...No Country for Old Men 3-4장에 드러난 작가의 세계관 소설이라는 것의 줄거리는, ‘책을 읽게 만드는 힘’ 이상은 아닐 수도 있다. 이 소설이 단순한 스릴러 장르를 뛰어 넘어 한 차원 높은 수준의 문학을 만드는 데에는 코맥 맥카시의 독특한 문체와 염세주의적 세계관, 그로 인한 묵시록적 분위기가 많은 부분을 차지하고 있는 것 같다. 이야기는 텍사스부터 캘리포니아까지 넓은 의미에서의 서부를 배경으로 하고 있는데, 이 배경 또한 단순한 배경에 그치지 않고, 배경 자체가 등장인물이며, 소설에서 사건만큼이나 장소 또한 중요한 역할을 한다. 끝없는 서부의 풍경은 언뜻 굉장히 아름답지만, 싱싱하고 활력 넘치는 아름다움이 아니라 황폐미에 가깝다. 시기 또한 어딘가 애매한 1980년, 웨스턴의 폭력과 황폐함의 역사가 휴화산처럼 가만히 잠든 곳이다. 완전히 개방된 공간의 대낮에 시체들이 널브러진 풍경(p96, They walked around in the bajada looking at the shot-up trucks. ~ This is the damnedest thing I ever saw, he said) 시내 한복판에서의 총격전 (p 120, By the time they’d figured out where~)은 문명과는 거리가 먼, 거의 초현실적인 무법의 세계 같다. 그런 풍경은 그 자체로 사람을 무기력하게 만든다. 모스와 시거의 추격전 사이 사이에 그 둘을 쫓는 보안관 벨의 독백이 실린다. 그러나 이 독백은 이야기의 전개에 아무런 도움이 되지 않는다.(Bell은 항상 한 발 늦게 장소에 등장한다) 오히려 그것은 숨막히는 추격전의 흐름을 툭툭 끊어버리기까지 한다. 이것은 의도적이다. 작가는 우리가 현명한 노인의 이야기에 좀 더 귀를 기울이기 원하지만 벨의 독백은 그저 변화하는 세상과 충돌하는 노인네의 한탄처럼 느껴진다.(P62, I don’t know that law enforcement benefits all that much from new technology ~ I thought I’d stick with what I had) 그럼에도 불구하고, 텍스트 안에서 이상한 위치에 있는 보안관. 그는 유일하게 우리가 감정을 이입할 수 있는 자기 심정을 스스로 말하고 있다. 보안관은 텍스트와 교묘하게 떨어져서 상황을 관전하고 있는데, 따라서 보안관에게 작가가 세상을 바라보는 관점이 직접적으로 담겨 있다고 할 수 있다. 그 관점의 핵심은 무력감이다.(p64, Does it work? ~ Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.) 점점 나이를 먹어가는 상황도 포함되어 있고 거기서 독특한 제목이 나올 수도 있었다. 여기에는 선악을 바라보는 작가의 관점이 있다. 앞으로 힘차게 달려나가는 행위가 악이라면, 선은 그렇게 하는 것이 맞는지 돌아보는 행위이다. 한마디로 선은 무력하다. 그것을 예민하게 느끼는 사람이 사회적...
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...In Cormac McCarthy’s book No Country for Old Men, the main character Llewellyn Moss finds himself in a pretty scary position. He found a bag filled with millions of dollars and there are many people hunting for him, to get that money. He is running for his life for most of the book. All of which is because Moss loved the power of money. Although you need money for material possessions and services, money corrupts you to do dreadful things. Because its main incentive for Moss was to get more and more and more. Money is a necessary commodity; it keeps a roof over your head, food in your stomach, in the modern time, money is energy for a life, and could purchase everything. Money is as well as blood in our body. Therefore, we can not...
