Most people would believe that the justice system is fair, and unbiased. Others would argue that sometimes, it just isn’t fair, or is biased. In Cormac McCarthy’s All The Pretty Horses, he has different views on justice in their world, depending on how the reader will take it. I believe that he makes justice out to be power, one who has one of these elements must have the other. Someone who can control justice has power, and someone with power can control justice, they go hand and hand with each other. I believe that during the various events that take part in the novel, he portrays how justice and power can almost be the same thing, someone with one usually has the other. He also shows how justice sometimes can just not be just. Sometimes the justice system just doesn’t work out fairly for some individuals, they get blamed or sentenced for something that they may not have done. Throughout the novel he shows how sometimes the justice system is unfair to John and Rawlins, how they get blamed or sentenced for stuff they didn’t even do. People with power control justice, and people with justice have power, he shows this throughout his novel.
In the novel, Don is almost a figure of power for John, being a young cowboy. Don sees Johns amazing cowboy skills, and quickly makes him in charge of breeding the horses. Don also has a stunning daughter, Alejandra who catches Johns eye. He knows that an affair with Alejandra would certainly get him fired, but he cant resist. He starts to have an affair with Alejandra, and Don soon finds out. Don later turns John into the police captain of Ecantada. The captain is no ordinary cop, he is a corrupt, lying cop. This shows how sometimes justice is not just at all. For Johns actions, he gets sent to prison, were he is treated like scum, because he is American. It shows how the captain has justice over John, and because of this he also has power, which lets him do whatever he pleases. In prison John is not treated fair at all, he is forced to fight, and battle just to survive because he is American, the justice system here is not just. He is not treated fairly, and McCarthy depicts how he thinks justice and power can be the same, when one has the power to convict someone, they also have justice and can send them to prison were they get treated unfairly and unjust.
This is the start of my essay..i couldn't finish it...i just didn't enjoy the book, it wasn't very good... Better than taking a 0 though...
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Hamlet Transformation
Hamlet makes a personality transformations in the play. When Hamlet first suspects that Claudius killed Old Hamlet, his father, he pretends to be angry. He pretends to be angry so the people around him will be scared. People around him find it normal and adapt to it though, they figure that since he did just loose his father and his mother just married his uncle that it was normal behaviour. The eventually believe that this is his normal personality, even though he is faking the whole thing. They all believe he is grieving and angry about the events, and that his personality changed when really he is just acting this way cause he suspects Claudius of killing his father
Hamlet Essay Outline
Thesis: Hamlet was mentally unstable.
Reason: He always wants to kill Claudius throughout the play, normal people to obsesses about killing someone.
Example: he keeps thinking about killing him, wondering about it.
Example: He won’t let it go, and in the end actually kills him.
Reason : He portrayed a wide variety of strange behaviour throughout the play, making him seem mentally unstable.
Example: A lot of people noticed he was acting strange, almost insane.
Example: He wanted to kill Claudius and he saw ghosts.
Reason: At one part of the play, he sees the ghost of his father, most sane people cannot see ghosts.
Example: Sees his fathers ghost at the beginning of the play.
Example: Later in the play sees him yet again, no a stable person.
Conclusion: Most sane people wouldn’t dream of killing someone, or seeing ghosts…
Reason: He always wants to kill Claudius throughout the play, normal people to obsesses about killing someone.
Example: he keeps thinking about killing him, wondering about it.
Example: He won’t let it go, and in the end actually kills him.
Reason : He portrayed a wide variety of strange behaviour throughout the play, making him seem mentally unstable.
Example: A lot of people noticed he was acting strange, almost insane.
Example: He wanted to kill Claudius and he saw ghosts.
Reason: At one part of the play, he sees the ghost of his father, most sane people cannot see ghosts.
Example: Sees his fathers ghost at the beginning of the play.
Example: Later in the play sees him yet again, no a stable person.
Conclusion: Most sane people wouldn’t dream of killing someone, or seeing ghosts…
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Essay
Hmm...8-12 page essay..almost done, will be posted in the following week, sorry for it being late but i hade trouble finding a thesis... Thanks :D
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