Interpersonal Communication Demonstrated in the Movie, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Communication is an essential part of our lives. It is through the
process of communication that we are able to make contact, and thus develop
who we are in relationship to others. Interpersonal communication is a
specific type of communication in which the people involved are contacting
each other as persons, and through an ongoing process, defining who they
are for each other.
In the following pages, I will explain six concepts related to the
study of interpersonal communication. Following each explanation, I will
give examples of how each concept is demonstrated in the movie, "One Flew
Over the Cuckoo's Nest". In doing so, I hope to show that the concepts
introduced in interpersonal communication can be applied to our everyday
lives.
Personal versus Impersonal Communication
Each day we engage in various types of communication. Strange as it may
sound, each time we speak with someone, we are not necessarily engaging them
as a person. Sometimes, we just want to cash a check at the bank or pay for
our groceries without creating anything deeper. Other times, we might want
to discuss our feelings with a friend or introduce ourselves to someone new.
Whatever the case may be, the type of communication that we engage in will
be more personal at times, and more impersonal at other times. One way to
envision this, is to imagine the communication events of our day lying
somewhere on the impersonal--------------- interpersonal continuum.
There are five characteristics that distinguish the personal from the
impersonal: uniqueness, measurability, choice, reflectiveness, and
addressability. Uniquen...
... middle of paper ...
...nherently
good or bad, but each serves its purpose depending on the context in which
it occurs.
Communication involves cues that can be best understood as parts of a
continuum. This continuum ranges from cues that are primarily verbal
(words), to mixed(pitch, tone of voice), to primarily nonverbal (facial
expression, gestures, appearance). In any given communication situation,
all of these ques work together in the process of negotiating selves. This
process involves constructing and responding to definitions of ourselves
and definitions of the people we are communicating with.
Contact and communication is what makes us human. The quality of our
communication is directly related to the quality of our lives, both
physiologically and spiritually. For this reason, learning effective
communication skills should be important to all of us.
developments that were taking place and Bruno's Father as the misuse of power towards the
Throughout history, it has been noted that when an individual is isolated from civilization, various psychological effects take a toll on that person’s well-being. Sigmund Freud, an Austrian psychologist, believed that when a person is isolated from civilization, a darker “savage” side naturally takes over (“Id, Ego, and Super-ego” n. pag). William Golding shared this belief and used it as inspiration to write one of his most well-known novels, Lord of the Flies. Freud’s findings on the human mind led him to believe there are three main parts: The id, the ego, and the super-ego (“Id, Ego, and Super-ego” n. pag). Jack, Ralph, Simon, and Piggy are not only the main characters in Golding’s Lord of the Flies, but also embody the id, ego, and super-ego characteristics of Freudian psychology.
This also allowed him to interact with the Jews which put his life at risk while he was with Shmuel. One of the reasons that this was bad because this allowed Shmuel to invite Bruno in. This was bad because this allowed him in into the concentration camp (Auschwitz) which in the end did end up taking his life. Another reason was Shmuel talked him into looking for his papa and making him promise he would help. Bruno didn't want to take back his promise so he stayed in the camp to help look for his papa. Bruno wanted to leave but he felt it was wrong to break a promise that he made to his best friend Shmuel. But eventually was marched away because he stayed too long helping Shmuel look for his papa. “I could crawl under,”said Bruno (Boyne 132). This quote was used because it showed how easy it was for them to get in the concentration camp and how it was bad that he was naive about the
“The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” is a film directed by Mark Herman which revolves around Bruno, an eight year old son of the German commandant at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Germany. He forms a friendship and strong bond with a Jewish boy named Shmuel on the other side of a fence of the camp. This film portrays the horrors and torture the Jewish people have faced during World War II. Friendship plays a major role in the film since Bruno and Shmuel formed true friendship even though they were forbidden to be companions due to their different religions. Friendship is a strong bond formed between two individuals; it is essential and a necessity in life since it is one of the source of happiness and it is necessary for compassion, innocence and facilitation in order for the friendship to blossom.
In "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" Bruno and Shmuel are two children who are innocent and really ignorant of the horrible things that were happening during the Holocaust and yet they endured with joy too. They formed a friendship and a devotion to one another despite their different backgrounds and circumstances. Bruno wants to help Shmuel and as a result
In this novel, there are different enemies depending on the circumstance. The people inside the concentration camp and some of the population, such as Bruno's Grandmother and His mother, look at Adolf Hitler and his soldiers as the enemy, and the people “on the other side of the fence” such as Adolf Hitler, his soldiers and some of the population, look at the prisons as the enemy . At the start of the Novel, Bruno is quite oblivious to the way that the Jewish are treated as his father is a German soldier, and does not see that his father is doing anything wrong. Later in the novel, there is a strong friendship and bond created between Bruno and Shmuel, despite their differences, those two become each other's world. Bruno and Shmuel exist
The movie A League of Their Own is about a female baseball league that was formed since the men were off fighting in World War II. The need to keep professional baseball going the owners tried the All American Girls Professional Baseball League (Marshall, 1992). Most of the movies that we watch have multiple examples of social psychology concepts. The movie A League of Their Own did have concepts that we learned about. The five concepts that I pick out of the movie were schemas, self-fulfilling prophesy, display rules, self-handicapping, and social exchange theory.
