The strong negative opinions developed during the Elizabethan times towards acting and taking on the role or life of someone that is not your own, can easily be tied into the previous scene of Noel because it shows how a person may become confused with what is fiction and what is reality. If a person spends a lot of time pretending to be someone or acting a certain way, the mind may begin to blur the originally distinct personal persona and slowly erase that defined sense of self. Several outside examples where this theory has been proven true are the death of Heath Ledger, the movie Inception and also the saying "If you tell a lie enough times, you will begin to believe it."
The tragic accidental death of young actor Heath Ledger is and example of how taking on the persona or life of a different person or character can prove to be deadly. Heath Ledger can be used as an example because of his part in the movie Black Knight, the role that led to his accidental death. In the movie Black Knight Heath Ledger played a psychopathic killer with a dark past of abuse. It was said that as a result of having to emerge himself in this psychopathic role everyday cause Heath to develop difficulty sleeping, and a large amount of anxiety which led him to be on various prescribed medication. "Last week I probably sleep an average of two hours a night… I couldn't stop thinking " said Heath to a reporter from the New York times. A few weeks before the opening release of the Dark Knight, Heath died in his Manhattan apartment on January 22, 2008, the cause of his death was an overdose of prescription drugs that included painkillers, sleeping pills and anti-anxiety medication. This is an example of how acting or taking on the role of someone else can be deadly because Heath became so caught up with his role, The Joker, that he began to loose sight that it was just a role he was playing. He began to develop severe anxiety and sleep problems which led to him use any means necessary to allow him to rest, until it finally cause him to overdose and die.
In the movie Inception, one of the significant details to the story is the characters ability to completely loose sight of reality. In the movie main characters Cobb and his wife, Mal, create an imaginary world for the two of them. Cobb begins to grow tired of this imaginary world and misses his children so he plants the thought in his wife's head that this world is not real and the only way to escape it is death. When Cobb and his wife enter the real world she is still convinced that this world is not real and that they both must kill themselves in order to return to the real world to see their children. Cobb tries to convince her that the world they are in is real but to no avail, Mal commits suicide by jumping off a building in front of Cobb. This shows how easily people may become confused with what is fiction and what is reality. Mal's mind had become so warped, and had thought that this world is not real so often that she eventually believed it and killed herself as a result.
The saying "If you tell a lie enough times, you will begin to believe it" pertains to Noel in this situation because he had told himself over and over that Fall cares about him and loves him and that he is better than Julius. The more Noel said these the worse his obsession grew and the more he believed what he was saying. Noel had convinced himself all of these supposed facts by telling himself these things on a daily basis. This is the case with most lies, people continually tell the lie when asked and eventually the answer becomes so automatic that the person begins to believe it.
In conclusion the negative opinions developed during the Elizabethan times towards acting and taking on the role or life of someone that is not your own can be tied to the situation the Noel was in because it shows how confused and wrapped a person's mind may become when taking on the role of someone else, or constantly lying to themselves.
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