I find a fusion in the ideas of love in The Jacket and Babette’s Feast. There is an element of predestination, ideas that there is a determined path of love for us all. In The Jacket, Jack knows his destiny it to die. He found love on his journey and now he had a destiny in his relationship with his love interest. In Babette’s Feast, the sisters knew their love lied supreme in God above a love with a man. The General’s journey was to choose glory over staying in the town with the sister, impossible to love her while fulfilling his vanity and success. I find both these paths to be interesting. Is there a predetermined soul mate for us like they find in the movies so serendipitously? Or should our life choices lie supreme to finding this love? Which path do you choose in order to live well?
To live well, you must determine whether you believe importance lies in success or in finding love. The General saw this love to be inferior to his grandiose plans, where Jack found his love in the end to be all he wanted to save above himself. “One person at a time,” as reiterated in the superhero television show “Heroes.” I have always had conflicting opinions about this, whether I would need to put off romantic relationships to interfere with my success. I have been in a relationship off and on for quite some time, and have plans of making the promise of a permanent relationship in 4 months. I get extremely freaked out even typing the word so I will not. While being a college student, I can’t let this commitment get in the way of graduating or getting my Master’s degree. By taking the path of the General, I would be able to get all of my academic dreams fulfilled much less distracted or with other weighing options in my way. In a simplification like this, I would be disregarding the possible predestined mate for my own glory and the career that would follow it. Jack offers and interesting guidance in the worth of life, virtually nothing, without the fulfillment of that person you could save with your care for them. Hopefully there is a medium of the two where glory and love is balanced.
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