ABSTRACT
This chapter extends Elizabeth Bennet’s mode of resistance to Lady Catherine into a violent context of force and coercion not explored by Austen. Archy Hamilton, the protagonist of Peter Weir’s film Gallipoli, is surrounded and afflicted by the fully coercive, if not absolute, powers of war. He resists the reductive, simplifying force of these powers through enacting a kind of limit-description through his final actions. Limit-descriptions are not simply applied; they can be enacted. As such they delimit modes of ethical significance from manifestationsof political power.
