{"id":68282,"date":"2022-07-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nursingstudybay.com\/2022\/07\/05\/the-wild-west\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T00:00:00","slug":"the-wild-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studyproessays.com\/help\/the-wild-west\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wild West"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Discuss the thematic implications of Doc Holliday and Granville Thorndyke (the Shakespearean actor) in \u201cMy Darling Clementine. \u201d What is Ford trying to say about the relation to the civilized East to the unsettled West. (Clementine vs. Chihuahua is relevant here. ) The Wild West: An Analysis of Post-Civil War Tension in John Ford\u2019s \u201cMy Darling Clementine\u201d Following the end of the United States\u2019 Civil War, new territories had becomes states, notably what is now known as the West.<\/p>\n

The West, iconized by its Cowboys, gunfights, and horses in the years that followed the Civil War, made its way to the silver screen as one of the first genres of movies to be produced. The genre is popularized as a \u201cWestern\u201d and is devoted to telling the stories or myths that prevailed the American Old West in the latter half of the nineteenth century. John Ford, one of the film industry\u2019s most celebrated directors, was one of its pioneers.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

His notable Western, \u201cMy Darling Clementine\u201d, portrays Post-Civil War East-versus-West differences through its clever plot and use of characters. Ford, or \u201cthe King of Westerns\u201d, a Maine-born director, made his way to the West by following his brother Francis to California in 1914 and joining him in the cinematography industry. Starting as a minor actor, Ford was not too successful until he was shooting behind the lens, rather than in front. In 1939 Ford released his first Western with sound \u201cStagecoach\u201d, appreciated as one of the best Westerns produced.<\/p>\n

He then carried on and released many Western movies such as \u201cThe Searchers\u201d, \u201cThe Man Who Shot Liberty Valance\u201d, \u201cRed River\u201d, \u201cMy Darling Clementine\u201d and many more. In his Westerns, Ford emphasizes the occupation of the wilderness and the relegation of nature in the name of civilization, which was mostly the case in the Old West. A motif in his films are his implicit comparisons between the East and West, exemplifying a civilized world where law, order, education and manners reign in contrast to chaos, anarchy, persistence and the battle of the fittest that were the essence of the West at that time.<\/p>\n

He depicts the landscape of the old West as vast valleys, lonely isolated homesteads, Native Americans sites, small frontier towns and deserted areas to show the wilderness where the old Westerners resided, such as the Tetons and Monument Valley. Another illustration of the West in Ford\u2019s movies is his portrayal of the hostile element that thrived in the area, using guns, duels, violence, human bloodbaths, bank robberies, showdowns, outlaws, sheriffs, stampedes, cattle drives and cattle rustling \u2013 to depict the uncivilized West. Distinctive clothing is also one of the devices he relied on to create such an uncivilized, Western portrait.<\/p>\n

Men from the East appear sharp in fine suits whereas Westerners wear denim jeans, boots and hats. In the Western context Ford portrays \u2013 late 1800s, Texas \u2013 the law was implemented by a single man who takes on the role of both the sheriff and the jury. Arrests, executions and the such are all decided on by he who governs the town. Moral integrity, courage, principles, self-sufficiency, gun skills are all main characteristics of a Western cowboy which opposes to the educated, sophisticated portrait of a man coming from the East.<\/p>\n

John Ford explicitly shows such a contrast between the East and the West in one of his Western productions, \u201cMy Darling Clementine\u201d. Henry Fonda, one of the leading roles, acts as marshal Wyatt Earp in Tombstone to find out who murdered his brother. Victor Mature plays the role of a doctor, Doc Holliday from Boston, who comes to Tombstone as an outlaw. According to his girlfriend Chihuahua (acted by Linda Darnell), Holliday runs the town. This is shown when Chihuahua meets the marshal in the tavern, slaps him and yells out that \u201cthis is Doc\u2019s city\u201d.<\/p>\n

As the story develops, a fond friendship between Doc and the marshal unravels. The differences between the marshal and Doc seem to personify the discrepancies between the East and the West. From the first scene where Doc is in the bar where he meets the marshal for the first time, the viewer can clearly identify the elegant black coat on Doc. For the others, it is the usual rugged look \u2013 denim and hats. The eloquence shown by the Eastern character among the Westerners bluntly shows Ford\u2019s point-of-view on the East.<\/p>\n

