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An example of humanistic psychology
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In the movie the Wiz Humanistic psychology is seen through Dorothy’s interaction with the characters in Oz. The journey through Oz leads her to finding self actualization and discovering that taking chances is not only a part of life but it is necessary. Dorothy Gale is a 24 year old woman who is comfortable living her quiet life with her aunt and uncle. Her aunt Em tries to persuade her to move out on her own and experience life and that the love of family will always be around. Dorothy admits that she doesn't understand the feeling Aunt Em is taking about and how she's afraid to take chances. Through it all Aunt Em tries to coach Dorothy through her fears and encourages her to apply for a teaching job. Aunt Em tries to bring up the point …show more content…
that Dorothy is 24 and never been South of 125th Street, but Dorothy makes excuses like saying she's fine where she is and going past South of 125th St never made anybody's life better.
Dorothy has nothing to motivate her because she is comfortable being who she is and doing what she has always has done. Dorothy being swept away to a new land forces her to get out of her comfort zone and pushes her toward self actualization. She is now motivated by getting to her normal life, so she has to overcome her fears and explore a new world to find the Wiz or be stuck in Oz. At the beginning of her journey she finally admits to herself that she's about to step out of her comfort zone. She's states that she can’t run away from her fear anymore and in order to get home she's going to have face her fear. As Dorothy begins her journey she meets a Scarecrow. Like Dorothy he he has discouraged himself into thinking he can't get off the pole without help so he becomes afraid. He also has a bunch of crows around him that are telling him over and over that he needs to stay where he is because getting down won’t do him any good. They mock him and tell him to stop reading. They call themselves his friends even though they are nothing but mean to him. The definition of social psychology is the study of how
people influence others’ behavior, beliefs, and attitudes. Since the scarecrow was surrounded by nothing but negative beliefs and attitudes they only way he would think was negative. He becomes a victim of social conformity. They tell him it’s better to stay on the pole and to and even though he doesn’t want to he agrees. Dorothy who wouldn't even look people in the eye let alone talk to strangers tries to help Scarecrow. She shows signs of altruism. There was nothing to gain but she helps him anyway because she’s able to sympathise with his feelings Batson and shaw(1991) Fischer (2006). We're starting to see that Dorothy being forced into this being in Oz is changing her. When Dorothy helps him down and he falls he automatically assume he failed. Dorothy tells him to try again and shows him all he needed is to believe in himself. He then realizes he was holding himself back. He starts to believe since he didn't figure out that he could do it on his own that it is because he doesn't have a brain and need to get one from the Wiz even after already demonstrating that he does from quoting famous authors, astronomers, and poets. We're starting to see that Dorothy being forced into this being in Oz is changing her. Where she used to be very withdrawn and closed off she’s now going out of her way to help others. They meet the Tin man who believes that since he can't feel anything then it means he have no emotions and that he needs to get a heart from the Wiz. Emotion is defined as a mental state or feeling associated with our evaluation of our experiences. Some emotional experiences emerge even without direct reinforcement suggests that they may be by-products of innate motor programs, Freedman (1964); Panksepp (2007). The Tin man states many times he wonder what it's like to cry and ahead tears, but soon after saying that begins to cry tears of sadness for being trapped under Teenie. The Tin man has somehow confused being able to “feel” relating to his sensory nerve cells with being able to “feel” emotions. When they first meet Lion he showed signs of aggression due to frustration, Anderson and Bushman (2002); Berkowitz (1989); Pawliczek (2013). he believes that since he's always afraid and can't scare anything that he's a coward and need to get courage from the Wiz, but when they get attacked in the subway he risks his life to save them to one by one. He doesn’t realize that the fear he’s experiencing may be what causes him to summon the courage it took to rescue his friends. Our heart kicks into high gear when we’re in danger, mobilizing us for action, Frijda (1986). I believe what Lion was experiencing before he met Dorothy was the first stage in the general adaptation syndrome the alarm reaction which is the fight or flight response described by Walter Cannon (1915). Before he met Dorothy was faced with threatening situations which triggered the flight response so he ran however, during the attack in the subway after meeting Dorothy he realized that if he ran the others would have likely died so he was able to switch to the fight response instead in order to save the others. They begin to believe that the Wiz is the only way to get what they want. Throughout the journey they demonstrate the traits that they believe they are lacking. Scarecrow was the first to figure out the the poison poppies were a trap and Tin man saved then with his feeling of loss and crying on then and when the lion was strung up by his tail he was he didn't give in. Dorothy who was afraid of experiencing new things and clamming she didn't understand family took every new adventure took everything in stride and made friends she would have done anything for. She was brave enough to face Evillene. Upon realizing that the Wiz was a fraud and had no power Tin man, Scarecrow, and Lion gave up once again. It wasn't until Dorothy pointed out that they've always had what they've been looking for and all they had to do was believe in themselves. Dorothy also realized that she has what she needed all along and the reason the Wiz was still stuck in Oz was because he never tried to figure out what he needed to learn about himself. Abraham Maslow (1954,1971) developed a model proposing that we must satisfy physiological needs and needs for safety and security before progressing to more complex needs. Once she got over the need for escaping Oz she was able to move on to more complex needs such as self-esteem, belongingness, and self-actualization. She now able to experience the world on her own instead of closing herself off from everyone and everything.
