"Elsa doesnt need a man, can we have a princess that DOESN'T fall in love in the end?" Moana: ummmm.... Merida: Oy! I turned my mother into a friggin BEAR because I didnt want to marry!
“Good guys finish last” Esmerelda didn’t and still doesn’t owe Quasimoto her love/adoration. The most she owed him was her gratitude and her help later on in life had he needed it. Besides it’s not like we can just Pick and choose who we want to love.
Seemed more like Frozen was making two separate points. 1. She didn’t want or need a man in her life (breaking a common theme that Disney princesses always need to be saved by a man) 2. True love doesn’t just mean something romantic. There are other types of love, and the obsession with romantic love is a little overplayed. The entire movie downplayed romantic love. Especially in the fantastical movie sense that we have always seen it. To me, it’s a much more inspiring message to kids that their worth isn’t found through having a partner
Yeah, and that itself is a different point from their past movies. In the past it was all love at first sight (which the movie openly bashes). When Hans comes in it's not an over the top romance, but more mature. I still didn't feel like it was a huge focal point of the story, but it has been a long time since I've seen it
Well they say there is a love interest for Elsa in the next movie and a lot of people want to see the first lesbian princess and who knows maybe she isn’t gay but they did confirm that she will have a love interest
101 Dalmatians isn't about spaying/neutering pets. Pongo and Perdita had 15 puppies, which Cruella steals to make a coat. The rest of the puppies are found later on in the movie and are adopted together.
And here I was, thinking Finding Nemo was about a father’s love for his son but learning to let that son grow up and, just because you have a disability doesn’t mean you’re helpless.
You gotta play that sax To get those Stacks, in Finding Nemo when Marlins family was attacked by the barracuda only Nemo was left but he was injured. Because of that when he grew older he ended up having one fin that was smaller then the other which made it harder for him to swim. Thus the disability.
Not... Lol. Nemo was still an egg when Merlin lost his wife and the rest of his nest. The fin not an injury.... But the other fish in the tank later on the movie was xD
the hunchback of notre dame shows that women dont have to love you just because you’re nice to them... not nice guys finish last (also dont judge appearances...)
There is a girl and lots of guys say that they love her but break her heart but they can't realise the boy that really loves her is her bestfriend the has been by her side the whole time
Lol, the only thing I thought when watching that scene was "of course they won't let him get the girl, he is ugly". It's not about being a good guy, or not. It was pretty obvious that ALL of the disney princesses and their partners look good. Even Beast has a handsome human form. Disney wouldn't be able to stomach itself if they let a below-average main character get a pretty/handsome partner. After all Quasimodo did for the girl, one would think that she would fall in love with him. Nope. Too ugly, better grab the handsome guy. Great message.
@@SuperSkyhorse @SuperSkyhorse I feel you, that's the type of messages Walt Disney was trying to give us percpective and understanding of, as its about bettering ourselves as pure as possible but just as Alice said at the start 'nothing would be as it is because that would make everything what it is not' she is literally telling us our minds are not using our full power in our brains because life is highly complex. That is why it was easier for the beautiful character to choose something at face value, even though she wanted someone to help/support her which is the base or foundation of love!!!!!!!
I agree it partly, doesn't mean she should choose 'the hunchback of notre dame' to be inlove with, but we should try to always remember how much love is important in the world and how it has a huge affect on a person when it's in its truest intention especially when she had her life saved by someone who was revered as someone ugly because of his features yet he was not bitter on the fact she was looked as a good looking person !!