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...Gloria Payan PHIL 1301 December 2, 2014 Existentialism / No country for Old Men Existentialism is the idea that existence precedes essence, and predicament is a strenuous, complicated and unpleasant situation that is or appears irrational, or beyond comprehension. When the character of the Sheriff Edd Tom Bell played by Tommy Lee Jones in the film, No Country for Old Men, says “a man would have to put his soul at hazard”¹ I believe he was expressing that even if he knew that he had to be willing to die to do his job, that in the process of doing so he might kill someone and that would put his soul at hazard, and in order for him to exist he would be in a strenuous, complicate and unpleasant situation. He seems to be discouraged with the way things were and how crime had raised from the time when Law Man carried no weapons and people respected them just for being Law Man. When the Sheriff, finds himself with the predicament of entering into the hotel where he believes Anton Chigurh is. Anton is an unstoppable psychopathic hit man who is willing to kill everyone who comes across him. The Sheriff is faced with the struggle of making a decision which may or may not cause his own death or the death of Anton which would cause him to put his soul at hazard. I believe the Sheriff decision to retire was mainly due to failing attempt to capture Anton, which left him feeling despaired discourage, defeated and overwhelm. Soren Kierkegaard, believed that for a practical level-headed...
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...Brontë’s Jane Eyre, a classic bildungsroman novel, was applauded for its unique perspective on women and its explicit symbolism and literary devices (Brontë i-iii). In a simultaneous similarity and contrast, McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men is a critical and commercial success, providing an alternative to literary explicitism with minimalist text, instead implicating much of the novel’s portrayals of relationships, personalities, and descriptions in liberal usage of implicit language. Even the main characters, despite all having underlying values and personalities, are compressed into three separate archetypes more commonly found in folklore than in comparable modern stories (Cooper). Ultimately, like Brontë, McCarthy masterly weaves such elements into a coming-of-age story for the main character, but instead of the realization of happiness, the main character instead faces defeat with the realization of the changing of the...
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...Pablo Neruda’s poem “Nothing but Death” highlights the dynamic presence of death, where it’s overall meaning supplements the themes of fate and choice in McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men. Particularly, Neruda implements literary devices such as metaphors and similes to underscore the absolute omnipresent nature of death to the reader as well as detailed imagery in his poem. For example, in the second stanza Neruda compares death being “like a barking where there are no dogs” (11) meaning that death established itself infinitely and assures once again being part of fate as it lays “inside the bones” (10) of dead corpses. Like in McCarthy’s novel No Country for Old Men, characters like Moss fail to realize his inevitable fate where he instead...
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...Ed Tom Bell is the town sheriff in Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men. Sheriff Bell has two conflicts to resolve. First, he must apprehend the dangerous hit-man Anton Chigurh. Next, he must find Llewellyn Moss and ensure his safety. Sherriff Bell fails to do both of his tasks; Chigurh evades capture, resulting in the death of Moss’s wife as well as Moss himself. A clear examination of the words and actions of Sherriff Bell provides insight into his shortcomings. Sherriff Bell is a nostalgic man who is unable to confront evil and is riddled with guilt. The opening paragraph describes Sheriff Bell and his encounter with a man who senselessly killed a fourteen-year old girl. When Bell talks with the imprisoned killer and observes that the man has absolutely no remorse, he is stunned. This experience convinces Bell that “there is a true and living prophet of destruction and I don’t want to confront him” (4). He believes that exposing oneself to such evil forces a man to “put his soul at hazard” (4). These two quotes set up a clear conflict for the rest of the story. Because Bell is unwilling to put himself in front of evil, he is unable to fully devote himself to confronting the psychopathic killer, Anton Chigurh....
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...he New Kind and its Culture ''No Country for Old Men'' (2005), writer by Cormac McCarthy is a police story set on the border between Mexico and the United States. It is the story of Llewelyn Moss, a veteran of the Vietnam War that finds, in the scene of a bloody massacre in the desert, a briefcase with several million dollars and decides to keep them. Soon, a mysterious assassin, Anton Chigurh, and veteran sheriff Tom Bell, along with drug traffickers and other criminals in a violent and savage persecution will be behind him . As in almost all the work of McCarthy, the issue here is the line between good and evil, and the natural tendency of man toward this last. The pure evil is represented by Chigurh, a ruthless murderer who warns Moss that...
