Themes Of A Few Good Men

The motion picture A Few Good Men challenges the question of why Marines obey their superiors’ orders without hesitation. The film illustrates a story about two Marines, Lance Corporal Harold W. Dawson and Private First Class Louden Downey charged for the murder of Private First Class William T. Santiago. Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee, who is known to be lackadaisical and originally considers offering a plea bargain in order to curtail Dawson’s and Downey’s sentence, finds himself fighting for the freedom of the Marines; their argument: they simply followed the orders given for a “Code Red”. The question of why people follow any order given has attracted much speculation from the world of psychology. Stanley Milgram, a Yale psychologist,

“You don't need a patch on your arm to have honor.” Lt. Daniel Kaffee, portrayed by Tom Cruise, says at the end of the movie to Lance Cpl. Dawson after the final ruling is read, stating PFC. Downy and Lance Cpl. Dawson are innocent but are dishonorably discharged from the military. A Few Good Men portrays the negative impact on military personally from strict obedience. Lt. Daniel Kaffee, along with Lt. Cdr. JoAnne Galloway and Lt. Sam Weinberg; played by Demi Moore and Kevin Pollack, must defend PFC. Downy and Lance Cpl. Dawson from being charge of committing a Code Red. However, Lt. Kaffee believes that PFC. Downy and Lance Cpl. Dawson committed the ‘Code Red’, but because it was a direct order

Everyday, people are forced to face with vicious circle of decisions: whether to stick to their morals or obey the authority figure. But it’s a fact that people have a propensity to obey authority, more than to preserve their own morals. A Few Good Men is a film that illustrates the struggle every marine faces-- to follow orders, good or bad. But why would marines follow the orders without hesitation if that order questions the principles they live by? Because the orders in the navy are meant to follow all for the reason of making everyone in Navy into good marines and to be strong enough to defend the nation. It required unquestioning commitment and obedience to orders. The articles, “The Perils of Obedience” by Stanley Milgram and “The

“She would have been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life”(O’Connor 11). In A Good Man Is Hard To Find, the grandma was at gunpoint, about to get shot by the Misfit, but she forgives him for all of the bad things he has done. This means that she could have been a good person if there was someone there to shoot her every second of her life because it was when she was about to be shot that she became a good person. In general throughout many of O'Connor's works, including A Good Man is Hard to Find, Revelation and A Late Encounter With the Enemy she uses the theme of darkness to show how people react and who people are when in great conflict, just like in the example above. Throughout O'Connor's stories, she uses the theme of darkness to show how people really are in times of greatest conflict.

This disassociation allows for the whole sale slaughter of people with moral justification. The unforeseen byproduct of this disassociation, as Cameron points out, can be seen in the 1950’s and 1960’s, when many veterans consigned their wives to the kitchen. The intended product of this disassociation, however, was to kill Japanese soldiers. The Marines would reap the benefits of this first in the Guadalcanal campaign of 1942. With the U.S. Marines of First Division engaged in a life or death struggle against their Japanese opponents, the cartoonish portraits of four-eyed, slow Japanese soldiers burned into the American Marine’s mind kept them from thinking about the enemy as men who are carrying pictures of their families eerily similar to the pictures that were carried by Americans. Using the invasion of Peleliu as a backdrop for his analysis, Cameron expands upon his analysis of the individual Marine to the collective thought of the organization. The U.S. Marine self-image caused Marine units on Peleliu to charge head-first into the waiting Japanese defense with foolhardy, head on assaults which they stubbornly pressed. The Marine Corps, even through their hyper-masculine indoctrination, had not prepared their Marines any better than their U.S. Army counterparts on the island. Before Peleliu, the perception of combat had been that of a clean affair due to the romanticized images of World War I. After, due to Tom Lea’s reporting of events, the

In the short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” written by Flannery O'Connor, there are various examples of the different types of absurdity and O'Connor also uses those illustrations of absurdity to make major plot twists within the story. To begin with, the grandmother says she would never take her children where a criminal was, what the reader expects is that on the family’s vacation to Florida they are safe and not a single criminal is in sight of them. Eventually, due to the grandmother’s nagging about a house she visited once before, the family gets into a car accident. While sitting outside their car, a car stops and a man comes out to help them. The man is the criminal The Misfit. The family ends up getting killed that same day by The

Parts five and six bring together the personal and professional relationship between Marines themselves and the American public. These relationships, forged by the millions of men and women who have donned the Marine Corps uniform, are a result of training methods and careful selection. General Krulak gives the reader a taste of why Marines do what they have come to be known as America’s force in readiness. First to Fight has many good traits. The book, while easy to read and addictively interesting, never sugarcoats the intense conflicts between high level officials. General Krulak enhances the “official” record with personal accounts of events and people now legendary. His no-holds-barred approach to his writing makes General Krulak’s book both honest and educational. His explanations of the struggle to keep the Marine Corps alive and the early development of amphibious doctrine make First to Fight a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the modern Marine Corps. In parts of the book, General Krulak provides a mountain of detail. While these facts would be of great historical value for a reader who knows military structure and nomenclature, they tend to bog down the reader at points. The political volleys also tend to get tedious when the General describes the how the Marine Corps had to fight tooth and nail for institutional survival. These