Elsa is not gay, she didn't know any guy because she was locked up in the bid to hide her powers and she was wise enough not to fall in love with the first guy she saw ......... She had a responsibility and was determined to see to it this putting it first before anything else
@@RandomFunLex there's always a possibility of anything, though. For all we know, she could be homophobic. I don't really see any proof that she's gay, because that wasn't the point of the story, it was about Elsa and Anna's sisterly love or whatever. I feel like this started with someone wanting to relate more to their favorite disney character, though, lol
why do people forget that brave and mulan exist also I know why people think aladin says 'teenagers take of your clothes. because you all got dirty minds and filling in the blanks. if you actually pay attention you will hear "good tiger. take off" because of how it is said your mind is adding things that isn't there
Okay, the whole "good guys finish last" interpretation of Hunchback of Notre Dame is gonna lead to more "nice guys" feeling entitled to romance and sex just because they're acting friendly. A better message would be "being the hero doesn't always mean you'll get the girl, and that's okay" or that "what you initially want isn't always what you truly need" Like, even when Quasimodo knows that he has no chance to be in a romantic relationship with Esmeralda (because she's her own person and makes her own decisions), HE STILL SAVES HER not because he's expecting anything in return, but because he cares about her and knows that it's the right thing to do. And he isn't bitter at all towards Phoebus (who Esmeralda ends up with). He's not resentful or angry that the woman he wanted to be with ended up with someone else, he even gives them his blessing. He's HAPPY for her, that's what he truly wants at the end is for Esmeralda to be happy regardless of his own feelings for her. Sure, he didn't get the girl in the end, but what he DOES get is freedom from the abusive guardian who raised him and acceptance and support from the people, which is what he needed and frankly deserved anyway thanks for coming to my TED talk
In the movie Coco, the musician killed his fellow musician for his music. Is that trying to say its okay to kill for what u want?? Cause it really isn't. Of course most kids wouldn't notice that but my 9 year old niece did.
"he has no chance to be in a romantic relationship with Esmeralda (because she's her own person and makes her own decisions)" because he's ugly, you mean
Everyone : MOANA AND ELSA ARE THE 1ST INDEPENDANT PRINCESSES!! me: uhh what about Merida from Brave tho? Edit: I made this comment as a joke because I love brave like the Scott I am. When I said independent I meant it by not having a love interest which is why I didn't include Mulan. Though the replies made me laugh so thanks guys gals and non gendered pals.
Mulan was actually the first totally independent princess! She saved the day multiple times and then had the captain come chasing after her at the end.
So, I paused this after the Aladdin secret and grabbed my DVD to see what the subtitles said at that point and it's "Down kitty. Take off", Ali says it as Rajah approaches him snarling. LOL
Uhhh Quasimodo didn't finish last, he made great friends and took control of his life. Hunchback of Notre Dame teaches kids that being kind to someone doesn't mean they owe you anything, particularly romantic love.
So much of this video is wrong bc they don't understand definitions and plot points. Belle does not have Stockholm bc she has no problem telling beast off, running away from him, and only cares for him once he treats her right. Ariel loved the human world before even knowing eric. It was triton who pushed her to be reckless for destroying her treasures. Quasimodo is still accepted by the town so he does not "end up alone ".. ughh
A lot of women will haul off and clock a physical abuser, doesn't mean they're not overpowered and abused...and they still tell them off, too. Doesn't help, but still.
The "hidden message" in frozen was about not hiding who you are, but NEVER was about her being in the closet about her sexuality. It was about her power and finding that she was worthy of love and to love in general.
Disney is for kids not gay and lesbian Disney is love . love for family and friends and heartwarming movie s that teaches kids right and wrong. Disney should not posh the LBGT agenda
David Fortner yeaaah you’re a homophobe. kids learn about interracial couples, why shouldn’t they be able to learn about lgbtq couples? it’s not about pushing an agenda, it’s about teaching kids that different kinds of love exist, and that’s okay.
Queen Of Cute that’s the problem. it’s never to early. it’s 2020. and being lgbtq is being normalized (it should be) and weather you like it or not, kids should be able to be taught that kind of thing early so they don’t become bigots later in life. stop being so close minded.
sweetseokie : I mean in 4th or 5th grade they should learn about it. I’m talking three year olds, they don’t need to know about ANY relationships. Please don’t judge people’s intentions. I don’t judge people’s sexuality, I just think kids of certain age don’t need to know about any relationships besides bloodline family and friendship.
Moana: Doesnt fall in love with a dude Everyone: Wow a strong woman who doesnt need to be saved Elsa: Doesnt fall in love with a dude Everyone: SHES GAY
No one said she was gay. The gays just wanted representation, that's all. And at first it was like "oh wouldn't it be funny if she was gay" but then it started sparking a conversation between people and even the creaters, and that's how it started being a big deal. No one thought she was gay just cause she didn't get a bf though
I am 25 years old. I have seen Aladdin so many times that I can recite each line off of memory. I never once heard, anywhere, "Good teenagers, take you clothes off." Never once. Not in a song, not in the scene you showed. And yes, I have a dirty mind, so don't go saying "Oh, well, you just have a clean mind." NO! That line is just never said. I repeat: THAT LINE IS NEVER SAID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Allana Bowen I’ve watched Aladdin many times as well (was watching it last night with my son) and I’ve never heard it either. And btw you sound as bad as I am only I can recite The Little Mermaid off by heart lmao 😂
Elsa in Frozen: doesn’t have a man* Everyone: ships her with Jackfrost* Elsa in Frozen 2: still doesn’t have a man * Everyone: she’s a lesbian Princesses don’t need men thank you Edit: Princesses and/or queens!!
