In the movie Blue Jasmine, the foil character, Ginger, plays a woman complacent with her status in life until her sister Jasmine arrives. Ginger has accepted that she will never have the nor luxuries that have been afforded to Jasmine. She is resentful that she has given up so much to witness Jasmine and Hal lose everything she thought would bring her happiness and a prosperous life. Jasmine’s feeling of entitlement leaves her unable to consider the feelings of anyone who she comes into contact with. Gingers actions focus mostly on the value based approach of the studied theories. Throughout the movie her actions show that she gains pleasure from her family and job and holds little value in natural goods. Her decisions are primarily …show more content…
based upon her values and family obligations and the simpler hedonistic lifestyle she chooses to follow. This is a stark contrast to Jasmine, who regards money as the quintessential achievement in life. Although she had a rocky childhood with little guidance from her parents, she was able to emerge with a good set of ethical values.
Gingers views of fulfillment begin to change after a barrage of insults and the embarrassment of having a menial lifestyle lead her to question what she actually desires out of life. She is disillusioned by her sister’s insistence that a man with a better job would present a better life so she chooses to leave Chili and see if a better opportunity can help. She soon realizes that her desires were based on this incorrect assumption and that Jasmine’s want for a happy life differed from her own. Ginger realizes that her choice has almost cost her true happiness and ultimately causes more disruption in her life. This allows Ginger to reflect on her key values and by the end she is able to resume more of a Hedonistic lifestyle which brings her …show more content…
happiness. Jasmines desires for an advantaged life were her desires and not those of everyone she came into contact with. Although she might have been trying to help Ginger become a better person in her eyes and the eyes of others, she did not understand what is best for one might not always be best for all. On the other hand, it might be because she was so embarrassed to be with Ginger that she tried so hard to impose her misguided beliefs. The unexpected arrival of Jasmine begins to tear open old wounds over the loss of her life savings and subsequent divorce. Even though the unexpected windfall could have provided Ginger and Augie a better lifestyle, it eventually cost them their relationship. For this reason Ginger eventually comes to realize that money isn’t the most valuable asset and can lead to false happiness and a misguided sense of security. Ginger and Augie’s desire to better themselves with the lottery win was a well thought out plan.
The part that wasn’t thought out well was using the family that showed they had no interest in them to invest wisely. They were trying to better themselves by going through the proper avenues and invest responsibly. Ginger and Augie didn’t desire the high brow life, they desired the stability that comes with having that money. The fact that Ginger was never close to her family, but feels the need to help her sister even though she feels that Jasmine was partly liable for her financial loss demonstrates an obligatory duty to take care of her family. Ginger knows that her sister has looked down on her their entire lives she but is still willing to help her get back on her feet even if that means that her happiness is compromised. I believe that Jasmine’s desires throughout the movie were based on the false belief that her parents oriented her with. She was led to believe that she should be put on a pedestal to be held with high regard both for her beauty and grace. This puts her on the path to having desires based on the false belief that they would in the end benefit her. Not only did this do the opposite, but as a result she ends up having mental issues to deal
with. Hals’ faulty business practices and disinterested behaviors, stress the lack of concern for those hurt by his actions. In some ways Jasmine feels the responsibility for the loss because she was the one who called the feds after finding out Hal cheated. She had already known he was a fraud, but had turned a blind eye to his investment methods because the ignorance of her satisfaction. Although this did nothing to promote his good in anyway he ended up getting what he wanted which was not having to be accountable by taking the easy way out and ending his life. There are good and bad examples in this movie showing the need to diversify moral reasoning and approach to happiness in a different way, but I also believe that sometimes they must be applied in conjunction with each other. Everyone wants the autonomy to make their own choices, but when faced with a dilemma most choose what is going to satisfy only their immediate desire not the greater good they may come from it.
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While she might think that her plans are working, they only lead her down a path of destruction. She lands in a boarding house, when child services find her, she goes to jail, becomes pregnant by a man who she believed was rich. Also she becomes sentenced to 15 years in prison, over a street fight with a former friend she double crossed. In the end, she is still serving time and was freed by the warden to go to her mother’s funeral. To only discover that her two sisters were adopted by the man she once loved, her sister is with the man who impregnated her, and the younger sister has become just like her. She wants to warn her sister, but she realizes if she is just like her there is no use in giving her advice. She just decides that her sister must figure it out by
She takes a job in a white lady named Ms. Cullinan’s home as a maid, who calls her Mary for her own convenience and lack of respect. This enrages Maya and in order to get away she smashes the finest china to get her fired. At her eighth-grade graduation, a white man comes to speak in front of everyone and he states that black students can only become athletes or servants which makes Maya furious. Later, when Maya develops a nasty toothache, Momma decides to take her to a white dentist who refuses to work on her. Momma claims that she lent him money during the Great Depression so he owes her a favor but he says he’d rather stick his hands in a dogs’ mouth. Lastly, one day while Bailey is walking home he sees a dead black man rotting in a river and a white man present at the scene says he will put both the dead man and Bailey in his truck. This terrifies Bailey and Momma wants to get them out of Staples so she sends them to Vivian’s again in San Francisco. There they live with Vivian and her husband Daddy Clidell who is a nice man to Maya, and has a lot of money from his businesses. One summer Maya goes to live with her father Big Bailey and his girlfriend Dolores, who are poor and live in a trailer. Maya and Dolores do not get along and constantly fight, so Maya runs away and lives with a group of homeless teens
When Marie tries to ask the protagonist to take a walk, this action shows that she is trying to achieve Pauline’s dream by getting her outside of the house. Therefore, she could finally feel the true meaning of freedom. Nevertheless, Pauline’s mother’s response demonstrates that she wants her daughter’s safety more than anything. The mother tries to keep Pauline away from the danger, so the protagonist can at last have a healthier life. However, Agathe’s reply shows that her mother is willing to sacrifice Pauline’s dream to keep her secure.