“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” begins with a typical traditional American family being challenged by the grandmother who doesn’t want to travel to Florida. She has read a newspaper about criminal news which was happening in Florida. However, when they were finally on the way, they got a car accident and met the incredible crazy killer Misfit who is on the escapeway for Florida. When the grandmother were going to cry and murmured “why you’re one of my babies. You’re one of my own children!”, the Misfit told her that “She would of been a good woman of it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.” and finally shoot her, the theme of story begins to emerge from the water. The grandmother labeled “good man” does not truly meaning “moral” or “kind”, the person who is “good man” in her opinion was only if his values are equaled to her. For example, Misfit is a “good man” not because he is a reasonable person but because he would not shoot a lady.

The story I read is '' A good man is hard to find" . While exploring this story, I noticed that the author of the story exploit the theme of the story through the actions of it's characters. And the authors ideas in this story are some of the things that we face in society today. Just as in the story, in our society today most young people show a lot of disrespect to their elders and also do not listen to advises from seniors. Furthermore, the plot also shows how evil the misfit is, just as it said in the theme of the story" A good man is hard to find". I was thinking that the misfit was going to pardon the granny and her kid and grand kids due to the fact that the just had an accident, well but he did not probably because the granny was able

“ A Good man is hard to find” by Flannery O’Connor shows a short story about a family vacation that hastily faces a brutal end by a known criminal named “the misfit”. As we look at title and going through the story, we strongly sense the traditional gender roles. Even though a good man is really hard to find in this story, we ultimately see “the misfit” to be a heartbreaking character that becomes the salvation of the grandmother. The grandmother is point out as a person that thinks of herself as a higher class than the others despite of her dreadful facts.

Flannery O?Connor A Good Man Is Hard To Find. the setting first takes place in a city the author does not name. The story takes us to many places but they are in the state of georgia. The second half of the story (the important part) is on a dirt road where they wreck and are stranded in the middle of nowhere. The author gives us details about how the forest is deep and dark. This is very symbolic considering their whole family is massacred in these woods and also the family did not know they were going to die in theses scary dark woods.

For many years the civilian world and the military world have coexisted for the simple fact that they didn’t completely understand each other. There have been issues with the two communities, including unwanted wars, among other things. With this kind of conflict comes a lot of literature and scholarship explaining the differences and similarities in the two communities. Alongside these study’s, there are films and other forms of entertainments that work to show both sides of the argument, and one film that does this is Aaron Sorkin’s, A Few Good Men. This film expresses a lot of the issues that the civilian world has with the military world. Because of this, A Few Good Men expresses a resistant ideology of interactionism that is competing

Even with all the experience of being a successful row coach, Coach P. was puzzled and thinking about where did they go wrong. Coach P. thought he had it all figured out based on individual test performances. The one thing that he did not test for was high character and the self-will to perform well within a group. The coach felt the need to intervene with his team only when he realize the varsity rowers frustration towards each other. Coach P. was dealing with a team full of excellent individual performance but they couldn't come together as one to dominate. The Junior Varsity rowed faster and worked together as one. No matter or judgment about their individual performances, they performed at a very high level and supported each other.

The drama film, A Few Good Men, released in December 11, 1992 is based on a court martial on two U.S Marines. This film, in which was directed by Rob Reiner, takes place in the United States Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. LCpl Dawson is played by Wolfgang Bodison and PFC Downy is played by James Marshall. With both Marines being charged of murder, they are assigned a lawyer through the Navy. Lieutenant Commander JoAnne Galloway, played by Demi Moore, is introduced as the investigator and lawyer. Lieutenant. Kaffee played by Tom Cruise. The co-council is Lieutenant Sam Weinberg, played by Kevin Pollack. The prosecutor is Captain Jack Ross, played by Kevin Bacon and the Marine that was assaulted is Private William Santiago, played by Michael Lorenzo.

The movie titled “A Few Good Men,” starring Tom Cruise as Lt. Daniel Kaffee, Demi Moore as Lt. Cdr. JoAnne Galloway, Jack Nicholson as Col. Nathan R. Jessep, and Kevin Bacon as Captain Jack Ross, is a riveting American legal drama that shows the ins and outs of courts and the criminal justice system. I obtained this movie on the On Demand section of my television. There are many themes in the movie relating to the courts section of our criminal justice class but I would like to discuss plea bargaining, preparing a witness, major trial courts, Defense attorney/government prosecutor, and the expert witness that they put on the stand.