Describe Commodus, (from movie Gladiator)motivation for growth and change through conflict.
Date Submitted: 01/12/2004 21:20:55
Category: / Arts & Humanities / Film & TV
Length: 3 pages (869 words)
Category: / Arts & Humanities / Film & TV
Length: 3 pages (869 words)
Commodus changes for the worse. He is innately devious and this is not resolved throughout Gladiator. He identifies his main adversary as Maximus, his father's favourite, but in reality it is his own lack of moral fibre that is his greatest enemy. Maximus's fallicious death triggers a surge towards a more confident, vehement Commodus, but when Maximus resurfaces there is a resumption of his initial personality. As any emergence any improvement retracts.
Maximus's strengths are …
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…of Gladiator. Commodus offers a comparison by which Maximus can be measured; and the two share a symbiotic relationship in the way they need each other for the personality of the characters to be fully recognised. Commodus remains trapped in a downward spiral of unvirtue; disallowing himself from experiencing redemption; the redemption that would have made him a tragic hero. This entrapment in vice is however crucial to the narrative of Gladiator.
By Amanda Turner
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