Even if they needed them so what? I almost thought that we are NOT built to be alone or something hence why there seems to be DOZENS of people in the world
No strong handsome prince does not = a lesbian princess. Give it a rest. Also, Quasimodo was not friend-zoned because he was a nice guy who finished last. He was a deformed hunchback and at the end of the day, you can not force a person to romantically love you just because you love them. But romance is not the best and only love. He instead earned the respect of the city people and was seen as a human. This whole "win the girl, you deserve her" is sexiest; women are not objects that exist solely for male acquisition. P.S note Quasi grew as a person and accepted it, he didn't waste his time pouting over the free-will of others to love who they love. RESPECT
.....um sure... until you reailze that in the original book...esmeralda loved Quasi- not some random white dude she just met. She also dies right after they confess and all that. but Disneyfication changed all that
Exploring with Zyden People aren’t saying that just because Elsa didn’t find a guy she is a lesbian people just want to finally see an LGBTQ film from Disney and just because Moana didn’t find a love interest nobody is saying she is a lesbian because we don’t care if Moana is or not we r all just hoping that Elsa is
Rapunzel's hair getting cut is basically how it went when i cut my hair XD the barber just chopped it off and I had the exact same reaction "...Eugene!" Then my mom screamed "No!"
"Remember a time when people didn't think you were gay if you tell a sibling "I love you"? No....? Just me...? I'll go in my nostalgia corner now... :c
Cinderella was going to a ball and her dress was in pieces. Of course she needed a new "makeover". It's not about that you have to change yourself and be better that way. She only got a new dress and got her hair done plus the glass slippers so that she could go to the ball
The whole 'nice guys finish last' message is total BS, and ridiculously sexist and outdated. If there is a hidden message there, it's about accepting other people's choices. Quasimodo didn't 'deserve' Esmeralda as some kind of reward. She was her own person and made her own choice to be with the man she loved, who was also a good guy, and Quasi accepted that and respected them both instead of whining about what he 'deserved'. Which makes him a better person than the entitled ones who treat her character as an object by saying Quasi should have 'won' her. His 'reward' was finally being seen as a good person and being accepted into the community.
Clearly Quasimodo did not ended up with Esmeralda because of being the good guy. She choose the hot caucasian white male over the hideous one. So the message is "kids, if you ugly, then you never get the girl"
Esmeralda isn't that shallow. Should she choose the man she only sees as a friend just to make him feel better about being ugly? Of course not. Like I said, Quasimodo is a better person because he accepts that it is HER choice. Yes, he was bitter about it for a while, then realised that there were more important things than jealousy. He only 'finishes last' if you see Esmeralda as an object and not as a person.
Yes. It has a very positive message as opposed to the book. I violently dislike when people use the nice guys schtick on this story. There is way more to him than that.
"Elsa is gay because she told her sister she loves her" "Living with fellow humans rather than animals means you're promoting racism" What are you doing, buddy...?
The author of the Jungle Book actually wrote a lot of anti imperialism into his work. So the Jungle Book one can actually make sense but the Elsa one is a bit of a stretch. I only know about the Jungle Book due to a class I took this semester.
I just got done watching Hercules, I noticed in one scene Hercules was wearing the pelt of scar from the lion king. Not sure what to gather from that but it was for sure the skin of scar .
Yep, he defeats the Nimian Lion in the original myth, but Disney turned it into an easter egg by making it look like Scar. I always thought that was pretty clever and funny.
@@Doublemonk0506 Of course she appreciated him, but that doesn't mean she should be forced to love him as more than a friend. The other guy was nice, compassionate, and heroic too. So "nice guys finish last" doesn't even make sense.
