Characters In The Film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

First, in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck,there were multiple incidences where the characters had to resort to lying to others and occasionally to themselves in order to survive. In one particular scene, the mother tricked the family and the border guards to believe that their dead grandmother was merely sleeping by lying beside the dead body for a whole night. The mother thought, correctly, that the rest of the family would stop and not make it through the desert otherwise. In another case, the son and the mother suppressed their feelings of hatred and their own intelligence in order to act the part of contrite and ignorant refugees. It was only through this guile that the family was safe from trouble. Throughout the novel, the characters engaged in

In the classic dystopian novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, there are many rules to keep the Community in order, and most of these rules can be broken in one simple, yet unthinkable way, lying. These rules are made to keep everyone safe, but everyone seems to be almost brainwashed. They would never think to do something as daring as lying to have a little freedom in life. Throughout The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the theme of lying is shown constantly, proving that their world isn’t as perfect as it seems.

When lily went to South Carolina she goes to a lady named August. August is very artifice. Lily stays at her honey house for several months with her aunt Rooselyn. As she lives there she goes through many adventures and meets a ton of new people. She meets her true love Zach and two sister of August named May and June. She finds out a lot about her mother. She finds out that her mother Deborah stayed at the same honey house. She also finds out that her mother ran away from T-Ray when he was abusive. At the end T-Ray finds Lily at Augusts house and he threatens her that she has to come back home with him. Lily fights and eventually convinces T-Ray that she is better off with August and forgives him.

He too abandons his morals; illegally earning the money that he believes will win back the heart of his lost love Daisy. When they had a love affair long ago, she wouldn't marry him because of his financial standing. The details of his business are sketchy, when asked he usually ignores the question. Tom though, after some investigating finds the true nature of his profession.

“Wars never hurt anybody except for the people who died” -Salvador Dali, leader of the Surrealist Movement. In both stories men who are at war are described, both of these men have killed a man who are known as their foes. Both of the men realize that the man they killed could've been a friend, and were someone who really wasn't the enemy. The relationship between these two stories is that war can tear families apart. In Liam O'Flaherty's “The Sniper” and “The Man He Killed” by Thomas Hardy both show similarities and differences in plot, irony, and theme.

Tom’s infidelity in his marriage clearly expresses his views about his wife, Daisy. In seeking an affair, he conveys that Daisy is deficient and not worthy of devotion. Daisy knows of his affairs, but because of the time period and their social class, she is helpless to do anything. As a woman in the 20th century, it would destroy Daisy to divorce Tom, even though the entirety of New York knows about Tom’s affair.

Through the course of the novel, Daisy handles her husband?s affair very calmly. Even when Tom?s mistress telephones during dinner Daisy exclaims, ?it couldn?t be helped,? (20). Although she must obviously be hurting deeply on the inside, Daisy displays no physical signs of distress over her husband?s affair. This makes her appear stronger than she really is.

When Chillingworth asks Hester the identity of her lover, she refuses to answer. Because of this, Chillingworth makes her promise never to reveal that he is her husband. After Hester is released from prison, she goes to live in a small cottage at the edge of town. After a few years, people begin to notice that her daughter, Pearl, behaves very strangely, and they threaten to take her away from Hester. Hester takes Pearl to Governor Bellingham's mansion planning to plead for the right to keep her daughter. At the mansion she is met by the governor and his three guests, Reverend Wilson, Reverend Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth. Reverend Dimmesdale convinces the governor to allow Hester to keep Pearl. Chillingworth, who has been living with Reverend Dimmesdale since his arrival in town, begins to suspect that Reverend Dimmesdale is the father of Pearl. One evening while Dimmesdale is sleeping, Chillingworth examines Dimmesdale's chest and finds something which confirms his suspicion. From this moment on, Chillingworth devotes himself to seeking revenge. One night, Dimmesdale is so tormented by his conscience that he goes and stands on the scaffold that Hester had stood on seven years earlier. As he is standing there, he sees Hester and Pearl walk by and he calls them onto the scaffold with him. After he acknowledges his guilt to them, a giant red A

