Sunday, September 27, 2009

Actions speak louder than pretend identities

The doors that know no one wants to go to is given the identity of a man with nothing in his eyes. That man behind the door creeps people out. However, the mans name behind the door is Angel. Angle is seeing as a man to the world that is his identity. However, he sees himself as a monster. Angles action’s don’t reflect a monster but more human emotions and feelings. The scene that shows a big part of Angel not being a monster is when, the people of the hotel join to find answers of how the man in the room died. Judie has had her picture flashed about by a law in forcer. The people loudly take Judie while she pleads and screams. They are ready to take justice into there own hand’s. Angel walks in the hotel and Judie points a finger calling him a monster telling everyone he has blood in his room it is just Angel standing there alone and exposed. The attention of the crowed immediately turns their attention on to the new piece of meat. The room full of people should be loud but during this part, it is quiet like it is just a dream to Angel. That this couldn’t be happening. The shock the light in Angels eyes as he looks at Judie is just pain. The camera is focused on both Judie and Angel going back and forth whiles the people but the rope around Angel. During all this Angel could have exposed Judie ‘s two ideates of being half white and half black, stealing money from the bank and also the actors identity of being gay. He could have just as easily put the blame on someone else. Angle took the blame something that no monster would or human would do. Angels actions of being human continued through the show. When he went back to the hotel and got ride of the demand for the last time. He found Judie old, alone and afraid of what could happen. Angel helped her to her bed. Judie asked for forgiveness while on her death bed Angel accepted her ask forgiveness. These actions show human traits and not monsters traits. Angel had human behaviors and some monster ones to but his human behaviors out weighted the monster ones, drinking blood, helping Judie get away from her “boyfriend”. Going and asking how to vanquish the demon, telling Judie the cops won’t come, listening to Judies problems and past even though he didn’t want to from the look on his face. Angel doesn’t pretend to human nearly as much as Judie pretends to be white. Angel does it with hardly any problem he hides what he drinks and keeps to himself. Angel only allows he to drink in privet spots, unlike the gay actor who shows his affections in the hallway of the hotel. We are seen only as we tell or show people what we are like with Angel he is seen as a friend to Judie but to the bellhop he is seen as a creepy guy that has nothing in his eyes that gives him the habeas. Angel has seen himself as a monster for several years because that is what people have identified him as but I see him as a human because he is trying to fit in the world and has the same emotions as we humans have. When the demand came and showed himself after Angel had been hung we know that Angel had cared for the people in the hotel. The demand had said he was full and the biggest reason was that Angel and Judie were friends and the be trail was what made him so full. Angel showed even more human emotion when he aloud the demand to finish off the rest of the people in the hotel. Even though I wouldn’t like to admit it I most likely would have had the same bitterness and aloud the demand to feed off of there fears and paranoia. Angel has human emotions because years later he goes back to the hotel to fix his mistake. He gets ride of the demand and fixes things with Judie who was at the hotel being fed off by the demand the whole time that it took Angel to fix what he didn’t finish. That is what I see makes Angel human is the mistakes, pain, friendship and his secret identity that shows he is human in some way even though he is a vampire with a soul.

1 comment:

  1. Jennifer, you focused on a very important aspect of the show--Angel chose to let himself be attacked. I think you should spend more time discussing that choice. Why would he do something like that? Why didn't he expose Judy? Why did he essentially take on her sins? Focus on answering those question for your 2nd draft (also please remember to put spaces between your paragraphs!)

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