User blog comment:Mrcharlton/Most Bad*&@ villain from POTC/@comment-4898132-20110602030026/@comment-1771352-20110603211603

I actually thought Beckett's death was both honorable and symbolic. He knew he had lost, and at that moment, he realized that the EITC's business ventures were not always successful, and that there would always be another company to outshine his in some way. It was when the Dutchman and the Pearl finally turned against him that he came to the realization that he HAD indeed failed in his mission. His fate was symbolic to that of what happens to business men who's projects fail. Usually, when a CEO discovers that another company did a better job than his, he just forgets about it and moves on. Beckett's apathy of choosing to fight against the ships in the end was his way of moving on. He realized that his ambitions were unrealistic and that there would always be pirates as long as he organized trade (just like a as long as there is a company, it will always have a competitor). In the end, Beckett did move forward, and he knew that it would be pointless to try to fight back (just like every good business man knows that it is just a waste of time, money, and energy to stay in the past and focus on a lost business oportunity). Even though Beckett knew he was going to die, he also knew that it wasn't the end of the EITC, and that the pirates needed the EITC in order to survive. Beckett was one of those people who know when to just move forward, which is kind of what he did when he didn't fight back. In a way, I think Beckett is a symbolic character. One may even go as far to say that he and Davy Jones were both two sides to one personality. They were both misunderstood in different ways, they both had marks left on them (For Jones, it was Calypso and for Beckett, it was Jack almost bankrupting the EITC when he worked for him). Jones represented a more mysterious side of the symbolic "joint personality" that tries to distract himself from trying to understand who he is. Beckett represents the ego, or the false self of someone. He is very intelligent and good at what he does, but he is so distracted from what he has to do and is blinded by his own personal ambitions, that it lead to his downfall. They both have some evil in them, but they also have positive sides to them as well (Jones was a very sensitive and depressed person while sadistic at the same time, while Beckett was an honorable and lawful business man who could still be the devious type who wouldn't hesitate to stab you in the back, whether it is through business or literal). In conclusion Beckett is still a villain, but in a way, you can kind of understand where he is coming from and ultimately did what he did. He was highly annoyed at the pirates for attacking his shipping and sinking his ships, who wouldn't be? Those things cost money, and he is sending money down the drain if they keep pillaging the stuff. The reason he attacked the pirates and wanted to get rid of them is because "It is just good business."