I think the reason why Gothel died and Rapunzel kept her powers only in her tears is because Gothel only used her hair for reversing her age and not her tears
KT926 the tears are a nod to the original story when the prince goes blind Rapunzel's tears healing (which is totally random by the way seeing as there's no hint of her having any sort of powers in the story)
Yeah I know but they were saying that it's a plot hole that when Rapunzel's hair was cut, she lost her powers all together and Gothel would have survived because Rapunzel had the powers in her tears. Gothel only used her hair to be young and that power source was broken
You only see Eugene's blood in one shot, the movie is rated PG and it says in the little rating box: Contains mild violence, threat and brief sight of blood
Finding Nemo: Marlin’s whole adventure is about going through grief Gravity Falls: Bill Cipher is a metaphor for facing your personal demons; hence why Bill is a LITERAL demon. Also, Bill himself could be him trying to hide his depression, and not wanting to grow up. There is proof to this, as when Mabel and Bill (disguised as Blendin Blandin) make a deal, for time to not go forward, as Mabel didn’t want to grow up and leave Gravity Falls. (Hopefully that depressed but cute little dorito gets help. Is Entity303 a therapist? Just saying) Have a nice day y’all! :D
Um the dad technically wasnt kidnapped either, he walked onto his property because he was in danger and the beast being heartless at the beginning threw him in a dungeon as a prisoner for trespassing.
I normally like your vids but you kinda failed on two points. Firstly, beauty and the beast WASN'T a case of Stockholm syndrome. I actually believed this until I recently rewatched the movie. He actually let's belle leave him and she does. The only reason she actually begins to see beast in a better light was due to the fact that he risked his life to save her from a pack of wolves when she left him. For the second point, in Aladdin he's actually speaking to the tiger saying good tiger don't something or other. (Don't remember exactly what he said sorry).
Tom Jones probably the same reason they changed the line in the opening song from “they cut off your ear if they don’t like your face” to “where it’s flat and immense and the heat is intense”. They try not to offend people
The messasge i got from Frozen was that there are different kinds of love. For example: sisterly love. I mean there is love for your man and there is love for yourself, love for your family, friends, pets, ect..
Beauty and the Beast wasn't really stockholme syndrome that was just an awkward situation an example of stockholme syndrome in disney is Mother Gothel and Judge Claude Frollo
No. Elsa is a great role model for young children that you don't need to date to achieve greatness and have happiness. Also she could easily be a great role model for the ace/aro community as well.
Also, there WASN'T EVEN a family for Mr. Incredible yet. He JUST got married and NO ONE, not even Syndrome, knew Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl got married. So, no, a family of supers didn't get sued, a man got saved and a train full of people got saved and everyone got butthurt because apparently they'd rather have crashed into cement and died instead of being able to heal from the accidents.
I hate the way that it is immediately assumed she is "gay" just because she hasen't found a mate, yet. Some women are very selective, and with Elsa's looks, she could easily afford to be.
Bleu Cat in the original,she didn’t marry him until he was almost dying and turned into a handsome prince. Disney twists it into “child appropriate” stuff when I think the original would teach more but people find non common things uncomfortable. But yes I guess Disney’s version does show that
@@kikidoyoulovemeee agree, tho I. think of abusive as physical, myself. Their just being a jerk means you leave. It's when they "sucker punch" you, ie, say mean, rude things for no reason or start arguments for nothing=that's abusive technically, that's abuse. It's a power play designed, on purpose to get someone obsessing over WHY they are a jackass. Because the mean shot was for no reason, remember. Just time to go. Those people NEVER change. Trust me. :) See "Why does he DO that?" (inside the minds of angry and controlling men) by Lundy Bancroft. He explains it well.
For the Aladdin one, I think it’s just a situation of hearing what you want to hear. Even after hearing the other interpretation, I still didn’t hear it. But, that’s just me
There's a video about hearing words in songs played backwards with a demonstration that had _two_ sets of words for the _same_ piece of song displayed as subtitles, one for each half of the audience. Each half heard what they were shown.
