Ryan ChambersEnglish 102 – Professor DrogyCritical Reflection Paper 2Progress, being defined as a “movement forward or towards a destination,” was, and still is, a continuing theme seen in America driven by a multitude of motivations: a predominant motivation is "greed" (Andy Buckle 1) and the lust for power and success. In Paul Thomas Anderson's film There Will Be Blood, and through Andy Buckle's critical analysis of the film, the theme of the perpetual desire to achieve success due to greed is evident through the main character Daniel Plainville, a man of “gritty determination” going “extreme faces to become a success” (Buckle 1) displaying a false image of a family man through his “presentation of self” (Erving Goffman 101) in which he performed for the soul purpose of manipulating others around him to make money by extracting oil. “Greedy and ruthless business tyrants” (Buckle 1) like Daniel, who will stop at no cost for the advancement of money and success, are still present in American civilization today, as businessmen behind the advertisements who sacrifice the health of society's models and spectators, just to earn a dollar. Daniel Plainville is accurately portrayed through Buckle's analysis as a man who personifies "greed" (1) and cockiness who shares a "hatred" (1) of everything except money. and himself. This description of a money-hungry man is evident through Plainville's actions such as "risking his life searching for samples" of silver "in self-made pits in the earth" (Buckle 1) with a leg wound caused by a dynamite explosion. and through the manipulation of individuals to gain power over the earth. Results that lead to money and prosperity, such as oil and silver, in Pl...... center of paper ......life-threatening problems, such as developing an eating disorder, advertisers do not they share a concern because they are making money. This is similar to how Plainville treated HW and the residents of Little Boston. Plainville did not care if he broke some promise to the residents, such as the guaranteed share of wealth among the town or the accolades to Eli after he purchased the town land, nor could he have genuinely cared about HW or been more committed to where he he found some work instead, which could have prevented H.W.'s hearing loss As Plainville states in the film, “I have a competition inside me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people,” advertisers also compete with rival advertisers, increasing the production of these “objectifying women” advertisements (Bordo 211) to sell products through attraction and the desire for thinness (Kilbourne).