David Gale Research Paper

The sacrifice of Dream
The story happen in Texas, a state which uses death penalty is the most of the United States. David Gale and his female assistance Constance are trying all they can try to abolish the death penalty, but they only receive little effect. On the television program, David and the governor are having a drastic debate, although David win on the other side, but when governor says:”name one innocent man that Texas has put to death during my tenure”, David cannot say anything. No matter how wonderful the debate is, in the end, David loses on a real example. This seems like a bottleneck of their way to abolish the death penalty. They must prove that there is a miscarriage of justice in the death penalty;otherwise, they cannot going on. …show more content…
This is why he made the murder case, his action is based on his perception of the meaning of life. Constance chooses to die, maybe gets leukemia as one of the motives, the most important reason is she wants to make her death more valuable and meaningful, and David's choice has a more purely martyrdom. According to Camus's philosophy of life, there does not have any fate is a punishment for people, as long as people try their best, and they should be happy. In this conception, the idealists are pursuing the ultimate state of their own existence, their happiness is not the ideal success, is the process of pursuing the ideal. David Gale just like the Socrates, he use his life to show people his idea. David sent himself to prison and put to death penalty; as a result, he let the public recognize the irrationality of the judicial system, and people will abolish the death penalty to achieve his ideal. This action just like Socrates use his life to awake the young Athenians.At the end, they both choose to died to achieve their ideal. I think people are great because of dreams, and they will become strong to support their