Who Is the Bigger Monster in There Will Be Blood?

Who Is the Bigger Monster in There Will Be Blood?

When Daniel and H.W. arrive in Little Boston to inquire about land for drilling oil, he immediately fires up a plan to manipulate the entire town. He buys land from all the locals and makes bogus promises to build better schools for the children, better roads and churches for the entire community to benefit. However, the only person that benefits from him, swindling the ignorant out their property is him, Daniel. Daniel is a very charismatic business man he always seems to use the right tone and words when talking to the locals. Along with schools, roads and churches, Daniel pledges to the community had he is all about family, he announces to the people that he cares for their family and he believes they should have the best of everything. He further encourages them to basically allow him to take their land so that he can provide them with agricultural resources and employment opportunities. Of course the only opportunity they are really given is to ensure that he’s a rich man. Other than seeing people succeed, Daniel, hates a liar. Though he can be described as a liar himself, he despises being lied to. At the peak of his success a stranger arrives in his life, his half brother Henry. Though skeptical at about this stranger, Daniel begins to accept Henry as his brother. He took him along on business transactions they talked about potential business prospects until Daniel brought up the idea of getting some women and taking them to a Peachtree dance, when Henry coolly accepts the idea without any excitement or sense of recognition, Daniel immediately knew that Henry was not whom he had claimed to be. For further investigation Daniel asked Henry repeat the name of the farm that he grew up on. Realizing that he could no longer lie, Henry told Daniel that he is actually a friend of Daniel’s real brother who had died of tuberculosis. Though “Henry” asked for forgiveness and the mere punishment of walking away, Daniel believed that he only way to really punish Henry...

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