Nemo's Father Analysis

We all know the popular family movie “Finding Nemo” a kid’s movie that tells a journey of Marlin, a father clown fish, who crosses the vast ocean to find his son Nemo. During Marlin’s journey he comes across many new and scary things, but like any good children’s movie Marlin does eventually find his son Nemo and they go back home and live happily ever after. This all sounds good right? Wrong! Looking at this movie from a psychologist point of view, or in my case a psychology students’ point of view you slowly begin to realize from the moment the movie starts each and every one of the characters in this lovely kids movie is kind of messed up in their own special way.

Boxer mentions a challenge by cartoonist Alison Bechdel issued to the film industry with her test. She says, “show me a movie with at least two women in it who talk to each other about something besides a man and show me a kids’ movie that has a named mother in it who lives until the credits roll” and although as expected not many movies pass the test, there are still a few exceptions to the rule which often come as a shock to Boxer. She makes the bold statement that “The ineluctable regularity of the dead-mother, fun-father pattern is not just womb envy at work, and not just an aggression against the breast; it’s Mickey’s glove displacing the maternal teat. It’s misogyny made cute.” It is clear based on the evidence provided throughout the article that this is indeed true. Disney film writers have somehow managed to create a world in which mothers are dead and female characters are either not needed or dependent on a male character to accomplish a goal. The funny part about these movies glorifying men is that, in reality, as proven by stats mentioned by Sarah Boxer, only 8% of households with kids are headed by a single father, half of which live with their partners, in comparison to the 25% headed by single mothers and 67% headed by both parents. So, as Boxer says, “the fantasy of the fabulous single father that’s being served up in a theater

Demographically, over 90% of the participants strongly agreed that fatherhood is crucial in our society. A little over 47% of fathers, that encouragement from the mothers of their children matters because of the obstacles they faced with finance, and their duties on the job. The final results of marital status statistics is over 80% married fathers, nine percent divorced, and six percent never married. One surprising statistic was 90% cohabitate with the mother and focal child (Glenn & Popenoe, 2006).

Mothers are typically seen as kind, loving, and nurturing, at least in a perfect world, that’s how they are. Rather, in the real world many of us wish that is how all mothers are. Various situations can lead to a woman to be too mothering. It is a factor that transcends real life. This conflict causing dynamic is very prevalent in numerous stories, films, and plays. Two plays where it is shown in significance are Machinal and The Glass Menagerie. In both cases, the actions taken by the mother roles in the shows, resulted in some of the character’s roles ending in unfortunate events of some sort.

While raising a child, the male of the child is needed to act as the father figure to teach his child to survive and be there for it until it is able to survive on its own. The female, mother, is to nurture and show love towards her child in order for it to grow up living a happy childhood. Without the two role models, a child will grow up not knowing how to live a normal and happy

Everyone loves Finding Nemo it's a great movie with a theme that tells you to never give up even if there's a giant obstacle keep trying and since Finding Nemo is a great kids movie basically instilling in everyone who has watched it never give up.

I also see where she is coming from when she says the dad turns into the best dad in the world. In Finding Nemo, I think it drastically shows what Boxer is trying to talk about. Basically how the mother dies at the beginning and the father turns out to be some rockstar of a dad. Yet, there is only one tiny problem that I did notice when reading the article. Boxer talked about how the father becomes a best friend or a protector while you progress with watching the movies. My point is, is that when I am in danger my first instinct would be to run to my dad, while if I was upset or lonely my first instinct would be to run to my mom and most people would agree that would be their same instinct too. So if most people think of the father in that

In Jules Verne 's 20000 Leagues Beneath The Sea, Captain Nemo, who was years ahead of contemporary technology on land, go on adventures with three accidental visitors to an advanced sumbarine called the Nautilus. The main character in 20000 Leagues Beneath The Sea, who is called Professor Pierre Aronnax. He begins his journey by claiming that the creature that is taking over the world 's oceans is a big narwhal, which proves that he is arrogant as it shows that he thinks he knows everything. He gets captured by the Nautilus with two other friends, Ned Land and Conseil. All three were on Commander Farragut 's whaling boat (Now they are not), which was set out to destroy the "giant narwhale. Unfortunately the "narwhale" wasn 't a

The purpose of this essay is to watch the movie and try to view the main character from three personality theorists’ perspectives. In the movie Finding Nemo, Marlin was a clown fish who lost his son, Nemo, in the vast ocean. Along his journey to find his son, he ran into Dory, a blue tang fish who suffered from short term memory loss. Dory provided moral support and comfort in this search that Marlin has been missing for years. This essay will analyze Dory in the movie Finding Nemo through Carl Rogers self-actualization theory, Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs, and Friedman and Rosenman’s personality behavior type.

In most households where fathers aren’t present, the child growing up simply doesn’t care about what the mother has to say. In society, we are shown that mothers are weaker than fathers. We expect the child to obey every order the father directs him to do but not so much the mothers’. This is demonstrated in a scene where Ricky and Doughboy’s mother is mad at Doughboy for not cleaning the house. She goes on to say “You aren’t shit you just like your daddy you don't do shit and you never going to amount to shit. All you ever do around here is eat, sleep and shit. Look at this place. Y'all must think I'm the

The differences between gender roles are not so apparent anymore. Men are not always the typical breadwinners and many women are not stay-at-home mothers. An article by Beaupré, Dryburgh, and Wendy (2010) described the transition that many men are going through. According to Beaupré, et al., (2010), fathers were once considered the forgotten parent. “Until recently studies on the family focused mainly on the mothers” (Beaupré, et al., 2010). Fortunately, both parents are now being focused on. Fathers today are much more involved in the pregnancy and birth of their child and their child’s life in general (Beaupré, et al., 2010). Beaupré, et al., (2010) explained that women’s involvement in the labour force could be a factor to this change. Women are more educated than they were in previous years. And while women want to work more, men want to be more involved in their children’s lives (Beaupré, et al., 2010). Fatherhood is occurring later in adulthood. Research stated that the majority of men are very satisfied with their involvement in their children’s lives. (Beaupré, et al., 2010).

Through much thought and contemplating, one character that I thought made significant changes throughout the movie is Marlin. Now Marlin is a clownfish from the movie Finding Nemo. Marlin makes several changes throughout the movie based solely on the problems that he is faced with and the way that he chooses to handle them. He is faced with four major problems and the choices that he makes to react to those problems changes his entire view on life. He is face with the loss of a majority of his family, confrontation with death, and finally he finds what he truly wants in life.

This undersea movie is introduced with a married couple of clownfish admiring their new home by the drop off. While talking about their future plans and getting ready for their clutch of eggs to hatch, a barracuda attacks them, leaving Marlin, the husband, unconscious, a widower, and a father of one fish, Nemo.

Growing up without a father or strong male role model in the United States is extremely difficult. Fatherless children are disadvantaged in American society and face a greater struggle to become successful in their personal, educational, and professional lives. The decline of fatherhood in one of the most unexpected and extraordinary trends of our time. Its dimensions can be captured in a single statistic: In just three decades, between 1960 and 1990, the percentage of children living apart from their

It is commonly believed that for normal development a child needs two opposite sex parents. Mother provides nurturance and caretaking and father ‘‘is the grinding stone on which his son sharpens his emerging masculinity and the appreciative audience to which his daughter plays out her femininity (Pruett, 2000, p. 87).” Not all the children are raised in two parent family, single parent is a common part of our society. Single mothers and less common single farthers raise their children and nobody doubts there parenting skills, because not only their parent but also other relatives and media influence on children.