Henry Shen

10/19/07

Core 2

Spartacus

            Spartacus is a brave, rebellious, and strong man. Spartacus’s goal is to escape Italy and become a free man. On his way to the coastal shore of Italy he frees other slaves. He persuades them to join him on his way of escaping. The issue of the movie is that, Spartacus makes a deal, with Tigranes, the pirate, that if they pay in gold the pirate would provide them with ships to escape. Then later during the movie the pirate then tells Spartacus that the pirate ships wouldn’t be coming because the roman general Crassus had pay them to not pick up the slaves.

            This issue takes place on the coastal shore of Italy. Spartacus’s followers’ camp on the shore at night waiting for the pirate ships to pick them up. The whole place is lighter up by the campfires of celebration. Peasants are dancing for joy because they think that they have made it out of Italy. People are dancing around the campfire with joy. Then Spartacus receives bad news in the night.

            Spartacus doesn’t know which choice he should make. One choice Spartacus can make is to leave his entire group of follower and set sail with Tigranes to escape Italy. Another choice is to stay with the peasants and fight the Romans till the death. These decisions are difficult because Spartacus can’t afford to leave all his followers behind or die with them.

            Spartacus makes the decision of staying with his peasant followers and fighting with them. Sparatcus makes this decision because he promises them that they would escape from Italy. Since he hasn’t succeeded this task he should stay with them and fight the Roman army.

            This was a bad idea because Spartacus is captured at the end of the battle. So this scene in the movie is a very hard and difficult choice to make. This scene also shows that he is not only responsible, but loyal too. It’s saving himself vs. saving others.