Boredom is a circumstance that everyone must face at some point. It is a time when one experiences a close proximity with oneself and doesn’t know what to do with oneself in that situation. It is merely an expression of dissatisfaction. Everyone experiences boredom and it is inevitable, but how does one escape it? Boredom must be escaped by doing or even imagining something that one can derive pleasure from. Søren Kierkegaard, in his book Either/Or experiments with escaping boredom and narrows it down to two different aesthetes, which means finding meaning through pleasure. The first is the Reflective Aesthete which is essentially the possibility of doing something, but not actually doing it. The second is the Immediate Aesthete which is essentially …show more content…
Faith lives in small town where there is not much to ever do. She’s on spring break from her Christian college and she just wants to have some fun and do something different to escape boredom. In other words, Faith needs a change in her life to escape boredom. Kierkegaard writes in Either/Or, “Seeing that boredom is a root of all evil, as enlarged on above, what more natural than to try to overcome it? But here…in trying to avoid it one only works oneself further into it. ‘Change’ is what all who are bored cry out for” (232). The evil that is boredom is basically corrupting Faith’s mind into thinking that she needs a change to derive pleasure from. In the film, while talking to her friends about potentially going to Florida for spring break she says, “I just want to get out of here. There’s more than just spring break. This is our chance to see something different” (Korrine, Spring Breakers). Clearly, Faith just wants to make a change and get out of her town to go do something different, which is a characteristic of Kierkegaard’s Immediate Aesthete. The routine and stability of Faith’s life has bored her out, and she just wants to experience something different. The actuality of her going to Florida later in the film makes this quote directly relatable to the Immediate Aesthete. Once Faith is in Florida, though, she realizes …show more content…
Brit, Candy, and Cotty, mainly Brit and Candy escape boredom through the Reflective Aesthete. Everything is just an act and they’re not fully committed on taking action. Also, they are “bad girls” while Faith is a “good girl” tempted by bad things/people. They will kill people because they just see it as an act, whereas Faith wouldn’t harm a fly. Brit, Candy, and Cotty go through spring break treating it like it’s just an act, and it’ll all be over eventually. Faith wants to live in the moment forever, but obviously can’t. Each girl shows signs of the Reflective aesthete, just in different ways. So, spring break for Faith was just an escape that she wished could last forever up until her arrest, and spring break for the other girls was just an act to gain pleasure from which they weren’t committed too. Korrine characterizes these girls in this contrasting way to essentially show that they are very different people, but they still deal with escaping boredom like everyone else in the world just in unalike ways from each
2) Hannah tells stories of her “other” life in which she attends school and looks forward to the weekends. As Chaya, her new friends are again shocked by the fact that she-a girl-attends school. Hannah explains that he...
The story follows three girls- Jeanette, the oldest in the pack, Claudette, the narrator and middle child, and the youngest, Mirabella- as they go through the various stages of becoming civilized people. Each girl is an example of the different reactions to being placed in an unfamiliar environment and retrained. Jeanette adapts quickly, becoming the first in the pack to assimilate to the new way of life. She accepts her education and rejects her previous life with few relapses. Claudette understands the education being presented to her but resists adapting fully, her hatred turning into apathy as she quietly accepts her fate. Mirabella either does not comprehend her education, or fully ignores it, as she continually breaks the rules and boundaries set around her, eventually resulting in her removal from the school.
Donna’s father is angry when he finds out and automatically assumes it means she’s going to have sex with many men. This example is representative of the double standard held between men and women. It wouldn’t be an issue if one of the boys had multiple partners or used birth control, but as soon as one of the females does, it is frowned upon. When Jackie hears that Donna is on the pill, she exclaims “you’re going to be so popular,” which implies women can only be well-liked if they please men. Then, Eric’s parents give him “the talk” and while Kitty mentions that foreplay is important, Red disagrees. This implies a woman’s pleasure is not important, as long as men are taken care of. While Laurie is home, Eric finds out that she is failing classes, perpetuating the “dumb blonde”
In the essay, “The Boredom Effect,1952, writer Ellen Ruppel Shell acknowledges the child’s mind and how creative their mind are. The purpose of this essay is to persuade the readers that a child should never be bored and that they should always have something to do with their spare time. She felt that children should taste their freedom by exploring the world. Also, she said guardians should not try to create activities or put them in sports to keep them occupied. Ellen writes “Back then, parents pretty much stayed out of children’s business.” In her thesis, she mentions that parents should let children be bored. I agree with Ellen, parents should let their children be children and let them be creative. However, parents shouldn’t control their
The gender conflict styles also played a role. The girls both tended to listen, rather than hold the attention of the others. This was especially true in Allison's case, whom never spoke. Allison was introduced in the movie as the basket case.
