... Fitts (Mr Fitts beats up Ricky) and all manner of lies and weapons (the guns, the urine sample switch). The lighting around a place of this immoral and to an extent, evil, activity would be dark and very Film Noir', thus the lighting in the Fitts family home is dark and a symbolism of all that goes on there. In perfect contrast however ... a slightly more moral and normal' standard to living, hence the home is a product of that, and is lighter in appearance. The film American Beauty not only uses symbols, rather it is a film about symbols, by using the motifs to the extent that American...

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... Victor recounts this event to Walton, Victor shares "when the lapse of time proves the reality of the evil, then the actual bitterness of grief commences" (50). Does Victor see Elizabeth as the evil that took his mother away permanently now? Is Victor's isolation and mania a product of his grief? ... fully differentiated from his mother, Victor views his mother's death as his own. The moment Victor arrives at the University of Ingolstadt, he expresses "the evil influence, the Angel of Destruction, which asserted omnipotent sway over me from the moment I turned my reluctant steps from my f...

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