Loss of Objectivity

Loss of Objectivity

Loss of objectivity is a personality trait of someone who has grown out of childhood yet has not matured emotionally in order to recognize other people’s wants and desires. A person without objectivity functions much like a child. They are able to let their imaginations run wild and function without regard to the consequences of actions. Madame Bovary and Miss. Jean Brodie are two characters who are unable to mature emotionally and therefore are without objectivity. It is much like they are too big children with the power to hurt others around them who expect them to be objective. In society, a degree of objectivity is needed to function properly. Objectivity is also needed to realize that happiness in not won by using other people, but my corroborating with them. Madame Bovary and Miss Jean Brodie are unable to see past their private inside world of fairytale dreams in order to leave peacefully with other people.

Emma Bovary, like Jean Brodie, is the definition of a person without objectivity. Emma harbors idealistic and romantic illusions. She lives to desire, and she desires sophistication, sensuality, and passion, and when she is unable to achieve her desires, she lapses into fits of extreme boredom and depression. Evidence of Emma’s lack of objectivity appeared at the beginning of the movie when she marries Dr. Bovary even though she know nothing about him, and marries him because it seems romantic. This does not satisfy her because she soon realizes that her marriage is anything but a romance novel, but is a practical.

Although Emma’s husband is pleases with their marriage and to the outside world Emma should be happy, she is disappointed and board. Emma feels dissatisfied by her new life, because, due to her inability to get past childhood expectations, she always expected marriage to lead her to romantic bliss; instead, she feels that her life has fallen short of the high expectations she received from books. Her marriage does not match her naively romantic expectations, and she lapses into a state of boredom and restlessness. After some time as Madame Bovary, Emma becomes pregnant, and in an attempt to revive her ill health her husband gives up everything he has and moves to a new town. However Emma does not see the sacrifice that he has made, but only sees where he has fallen short of her high e...

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... no real feelings for him, but she also included the art teacher and her girls in her scheme to fulfill her relationship with the art teacher. Although morally wrong and emotionally damaging to her girls, Miss Brodie encouraged her girls to have an affair with their former art teacher so that in some way she could be a part of his life. Because she completely overstepped her boundaries and put both the girls and the art teacher in morally and legally wrong situation for her own benefit and did not recognize the trauma and the responsibility her actions carried, Miss Brodie continued to be completely self-centered and without objectivity.

Although Miss Jean Brodie and Madame Bovary seem to be very different women, they actually share the character trait of lack of objectivity. Although Madame Bovary is more romantic and tries more to live a fantasy life, like Miss Jean Brodie she ignores the people around her that she is hurting and does nothing for them but only acts out of self-satisfying notions. Miss Brodie’s main effect of objectivity was the reckless use of teaching to influence the minds of young girls and to push her ideas and ways onto them even though they were harmful.