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Justice In Cormac Mccarthy's Neo-Western, No Country For Old Men

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“Never expect justice in the world. That is not part of God’s plan,” Orson Welles wrote in his script for The Dreamers. This attitude toward life can be witnessed in Cormac McCarthy’s neo-western, No Country for Old Men. In it, Terrell County Sheriff, Ed Tom Bell, struggles to keep up with a changing society where his faith in justice is overcome by the world’s increasing violence and corruption. Overall, Sheriff Bell, the embodiment of justice in his county, was eventually deterred by his lack of ability to defend his people, reflecting the overall meaning of the novel: justice isn’t always served. Throughout the story, Sheriff Bell’s understanding of justice is continuously proven old fashioned and frankly outdated in the book’s modern
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