Aaron, not such a "bad guy?"

After class on Wednesday, I was thinking about a lot of things we talked about in class. (It’s sometimes a long drive from Stritch to Oak Creek, giving me time to reflect.) I always like coming to class and hearing everyone’s ideas about what we have just read/watched, and best of all I love how people’s opinions vary so much, mostly on the ideas of Aaron. When I watched the same scene that we watched in class at home, I really didn’t feel sorry for him at all. The entire time I watched it I was thinking, “Good, he is getting what he deserves,” but than in class my mind changed a little bit and I was having a hard time deciding whether or not I sympathized with Aaron. As I watched the scene in class, having Mike and Jay’s opinions in my head, I started thinking that Taymor wanted us to somewhat feel bad for him. Like many of my classmates said, Aaron is the only character we see that is true to his self and is “real.” I started feeling sorry that all these men were around him ganging up on him, I was thinking about the point Jenny made in class, we don’t know what was done to him it could have been just as bad or worse. So I thought that everything that he did might and could be justified, if we saw the other side of the story, and since we never will, I think I’ll agree with Mike, you, and Jay and stick to being on Aaron’s side.