Rufus's Love For Alice

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Love is one of the most powerful emotions we hold inside as human beings. It ranges from a number of different meanings depending on how the word is being used. Rufus, shows us how love and its interpretation, can drive you to influence someone to do the unthinkable. Some of those meanings: desire, attachment, compassion, are the reasons why Alice ended up taking her life. This significant event was not only catastrophic to herself, but to her family as well. Showing how love has different meanings, depending on how a person is expressing and receiving it.

Rufus had a long desired for Alice to be his woman and fall in love with him. His strong feelings of wanting this dream to come true; overshadowed his clear train of thought. His thinking …show more content…

After briefly losing what he desired most (Alice), Rufus’s attachment to Alice caused him to send the children away as punishment. Taking the only thing she yearned for and was deeply connected to, her children. The fear of losing what she was so closely attached to drove her to kill herself, to ease her pain.

When something crucial happens, we tend to put things into perspective that might have not seemed noteworthy at first. After Alice took her life, Rufus took a particular regards in the children. He could be seen showing high interest in the children’s well-being. The compassion shown towards the children was due to the fact their mother was gone. His emotions told him he needed to do what was best for the children, but his pride wouldn’t allow him to say it without killing him.
He had loved the kids, but knew that it was not acceptable in that time frame.

The importance of Butler using the 4th of July scene as the background for Dana and Rufus; is a metaphor for an eye for an eye, in my opinion. Illustrating, how Rufus had the power and control over Alice that drove her to kill herself. Compared to Dana overcoming his empowerment and breaking away from the imprisonment that she was a part of, by killing Rufus, gaining her and Alice’s

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