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Spartacus In the movie Spartacus, there
is a regular slave who makes a revolution. He is a slave gladiator who soon
rebels in the gladiator school. Sparatcus is a bold leader that struggles to
stop slavery and free himself. In the middle of the movie, his loyalty is
tested. Spartacus has to decide if he wants to be smuggled on a ship across the
sea to escape, and let his followers fend for themselves, or stay with his
followers. He makes this decision in a tent on the
seashore near Brindusium. A Cilician pirate tells him the dilemma about the
ships. The sunset is almost down the ocean. The waves were splashing against
the hot, yellow sand, like a roaring lion. The sun is shining on the glimmering
ocean like crystal diamonds. The calming sound did not match the enormous
dilemma at hand. Crassus pays the other Cilician pirates
to leave without the slaves. The pirates leave, so Spartacus has to face two
horrible decisions. First he has to go on a ship with Tigranes (the Cicilean
Pirate) and a few of his closest friends and leave his beloved followers
behind. His second choice is to stay with his army and face the Roman army. It
is difficult to choose because if he goes on the ship, he will feel very bad
for his followers who have to face the Roman army. The other way is to face the
Roman army, whose organization is a little better than a gladiator army, having
a high chance of dying, and to risk losing his beloved wife Varinia. Spartacus says to the Tigranes to go
away and the Ciclean pirate leaves. The decision he makes is he stays with his slave
army and faces the Roman army led by Crassus. He thinks it is not fair for his
followers, because they worked as hard as he did to get to the beach to. Also
he would not even be at the beach if his followers didn’t agree with him. He
has no regrets on making this decision because it is the right decision. Even
if they die at least he will not be in guilt when he dies a painful death. In
the end Spartacus is captured by the army and crucified. have used that ship to do something better. I would put Varinia and all other little babies, and a few other moms should have the priority to go on the ship. The moral issue is about social problems. His ideas of no slavery have progressed into our generation, even though we still have some social problems that need to be fixed today. |