing that she can no longer be turned away by people and takes out years of agony of her dream never coming true on these three guys.