The movie Stardust displays multiple themes throughout itself; one of the themes would be selfishness. Throughout the entire movie of Stardust, several characters displayed selfishness. An example of a selfish character would be Lamia, one of the three witch sisters. When Lamia completes the task of killing the star and taking its heart, Lamia gets everlasting beauty and youth; Lamia’s yearn to kill the star makes her selfish, because in the kingdom of Stormhold, stars are not just a lump of rock, they are a person; the life of the star means nothing to Lamia, because she needs the star’s heart for her own personal benefit. Another example of a selfish character in the movie of Stardust would be Septimus, one of the deceased King of Stormhold …show more content…
sons. Septimus wants to become king so badly now that his father is dead, that he is willing to hurt anything or anyone that gets in his way, including his own brothers. Despite all of the selfish characters in Stardust, there is one character that displays the opposite, Tristan Thorn. Tristan demonstrates selflessness in Stardust towards Victoria, Yvaine, and Captain Shakespeare. First, Tristan demonstrates selflessness in Stardust towards Victoria.
Victoria is a girl that lives in the Village of Wall. Tristan is in love with Victoria, therefore he is willing to do whatever it takes to impress her, an example of this was when Victoria walks into the shop Tristan works at and skips all of the customers that already waiting in line. Tristan does not scold Victoria, instead when Victoria asks, “Will you walk me home?” Tristan eagerly agrees. This is an example of selflessness, because Tristan does not even blink an eye when Victoria asks him to walk out of his job to walk her home, not even thinking that he may be fired. Tristan will do anything for Victoria, despite what is in his best interest. Another example would be when Tristan promises Victoria that he is going to bring her back the fallen star as a birthday present. This is an example of selflessness because Tristan does not care how difficult the journey to get the star would be or what he would have to endure in order to get the star, he just wants to do whatever will make Victoria …show more content…
happy. Next, Tristan demonstrates selflessness in Stardust towards Yvaine. Yvaine is the fallen star that Tristan goes on the journey to find. Tristan falls in love with Yvaine while traveling with Yvaine back to Wall. Instead of doing tasks that make Victoria happy, Tristan does tasks that keep Yvaine safe; an example would be Tristan finding Yvaine after she runs off with the unicorn. Tristan returns from getting food, to discover that Yvaine is not where he left her; the stars tell Tristan, “Yvaine is in grave danger, because three witches are after her heart. Go find Yvaine before it is too late.” Even though Tristan and Yvaine met not long ago, Tristan still obeys the star's pleas, because Tristan puts others before himself. Tristan cared about someone he just met enough to venture into the unknown to make sure they are safe. Another example is when Tristan realizes that Yvaine is kidnapped by Lamia, he has two choices: go find her or go back to Wall. Both choices have dire consequences, if Tristan saves Yvaine, he puts his own life at risk. If Tristan goes back to Wall, he will lose Yvaine forever. Tristan chooses to save Yvaine, who as he says is, “My one true love.” Tristan chooses to save Yvaine and put his own life at risk to help someone else is selflessness in the purest form. Last, Tristan demonstrates selflessness in Stardust towards Captain Shakespeare.
When Shakespeare reveals his true identity as a cross-dresser to Tristan, Tristan does not judge him. Instead, Tristan embraces Shakespeare’s true self and encourages Shakespeare to be himself all the time, even though if Tristan did tell people he would be highly looked upon for ruining Shakespeare’s reputation. Tristan cares about Shakespeare’s well-being, which causes Tristan to ignore any personal advantage he would gain from outing Shakespeare. Shakespeare thanks Tristan by teaching him new skills. When Shakespeare teaches Tristan how to sword fight and gives Tristan a new look, Tristan does not let his new look go to his head, because Tristan gains a new respect for Shakespeare in the process. Tristan does not abandon Shakespeare after he gained something from staying on Shakespeare’s ship, because a friendship is more important than benefits in Tristan’s eyes. When Shakespeare attends Tristan’s crowning ceremony in Stormhold at the end of Stardust, it is because Tristan’s selflessness preserved he and Shakespeare’s
friendship. In conclusion, the movie Stardust is still related to in the twenty-first century because of its timeless themes. Selflessness is found in everyone, just as it is found in Stardust. A great example of a selfless person in my life is my boyfriend, Ryan. Recently, I was scheduled to work at 5 o’clock in the evening, and my Grandma was going to give me a ride there, since I do not have a car. However, my Grandma’s boyfriend was rushed to the emergency room due to complications caused by the new chemotherapy he was receiving. Understandably, my Grandma accompanied her boyfriend to the Emergency room. Normally, I would call my boyfriend and he would take me to work in a situation similar to this, but I knew that my boyfriend planned to meet up with some friends. I called my Mother, and my Mother refused to take me to work. Not knowing what else to do, or who else to call, I called my boyfriend; without skipping a beat Ryan agreed to take me to work, postponing the plans he made in order to make sure I got to work on time. Ryan’s plans no longer mattered to him, since I needed his help. Although the action was simple, the meaning behind it is much more than that, and I am forever grateful for all of the selfless people I have in my life.
“What?” Sun-Jo was appalled at the fact that Peak had decided not to conquer the summit of Mount Everest. How could he give up such a glorifying moment? Peak would have been the youngest boy to ever reach the summit, however, he realized he didn’t want the fame. Sun-Jo was only a few days older than him, and if Sun-Jo reached the summit and Peak did not, he would be the youngest person to summit Everest. Also, Sun-Jo’s family was living on the other side of the mountain and he needed to get to the other side so that he could reconnect with his family. Since Peak avoided his mother’s advice to think of himself and only himself, he did not make it to the top. Many other characters, unlike Peak, were selfish and although it helped some, others were less fortunate.
