12 years a slave blog post prompt 4

               In the movie 12 years a slave violence played a big role in society and showed up in many different forms.     When Solomon was first captured he was thrown into a dark room and every time he pleaded he was a free man, he was punished by being whipped. He was beaten until the captors felt they feared him now. The captors used violence to punish him and show Solomon that he should do as they say cause there in charge. Violence was just a part of society, the slave owners used violence to punish there slaves to put fear in their eyes, so then maybe they would obey. When Solomon was moved to an actual plantation the form of violence changed. Solomon would be beaten by hand, whip and sometimes a stick. Violence was always the answer whenever a slave disobeyed there master. A perfect example of that was at the end of the movie when Patsey was being whipped for not telling her master where she had gone. Violence wasn’t just being whipped, or hit, in some cases people where hung (like Solomon) or raped (like Patsey). Violence became so apart of society that people were very much ok with watching a slave get beat in front of them. It was just an average day when a slave was beaten, whipped, rapped, and hung. Violence played the biggest role of all in 12 years a slave, it was the tool used to strike fear into slaves’ eyes, and the main reason slaves never ran away. Like when Solomon tried to run away and he ran straight into a hanging. After Solomon saw that he was so in fear of what would happen if he were to be caught that he never tried to run again. In the movie 12 years a slave violence showed up in many ways and played possibly the biggest role.

Solomon being hung for not excepting his punishment