How does one explain a way they feel? In what way to emotions help us understand the way society looks at these feelings? Sara Ahmed’s The Cultural Politics of Emotion gives the reader insight on these emotions and the different way they are understood. The emotions she talks about in her book are some that resonate with everyone’s daily lives. From Ahmed’s book these emotions and the way she explains them can be used when wanting to analyze and understand a text. In the film The Notebook directed by Nick Cassavetes has a plethora of emotions happening between the characters from the beginning to the end. Ahmed’s text can be looked at critically and used to theorize The Notebook to have a better understanding how these emotions take place …show more content…
Along with their passionate love for each other they also had a passionate hate that ended their relationship once (The Notebook). During a heated argument between Noah and Allie they break up causing her to portray a certain emotion towards Noah “ ‘You know what? I’m gonna do it! It’s over. Okay? Its over’. ‘Come here’. ‘Don’t touch me! I hate you! I hate you!’”(The Notebook). This encounter is well explained in Ahmed’s writing where she talks about hate “ Hate is an intense emotion; it involves a feeling of ‘againstness’ that is always …This would be a hate brought about by the particularity of engagement, and one that makes it possible to say, ‘I hate you’ to a face that is familiar, and to turn away, trembling” (Ahmed, 49). This quote helps explain the emotion from the scene, Allie has this feeling of intense againstness towards Noah because of something he has done which has resulted in a hateful feeling and allows her to express it with the words “I hate you” (The Notebook). She is able to say this to him because he is someone she has got to know through a deep passion which then can be turned into hateful passion when he hurts …show more content…
When Allie comes back to her hometown to get away, she ends up at Noah’s house where she choses to put up a fight and show how much he cares about her (The Notebook). Allie at this time has a fiancé but that does not stop her from staying the night and becoming sexual with Noah (The Notebook). When Allie and Noah begin to flight again he brings up what happened between them and Allie express how this has made her feel confused and that her fiancé is going to be crushed when he finds out what she did which she then does tell him and he forgives her (The Notebook). In Ahmed’s text she takes about this emotion of shame “ The apology, when read as a sign of an emotion (‘They are sorry or ashamed for which they did’), may work on the emotions of others, that is, the ‘sign’ of an emotion may move others, and hence may succeed, with the act being returned by an acceptance” (Ahmed, 116). Allie feels shame for what has happened between her and Noah while she is engaged and choses to tell her fiancé in hope that he will forgive her, which he does (The Notebook). This situation can be analyzed as a way for Allie to allow herself to be with Noah if she choses so, knowing that her fiancé forgives her, she then can go and be with Noah with no guilt and shame from the past
mere escape from the present. This is a direct result of the strife Allie’s death left on
Amir goes through many events that take place in the book that change him, and the way he is perceived within the book. Amir is a young boy, who is tortured by his father’s scrutinizing character. Amir is also jealous of Hassan, because of the fact that his father likes Hassan instead of Amir. Amir fights for his father’s approval, interest, and love. This is when Amir changes for the good as he deals with the guilt of the rape of Hassan. Amir witnessed Hassan getting raped, but decides to nothing in order to win over his father’s interest. The guilt that Amir builds up is carries from his premature times as a child to his mature times. From Afghanistan to
To begin, I will give a brief overview on the effect emotions have on our media viewing experience. In particular, I will be examining the work of Noem Carroll and Carl Plantinga. Second, I will give a brief overview of the research that connects political humor viewing to positive outcomes including increased political knowledge, and the ability to learn various view points as well as greater understanding of one’s own viewpoint. Though, I understand that their is a raging debate between cognitivist and non-cognitivist. My goal is not to take a position on the debate, but I am merely going to give a brief overview of the literature on film and emotion. On one hand, Carl Plantinga argues that emotions can be defined as "Concern Based Construals.” To highlight this meaning, let us imagine that as I am writing this paper, I hear loud noises, as this is going on, unconsciously, my heart rate increases and respiration increase and I begin to develop the emotion of fear. This is similar to Noel Carroll’s theory of emotion, if not complimentary to Plantinga’s view. Carroll would say that emotions act as searchlights to help us focus on the perceptions necessary to deal with the current experience. Plantinga would concede that many of the affects associated with emotions occur in the cognitive unconscious. So, Plantinga is not saying that, “Emotions are mere judgements,” As Robert Solomon would claim, but emotions are driven by experience based on one’s personal perception. In other words, Plantinga is saying the these construals are based on one’s personal experiences, whether conscious or not. However, something should be said about Construals in of itself, th...
Subject N told me this story about how she was chosen for student of the month and couldn’t express how she was feeling because she was feeling more than one emotion. She realized that, she said she felt “excited and nervous” because they needed to interview her to display it in the hallway. She is showing an understanding that more than one emotion can be experienced. During my second time observing her she was also sad because her friends cat died a week ago, showing she is aware of events that lead to emotional reactions (Denhman, Bassett, & Wyatt, 2007; Denham & others, 2012; Kuebli, 1994; Thompson, 2013c, d).
