Moral Allegory A Simple Twist Of Fate
Submitted by cspyr0 on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Moral Allegory A Simple Twist Of Fate
The movie A Simple Twist of Fate has many lessons or morals, but I have picked out what I believe to be the most important lessons of the movie. First and foremost is that your life can change at any moment. Another lesson learned is that sometimes, if an opportunity is passed by, you may never get that opportunity again. The last lesson is that fate has a way of rewarding good people and punishing the bad.
The first lesson this movie teaches is that life can change at any moment. This seems to be an ongoing theme in the movie. Mike McCann was a happy man: he was a teacher, he was married, and his wife was about to have his first child. Then he is told that the baby is not his. He was preparing to be a father, and then suddenly he was a divorced man. When he found out the child was not his, and that it was his best friend who betrayed him, he becomes a hermit and a miser, never trusting anyone with anything, especially his money. This was a very abrupt change, but then his life changes again. His entire fortune, in the form of gold coins, is stolen, and soon after a child enters his life. This lesson on change also applies to Danny Newland, brother of the politician John Newland. One minute he is partying and having a good time; the next minute he's on the lam after a car accident. For the baby and her mother, change is also abrupt. The mother dies suddenly, and the baby is, presumably, an orphan. These abrupt changes demonstrate how quickly your life can change: in the blink of an eye, the life you know can be gone. As Mathilda explains about the mouse that dies: "A cat got it. It wasn't really anyone's fault. It's just one of those things."
Another lesson learned from A Simple Twist of Fate is that some opportunities only present themselves once, so you need to take advantage of them. John Newland is the best example of this. He had a child, but was embarrassed to be seen with the mother, so he paid them to stay out of his...
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