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The Black Robe
Title: The Black Robe
Category: Society & Culture / Religion
Details: Words: 1601 | Pages: 6.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Black Robe
Culture Clash
Bruce Beresford does a wonderful job in captivating the cultural differences between the Algonquin Indians and the French Jesuits in the 1991 motion picture “Black Robe.” The movie is an extremely realistic representation of the clash between the two conflicting cultures and can be viewed for critical analysis; a trait not many motion pictures can boast. The movie takes place in the rugged 17th century in the beautiful Canadian wilderness, in which a Jesuit …showed first 75 words of 1601 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1601 total…the Indians. The Jesuits were supposed to help the tribes and yet they broke down their beliefs, subsequently destroying their culture. Father Laforgue’s mission was that of helping the Huron, and yet 15 years later they were wiped out by their enemies, slaughtered and killed by the Iroquois. One must ask themselves how much damage the Jesuits caused and the differences that would still exist today if they had never come to the Canadian territories.
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