The day I sent my daughter off to college was the day I realized what a poor father I was. All my children had turned out just like me. They were cold, emotionally distant people who would probably never find happiness. I was this way because I lost my parents at a very early age, but them, that was all my fault. I’d never been there for my children because I’d never had a father and I didn’t know how to be one. Which is not to say my adopted father was any bad, he made a sincere effort, but I knew
Part of my research has involved a change of focus, and even though discussing the personal and psychological reasons for this change is beyond the questions of the thesis, I consider my motivation an important part of the research background, that has ultimately led to the final choice of methodology. There are many approaches to human motivation: considering Murray’s (1938) inventory of motives, he identified five groups of needs, and I have placed my motivation into the category
Introduction Michael Haneke’s film Caché/Hidden (2005) has provoked endless debates since the first day when it came out in 2005. The audiences leave the theatre jolted and subsequently keep thinking for days due to its ambiguous narrative construction (Cousins, 2007). Based on the surface reading of the plot, it is a thriller contains a mixture of domestic contradictions, amnesia and the mistrust between middle class and lower class. A French bourgeois family living in the cosy suburb of Paris
human relationships are understood to be perverted and strange. As a result, the characters in her intact fiction are unable to create any deep and lasting ties or find glee and accomplishment in the cheerful matrimonial relationships. Through the adoption of the bizarre method which is her line of attack,
CHAPTER - I INTRODUCTION “History has come to a stage when the moral man, the complete man, is more and more giving way, almost without knowing it, to make room for the commercial man, the man of limited purpose. This process aided by the wonderful progress in science, is assuming gigantic proportion and power causing the upset of man’s moral balance, obscuring his human side under the shadow of soul-less organization.”- Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism, 1917. Aristotle felt that the purpose of