Romeo loses hope about being basinshed and instead of listening to the friar and listening to all of his options. We further learn that if Romeo hadn't left it wouldn’t have caused such a great calamity between him and Juliet. As teenagers we tend to lose patience very quickly, this causes us to not think through all our options and makes us lose hope. With a lack of patience comes a sense of mistaken and forgotten. Shakespeare in this scene explores this ironic scene and only if Romeo calmed down and listened to his options he would be such a different
I believe that the story Night by Elie Weisel, you need selfishness in order to survive the work camp. One piece of evidence when someone did a selfish act was when Block Altesta the person that ran the block said “But you must increase your chances.” “Before you go into the next room try to move your limbs, give yourself some color and most important don't be afraid” (Collections (308). It portrays selfishness because Block Altesta is telling them in order to survive you should just try to increase your chances by moving your limbs and giving yourself some color and his saying just do it for
One day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is not a book about a superhuman. It is not a story about someone who is weaker and more desperate than everyone else. It is not a tale of greatness, nor is it about extraordinary faults. Instead, Aleksander Solzhenitsyn chose to center his story around Ivan denisovich Shukhov, an average, unnoticeable Russian prisoner.
Selfishness is a common trait in the world, it’s not a hidden factor, but very well-known as being one’s self-interest. The story “Hunters in the Snow” by Tobias Wolff, discusses how each character in the story deals with different kinds of selfish ways. One character, Tub, deals with eating problems and lies about it. Frank deals with a secret life that he is hiding from his wife. Kenny is always comparing something to his liking and if he does not like it then he will complain. Self-absorption is when someone is focused on their self and only themselves. It is known to be a regular’s human’s condition, it’s something majority of human beings have. Selfishness may also kick in during survival incidents. For example, a boy and his friends
The consequences of selfishness are seen to be so dramatic and devastating, that an audience can’t help but be
Selfishness is a disease of the soul that every person experiences several times throughout their life. To say that it has never been experienced would be hypocrisy. To say that it is a “good thing”, would be erroneous. Although as humans we like to lie to ourselves, it is no question that selfishness can make any person act like a fool. It consumes us and makes us into someone we are not. Whether it leads to getting people killed, falling in love, or buying alcohol, selfishness always leads to destruction.
Dictionary.com defines selfishness as “devoted to or caring only for oneself”. For Abigail to have Proctor
Throughout Macbeth, Shakespeare dramatically shows what can happen when our common gender roles are broken. He shows the power that people can have over others when they aren’t acting the way they’re expected to.
Although, ‘modern’ age unsubtly supports swaggering egoistic behavior in the competitive arena such as international politics, commerce, and sport in another ‘traditional’ areas of the prideful selfishness showing off, to considerable extent discourages visible disobedience from the prevalent moral codes. In some cases, the open pro-egoist position, as was, per example, the ‘contextual’ interpretation of selfishness by famous German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, can be described as ‘grotesque anomaly’. He, probably through unconscious inner drive, effectively equalized two essentially opposite meanings in the following sentence segment “egoistic or LIFE-AFFIRMING behavior”!? (Helmut Schoeck, Quote from, ‘Der Neid’. Eine Theorie der Gesellschaft or in English, ‘Envy’. A Theory of Social Behavior, 1966, 1st English ed.
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With the development of modern society, many people say that the society has become miserable, and people only care their own profit. The self-interest is becoming the object of attacking. Thereupon, when we mention self- interest, people always mix up the concept of self-interest with selfishness. As we all known, the idea of selfishness is, “Abusing others, exploiting others, using others for their own advantage – doing something to others.” (Hospers, 59) Selfish people have no ethics, morals and standards when they do anything. At the same time, what is self – interest? Self- interest can be defined as egoism, which means a person is, “looking out for your own welfare.” (Hospers, 39) The welfare people talk about is nothing more than
Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night revolves around a love triangle that continually makes twists and turns like a rollercoaster, throwing emotions here and there. The characters love each another, but the common love is absent throughout the play. Then, another character enters the scene and not only confuses everyone, bringing with him chaos that presents many different themes throughout the play. Along, with the emotional turmoil, each character has their own issues and difficulties that they must take care of, but that also affect other characters at same time. Richard Henze refers to the play as a “vindication of romance, a depreciation of romance…a ‘subtle portrayal of the psychology of love,’ a play about ‘unrequital in love’…a moral comedy about the surfeiting of the appetite…” (Henze 4) On the other hand, L. G. Salingar questions all of the remarks about Twelfth Night, asking if the remarks about the play are actually true. Shakespeare touches on the theme of love, but emphases the pain and suffering it causes a person, showing a dark and dismal side to a usually happy thought.
yet never means to wed where he hath wooed" (act 3 Scene 2 Lines 15-17).... ... middle of paper ... ... In this play, as any other, Shakespeare proves to be a visionary.
In Twelfth Night the relationships are anything but romantic. Shakespeare writes from the male point of view which implies an un-easy split between love and physical charm. In Twelfth night the romance is falsely produced by selfish desire. Duke Orsino and Viola stand out from the other relationships. By questioning the relationships between the other couples, Shakespeare highlights the true love between Viola and Orsino and the fake relationship of Malvolio and Olivia which is truly based on Malvolio’s desire of a higher status , despite his status and his personality , Malvolio tries to impress Olivia by dressing up in ridiculous clothes , which does far from his aim , and repulses Olivia.