In the movie Cast Away, Chuck Noland was stranded on an island by himself for four years. Throughout the movie, he progressed through the stages of need outlined by Maslow. The first stage of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is physiological needs, which includes finding food and getting sleep. The second stage is safety needs. This includes living in a safe environment and stability in life. Furthermore, the third stage is love needs, which includes having friends and group acceptance. Esteem needs is the fourth stage. Achievement and personal worth are both examples needed for this. Lastly, self-actualization is the fifth stage of the pyramid. With this, you are reaching your full potential and being the best version of yourself. Maslow contends …show more content…
He found coconuts to eat and drink on the island. Moreover, to meet his love needs, he thought of his girlfriend by looking at a picture of her and he also tried to look for other humans on the island. Chuck used the dress, ice skates, and Wilson Ball from the FedEx boxes. To start, the dress was used to meet his physiological needs because he used the netting of the dress to find food in the ocean. The ice skates met safety needs because he used it on a dental abscess to get the infection out. This was used to treat his health and prevent further issues with the abscess. Chuck’s love needs were met with the Wilson Ball. He used his own blood to draw a face on the ball. Eventually, he became friends with the ball by talking to it while stuck on the island. On the island, Chuck altered the environment to meet his safety needs. To keep his feet safe he used the shoes of the dead man and resources on the island to protect his feet from getting injured. Also, Chuck created a home in a cave he found to protect him from the outside and to have a safe place to sleep. When chuck needed to find away to be safely cross the waves, he used things like branches, vine, and and part of a washed up portable toilet to create a boat he could use to safely pass the waves and get off the
The days after he found out how to make fire, he also made a spear. With this spear he could catch fish and cook them on the fire. he then sees a plane. Brian screamed and waved his arms up and down rapidly, he wanted the plane to notice him. The plan circled around the lake a few times and then flew away. Brian went to bed and hoped the next day would be better than this one had been.
If he jungle is the unconscious mind, Piggy is the super ego, Ralph is the ego and Jack is the id, then what would represent the whole mind? Since the island hold Ralph, Piggy, Jack, and the jungle, that means that the island represent the mind because the mind holds, the ego, the id, the super ego, and the unconscious mind. This book has been around for a long time, you would think it would be for a reason. Well, they have kept this book because in my opinion this shows how everyone can organize, civilized, or self centered. Just like people today around the world. So it is best to try to be like Ralph or Piggy and correct problems civilized or organized instead of fighting, just like
To begin, survival is the key in every ones mindset. You only live once as most people say. However, with Jack and Ralph and the rest of the boys, they all seemed that all hope was lost. They had been stranded in the island for months, hoping that one day, someone will find them and return them home. Ralph was the most panicked person in the group simply because he hadn’t cut his hair and it was growing. He also did not shower at all, and he did not shave or eat as much simply due to the lack of surviving. He had given up on the hope for rescue, until in chapter 12, he, along with Jack and the rest of the boys, were saved by an officer which saw the destruction and the vicious bodies of the ...
One key element in survival is fire, although weather conditions on the island do not seem to indicate a need for heat to keep warm. Chuck works hard to get a fire started and feels jubilant when he succeeds. He dances and sings, “Light my fire.” He can now eat cooked
Jack decides to set fire to the island to force Ralph out of hiding. Jack was the perpetrator of all three deaths that happened on the island. He systematically removes forces opposing him. Ralph realizes that man is not a kind creature by nature.
Chuck led a pretty lonely life on the island, being there for over four years I was surprised he did not
In Stage 3, the challenge is to learn to live: to define life goals, build self-respect, and find peace and happiness. The goal is that the client leads a life of ordinary happiness and unhappiness.
This was crucial to his survival because they provided useful objects that he could use such as a dress, VHS tapes, and ice skates. These items supplied a head-start to surviving, considering he did not have to make rope or a knife from scratch. Just like all human beings, Noland longed for human interaction, and this led to the creation of Wilson. Although Wilson was made out of an inanimate object, Chuck found comfort in being able to talk to someone other than himself. The early hominids also understood this need for human interaction. Most prehistoric people traveled in groups, always sticking together. Through this, learned the importance of having others near, not only for safety, but also for moral support. In order to survive, Chuck used the materials around him to construct tools. For example, he used an ice skate, stick, and rope to make a knife. This was a pivotal invention, because without it, Chuck couldn’t have cut with efficiency and escape the island in time. He also made a net using the mesh from a dress he obtained from one of the FedEx boxes. With this utensil, Noland was able to catch fish and carry food easily. The prehistoric people also made tools in
Maslow believed that there was a hierarchy of five innate needs that influence people’s behaviors (Schultz & Schultz, 2013, p.246-247). In a pyramid fashion, at the base are physiological needs, followed by safety needs, then belonginess and love needs, succeeded by esteem needs, and finally the need for self-actualization. Maslow claimed that lower order needs must be at least partially satisfied before higher level needs are addressed. Furthermore, behavior is dominated by solely one need
When the doors to the port-a-potty washed up on the shore and Chuck began organizing his escape one would argue that this was Chuck’s self-actualization moment. He eventually finishes the raft and sets off into the ocean. One morning a storm hits, sending Wilson off the raft. With the majority of his raft destroyed, his food gone along with Wilson gone, Chuck falls back down the hierarchy. Luckily he was found and nursed back to health. The movie leaves off with Chuck standing in the middle of a crossroad deciding what he wants to do with his new found freedom and having yet to reach self-actualization again.
The physiological level, which is at the bottom of the pyramid, must be carried out first in order to reach the top level of self-actualization. Some of the needs in this level are food, water, air, shelter, and sleep. These certain needs are what the man and the boy are searching for throughout the entire book. In the bottom level of
The need for safety is an important need. It’s the need for shelter and having the feeling that you are okay all the time. When chuck's plane crashed, he floated on a raft in the Pacific ocean all night through a terrifying thunderstorm. When he floated to the island he used the raft as a bed and as a roof. Almost every night there were tropical storms keeping him up all night. He was then able to meet those needs by finding a cave to sleep in and store his belongings to keep them out of the
Jack and Ralph’s motivation is used in the novel to show their interest and needs expecting from the island through the narrative; for Jack, it is mostly to impress the boys with his singing and hunting skills. The two foil characters Jack and Ralph have different desires. Jack who thinks one of the ways to survive on this island is by hunting pigs and he gives no importance to the rescue fire. Ralph who is eager to get back to his parents is always keeping an eye on the fire hoping to be rescued. After Ralph was disappointed because they missed the ship that could have rescued them, Ralph called an assembly to do a small speech. “‘The fire is the most important thing on the island. How can we ever be rescued except by luck, if we don’t keep
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs: Castaway In the movie Castaway, Tom Hanks’ character Chuck Nolan is deserted on an island by a plane crash in the ocean, hundreds of miles off course. He must learn to survive on his island to make it back to his girl. His survival techniques coincide with Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs: Physiological, Safety, Love and Belonging, Esteem, and Self Actualization.
Abraham Maslow wrote the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory. This theory was based on fulfilling five basic needs: physiological, safety, social, esteem and self-actualization. Maslow believed that these needs could create internal pressures that could influence the behavior of a person. (Robbins, p.204)