Hero Vs. Society In High Noon

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High Noon is a transitional plot, and it also gives a dreadful image of society. In transitional plot, the conflict is between the hero and society instead of the villains. Society hates the hero and wants to drive him out. However, in High Noon, the reason that the community wants to extrude Will is unreasonable. As a marshal, Will fulfills his duties to protect the town, so he brought Miller to justice. Unfortunately, Miller is released by an unspecified legal technicality. Will has planned to leave the town with his wife and become a storekeeper. When he hears that Miller is coming back and wants to revenge on him, he choose to stay at the town and protect the townspeople. He even ignores his wife’s warning that if he choose to stay, she will leave the town without him. …show more content…
Will never gives up his duties to keep safe for the townspeople, but they abandon him. When Will is finding help in the community, no one stand on his side. His deputy also refuses to help Will because Will declines to assist him as the new marshal. He goes to the church and everywhere he think he could find help, but he fails. Even his best friend in the town refuses to meet him. The townspeople are terrible and have no sense of justice. They are selfish, wicked and cowardly although they go to the church. They blame Will will bring trouble in the town, but he takes his responsibilities as a marshal, and he even more cares the safety of the townspeople than his newlywed wife. Their hideous hearts are hidden under their innocent surfaces. They mistreats the hero who gives his life to protect the community. High Noon so animated Wayne and Hawks because it totally subverts the good image of society has always

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