"Dogtown": A female scholar's journey to enlightenment

Joesph 2022-03-24 09:01:40

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I don't know which sage said such a sentence; ignorance is the greatest enemy of mankind. Judging from the actual situation, this sentence is not unreasonable, and it should be a real insight. This "Dog Town" further sublimates this truth. Theoretical knowledge needs to be learned, but scientific practice is even more essential. Just like students have to do homework, the teacher imparts your knowledge in class and needs to consolidate it at home.

Our Miss Grace is such a serious and hard-working person, and I think the reason for her running away from home is this: Miss Grace loves philosophy as a profound subject, and may have also read Russell Kant Schopenhauer In the works of masters such as Laozi, Zhuangzi, etc., it is estimated that she firmly believes in the theory that human beings are inherently good at the beginning, and often promotes the method of being kind to others and convincing them with virtue. But her father, the boss of the gang, couldn't stand it anymore. He wanted to live on the edge of a knife for the rest of his life. Anyone who refused to accept would be killed. He always believed that violence was aesthetics. Finally, on a quiet night, the contradiction between the father and daughter broke out, and Grace left her father in a rage to practice her ideals.

Grace was lucky enough to meet Tom and rescue her. It is estimated that our brother Tom fully realizes that this is a rare hero to save beauty, and of course he will not let it go easily. So it felt good for the two to meet for the first time, and then Grace realized that Tom was a positive literary youth and believed that only kindness would make the world a better place. Unexpectedly, there is a hermit in such a shunned small village, but we know from the prologue that the so-called villager idol Tom is nothing more than a gold and jade, and he is just a good man with a rhetoric. Here Grace made a mistake: fell in love with this man. Tom also made a mistake: he left behind Grace's father's business card.

The story that followed was a jaw-dropping process. According to previous story experiences, it was smooth at the beginning, although there were a few small episodes, but also to serve as a foil. Grace gained the trust of the villagers through her own efforts, but over time, this situation changed. At first, the child bullied her, and then the child's father, the Apple worker, also insulted her inhumanly. It was only at this moment that she realized To myself is so helpless. But what can I do? I am a fugitive (the villagers think the wanted order is real), and the most important thing is that I should stick to my original ideal: being kind to others is the best way to communicate. So she endured it again and again, and reality became cruel again and again.

So she found her lover, Tom, the good man, and when Tom learned about these things, he was filled with righteous indignation and must help Grace escape from this filthy and dirty place. He escaped back to the dog village with the help of a cargo worker who was greedy for profit. It is worth mentioning that Miss Grace not only lost money this time, but also got on with herself. The villagers of Dog Town finally revealed their true colors. They were like a pack of wolves, humiliating the slave at will. Miss Grace has completely changed from a human to a dog.

I think the greatest manifestation of human nature lies in greed, and the villagers in Dog Town are no exception. They are not satisfied with the reward of the wanted order, but hand her over to the real "enemy", that is, the gang boss. They think it's a good deal that's very lucrative and lucrative. So the gates of hell opened for them as they warmly greeted the gangster leader and his armed younger brother. And so a bloody revenge, an eye for an eye, began.

It is admirable that Miss Grace still believes that kindness is the only flash of human nature before taking revenge, but the process she experienced in Dogtown made her doubt, is it written wrong in the book? She continued to discuss this issue with her father in the car. The father stroked the top of his daughter's head with his big loving hand, and said to her earnestly: "Silly child, there must be something hateful about the poor!" At this time, our Miss Grace shed tears of excitement and sighed up to the sky: I finally understand! Therefore, theory and practice must be combined to realize the truth.

At this time, Miss Grace understood the meaning of the law of nature through her own efforts, and became an authority on social philosophy. She took a cold pistol, walked to Tom with firm steps, and spoke to him with a cold voice. Said: "Fuck you, go to hell!"

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  • Verdie 2021-11-17 08:01:27

    The audience should substitute themselves into a certain villager in Dogtown, not the heroine herself, because you have no power.

  • Kayley 2021-11-17 08:01:27

    "Grace finally understood that the real arrogant person is herself. She put the moral ruler heavily on her shoulders, thinking that forgiving others is the greatest good, thinking about the world too beautifully, and ultimately harming herself and others. . The way to punish the woman who insulted her is to kill her child in front of her, just like the way she was tortured. It doesn’t matter at all whether this is right or not. It’s fair.”

Dogville quotes

  • Narrator: [as McKay explores even further with his hand] It was not Grace's pride that kept her going during the days when fall came and the trees were losing their leaves, but more of a trance like state that descends on animals whose lives are threatened - a state in which the body reacts mechanically in a low tough gear, without too much painful reflection. Like a patient passively letting his disease hold sway.

  • Narrator: [as Grace attempts to make her case] If forgiveness was close at hand in the mission house, they were all hiding it well. It hadn't been easy for Tom to get them there. Appealing to consciences stowed farther and farther away by their owners every day, as if they were as fragile as Henson's glasses after polishing, proved quite a task. But if one was going, the others might as well come along too, so nobody could talk behind anybody's back.