Motivation In La La La Land, Directed By Damien Chazelle

Abraham Maslow’s meaning of self actualization is one to reach his full potential or of one’s true self. From a humanistic standpoint, Claire’s

Specific Purpose: The purpose is to allow the audience to understand how true happiness, or self-actualization, can be achieved.

She feels pity for Olivia and herself with the statement "Poor lady, she were better love a dream" (2.2. 25)! Viola's use of deception causes a cross gender love triangle with which she can not deal.

Throughout the novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Oscar falls in love with several girls throughout his life whom never love him back. This is partially due to Oscar’s love for women that are extremely out of his league. These women are beautiful and desire the stereotypical man which is the opposite of overweight, nerdy Oscar. Several songs display the scenes throughout Oscar’s life in which he falls head over heels for women that would never publicly date him.

Throughout The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, past events greatly affect Oscar’s present activities, attitudes, and values. Oscar Wao must continually contend with the thought of his breakup with Maritza Chacón as a seven year old, and this specific event contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole. Oscar’s breakup marks a transition in his life from being a stereotypical Dominican “player” to an overweight nerd. During his high school years and beyond, he continually searches for love. However, the search for love and urge to replicate his earlier romantic years ultimately result in his death because love acts as a curse throughout the novel. Oscar’s relationship to his childhood years heavily influence his activities and thoughts

In Diaz’s novel we see the boy Oscar who seeks for love but cannot receive it, a woman who is self assured and tough due to the lack of love from a parent as a young girl, and a boy who is afraid to devote himself to another woman, and lets go of the greatest gift when he had it laying in the palm of his hands. Oscar, due to his deep depression, allows a few men to lead him to his death, because Oscar, in his mind, was dying for a woman he “loved”. Love makes you do crazy things, it makes you irrational, it makes you reckless ,like Oscar, vulnerable, as Lola once was, and it could even make you end up alone, like Yunior. It is the greatest force of nature, it is what makes the world go round and spin as it does. We love, love, we need love, and we seek love because it is what makes us feel alive, it gives us courage, happiness, fulfillment and an endless list of what every human being wants. It is the

Marriage requires effort and work. Many newlyweds come into a marriage thinking it is easy but do not consider the consequences of marriage that heavily rely on balances and partnership. Marriage is all about compromise. It is important to engage in a premarital program to allow both partners to learn what to expect within a marriage, how to face certain roadblocks, and to better communication when conflict is aroused so that divorce does not become an option. Gottman’s research (2009) has made a significant contribution to the study of relationship and marriage tying unity, harmony, and communication together to make relationship and marriage work. When a couple who does not have consummate love (intimacy, passion, and commitment), they often portray the six indicators of divorce: harsh startup, the Four Horsemen, flooding, body language, failed repair attempts and reflecting on bad memories (Gottman, 2009). Divorce often occurs within the first two years of marriages and almost half of divorces end within the first seven years (Bhutto-Ramirez, 2015).

Viola is an orphan who's only companion was "killed" in a shipwreck. Viola yearns for love, while Katharina has thrown away the thought out it. Nevertheless,

The story is told from his point of view thus allowing one to see how he talks about Christina and Stella to his ex-wife and "She," the paramour whom he now lives with.

     The director is trying to communicate the love from a father to his daughter. It shows the natural love of human being, so

Human beings have a need for self-actualization that involves growing towards courage, kindness, knowledge, love, honesty, and unselfishness. When we fulfill this need, we feel serene, joyful, filled with zest, sometimes euphoric, and generally happy. When we act contrary to our need for self-actualization, we experience anxiety, despair, boredom, shame, emptiness and are generally unable to enjoy ourselves. (Singer 327-328).

I was a bit confused about the central character(s) of the piece. My initial thought is that they are twins, however, there are moments of singularity that caused me while reading to question it and assume another mode of duality. Of course, I may be reading too much into it, nevertheless, being clearer about the central character(s) could lessen any potential confusion later into the piece. For example, “They’d dated in school, but had much of a relationship—they had worried that it would be too much work, but, in their journal, had notated that they feared they really weren’t good enough…(7)” and then in the dialogue later there’s, “Thanks for meeting us (8).” If the central characters are twins, did the twins both date her? Do they do the exact same things? For Annabella, what is she doing now? She has artistic endeavors that she wants to explore, but knowing what she’s doing in the city could bring some perspective to her, how she perceives the art of others at that moment and her own, which fits with the ‘date’ at the gallery, and what she’s battling against for her attention to add some authenticity to her yearning, if it’s not projection by the central characters of course. This could be introduced in clues through her dialogue if it’s not meant to be introduced yet. At the gallery show, when the central character is trying to take in Annabella’s impression of the show and wrestle their emotions of what they’d heard, the line, “…but then questioning why they felt so attached to a phone in the first place. (10)”, connecting the brief notion of interiority to the aversion of technology (i.e. their phone) to the news about their dog dying could drive the feeling home to the reader. Good start and I look forward to more from the

A new friend of Marcello’s, Steiner, makes a comment to Marcello about how removing oneself from the spiritual side of life is easier and it offers more security than being vulnerable and passionate. Steiner is the only character in the film who sees the distinction between the two. Marcello chases the beautiful Sylvia all around Rome, yet his attraction for her is only out of sexual desire and the fact that she is physically very appealing. What prompts Marcello into believing that he is in love with Sylvia is because he is so enamored with the idea behind her. She is movie star, whom everyone adores, and is the climax of beauty. For each relationship Marcello has with a woman on the film, he fails to be interested in their spiritual side.

Self-actualization is used in various psychology theories and refers to the final level of psychological development that can be achieved when all basic physiological and mental needs have been fulfilled. It is the drive to become what one is capable of being in terms of physical

Self-actualization is the fulfilment of the person’s dreams and aspirations. “Even if all these needs are satisfied, we may still often (if not always) expect that a new discontent and restlessness will soon develop, unless the individual is doing what he or she, individually, is fitted for. Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poet’s must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What