Tangled Web: The Beginning
Glistening spiderwebs interlaced between the members of the family anthropomorphizes the reactions that occur within a family system. Reverberation befalls the entire web when one person interacts with another. Throughout the films, The Other woman, directed by Don Roos, scenes demonstrate the relations of Family Systems Theories such as differentiation of self, family origin and destabilization of the old structure, Circumplex Model, content and abstract process, power control, and triangulation.
Enmeshed Reactivity
Emotional blowups are witnessed repetitively throughout the film due to enmeshed relationships. Emilia (Natalie Portman) demonstrates impulsive emotional reactions especially when William
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Emilie cut off the relationship with her father leaving their relationship unresolved. Harboring resentment and hurt about her father’s infidelity stagnates her differentiation process. Blaming her father for the destruction of their family unit was a way of making him the scapegoat. There is a juxtaposition in her dislike of the affair her father had and the one she initiated. Healing occurred when Emilie has a candid discussion with her father. He owns that he made a mistake but, he is human. The bigger mistake was not fighting for his family. Honestly and empathy allows healing.
Carolyn’s horrific response to William’s drawing of his family was a dynamic display of mobile being disrupted. Ripping up the drawing was rash and filled with rage. Carolyn would like to deny the change. Here enmeshed relationship with her son does not have room for others. Furthermore, she may be insecure that she will lose her son if her bonds with his new
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Body language and verbal speech have the capacity to elicit both overt and covert power. Control is only effective if you have a responsive audience. There must be a part of the web that is connected to them even if it is just a single strand to have an emotional response.
The film The Other Woman, demonstrates the use of both overt and covert power. Through the film, we can examine both the speech and the use of the body to implement power successfully. The beginning of the film has a powerful scene that demonstrated overt power. Intertwined in a power struggle with William, Emilia dictates “William come on let’s go”, “Get in”, and “Keep your phone away from heater”() Coupled with these directives she pulls on William in order to get him into the car. The combination of spoken and physical commands effectively demonstrates overt power.
Additionally, Jack communicates “A minute Emilia please”() in the scene were his son is complaining about Emilia’s behavior. This was a direct order to stop talking thinly veiled as non-aggressive because of the use of the word, please. However, the emphasis on the first words was stated in a manner that this was not a choice but an
In his discussion with a psychiatrist many of Antoine’s mishaps and offences are revealed, including the fact that he stole money from his grandmother and visited a prostitute. Antione’s interest in women is explored in this scene. It is also revealed that Antione had been sent to live with a wet nurse and then his grandmother because his mother did not want him around. Through her actions and words, Antione was able to notice that his mother never really cared for him, leading to a rift to be formed between them. As he explains how he found out his mother wanted to abort him, he looks down, nervously moves his fingers, and speaks in a quieter tone demonstrating that the topic of his mother is one that causes him pain and sadness; this is a contrast to when he speaks indifferently about stealing his grandmother’s money. Antione explains that the reason he stole money from her is because she is “old” and “going to die soon.” Antione’s noticeable indifference towards his grandmother, and his need to steal from her regardless of her kindness demonstrates that for Antione she does not satisfy the role of the maternal figure he desires. For Antione, his grandmother cannot take the role of his mother because she is “old” and “going to die.” His grandmother’s advanced age is a threat because in the event of her death, he will
There are conflicts with the main character and her father. We see the conflict with her father when Oates’ has the psychiatrist have the woman talk about her father and express some feelings towards him, she said “I was afraid of him. But I loved him” (46). There was a mixture of feelings for him since he was her father, so she loved him, but he also wasn’t the best role model in her life and was someone she feared. As the woman shares memories of her father, the readers realizes that her father is one reason why she is in the state she is in today. One quote from the story to further the statement about her father is, “He had many secrets he kept from all of us, about work, and money…even from my mother he kept secrets” (46). She couldn’t trust him and didn’t know what he was saying was true and what was a lie. That most likely made her not able to trust other men in her life, thinking they would act the same way to
Many people believe verbal communication to be a very powerful way of expressing oneself. Words gain there power when the volume is raised and lowered alternatively to make a point. Additionally, the influence of speech can manifest itself in a number of ways. It can be used to humiliate, to intimidate, to flirt and to threaten, all of which are integral and pragmatic strategies to win a power struggle.