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     Lying is something that comes naturally to some people at different degrees over time. Mrs. Freeman had lied about her interest in Mrs. Hopewell's business so that Hulga could have time away from her mother. Hulga had lied about her age just so she could have sex. Manley Pointer lied about his career and his personal life

The most negative liars in the whole novel, though, are the Duke and the King. They are accomplished con-artists who make it their life to lie and trick the naïve public out of their money. In fact, they are introduced to Huck and Jim while they are fleeing from an angry mob: one for selling a paste to remove tartar from teeth that takes a good deal of the enamel off with it and the other because he was caught drunk after running a temperance sobriety revival meeting. Every lie of theirs is completely self-serving and wicked. The Duke and the King are truly antagonists because they are able to betray everyone, including the people who save them and take care of them, Jim and Huck. When their cons don’t work well, they sell Jim to the Phelps, telling them he is a runaway. But to the Duke and the King’s knowledge, Jim belongs to Huck.

Roger Chillingworth, in The Scarlet Letter, torments Arthur Dimmesdale for having an affair with Hester, his wife. In this role, Chillingsworth uses his cover as the doctor to involve himself in every attribute of Dimmesdale's life and destroy him. This is depicted in the discussion between Chillingworth and Hester outside of her cottage where Chillingworth explains that he is “a mortal man, with once a human heart” and that he has “become a fiend for [Dimmesdale's] especial torment” (Hawthorne 155). The change of Chillingworth to a “fiend” suggests that this situation forced him into a man that would control the mind of his victim to achieve his malevolent goal. This is the same role that Tom Buchanan takes on in The Great Gatsby after he discovers Daisy’s affair with Gatsby. Tom uses his role as Daisy’s powerful husband to control her and change her mind against leaving him. This is shown when they return home after the murder of Myrtle when Tom is “talking intently across the table at her, and in his earnestness his hand had fallen upon and covered her own”(Fitzgerald 145). The word “earnestness” intensifies the dramatic irony of the situation because it becomes clear that Tom does not actually care for Daisy in his personal affair with Myrtle but uses his flirtation skills to achieve his goal of keeping Daisy. Both Tom and Chillingworth use their power for personal gain by punishing those that have been

Hester and Dimmesdale sinned by having sex, Hester was married and Dimmesdale was a reverend. This act of impurity was turned to a positive with the birth of Pearl, their personal spiritual growth, and their maturity. On the contrary, the love that Daisy and Gatsby had before their separation was pure. They were in love for all the right reasons, and stayed in touch while Jay entered the army. However, Daisy then fell in love with money and the man who brought it, Tom. When Gatsby returned, he tried to make their love work again, but his efforts were made through deceit, and illegal activities. These attempts to win Daisy through a false persona and money made Daisy's love a possession, which could be won or even bought, and subsequently it became impure. These contradictions and paradox continue through the novel into the endings.

“I know those law books mean alot to you, but not out here. Out here a man settles his own problems.” That’s one of the first things Tom Doniphon (John Wayne) says to Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart). In the movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance manhood was the one thing that somehow gets dragged back into the plot. Men have been trying to prove their manhood for a long time. In the west the symbol of manhood was a gun. Comparing it to now the gun is the first sign of the “man card”. John Ford used a lot of film technique in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance to show that in the west man created their own law.

After being found guilty of adultery, Hester is forced to wear a scarlet letter “A” on her clothing as a public sign of shame. Her long lost husband, now under a new name to remain unknown, reappears after being presumed lost at sea. With revenge on his mind, a drama explodes around Hester. Over many years, her lover Dimmesdale falls ill and the new town physician Chillingsworth spends many hours by his bedside, only to start believing that Arthur is the father of Pearl, Hester’s out-of-wedlock child. When pleading with Dimmesdale, Hester begs him to leave for Europe so that they can start a new life together. This plan fails when Hester discovers that Chillingsworth is also to be a passenger. Eventually, Dimmesdale dies in Hester’s arms, and losing an opportunity at revenge, Chillingsworth dies shortly after. With a large amount of money left to her, Pearl and her mother relocate to Europe to start a new life (Hawthorne).