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To what extent can we sympathise with villains?

      In today's society, villains have taken an important part of the most popular characters of cable TV series. Indeed, those apparently rutheless wrong doers seem to attract the viewer's sympathy. So, we might consider to what extent we can sympatise with vilains. In order to explain that, we will first see how the ant-heroes got out of the manichean vision people had onto them, and then define the limits of this sympathy

Walter White,
Breaking Bad (2008)

 To begin, it sounds important to understand that many things have   changed in the villain's behavior during the last twenty years. the   screenplay writers have gotten them out of their despicable stock   charcater roles and tried to make them more likeable. First, the   antiheroes have become human. They now have very understandable   motivations to do bad things, that can make us appreciate them, since it   is what makes them human. A classical exemple could be Walter White,   the protagonist of the Netflix series Breaking bad, a drug producer and   murderer that started his work so that his family could survive economically after he dies of his cancer. Moreover, some villains really get out of the stereotypical wrong-doer cliché. They allow the series to get new characters, with a tough psycological background, and an undisputable charism. To illustrate that, the Joker is the most logical choice. A warped and evil villain, but with a tough past, which made the movie about him become one of the biggest 2019-2020 blockbuster.

Nevertheless, the sympathy for villains has its own limits; Even if he's got charism and skills, even if he is flawless, an arsonist stays an arsonist, and people won't seriously idolize him. The example of Walter White's humanity had been taken in the first part, but still, somebody producing The top 5 most adictive drug in the word doesn't deserve to be worshiped. Than, I have to talk about the example of Dexter to explain the real point. Doing right by wrong is definitely unfair, and should not be appreciated by people, who could get to take example on them. You don't kill people because they are bad, you put them down to jail.

To conclude, many people sympathise with anti-heroes, in the limit of their own moral judgement. A great litterary piece of work to read, about this notion of  moral judgement would be "beyond good and evil", of Frederich Nieztche.

     

Kamala Harris

 

"All men and women are created equal" are a reality for every American citizen ?

However great and inspirational this line is, it unfortunately doesn't reflect the reality for lots of American citizens...Indeed, the on-going society we are living in is still dominated by patriarchy. Although many obstacles and inequality have been overcome, there is still a long way to go in order to finally say that all men and women are created equal. Trougouh the years, women have always fought for their rights and will continue to do so until equality is genuinely reached. But as for now, I believe and most importantly, I hope mentalities have changed regarding women's place in the society.

Emma, 1A

The Western genre

The western genre has influenced contemporary American culture because it has been a representation of what United States looked like in the 19th century, a way to have action and history in the same movie. They were the good cowboys and sherrifs and the bad outlaws that were cruel and in need of power. Not only did it pleased to children but also to American adults. It has influenced the cinema since 1903. Today it still a famous genre which inspires a lot of new movies that are not necessarily westerns. The western film genre has made Gold Rush famous and an iconic period and gave importance to it in American culture not only in the cinema but also painting, drawing, singing and art in general.

Raphël TLLCE - 2020

Contemporary American culture

On the influence of the western genre on contemporary American culture: 

Western fims, iconic western films. This genre has defenitely influenced American culture. Nowadays former boomtowns that used to struck gold are now ghost towns but most of them are now national historic sites. People want to visit them and learn about America's history. We still hear from the western genre because it is considered as a heritage. Companies are using it to attract customers and artists have been producing music videos showing off their cultural heritage which Americans are proud of. It is a part of their culture and will always be.

Amelle - Tle LLCE

Betrayal

From that moment, The Dwarf King understood that Brona was the principal
source of all this drama and due to her, all the Druids polulation was captured
ans now thrown in the dungeons. However Brona was also a Druid and her
action was an important betrayal for all her population.
In order to find Brona again, The Dwarf King decided to denounce her to all the
Druids community including those who were prisoners but also those who were
hidden in the forest to flee from the Trolls, as well as the Gnomes.
Many days later, all the Druids knew the news about Brona and her huge
betrayal. After that, all were convinced to find and captured her again in order
to kill her.

The Troll army continue The Second War of the Races, with the rebel Druid
Brona. They killed a lot of Druids and Dwarves... They took all the fortress, in all
the countries. Brona could help the Trolls, with the fortress map, or say where
the weapons were, like swords, axes or daggers, she helped them to make a lot
of assaults. But one day the Trolls wanted to assault Bronas family's fortress.
Brona tried to stop them, she begged the Troll King, she gave a few armors
from her family and weapons... But the Trolls didn't want to come back on their
decision and they attacked Brona's family.
She was very angry and she wanted to kill all the Trolls...

