Essay on High Noon

Charles Foster Kane was a man with an enormous amount of wealth and clout. He had it all, money, women, anything he could possibly want. But for a man who seems like he has everything, in reality he is missing one of the only things that money can’t buy, his childhood and happiness. Throughout his life he is desperately searching for the thing that can return his childhood. He searches so desperately that he pushes himself into solitude, and ends up dying alone.

High Noon and The Most Dangerous Game are two short but amazing stories. They tell a story dependent on isolation and a feeling of being alone to the person reading and watching them. High Noon is a movie that is the literal representation of being alone with no one on your side. The Most Dangerous Game is a story that paints a picture of instinct in your mind. Both stories allow for an adventure of thoughts and speculation of what might happen next.

Kane from High Noon. He didn't run away like a coward from the town he was chosen to

Towards the end of the film, inconsistency in characters seems to develop. In the scene, where herb shows up at the jail house ready to fight along side Kane changes his mind after he finds out that it will be just him and Kane fighting against Miller and his posse. Herb states, “it isn’t that I don’t want out…I volunteered but this is not what you

But whether this will happen is doubtful as the plot emerges, for the drama is heightened and the value of courage is emphasized even more when Sheriff Kane and his new bride take the advice of Henderson and leave town in order to avoid a fatal confrontation with the vicious outlaw gang. There are many philosophical themes in High Noon, but the dominant one is that people must not give in to their fear, they must master it. If they don’t the price may be higher than it would have been had they taken a stand. Duty to one’s family and community is of course also important, but mastering one’s fears is of fundamental importance, for little else can be achieved if fear wins. Kane searches his soul out

The Russian Revolution and the purges of Leninist and Stalinist Russia have spawned a literary output that is as diverse as it is voluminous. Darkness at Noon, a novel detailing the infamous Moscow Show Trials, conducted during the reign of Joseph Stalin is Arthur Koestler’s commentary upon the event that was yet another attempt by Stalin to silence his critics. In the novel, Koestler expounds upon Marxism, and the reason why a movement that had as its aim the “regeneration of mankind, should issue in its enslavement” and how, in spite of its drawbacks, it still held an appeal for intellectuals. It is for this reason that Koestler may have attempted “not to solve but to expose” the shortcomings of this political system and by doing so

Many critics consider Arthur Koestler's novel, Darkness At Noon, to be one of the most insightful literary works regarding the qualitative attributes and characteristics of a totalitarian regime. Because of Koestler's personal experience as a Fascists prisoner under Franco, one can understand and appreciate the deep connecting parallels between Nicholas Rubashov, the protagonist, and Arthur Koestler, the author. At the time when this novel was published, few books existed that could accurately describe the inner workings of a totalitarian government, and the ideology that directed its course of action. It is easy to identify Koestler's personal

Kane, the main character in High Noon is a Hero. He didn't slay dragons or walk through fire. He didn’t conquer the world or go on an adventurous quest. However, he did something most people are afraid to do. He stood up for what he believed in regardless of whether he stood alone. Made by Carl Foreman, this movie contained a marshal named Kane. News went around town that Frank Miller, a criminal Kane put in prison a while back, was coming to town on the noon train to get his revenge. Instead of leaving town, he decided to stay and fight. He turned to the townspeople for help, but none lifted a finger. They were all concerned for their own safety. Nevertheless, despite all of the pleas from the people and his wife for him to leave town, Kane’s plans remain unchanged. Kane was not a hero like Thor, or Wonder Woman, but the type of hero from real life; one who stood up for what he believed in, even if he stood alone.

Everyone in life has his or her own individual struggles that can impact his or her daily life and can change the way he or she has to live his or her life. In the novels The Sun Also Rises (1926) by Ernest Hemingway and The Remains of the Day (1989) by Kazuo Ishiguro, the main characters share the struggle of impotence. The word impotent has two different definitions, one being the inability to take effective action, or helplessness. The second meaning is the inability for a man to have sex. No matter which type of impotence a person may have, it can be a daily struggle for anyone affected by it, which is displayed in both novels. The two novels share a common theme of impotence that not only affects their characters’ lives, but also the

6) While High Noon (Zinnemann, 1952) and The Naked Spur (Mann, 1953) both stem from the same broad category of Western films, their main characters differ significantly in their morality, character arcs,

Hemingway's Hero Of the segments of American society scarred by the anguish of the First World War, the damage was most severe amongst the younger generation of that time. Youthful and impressionable, these people were immersed headlong into the furious medley of death and devastation. By the time the war had ended, many found that they could no longer accept what now seemed to be pretentious and contradictory moral standards of nations that could be capable of such atrocities. Some were able to brush off the pain and confusion enough to get on with their lives. Others simply found themselves incapable of existing under their country's thin façade of virtuousness and went abroad, searching for some sense of identity or meaning. These

In That Evening Sun, William Faulkner approaches the story through an anecdotal style that gives meaning to the story. The narrator uses the anecdote that happened to him to convey the story’s underlying meaning that people are restricted by social class and race, not realizing this meaning himself at the time. The era of racism pertains to the meaning of the story, discussing the aversion of southern white people to help those different from them, focusing on the restrictions that society has placed on social class and race separation and the desire to maintain the division.

In the novel The Sun Also Rises, written by Ernest Hemingway the main character, Jake, makes a decision to introduce the woman he loves to a young bullfighter. He had received a wound from W.W.I that scarred him sexually and thus set him apart from anyone else. Jake loves Brett, but cannot be with her since she has an active love life. Brett said, "Oh, Jake, we could have had such a damned good time together."…"Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?"(122). Jake seems to be an observer who watches the lives of his friends unfold and happen around him, but without his participation. Jake makes the decision very much against the will of his friends, but in doing so he pleases

Time will drag us all to our deserved end. I wonder where the hours have gone? the weeks, and the months. Can you figure it out?

is when he, Mr. Sloane and a young woman stop by his house while out