Is Adrian A Harmless But Repressed Movie Buff Or A Dangerous Sociopath

Jack lead a life that would not make most envy him. He suffered from many traumatic events, most of these can

Jack not only changes the people around him and makes them see that there is a brighter day, but he also rebuilds their morals and confidence. He does this in various scenes of the movie. For instance, when Jack asked Dedmon to challenge the NCAA and all Dedmon was getting back was rejection letters. Jack asked him if he was

By stating that he did not know anyone by the name of Cecily, Jack initiates his own debacle. He has to clarify that Cecily is actual his ward. Nonetheless, Jack bears no anguish to dissembling to his closest companion. Jack’s morality has been impaired by his lies and it implies that his animalistic qualities control him. Yet, he falls in love and he must tell Gwendolen, his sweetheart, of his morally wrong character. In order to do so Jack has to disclose that Ernest was not in fact his real name but a mere alias created to cover up his dastardly ways. He can think of no other way than to “kill” his brother. Wilde shows how Jack’s urbane nature begins to be marred by his animalism since he was willing to kill a man, fictional or not. Ensuing in the play Jack is speaking with Algernon and he begins to ponder on how to commit the murder. He states “My poor brother Ernest is carried off suddenly in Paris, by a severe chill. That gets rid of him” (Wilde 16). Though fictional, Jack’s murder of Ernest still seems to carry the same implications further into the book. This murder eventually skews his reputation once his lies become known. Wilde proves how Jack’s lies soon catch up to him and flaw his esteemed moral persona. Later in the play Algernon sets off on a trip to Jack’s country estate and claims he is Ernest Worthing. Later when Jack arrives Cecily informs her caretaker that his brother Ernest is in his room. Jack replies

It is when Jack meets brain cancer patient June, that he begins to feel his first thoughts of empathy. He not only begins to have empathy for June, but he starts to sympathize with his own condition, feeling slightly sympathetic for himself. His listening and behavior take a turn, for the better. It has taken him being terminally ill and meeting a terminally ill friend to start directing his attention and feelings towards others. He begins to relate with Junes illness and his own. This causes him to realize how much he has taken his wife and son for granted, and just how hard it is to get someone to understand how he feels. He realizes he is at a point in his life that he needs the people around him.

Kindness is usually the most important character trait someone can have, and Jack definitely has it. He constantly shows kindness towards August and is aware of the struggles he faces on a daily. The most important part is that he truly does likes August and is kind to him as we see in this quote, “Second of all, he's actually a really cool dude. I mean, he's pretty funny”(Palacio 142). In that quote he is talking to himself which means that it is his

When imagining talking to his boss, King highlights that Jack never wanted to leave the Overlook by describing “John Torrance explaining to Al that they’d just had to leave, had to shut down the boiler, had to leave the Overlook… because, you see, Al, attendez-vous, Al, there a ghosts up there and they have it in for my boy (King 395). Jack attempts to convince his boss that leaving the Overlook was not his fault. The repetition of Al’s name illustrate that Jack is trying to connect with him, and gives their conversation a more desperate feel. The desperate tone suggests that Jack understands that by leaving the Overlook, he will upset him, and make him think less of Jack.

In Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men the narrator, Jack Burden attempts to distance himself from any darkness surrounding him and his actions, yet simultaneously disclaims all responsibility. Throughout the novel he accepts human responsibilities and dismisses the moral relativism and “The Great Twitch.” Jack is Willie Stark's political right-hand man, comes from a prominent family and knows many of the most important people in the state. He lacks his ambition and his responsibilities. By the end of the novel jack is transformed by different events like departure of Ellis Burden, the case of Judge Irwin and his relation with Anne Stanton that gives him a chance to live his life with a different manner.

Jack being speechless demonstrates how shocked he is that Al has so much control over him, after all they used to be friends, almost equals. In society men are told they must always be in control, this leads to Jack believing he must

Depicted as a teenager, Jack also portrays Scary Gary as a “crazy” type of person. He doesn’t enjoy dangerous situations, he enjoys others experiencing them. Scary Gary takes pleasure in seeing others getting put through pain. Frankie, Scary Gary’s “test dummy” before Jack came along, always complied to Scary Gary’s commands, even if it’s as extreme as catapulting himself to the neighbor’s yard. When Jack meets the two, he becomes fascinated by them and their antics, even though they're a poor influence.

He used violence as a way to keep fear emplaced in the society. Jack’s attitude reflects those in history like Hitler. He believes he can do whatever he wants when he wants with little to no explanation. For example, some of Jack’s followers discuss what he has done, “‘He’s going to beat Wilfred.’ ‘What for?’

Jack illustrates the purpose of deception by using Earnest to escape his role of Cecily’s warden. When Algernon finds Jack’s cigarette case, he is shocked to find the name Jack graven inside. Jack attempts to explain by saying, “[M]y name is Ernest in town and Jack in the country” (Wilde Act I). As Jack, he has to be a responsible adult and take care of his niece Cecily but as Ernest he is able to live the wild life of a young bachelor. By pretending to be Ernest in town, Jack is freed from the restrictions of being a caretaker, yet he still fulfills the duties of one as he resides in the country. While explaining why he has two identities to Algernon, Jack states that being a guardian does not “conduce very much to either one’s health or one’s happiness” (Wilde Act I). Jack has to take care of Cecily, be responsible for her, and set rules and guidelines for her to follow. In his role of guardian, he finds himself unable to have fun, so he creates an irresponsible, carefree

Jack. Gary Varvel wants to bring more awareness of characters like Jack to college students so that he or she will not make the mistakes Jack made. In society today, many college students are like Jack. Students love to party, club hop, drink, video themselves, and put it on Facebook. So many times, a selfie of a person doing something very crazy and misbehaving is posted. A few years later the student graduates and cannot get the job he or she wants because of the material posted on Facebook. Students do not think about the harm to their reputation until the damage is done.

These stage directions are at the being of the play and they display Jack as being very comfortable in the presence of friends like Algernon and he appears to be self-confident and

     The character “Jack” is a character the audience will feel sympathy for and even come to like.

In some ways, Algernon, not Jack, is the play’s real hero. Not only is Algernon like Wilde in his dandified, exquisite wit, tastes, and priorities, but he also resembles Wilde to the extent that his fictions and inventions resemble those of an artist.