The British Empire and characters in "Gandhi" and "The Patriot".

Essay # 1 Humanities 105 Compared Films: "Gandhi" & "The Patriot" "Non-violence is the greatest force of mankind; it is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of men." - Mahatma Gandhi. "This war will be fought, not on the frontier or on some distant battlefield, but amongst us, among our homes. Our children will learn of it with their own eyes. And the innocent will die with the rest of us." - Benjamin …

…humility and simple truth more powerful than Empires." The message or moral in "The Patriot" was not as powerful as in "Gandhi". They made an attempt to include a message of hope about a better future, but we know that civil war followed that time, that black segregation and slavery took place and even today racism is still a daily problem in America. I believe, there is still a lot of progress to be made.