SR: *See s sisterly love and hugs* “OMG ELSA IS GAYYY” SR: *Sees 101 Dalmatians* “GUYS GUYS PETA HAS TAKEN OVER DISNEY SPAY + NEUTER OR ELSE” SR: *Forgets that The Little Mermaid, Cinderella, And Snow White are all Fairytales that were introduced a loooong time before Disney even existed, and thinks that these films are made to tell girls that only beauty matters*
1: Disney confirmed that Elsa is gay 2: they didn't mention peta, all they said was that the film represents that you should neuter your pets, which it does. It doesn't say that it's the point of it, it's just one of the themes. 3: you're right about this one, but their point is valid, it was all about your appearance, so what did they say that was incorrect?
People don’t want Elsa to be gay because she loves her sister. That’s a normal thing. People want her to be gay because she wasn’t set up with some dude so hey look there’s a possibility for Disney to make _one_ of their main characters not straight
^^Disney has not confirmed anything about Elsa being lesbian. What they *did* do was mention the fact that it was an idea for the sequal, what happens with her sexuality would never be released so far away from the release date. We don't even lmow anything about the plot aside from the fact that Elsa and Anna go on this crazy adventure together. Don't automatically assume that she's lesbian because the topic was briefly touched in a conversation.
No matter how many times I re-listen to it, I cannot hear "good teenagers take off their clothes" or whatever you said it was. Some people are just so determined to make something sexual. Especially in the context of him trying to shoo Raja.
Nemo in Latin means 'no one' so finding Nemo means finding no one Nemo dies at the start The movie was about his dad traumatized after loosing his son and is in denial about it so he sets off to try find his son where he goes through the stages said in the video After coming to the realisation that his son is dead he stops searching and accepts the fact he has lost his family Including Nemos mother
It’s just his name. Don’t read too much into it 😂 your theory doesn’t make sense because he finds Nemo’s egg and then raises him as single father. Nemo also has a damaged fin because of the attack. Nemo goes on his own adventure while he’s being found. If Nemo wasn’t alive what would be the point of his adventure?
The little mirmaid is supposed to teach people why you read the entire contract not just the parts you want to. And the power of corporate offices and the contracts they create to keep the poor poor and the rich rich.
Terri V well yeah but the flower didn't hold any magic anymore and it was in a room with it's roots still there and everything and spoiler alert this kids ruined the flower and used it for something in his house
"Dark secrets" More like loose interpretations. Also, "Beauty and the Beast" represents the opposite of Stockholm Syndrome, in which the captor begins sympathizing with their captives.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame is about how what we want isn't always what we need. Quasimodo needed to be acknowledged and accepted by society before he could find a loving connection. Otherwise their relationship wouldn't have been mutual.
The original book was actually focused more around gothic architecture, promoting against demolishing Notre Dame, by exploring what the building ment to the different character. Expressing we shouldn't get rid of history in which we should embrace it. Accepting it into future society's even if it's different.
I had an original VHS copy. It was unmistakably "take off your clothes". We all heard it the first time we watched, even though we all missed (at first) all the other dirty things that had been put into that movie, like the priest getting a visible erection at the wedding. This stuff got cleaned up in later releases, but it absolutely was there in the original.
Marialla if I can find a vhs player, I’m going to watch the original release bc I don’t remember that at all. It sounds like he says “goood kitty, take off, go on”
dorothy b Lewis Carroll was a math teacher. "Alice in Wonderland" was mocking the idea of imaginary numbers and other abstract mathematical concepts that had just been developed. In it, he suggests a world where numbers have no meaning and the world itself is turnes topsy-turvy.
in the lion king people think it says something but it suppose to say something else it is meant to say sfx it is some kind of sound or some animation thing but it doent say what people think it says
Lolinstine every one knows that if you listen to something while looking at words to someone has put their that song remotely like it you will hear the words that have been put down instead but if you listen to the video looking away. You can hear good kitty, take off cloak. And we are all watching the same video...
No, he doesn't say "Good teenagers take off their clothes." Sad that you can't even properly quote what he supposedly says. Source: I have a working copy of the VHS and it's "Good kitty, take off and go."
I don’t think Snow White was alive because when Prince Charming or whatever his name is takes her on his horse, there is a beautiful castle in the clouds and I think that was heaven. Also, when the dwarves say goodbye to Snow White, they are crying and waving sadly. They didn’t have to be so emotional because if Snow White was alive she could of easily visited the dwarves, and yet they were waving goodbye to her like they would never see her again. As in death😐
a dark message i saw in the lion king was "you can't trust everyone, even family will turn in you.." i got this and thought of all my past experiences with my own family that pretend i don't exist or are even aware of it
I feel like just because Elsa didn’t fall in love with a man, people assume that because she didn’t get in a relationship with a guy in frozen, it’s OBVIOUS that she’s lesbian. I’m not hating on the fact that she might be lesbian, I totally support LGBT (in fact my bestfriend who’s a girl has a girlfriend) I just feel like not everyone needs a love interest.