Of the several theories we have discussed involving commitment, I have taken a particular interest in M.P. Johnson’s Theory of Commitment as I feel it very effectively dissects the primary drives that reside behind one’s desire, or lack thereof, to remain committed in a relationship. In his theory, Johnson describes three kinds of perceived commitment that ultimately lead one to the decision to stay in their relationship. These three kinds of commitment discussed are personal, moral and structural commitment (Berscheid & Regan, 2005).
Every day we are interacting with people, whether it be in the workplace, at school, in stores and even just by staying home. Therefore, social interaction is inevitable. According to Macionis, social interaction is the process in which people act and react in relation to others. Those who often interact with others have substantial benefits in their daily lives. Throughout this paper we will be discussing the important social structure, how we construct reality into social interaction and three applications of interaction in everyday life. As we analyse these topics and connect them to our day-to-day experiences we will find that face-to-face interaction will become easier.
There is a saying that the ones that help you in your hard times are the ones that will stay with you forever. Both the movie and the novel laid this out really well. Both of them depicted how the loved one will stay with you until the end. In the movie Bruno really valued his friendship with Shmuel but, he had to lie to the officer because he was scared of them which made him feel guilty and also made the relationship stronger. This made it stronger because now he thinks that he should support Shmuel in his hard time. After the incident with the officer, Bruno thought of doing something or help Shmuel so that he can get his only friend back and his trust. When he was wondering about how he can help, Shmuel told Bruno how his dad was missing, that’s when Bruno thought of helping Shmuel. When he got into the camp he felt like giving up and going back but, when he saw that his friend was sad because of the decision, he decided to stay and search of him. This is a great symbol of friendship, trust, hope and supporting. In the novel expressing support and love was in the beginning to the novel itself. Elie Weisel was supporting his dad in each and every camp selection and helping him learn how to march because, He couldn’t bare seeing his dad getting beaten up regardless the fact that people used to make fun of them, they chose to ignore them and fight for themselves .When they were asked to
We are born to believe that we are all created equally. We soon find out that many things keep that from being accurate: race, religion, wealth, and politics. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a movie that is based off the Holocaust. It demonstrates that people who are created equal aren’t always treated that way because of how they are perceived by others. The two boys from the movie, Bruno and Shmuel, had some similarities, but they also had major differences during their time period.
As a member of the healthcare community, I was intrigued by the title of this article. The section heading grabbed my attention as I know that many factors can affect our personal health, but I had not truly considered how interpersonal communication; interaction between two people, usually face to face (Adler and Proctor 13); correlated to a person’s physical health. In an effort to show the important relationship between the quality of your communication and the quality of your life, Parks reviewed extensive research that strongly connects interpersonal communication with five aspects of mental and physical health. (Parks 41-42)
nterpersonal relationships in psychology is the study of attraction, matching, forming relationships, staying together, how to maintain a relationship and breaking up. Within this topic it looks at what factors affect the forming and maintenance of relationships. The important factors at the beginning of a relationship may change throughout. Many factors influence relationships and attraction, some are situational for example place, time, proximity, exposure and familiarity and others are personal such as attractiveness, similarity and cost-reward.
There are several social factors affecting our interpersonal interactions. Culture, as the most important factor, plays a significant role on people’s daily interactions and behavior by defining the norms and values in a society (). As the functionalist view states, all the cultural norms are made to maintain social stability and equilibrium (). Many cultural differences, despite being minor, have an exclusive effect on the social order. For example, how a person responses to a compliment highly depends on the culture he follows. As an immigrant coming from the Persian ethic subculture, the general way of replying to compliments in the Canadian culture seemed remarkably different to me.
...ferences between book and film are that in a book everything is in more detail and you’re informed of every little change happening constantly whereas in a movie you do get a bigger and clearer view of the situation but sometimes you might just miss out a few important bits that are told in detail in a book. The movie looks really realistic. The problem of using children in films is that children can be so naive they might not be able to handle the scenes and deliver their speech very efficiently, some parts of the film might affect them by frightening them and they might not be able to give their best in that scene, this could affect the quality of the movie. The terrible outcome that Bruno faces could have an emotional effect on the younger audience. I would recommend teenagers to watch this movie and read the novel because it is very educational and emotional.