Dehumanization In The Movie The Mission

In the Hunger Games, there is a lot of dehumanization and aggression that happens as the story unfolds. The definition of aggression is "any form of behavior directed toward the goal of harming or injuring another living being who is motivated to avoid such treatment” (Opotow). While, dehumanization is defined as “the psychological process of demonizing the enemy, making them seem less than human and hence not worthy of humane treatment” (Opotow).

The idea of race suggests that observed differences in cultural and social status are the product of biologically based differences among major ethnic groups. Out of that distinction the idea of racial superiority was evolved. In the majority of the population’s eyes at that time, the African race was inferior. They were seen as primitive and un-evolved. This was also another justification for the white populations, to both the governments, to uphold slavery as it was seen as a part of nature, and it also justified the idea to themselves. It was an excuse and a rationalisation for their actions, and an explanation to their own morals and Christian values.

Furthermore, the self-hatred or low self-esteem of African-American people involves the personal inferiority complex in Akbar’s novel. The shrewd slave makers were fully aware that people who still respected themselves as human beings would resist to the death the dehumanizing process of slavery. African-Americans have to overcome the glass ceiling of

The PBS Frontline Documentary, “The Untouchables” produced by Martin Smith details how those responsible for the 2008 financial crisis, caused by the failing of multiple mortgage backed securities that were fraudulently cobbled together with very lax oversight, were never criminally indicted for their actions. Part of the explanation from the Justice Department was that they were afraid that aggressively pursuing the presidents and vice-presidents of the banks involved in the fraudulent mortgage backed securities would make the banking industry even more unstable. This was something that they were very reluctant to risk, since so many banks were already beginning to close. In the documentary,

The Dehumanization Process in the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave

“The Negro, too, for his part, has idols of the tribe to smash. If on the one hand the white man has erred in making the Negro appear to be that which would excuse or extenuate his treatment of him, the Negro, in turn, has too often unnecessarily excused himself because of the way he has been treated. The

For example, Equiano expresses that he is envious of the freedom whites enjoy; the fact that these people were deprived of basic fundamental rights clearly highlights just how miserable life was for the victims. He then reveals, “Every circumstance [he] met with, served only to render [his] state more painful, and heightened [his] apprehensions,” Equiano’s intensified trepidation evinces his lack of hope that life could get better, “and [his] opinion of the cruelty of the whites” enhances as well (Equiano 45).

2. The Jews were dehumanized while in the concentration camps in this section of Night by Elie Wiesel. After Buna was evacuated because of the Russian attack, the SS forced the Jew to move to another location. As the SS forced the Jews to run, they also shouted insults at them. In the novel it says, “Faster, ou tramps, you flea-ridden dogs!” (85).

At this time, “separate, but equal” was in effect, but not practiced correctly, because thing were separate, but not equal. When the Narrator “mistakenly” says “social equality” the crowd “[shouts] hostile phrases at [him]”, they believe it must be a mistake and asks that “[he wasn’t] being smart”. The Narrator says that he “did not understand” why there was a “sudden stillness” in the room when he says “social equality”, he still does not see that he is “invisible” to the white men. No anger or fury burn in his heart about not being equal or accepted by the white men due to the color of his skin. According to his grandfather he should have corrected his speech like a ‘good slave”, but have “agree’em[d] to death and destruction” (Ellison, 278).

With the arrival of the Europeans, the Guarani citizens started to change their culture and act “civilized”. During the beginning, the tribe lived in the forest and killed one of the Jesuit priests. The tribe had done this as a symbol of rejecting the European ways of life including their religion. After Father Gabriel (a Jesuit priest) went and showed them kindness, the people created the missions. While living in the missions the Guarani acted “civilized” by: wearing clothes, lived in houses, and accepted Christianity as their religion. Soon, a war broke out due to the fact that the Jesuits and Guarani people wouldn't leave the missions on the land that was being sold. The war only left a few children survivors, who were left to forage