The narrative begins with Dorothy, who lives on a farm in a black and white setting presuming the absence of vitality and the insufficiency of a place that was in poverty at the time. However, when Dorothy is picked up by a twister and wakes up in the Land of Oz, she finds herself in a completely opposite environment full of life, beauty, and color filled with new found opportunities. On her quest to Emerald City, Dorothy is presented with a few characters who are The Tin Man, The Cowardly Lion, and The Scarecrow who all feel like they need something more to complete them and they all seek out the “all powerful” wizard to obtain the things they want. The items they yearn for were a brain, a heart, and courage. Three things that we learn to utilize with experiences we go through. The characters eventually realize that they have always had what they have been longing for after the many obstacles they came through on their journey. In the end, Dorothy says, “If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't
Frank’s mother, Dorothy loved working, but as Frank got older his father made her relinquish working to stay home and supervise Frank. Working made her feel like she could be her own woman and be free of a standard marriage of the wife just running the home. Franks states, “My mother did not work then, though she had worked at waitressing and in the bars in town-and she liked working.” (Ford 33). This reveals that she liked the constant change of people that go in and out of bars and restaurants. She felt freedom in this. Frank’s father not allowing Frank’s mother to work
Today I will be talking about the characters, plot, themes and the purpose of the novel Dorothy Must Die. There is one main plot to the book, that is ending Dorothy’s rein over Oz.
The first major connection in The Wizard of Oz was the Scarecrow. The scarecrow was used to symbolize the farmers and their struggles in America in the 18th century (Foner, Eric 636-640). The scarecrow made of straw was vulnerable with no brain. The scarecrow had little control over the circumstances he was facing just as the farmers did in the 18th century. The western farmers had issues with overproduction and when prices fell farmers suffered ended up losing their farms (Foner, Eric
In conclusion, the protagonist of The Wizard of Oz Dorothy Gale, is initially unsatisfied with her life on her Aunt and Uncle’s farm and dreams of a foreign land over the rainbow, where there are no worries or disasters. Although as the story progresses, Victor Fleming incorporates a wide range of
*Note: "All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be" Dorothy's life will only really be all she touches and all she sees in her Kansas home because Oz exists only in her pretty little head.
Along the Yellow Brick Road, she meets the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion. Each is searching for something to complete their quest for illumination, a brain; a heart; and courage, respectively. In occult symbolism, Mystery Schools teach students that one must rely on oneself to obtain salvation. Given this, the Scarecrow, Tin Man, Cowardly Lion, and even Dorothy, must rely on themselves to find what they desire. At the end of the movie, Dorothy defeats the Wicked Witch of the West, attaining illumination. Waking from her deep sleep at home, she has successfully combined her physical and spiritual life. Dorothy is now comfortable with herself again, as this quote
...lf-confidence. The Scarecrow was the one who believed that he had no brain even with him coming up with brilliant and clever solutions to the many problems that they faced on their journey. The tin man believed that he didn’t have a heart, but cries when bad things are brought upon the creatures they come to encounter. The lion believed that he had no courage even though he was the one brave enough to continue the journey, he always stated how brave he was and pushed forward even when the others did not want to. A famous quote from Carl L. Bankston III of Salem Press stated that "These three characters embody the classical human virtues of intelligence, caring, and courage, but their self-doubts keep them from being reduced to mere symbols of these qualities” (). This is an important quote because it highlights the self-confidence that Baum explored in his story.
