The Godfather paints a portrait of a family that loves each other and protects one another just like any close knitted family, except they happened to be gangsters that dabbled in murder and crime. They know that they want to be respectable and are striving to be so but the sheer reality of the situation for them is that the American dream doesn't always work out when you're an immigrant. This is symbolically portrayed in the scene at the daughter's wedding when a man is asking Don Vito for "justice" in dealing with the boys who brutally attacked his daughter because the courts failed him.

Morality is very fluid and can change culturally and individually. In the Godfather, morality is at constant odds with their actions, and it forces us to question our own morality at

Michael, Don Vito's son, is torn between two lives the one he wants to lead with Kay, a normal family man, and the life of his father. In the beginning he starts out by saying to his girlfriend, "That's my family Kay, not me." Then his father was shot, and for the protection of the family Michael agrees to shoot a police captain and Salozzo. The distinct moment of change is very evident in Michael's eyes right before he shoots them, and the last of his humanity and moral sense just leaves him at that moment.

While writing this paper I wondered why I have such a pessimistic view of morality and realized that with our capitalist criterion of success, we don't stop to wonder if what we are doing is right or wrong. Our president can lie and his popularity rises among the younger people. Essentially I am taking the Machiavellian view that the end justifies the means in this society. Is this because we have been so programmed to expect the corruptibility of human nature?

In this movie Libby Holden, a s

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