Nothing symbolizes faith more than living everyday life and believing that all things are possible. When faith is executed, it brings out the best in people and the human spirit. It becomes a shelter from “the dust.” It was complicated to describe the human spirit how it powers our ability to forgive without also covering faith and hope. As mentioned before, they are all interconnected and cannot be separated.
Faith is an essential part of developing a worldview, however, too much faith may prevent individuals from seeing the world realistically. In Miguel De Cervantes’ book “Don Quijote,” the main character, Don Quijote, takes faith and literally makes it the deciding factor in how he sees the world. Because of the power Don Quijote gives his faith, it misleads him, and he makes poor decisions. For example; he injures himself fighting imaginary giants and hurts others to fulfill his imaginary role as a knight errant. Don Quijote takes faith from its rightful place by allowing it to extremely distort how he literally sees the world.
At the beginning of life, humans are exposed to the outside world with an open and blank mind. A newborn has no knowledge, no concerns or worries and it only seeks to fulfill its main necessities. Surrounded by the outside world one lives through many experiences where knowledge is accepted. Encountering other human beings reflects upon one's perception and brings about ones self decisions. Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, written in 1816, demonstrates through characters that an obsessive desire for more knowledge may ruin ones life.
In Fear and Trembling, Søren Kierkegaard discusses the subject of faith. He offers a fascinating interpretation of this subject. He tries to answer an age-old question, what is faith. What makes his work stand out is the fact that he places his understanding in direct opposition to dominant philosophical believes of his day. But, he also places his discussion in the context of the Abraham and Isaac Bible story.
Bethany, the second character, is the opposite of Carla. While Bethany is pretty, she has no chance standing up the Carla’s beauty. Bethany wants nothing more than to have guys throwing themselves on her. She wants to go to the best parties and have all the girls be envious of her. Bethany believes that by having Carla’s beauty, all her problems will be solved and she will be happier than she has ever
Boredom is problem that every child needs at some point to develop creative skills. In Ellen Shells article she describes how it is important for children to be bored and I agree with that statement. Children are so busy they have no time to be creative: “We load them up with lessons and organized sports overseen by adults; we monitor their every move, demanding to know how and where and with whom they spend their time”(Shell). When children are bored spontaneous play is created and it is important skill to have. Boredom also sparks creativity, which is an important life skill. I agree Ellen Shells article because in Fahrenheit 451 not one person shows an ounce of creativity throughout the story. In addition, people are so busy in Fahrenheit
Throughout the book, the just assume people’s identities. They never met them, interacted with them, or even talked to them. For example, they just assumed the “lunatic” was mad as a hatter and that he was going to do something horribly terrifying to their mothers. They also assumed Mrs. Cadaver murdered her husband considering her last name. They never opened themselves up to meeting new people. They just pushed them away and didn’t take the time to get to know them. In the end of the story, the girls find out that those people weren’t bad after all. The “lunatic” turned out to Phoebe’s long-lost brother, and Mrs. Cadaver never murdered her husband,whereas he actually died in a car accident. Sal and Phoebe stopped pushing people away and realized that the world isn’t so bad after all. Again the lesson is clear : if you never accept anyone, you’ll never meet the real world.
Faith is what drives us to fulfill the things we believe in. If she has faith that the Seahawks will win the Super Bowl, she will live carrying out that perspective. If he has faith that God has a plan for his life, he is going to live fulfilling God’s wishes for him and being the best person he can be. Faith is a powerful tool to influence someone’s life, as we can clearly see in “Crime and Punishment” by Fydor Dostoyevsky. The faith that the characters have in this book completely shape how they live their lives, and they live trying to uphold what they believe in. Their beliefs are what inspire characters to make the tough decisions, and is what shapes them as a whole.
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The Scholastic Scope article Is Boredom Really That Bad? and many more articles and studies agree that humans need to be bored more. One specific expert, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, has stated before that the human brain has two attention networks." One of those two networks is for introspection. That network helps the