In another scene where Doc and the marshal find Granville Thorndyke, the Shakespearean actor, John Ford portrays the educational advancement in the Eastern character of Doc Holliday as he knows and wants to listen to the Shakespearean poem. The poem is of great importance to Doc as it relates to what he is experiencing in his personal life. In his personal life, Doc is repetitively seen coughing, a gesture that implicitly foreshadows Doc\u2019s disease. This is asserted when Clementine Carter (acted by Cathy Downs), Doc\u2019s ex-lover comes all the way rom Boston and asks him to come back with her to fight the disease and perhaps even cure him. The Shakespearean actor Thorndyke is seen reciting one of Shakespeare\u2019s most well-known poems from Hamlet with the renown \u201cto be or not to be, that is the question\u201d line. The poem discusses battle versus fate \u2013 either fighting to overcome the disease that one has, or succumbing to the destined fate. In the poem, the passage \u201cWhether \u2018tis nobler in the mind to suffer [\u2026] Or to take arms\u201d explicitly asks whether it is better to be stoically submissive to life\u2019s difficulties or courageously energetic against them.<\/p>\n

When Doc recites the last verse of the poem in the movie, \u201c[\u2026] thus conscience does make cowards of us all\u201d he seems to explicitly condemn ethical awareness for preventing action. Shakespeare\u2019s intended message is for one to bear those ills they have, but Doc has cowardly backed out and found it tiring to deal with the issues that have affected his life. He has abandoned his East coast occupation and headed West to drink himself into oblivion. He even says to Clementine that \u201ceverything about John Holliday is dead, so is his love for Clementine Carter, his ambitions and dreams. As he recites the final verses of the poem, the viewers observe the Westerners, specifically the marshal, looking at him, surprised that he knows such cultured and sophisticated poetry. In addition, one of the most straightforward discrepancy put forth by John Ford between the East and the West that is observed in the movie is the disparity between the two main women \u2013 Clementine and Chihuahua. Clementine is portrayed as a nurturer, a lover, an illustration of the evolution of civilization with her clothes and her proper manners.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, Chihuahua is portrayed as wild and stubborn, a lover to Doc who has a higher interest in her own conveniences, she represents the undomesticated West. Clementine comes to the West for the sole purpose of bringing Doc back to Boston where he can be well-treated and perhaps even cured. Clementine\u2019s attractiveness, poise and elegance shown the moment she appears in the movie is laid forthright as even the expression on the marshal face indicates so.<\/p>\n

The manners in which she speaks and behave distinguish her from the girls of the west, especially Chihuahua who shows how disrespectful she is in the first scene in the bar with the marshal. In addition, Chihuahua\u2019s untamed acts are even more put upfront when she enters Clementine\u2019s room and starts packing Clementine\u2019s luggage so she can leave claiming that she is \u201cDoc\u2019s girl\u201d, and when she sleeps with one of the Clanton brothers because she got mad at Doc after following him and getting rejected many times.<\/p>\n

In contrast, Clementine did not emulate Chihuahua\u2019s acts because she believes in a \u201cWomen\u2019s Pride\u201d as she told the marshal, and that she came for Doc once, but she won\u2019t offer herself another time. Clementine represents the elegance and development of the East in the movie. This is evident in the scene where she changes the marshal by making him go to the barbershop, cleaning him up with cologne and hence pushing him to take care of himself in terms of being presentable and elegant.<\/p>\n

This attention from the marshal to Clementine signifies hope for peace and growth in the West, and the possibility of it becoming a place where kids like James can \u201cgrow up and live safe\u201d, as the marshal says in front of his youngest brother\u2019s grave. The snubbing of Chihuahua as he sits on the porch symbolizes the end of the untamed wilderness of the West. Civilization, embodied by Clementine and the East, is about to reign in the wild West. In a nutshell, John Ford\u2019s Westerns portray a wild uncivilized West.<\/p>\n

In \u201cMy Darling Clementine\u201d particularly, he highlights it more with the integration of civilized and developed Eastern features in characters such as Clementine and Doc Holliday as discussed before. Ford flagrantly shows the contrast between the East and West by comparing characters such as Clementine and Chihuahua, or maybe even Doc and Wyatt Earp. Nevertheless, in Ford\u2019s creation of a bond between the marshal and Clementine, he symbolizes the West rising to the level of the civilized East, and letting go of the wilderness and undomesticated environment that lasted centuries in \u201cThe Wild West\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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