comparative Flashcards
revenge and forgiveness
invictus
“he wants the satisfaction of firing us himself
“i was thinking about how you spend 30 years in a tiny cell and come out ready to forgive the people who put you there”
“do you see why forgiveness is essential jason? revenge only begets revenge”
“reconciliation starts here”
“forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear”
revenge and forgiveness
ransom
“who in the frenzy of his pride and wrath, his madness. daily violates the corpse of the noblest hero”
“i felt like punching her where she stood. but what would have been the good of that”
“still it was not enough. still his grief was not consumed”
“there, Achilles! you are avenged”
sacrifice grief and loss
invictus
” he says he rested enough in prison
“we never ask him about his family”
“he’s seperated from his wife, his children. how often do you see them her, huh?”
sacrifice, grief and loss
ransom
” he had grieved, but silently. Never permitting himself to betray to others what he felt”
“less easy to accept is what follows from it”
“he had wept for patroclus. Wept without constraint, rocking back and fourth with anguish. pouring fistfuls of dust over his head”
leadership
invictus
“the day i am afraid to do that is the day im no longer fit to lead”
“i have a very large family 42 million”
“youre risking your future as our leader”
“by example,ive always thought to lead by example sir”
“our country will be a shining light in the world’
“you elected me your leader, now let me lead”
“he can win an election but can he run a country” -
leadership
ransom
“but you are not any man”
“what i do is what any man might do” - priam
“i have always… been just what i appear to be. that is the discipline of kings”
family/fatherhood
invictus
“i have a very large family 42 million”
“we never ask him about his family”
family/ fatherhood
ransom
” all i have left to me now is the daughter in law and a little girl - four years old”
“the truth was that none of his sons was in that sense particular. their relationship to him was formal and symbolic”
“as a father, for the body of my son”
“man to man, as a father”
“to act as our fathers and forefathers have done through all the ages”
epic and everyday
invictus
“this is the time to build our nation, using every single brick available to us. Even is that brick comes wrapped in green and gold”
epic and everyday
ransom
” i wonder if he really is a greek. or even…. a man like the rest of us”
“he had wept for patroclus, wept without constraint, rocking back and fourth in anguish. Pouring fistfuls of dust over his head”
fate destiny and chance
invictus
“do you hear? listen to your country… this is our destiny”
“i am the am the master of my fate, i am the captain of my soul”
“listen to your country this is it, this is our destiny”
“according to the experts we’ll reach quarter finals and no further… according to the experts you and me should still be in jail”
fate destiny and chance
ransom
“it will end here on the beach or out there on the plain. that is fixed. inevitable”
“you will not long outlive me, achilles”
“these days are few now that you will have to walk on earth”
“(death) is the hard bargain life makes with us”
“something new and unimaginable as yet will confront him with need”
“call on me priam when the walls of troy are falling around you, and i will come to your aid.”
“… the chance to break free of the obligation of being always the hero”
“[chance].. the opportunity to act for ourselves, to try something that might force events into a different course”
change invictus
” he was a prisoner who became a president”
“if i cannot change when circumstances demand it, how can i expect others to”
“its time people moved on”
“times change. and we need to change as well”
change
ransom
” you are still thinking in the old way. I told you… that my vision was of something new”
“the chance to break free of obligation”
“the real man inside”
“a man remade”
“his spirit had been snatched up and transformed”
“everything around him is subtly changed”
identity
invictus
” you represent me directly. the rainbow nation starts here”
“ he is a man with a mans problems”
“i have a very large family 42 million”
“i cannot talk to them hiding behind men with guns”
black south africans support “anyone but the boks”
“ you represent me directly.. the rainbow nation starts here”