The next time we see the natives come in contact with a Jesuit it is when Father Gabriel makes his way over the falls into their land and begins playing his music. The Guaraní in the film are seemingly enchanted with the music father Gabriel plays from his oboe, so much so that they don't kill him and they accept him. Realistically, this wouldn't make the natives accept the missionaries (p. 397). The natives only welcomed the Jesuits for their iron tools (e.g, hatchets, machetes, knives) and their protection (p. 395). The Guaraní in the film are portrayed as typical Hollywood natives, most of the men are covered with paint and the women are half nude. In the film the Jesuits seem to be fine with this female nudity but logically, real Jesuits wouldn't have accepted this display of sexuality and would have seen it as a lack of modesty (p. 400). One of the most nonsensical things about the native characters is their blind acceptance of Christianity. In truth, most Guaranís rejected Christianity for several decades (p. 400). The Guaraní are also referred to as free in the film, father Gabriel states that "they come to us of their own free will" when in certainty natives weren't free in real missionaries and were even subject to beatings (p. 402-403). The combination of these things is what makes the Guaraní in the film appear as incapable of protecting themselves, inferior to the

First off, Jeremy Irons plays Father Gabriel, a Spanish Jesuit priest, who has invested his life in the conversion of the Guaraní people. In the film he successfully converts a group living above Iguazu Falls near the modern-day Paraguay-Brazil-Argentinian border. Irons was convincing, but he seemed to lack real, bold emotion at the appropriate moments. In other words, he didn’t appear to be very invested in the movie’s story. In addition, he appeared to take on an overall “nice guy” personality that was hard to break when the script required him to be stern. Robert De Niro, who played Rodrigo Mendoza, a former slave trader, conveyed his character excellently. De Niro is a versatile actor known to play a variety of roles, which is apparent in this film, where he is able to be two different characters in one. At the beginning he appears almost heartless towards the Guaraní people. For example, he has no trouble capturing and killing them. Not long into the movie, however, his character does a complete hundred-and-eighty-degree-turn and becomes a merciful and sympathetic man, devoted to the Native Americans he used to sell for a living. De Niro is able to convey this change very well. There is one more actor worth mentioning: Ray McAnally. McAnally plays the Church’s representative who must make the impossible decision of whether to keep the Jesuit missions under the protection of the church or leave them to the Portuguese. McAnally does a great job representing the mental and emotional strife that his character

For this paper, I watched The Martian. The explicit meaning of The Martian is that a space crew is on Mars on a mission. During an emergency evacuation, Mark Watney, one of the crew members, gets left behind. He has to figure out how to survive while NASA comes up with a plan to save Watney. NASA ultimately ends up sending the crew back to Mars to save Watney. With careful planning and many complications along the way, Mark Watney and the rest of the Hermes crew returned home safely. The implicit meaning of The Martian is that no matter how grim the situation may seem, do not give up hope. Always keep fighting, because the moment a person gives up, is the moment that person is doomed. As long as a person has hope and does not stop fighting, that person will make it through and persevere.

The movie, The Mission, gives a good detail onto the historical context on the imposition of other societies' colonial and political objectives towards the native peoples of Paraguay. The similar scenario throughout the history of humanity of imperialist civilizations and forces invading other native lands and impose their beliefs, political systems, and society attitudes towards native peoples unfamiliar in their way of life and understanding of humanity is presented in the movie with great detail, this time with Spain and Portugal imposing their political and religious systems onto the Guarani people. The move culminates with the Guarani War of 1754 - 1756, in which the Guarani tribe defend their territory from the Spanish and Portuguese

David Livingstone, professor of philosophy at the University of England, once wrote, “Dehumanization isn’t a way of talking. It’s a way of thinking—a way of thinking that, sadly, comes all too easily to us. Dehumanization is a scourge, and has been so for millennia. It acts as a psychological lubricant, dissolving our inhibitions and inflaming our destructive passions. As such, it empowers us to perform acts that would, under other circumstances, be unthinkable”. The film The Island is set in the 21st century where Lincoln Six Echo, among others, live in a confined community due to the world no longer being inhabitable. The only place in the outside world still able to sustain human life is an “island” where community members are chosen to live through a lottery system—at least that is what Lincoln Six Echo and the rest of the people are instilled to believe. The real truth is that Lincoln as well as everyone else in this community are actually clones used to supply organs to the people’s DNA that they share, and the “island” is where these clones go to die in order to give their organs. When he realizes that the island and his existence are both lies, Lincoln decides he has to escape to the outside world to save Jordan Two Delta. Out in the world, Lincoln and Jordan are on the run as they try and figure out a way to not only save themselves, but to save everyone else still back in the community. Michael Bay’s Film, The Island, demonstrates the dehumanization of Lincoln,