After a few weeks, Brona had finally changed sides and came back to her roots.
The only thing she wanted was to get a revenge on the Trolls, so she went back
to her people but they weren’t that friendly. She was held captive for a few
days while she was trying to explain to them that the Trolls had killed her
family.
In the meanwhile the Dwarves were still hiding in the forest and surviving the
best way they could, but Brona proposed something they couldn’t refuse in any
way : information about every move their enemy was going to make and the
most important part, she knew how to defeat them…
Brona wanted justice for her family and she regretted the things she had done
before, so she told the Dwarves everthing she knew, giving them the
opportunity to attack back once and for all.


After all of this, Brona and the Dwarves started thinking of a plan to eliminate
the Trolls and Gnomes. They first thought about coming as a huge angry army
but it would have been to dangerous for them. Not only were they smaller than
the Trolls and the Gnomes but they8 were outnumbered. The Dwarves were
disapointed, they wanted to get their land back and save the Druids but they
couldnt because they were to weak in front of the enemies.
One day, Brona came to Raybur with a big idea in mind. She told him and all the
Dwarves to continue hiding in the forest but to prepare as many traps as
possible to capture the Troll army.
After a long journey preparing traps, thinking of new plans… Brona finally went
to the Trolls and shouted at them so they would follow her : the first who
would catch her would have the right to kill her! She started running and
running right into the forest so that they could be catched by the hidden traps.
A few minutes later all of the Trolls and Gnomes were captured by the Dwarves
in the forest.
The Dwarves had won ! After that they set free the captured Druids and everyone was
pleased.

Lola, Jules, Anne-Sophie and Charlotte.

Thorus the brave.

 The Dwarf King needed to stop the true enemy that was the rebel druid, Brona. He called his most powerful dwarf knight, Thorus. This was such a special knight; he was smaller than the other dwarf knights but this wasn’t a problem for him : in fact, he was such much faster than everyone. He had red hair, blue eyes, a small nose but big ears. Those big ears weren’t a problem because he always wears his hat in wich is written « Raybur’s knight ». Moreover, he was determined to end the war and bring Brona to his king Raybur because the druids once destroyed him: 5 years ago, during a small civil war, the druids had killed all of his family. He was in a great panic. A fairy gave him a magic sword that he could use: but he needed to train hard, very hard. He used that pain to train himself every single day until the opportunity to a revenge his family would come up. And guess what: his dream came true, he could finally try to stop the druids. In order to find Brona, he had a big challenge to face: the druid dungeon.

 He walked for almost 4 days straight so he could finally stand in front of the twenty meters long doors of this dungeon. He arrived to the Troll’s tour and decided to enter. He opened the door discreetly and hid behind a wooden box. Two trolls were posted in front of the stairs then Thorus cut the rope next to him which hold bags of provisions. They fell down and the two trolls ran in order to see what has just happened. Thorus took the advantage of it and climbed the stairs. He was walking up when another troll came down. He drew his sword and began a fight against him. This troll was armed with a magic dagger which could break a sword in two. Thorus used magic of his weapon to desactivated its. Then he succeed in killing him and continued to climb. He reached a door which was locked. He broke the lock with his sword and entered inside. A troll was sleeping and holdind the keys of the jail. He slowly caught them to get the Druids.

After a long and grave fight, Thorus finally found the force to continue his battle. He came into the dungeon , climbed the stairs and discovered the Druids. He was touching his goal: the end of this war would be finished. It was a terrible journey, with big challenges and dangerous adventures, however, it was going to the end. In front of this from of Druids, he hopped to find Bruna, the rebel druid, the first ennemi of the Thorus King. As a proud and loyal dwarf, Thorus said : « Where is your miserable Brona? Tell me or I will kill all of you with my magic sword ! ». All the druids were surprised and not so terrified. Nevertheless, Thorus was fearless ans relentless. He was achieving the goal of his life, being the loyal dwarf of the Kingdom. A shadow moved and answered with a strange voice « I think I can help you… ». This is Bruna, thought Thorus. Like a fairy, Thorus took his sword and made Bruna disappear.

Ema, Kilian and Eloïse