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Captain Miller Character Analysis

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Saving Private Ryan

Part A
Captain Miller-
Symptoms-Palpitations,Irritability,Disorientation to the point of complete incapacitation
Reasons- Group pressure,Impact of elements

Miller was like a mysterious figure,Just before the Rangers embarked at Portsmouth, England,Captain Miller's right hand began to shake due to all the pressure before the war, which shows he was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). He kept this a secret from his men except for Horvath.In a normal case you have symptoms like developing a lisp or short term memory loss and stuff like that and even shaking.Captain Miller Was always under immense pressure as he was the captain he had to take care of his infantry and help secure private Ryan.

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The biggest problem he faces is PTSD from World War II. World War II was one of the most tragic event at that time and many veterans developed mental illness due to the harsh environment they were in during the war.Ryan wants to make sure that he lives a good life and was a good person because of the words from his comrade, Captain Miller. James Ryan wants to live up Miller’s expectation because he went through so many battles and losses to save Ryan so that he could return back home to his mother. The words of miller had been inside of him for many years and even though he’s now a grandfather he still thinks about the events that happened. Constantly living up to an expectation can be hard, but he had a very supportive family to help through his hard times, especially his wife. At the end of Saving Private Ryan he told his wife, “Tell me I lived a good life, and tell me I am a good person.” He told his wife this in front of Miller’s grave to confirm to himself and Miller that he had tried his best to live up to his to Miller’s expectations.Ryan had fulfilled most of the criteria for having post-traumatic stress disorder but had a couple of criterias not shown in the movie.The psychiatric disorder that Ryan has is PTSD. Returning from a deadly does not only affect the body but also the …show more content…

The battle scenes are portrayed to a great extent to depict how shocking the World War was. The director uses several ways to demonstrate how terrifying the war was, and for that uses many cinematic techniques which added to the effect of presenting the opening battle scene to being more realistic War is like a game of chess Each team is a different color, like the different nations fighting against each other. With each move you have to take a chance but no matter what you do you are going to lose some of your men. Just like war there can be only one winner.Saving Private Ryan portrays real war in an appalling manner not the glory that you usually see at the movies, is hell on earth. This movie is not an anti-war film but it depicts how war actually looks for the soldiers.In war there is no winner everyone loses something when there is war.In this movie we see how appalling war is the problems the soldiers pay the PTSD etc it is not easy for them to go back home after killing people and how this affects them physically and

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