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and the results. When youre willing to take the credit for the good results of your actions
you also have to be prepared to take the blame for the negative actions.
In terms of the poems influence, Invictus was a source of inspiration for other
literary works or movies. For instance, C. S. Lewis included a quotation from the last
stanza in Book 5, chapter 3 of his early autobiographical work The Pilgrim's Regress
(1933).
In the 1942 film Casablanca, Captain Renault, an official played by Claude Rains
recites the last two lines of the poem when talking to Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey
Bogart, referring to his power in Casablanca.
In the 1942 film Kings Row, Parris Mitchell, a psychiatrist played by Robert
Cummings, recites the first two stanzas of "Invictus" to his friend Drake McHugh, played
by Ronald Reagan, before revealing to Drake that his legs were unnecessarily amputated
by a cruel doctor.
While incarcerated at Robben Island prison, Nelson Mandela recited the poem to
other prisoners and was empowered by its message of self-mastery. Mandela is depicted
in the movie Invictus presenting a copy of the poem to Francois Pienaar, captain of the
national South African rugby team, for inspiration during the Rugby World Cup
though at the actual event he gave Pienaar a text of the "man in the arena" passage from
Theodore Roosevelt's Citizenship in a Republic speech.
Bibliography
www.wikipedia.com
www.poemofquotes.com