Scene: This scene in the film comes just after the house has been picked up in the twister. Dorothy's house has been lifted up into the sky and suddenly dropped back down to earth in the middle of the Land of Oz. In the scene itself, Dorothy leaves her home to see that she is "Not in Kansas anymore," and finds the new and amazing world of the munchkin city in front of her. She also meets Gwendela the good witch as her journey in Oz begins.
...es became smarter and began to earn more control against the manipulative East and West coasts. Dorothy is the most important character because she shows that one person can make a difference.
In her travels Dorothy meets the green people of Emerald city, the yellow winkies, and the blue munchkins. Each of the three different types of people reacted to Dorothy and her people differently, the munchkins were warm and welcoming, the people of Emerald city were cautious and courteous and the yellow winkies were curious and helpful. The distinction in color was made because each color represented a defining characteristic, the people of Emerald city represented greed as they were not only green, the color of money, but they were also heavily isolated from the rest of the people of Oz; the people of Emerald city lived in the richest city as seen with the jewels that surrounded the houses as such they did not openly welcome strangers nor did they treat them kindly a sign of disdain for outsiders, they represented the higher class in society, or the richest class. The yellow winkies represented hard workers, and the working to lower class as they were not only very skilled at every craft but their enslavement to the much more powerful which represented the constant oppression of the less powerful, or poorer class in society. The blue munchkins represented the middle class, not necessarily know for wealth or for being poor, they are kind and strive to be successful as seen with Boq one of the richest munchkins. Each of the different people of Oz and
In the words of Michael O’Shaughnessy, ‘narratives, or stories, are a basic way of making sense of our experience’ (1999: 266). As a society and a culture, we use stories to comprehend and share our experiences, typically by constructing them with a beginning, middle and an end. In fact, the order that a narrative is structured will directly impact the way it is understood, particularly across cultures. This idea originated through Claude Lévi-Strauss’s concept of structuralism in anthropology which ‘is concerned with uncovering the common structural principles underlying specific and historically variable cultures and myth’ in pre-industrial societies (Strinati 2003: 85). In terms of media studies, structuralism’s inherent objective is to dig beneath the surface of a media text to identify how the structure of a narrative contributes to it’s meaning. Structuralism encompasses a large range of analytical tools, however, this essay will examine Joseph Campbell’s monomyth and Claude Lévi-Strauss’s theory of binary oppositions. Through analysis of Victor Fleming’s film, The Wizard of Oz (1939), it will be shown that although the monomyth and binary oppositions are useful tools with which to unveil how meaning is generated in this text, structuralism can undermine the audience’s ability to engage with their own interpretations of the film.
The Wizard of Oz is a fiction story written by L. Frank Baum. The story has two main settings. The first setting is, Dorothy’s home, the Kansas prairies. The prairies are described as dry and gray. The second setting is the land of Oz. Oz is opposed from Kansas, it is colorful, bright, and full of joy. The Wizard of Oz has a grate theme or message behind the story. The message is that we all have good qualities in us, but it is up to us to use them.
The Wizard of Oz is a film created by MGM Studios in 1939, directed by Victor Fleming and starring Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale, Frank Morgan as the Wizard and Margaret Hamilton as The Wicked Witch of the West. The Wizard of Oz is commonly known as the classic film of American cinema and is loved by many people. It can be classified as a Family, Fantasy, Musical film due to the touching messages told throughout the film, the magical special effects featuredn and the beautiful musical numbers highlighted in the film.
At first, German art critic Franz Roh used the term "Magical Realism" to describe a style of painting (Roh 15). Eventually, Arturo Uslar Pietri adapted the term in order to describe a type of literature (Leal 120). While the exact definition of Magical Realism is open to interpretation, it is certain that Magical Realism gives a deeper meaning to ordinary life by unearthing mysteries that hide behind the world (Roh 16-17). In order to uncover these mysteries, Magical Realism combines fantasy with reality (Flores 110-111). Although Magical Realism is now well-known as a genre of literature, Magical Realism extends into "real life" through a treatment in psychology known as Traumatic Incident Reduction.