If you don't know what aromanticism is, someone who's aromantic is someone that feels little to no ROMANTIC attraction to anyone. Of course there are different kinds of aromantic people, and I'm just making everything easier to understand, but hopefully you get it. Also, yes, aromantic people are part of the LGBTQ+ community.
The Prince was obviously a creep, who kisses there dead friend on the lips. Because if you ever truly pay attention to the beginning of the movie you'll realize that there was only a deep crush.
Yah, in the original tale, he didn't even kiss her, he saw her in the coffin thought she was pretty and took her to be a glorified decoration, it was acually a servant dropping the coffin that dislodged the apple, witch saved her.
Also apparently it's also okay to break into someone's house with a herd of animals. Man, that would take a long time to clean up unless you put diapers on all of them.
Actually- It's Zeus who married his sister which he cheated on with a mortal. Also Hercules and Ariel are related as Triton(Ariels dad) is the son of Posiden who's the brother of Zeus
Hercules is just the name the Romans gave him, his Greek name is Heracles so this secret message is totally wrong. Besides, his dad (Zeus) married his own sister and had a kid with her, and then cheated on her with a mortal over 1000 times.
there is a theory by matpat that Maui is Moana's real dad, so regardless of if that's really true it would still be weird for me if they did end up together
It was clear from the trailers that they weren't going to end up together. If Moana was going to have a love interest it could have just been a boy from her village or someone they met on the journey.
With The Hunchback of Notre Dame I'm glad Quasimodo doesn't get the girl as obsession and stalking of someone who doesn't want your attention is not being the 'good guy', it's being a creep. Unfortunately there are many films and TV shows where the 'good guy' gets the girl by continuous badgering until the girl finally gives in because they are fed up of fighting against him which I feel isn't a message society should be continuing to perpetrate.
"obsession and stalking of someone who doesn't want your attention is not being the 'good guy', it's being a creep." Exactly, otherwise what's separating Quasi from Frollo who was exactly that.
You do realize tha half the time beauty is NOT what Walt was trying to show us. I mean, it's about what's on the inside. In Snow White (for example) the evil queen wanted to be the fairest of them all. And because of her starve for physical perfection, she was the antagonist. Snow White was better because of what was on the inside and the prince kissed her cause he fell in love with her at first sight, not because she was pretty. That had nothing to do with it! I could correct a lot of other things, but Snow White is a personal favorite of mine and I don't want anyone to think that Walt Disney had dark thoughts in mind when making such inspiring, beautiful movies for children. (And for the record, it's not that kids don't see these things in movies, they see them but ignore because they know that's not what the movie is about and has nothing to do with the delivered message of the story👍)
Imma kid and when I first saw zootopia I was all like isn’t that racist? But I never said anything cause the movie was good and in the end everybody was happy and celebrating
I'm not sure but beautiful people are always nice to look at we all know this but I like how Disney showed they could be pretty but also nice and good at heart. So ultimately I think his message was good in that respect. People now are so fixated on their looks but don't give an iota about being good to others
Some other hidden messages/themes in the Hunchback of Notre Dame: Abuse of Power (Claude Frollo/ As well as abuse of Religion, but that is more prominent in the original story), Racism (The Gypsies), Discrimination against people with disability (Quasimodo). Well to be honest all of these themes, where some more "normal" during that time the story plays in, means it was more daily. Anyways these are still strong messages for a children movie even though they are not nearly as prominent than in the original. Not to forget the very obvious message "Who you appear to be to others doesn't define you as a monster. Its within a human being that decides who we really are", making Quasimodo, who was seen as a monster his whole life the more decent human being than the man of power and reputation who raised him. His Kindness and Heart made him the hero of the story. And in the end, he is happy for Esmeralda, although he "didn't get the girl", which shows how selfless he acts, towards her, showing that he is a better man than Frollo, who makes his own desire the justification for burning a whole city down.