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Analysis of Character and Theme in The Flowers of War
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Abstract
The film The Flowers of War is related to the Nanking Massacre in the year of 1937, in Nanking, China. The paper mainly studies the story of sacrifice and hope in the war, and the relationship between the two, against the backdrop of the Nanking Massacre. The purpose of this research paper is to bring to light a different side of the war. This paper introduces the cruelty of war and the importance of women in war through the analysis of characters and themes in The film The Flowers of War, analyzing the before and after of the characters and the personality traits of different characters. This paper finds out that war is essentially exchanging the lives of one group of people for the lives of another. Men are not the only ones who can contribute to war. At the same time, the position of women in war is not negligible and essential.
Keywords
The Flowers of War, sacrifice, hope, women
References
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- Volume Title
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Global Politics and Socio-Humanities
- ISBN (Print)
- 978-1-83558-117-9
- ISBN (Online)
- 978-1-83558-118-6
- Published Date
- 20 November 2023
- Series
- Communications in Humanities Research
- ISSN (Print)
- 2753-7064
- ISSN (Online)
- 2753-7072
- DOI
- 10.54254/2753-7064/14/20230420
- Copyright
- 20 November 2023
- Open Access
- This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited