ENGC70H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Tom Hagen, Family Values, Italianamerican
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Two tragedies the tragedy of michael who wants to be american and who falls back into the italian family. Michael chooses consent (kay adams) but ends up choosing his father/descent in the end. In sicily, michael carries the mark from mcclusky"s punch - he cannot escape the descent. Wants consent and ends up with descent. The decline of the corleone family over two generations which loses honour, betray its own values, and self-destructs. In part i, the italian family has components that michael wishes to escape - descent. And in part ii, the italian family has good values that decline over time - consent. Descent always has an element of consent. Not always about blood (literal and figuratively) - for example, tom hagen is not related by blood to the family; he is an irish-american that was adopted by vito corleone.
