In Braveheart William Wallace is the person many people would like to be: trustworthy, forgiving, honorable, and loyal but most importantly, he is willing to die for others and for his beliefs. Williams’s family, including his Father, Brother, and Wife have been killed by English. He has been seeking freedom since he was little. When William embarks on this journey at first he does not want to fight excessively but as the days go by the circumstances make him fight more and more, an example of this is when his wife is killed by nobles. William embarks in this journey to avenge the deaths of his loved ones and to fight for his most important goal, freedom.
After his fathers, death, William is taken by his uncle. William’s uncle teaches him combat skills but mainly “how to use his brain”. Later, he takes him back to where he used to live. Then while he is at his homeland he finds a young lady and gets married but they have just passed the primo nocturno a law which states than any nob
William goes “Into the Abyss” where he is caught and taken to England. He is told to swear loyalty to the king or he dies a painful death. William denies it when asked then the next day, he is taken to the stage were he would suffer a torturous death. William is asked over and over again while he is getting tortured to plead for merci but not one word comes out of his mouth but FREEDOM then he dies looking or hallucinating his wife. Although William does not “Slay the Dragon” physically he slays it because all the Scottish see the way he dies for their country. As a result they all form up in the battle lines against the English and defeat them all, yelling “WALLACE”!
This is when William crosses the “threshold” while his wife is taken away into a noble’s house. Here William gets outraged and kills both security guards and the noble. He mounts his wife in a horse and tells her to meet him at the river. When he arrives she is not there and he soon finds out she was captured and killed
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