Fear In 'Planet Of The Apes'

The lesson that stood out the most to me was Niccolo Machiavelli’s view that fear is stronger than love. Prior to the Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Caesar built a nation of apes inspired by love and continuing onto this movie, this way of leadership developed a family. However, this view made him weak among his apes because they expected him to forgive them for doing wrong with little consequences. However, when Caesar was thought to be killed and Koba was the leader, his leadership style of fear resulted in majority of apes going against their morals, values and principles. The fear by him made him powerful among his apes because they expected no forgiveness for doing wrong and the consequence of death.

Another lesson I learned from this, is that peoples experiences make them who they are and the reasons for their actions makes me not judge. Caesar was brought up experiencing both the good side and the bad side of the humans and as a result he had a love-hate relationship with them that made his actions towards them reasonable and keep peace. However, Koba was brought up experiencing only the bad side of the humans and as a result he had a hate toward them that made his actions ruthless. Based off this principle it strengthened me belief to not judge anybody for their actions, however I will strongly disagree.

For example, Caesar and Koba saved each other’s lives multiple times and this built a deep bond amongst them, even making Koba second in command to Caesar. However, different beliefs about a situation made Koba attempt to murder Caesar. Also, in another scenario the humans begged to turn on their cities power and under one condition they were stripped of their weapons. After the apes trusted them a human disobeyed and this act almost costed the life of Caesar’s