This paper uses the movie The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks, to discuss Alzheimer’s Diease. First, the topic of caregiver burden is approached using Noah’s character. He dedicates his life to caring for Allie, while enjoying this, caregivers must also be aware of limitations and burn out. The second topic discussed is Allie’s awareness of her own disease. Alzheimer’s patients in the later stages of memory loss, have moments of lucidity where they can remember what they once couldn’t. Lastly, the movie prompts the analysis of Alzheimer and other dementia’s care in skilled facilities and what healthcare providers can do to improve the
Because of this, Hassan is almost constantly bullied when he steps outside. Amir usually refuses to help Hassan, fearing he will get bullied for helping a minority. This type of thing built guilt up inside of him because he was then viewed as weak by his father’s friend. He overheard them talking and he was called weak because he would not even stand up for his best friend that he essentially lives with. He continues not to back Hassan up and starts being mean to Hassan, just like the other boys because he does not want to be viewed as weak.. During the kite runner festival, Hassan went to get the winning kite that Amir had knocked out of the sky. When he does, he is cornered by one of his bullies, Assef, and some of his friends. They take the kite and then rape Hassan. Amir stands nearby, watching the event take place and does nothing about it. Eventually he runs away trying to get the thought out of his head. Gradually over time, guilt builds up inside of Amir and it starts to become hard to even be around Hassan. This then leads him to frame Hassan for stealing his watch. After Amir does that, Amir finds out he forced his father to kick his brother out of the only housing he had. His father starts crying a lot and Amir feels that it is all his fault. Guilt impacts him very much even when he moves to America, he still
...levator, and The Hitchhiker by, all show that emotions can influence a person’s reality. In Monster by Walter Dean Myers, Steve sees everything that happens around him as a movie so he can escape his reality. In The Tall Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe, the main character is so uncomfortable with the old man’s eye that he murders the old man. In The Hitchhiker, Adam is so convince that the old man is a ghost so he is afraid of him when really, Adam is the ghost. Due to those stories, emotions can affect someone’s reality very significantly. In The Elevator, Martin thinks that the old lady is going to eat him, but she’s just looking at him. Emotions even change people’s perceptions in real life too, an example is when you’re home alone and you hear a random noise in your house, because of these reasons, emotion can, and do change a person’s perception about reality.
Amir and Hassan relationship throughout the book changes, but at the beginning of the novel their relationship was good, This is a quote from the beginning of the book that shows a
Noah reads their love story to Allie everyday in hopes that she will remember him and everything they have experienced together. Throughout most of the day as he reads to her, she does not recall that the story is about herself and Noah. She also does not remember who her children and grandchildren are when they come to visit. At the end of the film Allie becomes lucid for a few moments and realizes that the story Noah is reading is their own and they begin to dance together. After a few short moments Allie relapses into Alzheimer’s and has no idea who Noah is and why he is there with
Even when Amir was nasty and cruel to him, he had always been a faithful, kind soul. He never doubted that Amir was his friend and that he held a special place in his heart. When Hassan got raped, Amir did not help Hassan. There were ultimately two options: step up to the bullies and rescue Hassan, or run away. Even after hearing Assef say how Amir would never do the same for him, about how he would never stand up for him, he still chose to run away and pretend like he did not just witnessed what had happend. There is also scene where Amir is feeling guilty and both the boys are around a pomegranate tree. Amir just starts pelting Hassan with pomegranates and threatens to him to throw one back. He exclaims, “You’re a coward,” (...). And what does Hassan do? He picks up a pomegranate, but instead of hurling it in Amir’s direction, he smashes it on himself and says, “are you satisfied?” (....). There is this constant pressure on Hassan and Amir’s relationship. The Afghan society would not approve of such “friendship.” Both of the boys were good, but Amir was so young when he made the mistakes that it made the reader question whether there was a way for Amir to be morally good again.
Individuals may or may not go through a situation where they would enjoy nothing more than to yell, scream, or even fight another person for something that he or she said or did. It is challenging to hold back such intense emotions, but it is the wise thing to do in order to avoid further conflict. In Carolyn Kizer’s “Bitch”, the speaker demonstrates holding back her emotions in front of her ex-lover. It was tough for her to do so because she wanted him to understand how she felt. Overall, Kizer establishes the importance of being the better person by holding back one’s feelings in order to avoid further consequences. She illustrates this through portraying the speaker’s true emotions, revealing information of her ex-lover, and showing how the speaker carries herself on the outside.
The man, Noah, is a poet in Allie's eyes and he expresses love as, "Our souls were one, if you must know and never shall they be apart; With splendid dawn, your face aglow I reach for you and find my heart" (183). As teenagers, the two of these "love birds" had one summer of intense passion that was ended abruptly by Allie's parents disapproval. When Allie left New Bern the couple planned to keep in touch by writing letters, but because Allie's moms did not approve of Noah, she hid all his letters from her without Allie knowing. Noah continued to write but without a reply, his hopes dissolved. While Noah sat on his porch playing his guitar with his three-legged dog Clem, he reminisced about the adventures they had, foreshadowing the events that followed. "And if, in some distant place in the future, we see each other in our new lives, I will smile at you with joy, and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. And maybe, for a brief moment, you'll feel it too, and you'll smile back, and savor the memories we will always share together" (151). There are surprises one would never expect and descriptions that one can't even imagine; they pull the reader in and paint a picture in the mind. This novel will make the reader cry, gasp, sigh, and cry once more.
(6) Rhetoric. 1378a20. "The emotions are all those feelings that so change men as to affect their judgements, and that are also attended by pain or pleasure. Such are anger, pity, fear and the like with their opposites."
Unconditional love is apparent in Asha's relationship with Rashid. There are two events when their relationship is ironic. Asha's love allowed her, even after Rashid's confessions about his life to her, to "lie, as fitted as possible, in the crook of his arms" wanting to be in "no other place" (16). She feels protected by Rashid's arms while he is protected, yet restrained, inside a jail.
Have you ever wondered why people have certain reactions? I chose chapter eight on emotions for my reflection paper because emotions are something that everyone has and feels, yet cannot always explain or react to in the way you would expect. Personally, I have never been great at responding to emotions in a way that I would not regret in the future. Thus, naturally being drawn to this chapter as a way to expand my knowledge on how to react to things more positively. I also wanted to learn why I feel a certain way after events that would not affect most people and be reassured about my feelings. Opposite to that, it is nice to see that, while not always productive, others have the same reaction habits. Overall, emotions are a complicated