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...forced labor. Men, women, and children all over the world are facing human trafficking every day. According to UNODC, human trafficking is the transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons by using force, or other forms of abduction, or fraud, or of giving and receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. This kind of exploitation includes the sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, and slavery or practices similar to slavery (2013). Countries all over the world are affected by human trafficking (UN). Trafficking often occurs from less developed countries to more developed countries (UN). According to the Association of Flight Attendants, 12.3 million adults and children are exploited around the world, 56% are women and girls (2013). The International Labor Organization estimated that in 2005, 980,000 to 1,225 million boys and girls were forced into labor situation. As mentioned in Baumgardner work, human trafficking is expected to be the number one crime in America in 2012. Human trafficking is a 40 billion dollars a year industry. More than 100,000 children in the United States are forced to engage in prostitution each year. The United States is the number one destination for sex tourism (2012). In the undeveloped countries, lack of money and employment are the main causes for human trafficking. Women are the first to be urged to leave their home country and move to...
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...There is a memory of an old Sudan A torn and faded picture of the country as it was As it was told to us A warm and beautiful place imprinted in our memories as if it were our own A world of wide open boulevards and tree-lined streets Of clean roads and white robes Young men straight and proud and women wrapped in gold and finery Old men on bicycles gliding slowly through the town The early morning siren and those trains that ran on time Cinema coliseum and St James and jazz nights by the Nile 1 Khartoum University in its glory days when exams were marked in London and students had their laundry done Greek stores full of foreign goods and cars when England used to make them Weddings that lasted 40 days and 40 nights And funerals that lasted just as long Clear skies and cool nights and darkness pierced by the brightest stars Lush green gardens and seasons that broke the heat Young men and women full of passion and idealism An old world tired and in retreat and a new world resurgent and full of hope These are the stories that our fathers told us Told to us in sketches, fragments Told to us In the early mornings, as the sun crept slowly into the sky On those orange days Afternoons, when the dust and heat rose up in a blazing haze Swallowing the earth and all that was on it And we would listen, rapt As they told us of the golden age That age of charismatics Of Che and Nkrumah and Nyrere Of revolution and a new world born Of the brave men and the brave women who...
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...soldiers as being tired broken and weak, whereas the authorities in Britain [at the time] were depicting them as brave, glorious and strong young men, honourably fighting for their country. This poem is the antithesis to the war propaganda of the British ‘recruitment drive’ during the Great War. Question 2 (a) Identify and list in note form, three of the techniques used in these lines. Simile: “like old beggars”, “like hags” Alliteration: “Knock-kneed”, “Men marched” Metaphor: “haunting flares”, “Drunk with fatigue” (b) Comment in complete sentences on what the effects of the three techniques you have identified might be. Owen uses similes comparing the soldiers to “old beggars” and “hags”, to convey how the war has reduced them to absolute wrecks. The resulting effect is an image of crumpled, broken, hopeless men at death’s door rather than strong, upright, warrior figures. The use of alliteration alters the rhythm of the poem, thus drawing attention to the words. “Knock-kneed” portrays an image of weakened soldiers, buckling under the strain of the war. The repeated “M” sound in “Men marched asleep” suggests an out-of-body, mindless experience rather than a purposeful, rhythmic march. Owen uses metaphors to create a vivid image. Referring to “haunting flares” he sets a ghostly scene. He describes the men as “Drunk with fatigue” for emphasis i.e. so tired that they are not...
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...finance the war, and to spark nationalism. Without propaganda being fed to the masses, WWI would not have occurred on the same level as it did with the use of propaganda. The first way in which propaganda was used in the First World War was to get men to join the military in their respective countries. One recruitment poster features a father sitting in a chair with his daughter on his lap and his son by his feet. At the bottom, it says “Daddy, what did YOU do in the Great War?” The girl appears to be asking the question to her father, who is staring off into space. This, to me, suggests he did not serve in the war and feels regret for not doing so. This piece of propaganda appeals to the desire to leave behind a legacy. Traditionally, men were the protectors of their families, and to not fight for his country leaves a feeling of shame. The creators of this poster wanted to guilt men into feeling as though they had to serve in order to be the man society expects them to be....
