Ethical Issues In The Giver

Every society is characterized by a particular set of ethical issues that often result to conflicts. The legal framework governs the code of conduct of the people in the society but what if there was a way to completely eliminate the elements causing people to have disagreements as demonstrated in the film known as the Giver, 2014. The objective of this paper is to review the movie and analyze how the Guy Debord “Society of the Spectacle” theory relates with the events of the film.
The Giver (2014) The storyline of the movie go as follows; Ruin was the calamity that affected the society, it made the societies to be reorganized into a series of communities. All the memories of the past are held by one person. The Receiver of Memory was the

Before the term globalization was popularized, Guy Debord was arguing about issues such as class alienation culture homogenization and mass media. When Debord says that all that was directly lived has become a mere representation, he refers to central importance of the image in contemporary society. The spectacle is not a collection of images rather it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images. The monotheistic religions were comprised between myth and history, these religions rise from the soil of history and established themselves there. But they still preserve themselves to radical history. Debord defines as semi historical religions, as the growth of society which includes the understanding of history as the heart of culture derived from it and irreversible knowledge which is expressed by destruction of God (Trier, 2007). Debord was the de facto leader of the Situationists; an intellectual cell who drew on all kinds of influences, but who’s essential worldview combined two elements. The elements were the understanding of alienation traceable to young Marx, and an emphasis on the kind of desire driven irrationality celebrated by the Dadaistand