Communication is everywhere. We, as interactive human beings, spend the majority of our time corresponding with others to satisfy our physical, identity, social, and practical needs (Adler, Rodman, & Sevigny, 2011). Often, this is consciously done; we search our minds for the accurate linguistic means to express our experiences, and use them to communicate with those around us. However, communication is not as straightforward and effortless as we may believe. It is, in fact, often unintentional, with 65% of it occurring as a result of non-verbal cues (Matsumoto, Shibata, Seiji, Mori, & Shioe, 2010). As mentioned by Marta Dynel (2011) in a study done on nonverbal communication, “Non verbal signs and signals ... are prevalent practically in all social encounters, which entail at least two individuals, who need not even talk or consciously interact otherwise”. Examples exist in all mediums, including in the animated film ‘Up’, where one scene depicts transactional communication between a male and female character, all expressed nonverbally . The nonverbal communication in this scene, along with various other communication constructs, will be discussed.
There are many words that can describe the tone at this point in the play: chaotic, confused, angry, impulsive. Emilia's thought process is not so much shared by the reader as empathized by the reader--though we know what's going on, we can identify with her anger and confusion.
For instance, in Ellen’s birth-home, her miseries start with two unloving parents: a frail mother with rheumatic fever who has no control over her own family, and a bullying father who abuses Ellen and her mother verbally, physically and sexually. To make matters worse, Ellen’s mother overdoses
Relationships are an essential aspect of life. People form new relationships every day and as these relationships become stronger, the individuals involved learn to care for each other and depend on one another in a greater way. Although the film Like Dandelion Dust, directed by Jon Gunn, is based on Karen Kingsbury’s novel, Like Dandelion Dust, there are many noticeable differences between the relationships that are formed in each of the two works. These differences are most apparent in Molly Campbell’s relationships. Molly forms stronger relationships in the novel than she does in the film. This is evident in Molly’s relationships with her husband Jack, her son Joey, and her sister Beth.
When she and her Ma got home, it was almost dark outside. Frances saw something suspicious, her brother(Mike), shouldn’t be out at this time. Once they got inside, Frances and her mother tucked in all the children and went to bed themselves. Frances was still wondering about Mike, “What was he doing?” She fell asleep falling wiry of her younger brother. When she up, they had breakfast, and headed to their jobs. Frances was still wondering what Mike had done. “Was he stealing? No, their Da(father) had taught them better than that before he fell ill and died. She had never seen her mother cry until then.
The presence of nonverbal messages in our communication is very important. Following the text, researchers have estimated it is up to “65 percent of social meaning we convey in face-to-face interactions is a result of nonverbal behavior” (131). The movie “Mrs. Doubtfire” is a typical example about the interactions among characters, also with audience. Several scenes in this movie show us the effects of nonverbal messages in communication, especially through the character Daniel, who disguises himself as a middle-aged British nanny in order to be near his children.
When we think about communication, we think about interactions. So what is your body language communicating to me? This are the words that Amy Cuddy a social physiologist, uses when she start up her talk about body language. Cuddy’s talk “how body language shapes who you are” explains how body language can identify how much power one is feeling just by observing someone’s body language. Amy Cuddy states that when one expands one is feeling power, and when the opposite is done which is shrinking one is feeling powerless.
Power can go from hands on contact to figuratively speaking, such as beating a prisoner while incarcerated, or not paying any attention...
Power has been defined as the psychological relations over another to get them to do what you want them to do. We are exposed to forms of power from the time of birth. Our parents exercise power over us to behave in a way they deem appropriate. In school, teachers use their power to help us learn. When we enter the work world the power of our boss motivates us to perform and desire to move up the corporate ladder so that we too can intimidate someone with power one day. In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness Kurtz had a power over the jungle and its people that was inexplicable.
Following his father’s death and his mother’s continuing adulterous relationship, cause for deep sorrow
Nonverbal communication can be shown by many different gestures, body movements, and understood by all the different channels. For example, when Dory believes that Marlin has entered her personal space by following her too closely she reacts by using proxemics to intimidate Marlin. Dory purposely enters Marlin’s personal space to show dominance and her gestures show “affect display.” Dory’s affect display is “the movements of the face that convey emotional meaning- the expressions that show anger and fear, happiness and surprise…” (DeVito 144) It is a nonver...
“When we think of nonverbals we think of how we judge others, how they judge us, and what the outcomes are… we are also influenced by our nonverbals, our thoughts, and our feelings, and our physiology” (paragraph 6). Amy Cuddy is a respected women, known for her compassion and care to inspire other to better their lives. In the beginning of her speech Your body language shapes who you are published in 2012 on Tedglobal, she offers her “life hack” to the audience, assuring them if they improve their non verbals and body language it will improve their life in many ways. Cuddy begins building her trustworthiness and credibility with the audience by quoting respectable sources, giving convincing facts and statistics, and successfully employing