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...age for women was 18 and for men was 21. Of course some men were not to happy about this so one man decided to take a stand. Craig, the Plaintiff, sued David Boren, defendant and the Governor of Oklahoma (Oyez 1). He was governor at the time and he is now the President of the University of Oklahoma. The differences for the drinking age between age for men and women were for the consumption of beer at a 3.2% alcohol level (Oyez 1). Craig claimed this violated Equal Protection clause from the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution (Casebriefs 1). The issue was does the Oklahoma statute violate the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (Casebriefs 1). The procedural history was that it went to the state court and the state provided reams of statistical evidence suggesting that young men were more dangerous drinkers (Casebriefs 1). The Supreme Court happened to disagree with the state and look at the case. The Supreme Court believed that “2% of the men and just under 1% of the women between 18 and 21 had been arrested for alcohol-linked driving violations hardly constituted grounds for different treatment” (Casebriefs 1). The Supreme Court ruled that the law was unconstitutional and many Oklahoma citizens were very mad and upset with Craig because now everyone in Oklahoma had to be 21 to drink (Oyez 1). Men just could have had 18-year-old women to buy them beer and it would not have mattered, they did it anyway. The men and especially women were so...
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...transport them across different borders worldwide and within countries, has attracted a lot of attention (Godziack & Bump,2008).This is so because the plight of women and children who are exploited for both labour and sex, has been brought to the attention of governments and international bodies such as the United Nations. Though human trafficking is not confined only to women and children, but includes men as well (for labour), it is the use and abuse of women and children for sexual activities that has received new focus. This has also been the case in the UAE. The country has been criticized for being lax in curbing or preventing this activity. This resulted in action on the part of the UAE government. The scope of this paper is to look at human trafficking in the UAE and the actions taken to stop it and prosecute the perpetrators of it. Definition and Background to Human Trafficking: In today’s world many people see and refer to human trafficking as the “ new slave trade”. Though human trafficking is seen and described as a new phenomenon, it is actually very old. It has existed for thousands of years, but just in another form and name, namely that of slavery. This leads to a comparison between the old and the new. In the modern setting of today’s world, exploitation is still there, however, the acquisition of the ‘modern day slaves’ are different to the methods of the old days (C.Davidson 2011). In the old days, slaves were traded mostly for labour purpose, and...
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...instances of the condition happened when contrasted to the population. This measure is to define the ratio of infant deaths to live births. This is also depends on the country or area you are looking at. Here are some social groupings which I will be explaining: * Social Class * Gender * Age * Geographic Location * Ethnicity * Risk Behaviours Geographic location In a place like Glasgow a person’s life expectancy of life is lower at 54 than a person who lives in London would probably live to 82 years old. This could suggest that depending on where you and your race could determine a person’s life expectancy. This could be because of poor living circumstances in Glasgow then in London this could link so Social Cass. Also because the person is on a low income they won’t have the money to go to private care it may be difficult for the person to receive quality care like a person who makes a lot of money. Those in lower paid, unskilled jobs have a greater risk of accidents at work and can suffer from stress linked to unemployment. Professionals enjoy healthier lifestyle, not just because they have a better standard of living because they are more likely to be aware of health issues and more likely to consult doctors than men. As a result, women appear to have higher sickness relates than men but this may reflect that fact more male ill health Is unreported which links to...
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...Missing connection for young men and gangs Gangs have brought fear in the eyes of Americans for centuries, however what people fail to understand is that these rebel groups may just be a connection to a person finding acceptance, guidance, and love and protection. Terry Frieden, CNN Justice Producer states that CNN FBI report claims that over 1.4 million people are active in gang memberships in America. The FBI also reports that over the past 3 years gangs have increased 40%. Some people believe that gangs are as dangerous as war, yet they fail to understand is that gangs are no different than any functional family. Conversely the birth of gangs started with discrimination, young men, mostly men of color started to feel unexpected by society...
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