The experience not only gives Josie a new perspective on her career path and the unpleasant, harshness of being in the spotlight she has always craved. It also forces her character to take a step back, re-examine her life and decide not to continue to seek validation in the affections or appeals of others.
She always wanted to be the center of attention, she was prejudiced and believed things should stay the same, and she was very selfish. While she thinks she’s above everyone else, she feels that the world revolves around her.
...nts, Ying-Ying predicts that Lena will be unable to control her future life if she does not “finish her rice”. Snowballing into a need for control over her environment, Lena fails to accomplish what she has worked so hard to fight for, and marries a man named Harold, who controls their marriage by demanding equality between everything they do and own. Unable to see the unbalance is her marriage, Ying-Ying is forced to show Lena by comparing it to a table created by Harold.
Their Aunt’s persona is obscure before she arrives, and once she is their full caretaker, they begin to realize that her behavior is contrasting to their formulated notion of domesticity. The entrance of Sylvie puts a strain on the two inseparable sisters. Sylvie represents the opposite of Lucille, who mimics the ideals and values of Fingerbone,therefore; She represents the paragon of a female within the 1950’s. With opposing views such as the matters of schooling ,feeding, cleaning, and responsibilities the relationship is severed between the sisters. For example, the heaps of unwashed dishes, burnt curtains, opened cans reflecting trash to Lucille and art to Sylvie, and the lights that are rarely turned on. Lucille set on finding an escape from her grandmother’s house and rejecting transience, allows Ruth to no longer base her identity to the one her sister and the town has construed for her. With the severing of the relation and Lucille leaving to home economics teachers house, Ruth is liberated from the bondage of her sister who expected her to be her shadow. With the diversion of ideals between Sylvie and Lucille, the differences between permanence and transience is highlighted through the use of the two. This is noted when Ruth says “Lucille hated everything that had to do with transience”(103).And after this statement we
...inds love along the way. She makes rash decisions in bad situations, faces the truth that she has been avoiding, and finds her place in the world. While her journey takes some unexpected twists, Lily learns to make the best of what she has, and go for what she wants. She learns to move on from the past, and make a brighter future. But most importantly, Lily learns to accept that life is unpredictable and that by doing her best Lily is living life the way she wants to.
Now crippled with the consequences of her desires, Astrid is relocated to the racially “opinionated” turquoise home of Marvel where she is exposed to the influence of the sophisticated Olivia. In her time of need for something beautiful when her own beauty has been marred by the Starr’s jealousy, Astrid idolizes the woman next door who is, in her eyes, perfect. She comes to depend on Olivia as a staple in her life, someone who will be there to teach her the things a woman should know. However, contact with her idol eventually leads Astrid to another home because of Marvel’s racist ideals.
...r society. This is a sign of dependency because she does whatever the society wants her to do and do not consider what she wants. Disney shows that women can limit themselves from things men do however, it’s wrong because everyone has to fight for themselves in order to survive.
They all become a support system for each other. Precious learns to read and write, and starts journaling daily about the life that she daydreams about having for herself. She feels that her body, looks, incest, and abuse in her home with her mother have caused her life to be unpleasant. She daydreams about dating a “light” skin guy, being in movies, and having a very functional family with her two kids. A social worker by the name of Ms. Weiss helps Precious by discovering the incest and abuse in Precious’ home.
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Her realization that she is not alone in her oppression brings her a sense of freedom. It validates her emerging thoughts of wanting to rise up and shine a light on injustice. Her worries about not wanting to grow up because of the harsh life that awaits her is a common thought among others besides the people in her community. As she makes friends with other Indians in other communities she realizes the common bonds they share, even down to the most basic such as what they eat, which comforts her and allows her to empathize with them.
One day, Nancy saw her parents crying and she had never seen them cry before. They dropped Linh and her off at one of their friend’s houses. Nancy got mad because she thought they were going shopping and didn’t take her with them. Now, she realizes that they went to make funeral arrangements for her grandmother.