Django Unchained Violence

Violence: An American Tradition is an eye opening film about the history of violence in America. The film begins all the way back with Christopher Columbus and discovering America, and ends with more a more modern form of violence, abuse. The narrator analyses the violence that has been ingrained in American history and proposes reasons as to why the violence was and frankly is, so extreme. Although there were many different types of violence discussed in Violence: An American Tradition, the three kinds of violence that I found the most interesting were racist crimes and violence, domestic abuse, and child abuse.

However, According to Freud, the super-ego exists as a way to level out the ego, and, in a way, keep it in check. Therefore, the super-ego is responsible for an individual’s conscience, or, their ability to feel guilt. Freud continues his explanation of these concepts by asserting the idea that the super-ego calls our attention to our own failures and misconducts, and attempts to assist us in learning from them in order to avoid making similar mistakes in the future. Furthermore, the conscience is the form in which the super-ego controls our actions and thoughts, and creates guilt within us. Therefore, the ego is the decision-making, acting part of an individual, while the super-ego acts as the ego’s voice of authority and control (Freud).

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The use of violence was ultimately a method of fear-mongering to assert dominance, which can be seen in the Butcher’s character in The Gangs of New York. Towards the middle of the movie, the Butcher reveals to Amsterdam his philosophy on the downfall of civilization and that he has only maintained his high power through the fear he strikes in other people. As for 12 Years a Slave, the violence undoubtedly serves the interests of the white plantation owners because they are in need of a cheap and reliable source of labor. By manipulating these slaves with violence, they are able to keep order in the class system and continue to make money from the

The third and final element in the Freudian mind is the ego. The ego is our conception of ourself in relation to others. This is in contrast with the self-centered id. If one has a "strong ego" that person feels confident in dealing with others and can accept criticism. To have a "weak ego" is to need continual approval from others. The ego is very similar to the self-esteem concept. This is the part of the mind that develops from an awareness of social standards and is modified by contact with the social world. The ego is like the mature adult. When the id is saying, "I want that" and the superego is questioning what is right and wrong, the ego enters the equation and decides what to do. A mature ego will deny immediate pleasure in order to avoid any consequences.

The id is the unconscious part of our mind that "contains our secret desires, darkest wishes, (and) intense fears" ("Psychoanalytic Criticism" 2). The id is entirely irrational and serves only to fulfill urges and wishes that the person most desires. The superego is also unconscious and is driven by the morality principal. It "represents the demands of morality and of society" (Mullahay 39). The superego urges us to do what will be accepted by our peers and by society. It can be compared to our conscious in the sense that it drives us to do what is right so that we won’t feel guilt or remorse. The third part to the trio is the ego, which is based solely on logic and rationality, and is part of the conscious mind. The ego "represents reason and sanity" and makes sensible and logical decisions even though these decisions may not fulfill all of our desires (Mullahay 36). "The ego (can be called) the battleground for forces of the superego and id" in that it "regulates (the) id and comes to terms with (the) superego" ("Psychoanalytic Criticism" 2).

Django Unchained is a film that follows the story of Django, who was a slave turned bounty hunter, and Dr. King Schultz, who is a bounty hunter. Schultz purchases Django in order to make him a freeman, due to the information he has about his bounty for Schultz. In return, the only goal Django sets out to achieve is finding and rescuing his wife, Broomhida, after they were separated in a slave deal. Schultz and Django come to find that Broomhida is located at the location of the famous Calvin Candie, who is a cotton-field owner. Schultz and Django then come up with a plan to rescue his wife from Candie.

Freud said that the Ego is the mediator between the Id and Superego and the outside world. For the Ego to do its job, it has to delay the desires of the Id until it is socially acceptable to give the Id the needs. So our conscious-driven Ego is a balance of the Id and Superego, evening out our primal needs

A former slave named Django and the white man who freed him Dr. King Schultz are two men being superior to others, and through their drive to accomplish their tasks they appeal to a Psychoanalytic point of view in Django Unchained. Django Unchained is a movie written by Quentin Tarantino and the plot is Django getting his wife who is an educated non-freed slave. Their journey together that is full of outsmarting, enforcing laws, and extreme violence that have many examples of Psychoanalytic views. A Psychoanalytic view on Django Unchained is found through the period the movie is set in, showing the slaves being stripped of the power they want, the rules that the two main characters try to enforce, and the violence that is constantly overly portrayed that is unrealistic. Through a Psychoanalytic lens the rules of society are a part of human’s own ego which they try to regulate all the time.

The psychodynamic theory of personality is based on Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, which rests on three assumptions. The first assumption is the belief in psychic determinism, which is the assumption that all psychological events have a cause. The second assumption is the belief in symbolic meaning. The third assumption is the understanding that people have unconscious motivation. Freud believed that personality is structured by the ego, id, and superego.

The ego is the mediator between the id and the circumstances of the external world to aid their interaction. The ego represents reason in contrast to the id. Freud called the ego ich, which translates to English as “I”. The ego follows the reality principal. The ego does not exist independently of the id. The ego exists to help the id, and is constantly striving to bring about satisfaction of the id’s instincts. If the ego fails to keep a balance with the id and superego, a person may have difficulty

The film set in the deep South in 1858, about a slave who gains his freedom with the help of Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), a German bounty hunter, and sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner is an intriguing story with very graphic action scenes. The plot of the story begins as Dr. Shultz buys Django (Jamie Foxx), a black slave, from some traveling slave owners. He buys Django because he is chasing a pair of outlaws known as the Brittle Brothers and Django is the only person who knows what they look like. As the plot develops, Dr. Schultz and Django become allies and work together to achieve each other’s personal goals; Dr. Schultz wants to track down and

Violence plays a major role in the history of cinema. Both Alfred Hitchcock and Quentin Tarantino have produced a litany of films that have imagery or plots that include violent acts. However, their different directorial visions and styles make it so that Hitchcock and Tarantino films are nothing alike. This is because Hitchcock's objective was to make the audience feel afraid, tense, and anxious for the protagonist, whereas Tarantino's objective is to illustrate the absurdity of violence by elevating the macabre to the level of humor. Both Hitchcock and Tarantino are brilliant directors who use violence in their films to achieve a desired effect.

The ego is the part of the mind that represents consciousness. It employs reason, common sense, and the power to delay immediate responses to external stimuli (Storr). When making a decision, the ego balances out both needs of the id and the superego. In Freud’s own words, “It performs that task by gaining control over the demands of the instincts, by deciding whether they are to be allowed satisfaction, by postponing that satisfaction or suppressing their excitations entirely,” (Freud). Being a stereotypical earnest

High Noon and “The Most Dangerous Game” is a movie and story containing many differences and similarities. High Noon is a great movie made by Carl Foreman taking place in the Wild West, where the protagonist, Will Kane, must protect himself and the people of his town from a gang trying to get revenge on him. In a short story “The Most Dangerous Game,” created by Richard Connell, a skilled hunter by the last name Rainsford lands on an eerie island and is hunted by another professional hunter, who kills men. The two have similarities in the conflict, in addition to setting and main characters being widely different.