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Mark Rydell’s “On Golden Pond” is a drama that emphasizes the stages people of various ages endures. Utilizing Erik Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages as learned in Dr. Malone’s class, each of the main characters can be placed within a stage and their age-related crises analyzed. As this film is a drama, it was relatable to the audience, prompting personal reactions as well as implementing life examples of some of the theories studied in Malone’s class. Perhaps the most significant character, Norman

The movie I chose to dis-illuse is called On Golden Pond is a romantic drama. This movie was directed by Mark Rydell and was released on February 12th, 1982. This is available on VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray, and you can purchase it online with various websites. The myth that compares with this movie is Myth #8: Bickering and fighting a lot mean that a man and a woman really love each other passionately. Throughout the whole movie, Norman and his wife, Ethel bicker several times. They do not seem to be in that

One can’t help but to draw links to the aging process when watching the three times Oscar winning movie On Golden Pond. In Mark Rydell's On Golden Pond, we encounter a couple in the middle of dealing with the anxieties and hardship of moving through the latter part of their life cycle. The older actors played by Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn demonstrates different levels of activity, age stratification, continuity, and disengagement theory in their lives. Activity Theory argues that the more

West Des Moines, Iowa for watching the drama On the Golden Pond. The theatre group which performed was from Tallgrass Theatre Company. Tallgrass theatre is all volunteer based. The stage and lighting were all set when I entered inside the auditorium. This was my first drama watching experience in Iowa. On the Golden Pond by Ernest Thompson is a story about an old couple, Ethel and Norman Thayer, who spend their each summer on a lake Golden Pond, in the far northern New England. But this summer their

On Golden Pond This movie “On Golden Pond” starts a long-married couple (Norman and Ethel Thayer) arriving to their home in the lake that is called Golden Pond. That moment Mr. Norman shows a memory problem because he could not recognize the pictures of his family or himself. In this movie, you could see how much this couple loved each other with so much respect even though there have very different personality. Mr. Norman always talks about his death and does not want to think of this future and

The movie "The Golden Pond” has characters that each represent psychological, physical, and cognitive stages of the life cycle, also referred as Erikson’s Theories. Through these concepts each character is under a different developmental category, with each relationship urging for acceptance. In the husband and wife’s relationship you can see that they like to spend time together. At times they play board games, and other times they go boating. Norman and Chelsa has a love and hate relationship

On Golden Pond” is a movie with Henry Fonda, that enacts a family’s dealing with end of life issues for its older members. Watch the movie. Write an assessment of where the various family members are developmentally and any struggles each one is having in development. I feel that the Chelsea (daughter) has issues with Norman (father) as well as Norman is struggling despartly to except the fact that he’s getting older. Ethel (mother) is doing the best she can to keep the family together, and the

Classic Essay Imagine— you are sitting upon an old dock at the edge of a pond as the evening sun begins to set. A captivating ornamentation of light dances off the water as the sun slowly disappears behind an overbearing mountain. You become mesmerized by the mixed celebration of the faint yellow, baby blue, and champagne pink lights that shine across the ripples of the water. When suddenly, there is the faint cry of a loon in the distance. This cry startles you and brings you from that tranquil

David Grusin is the composer for On Golden Pond. He was the composer for The Graduate and The Goonies which are films that I recognized but have not yet seen. I selected On Golden Pond because I had not heard of the movie beforehand. The 1980s was full of electronic music; however, this film featured no electronic pop. The film is only instrumental, and due to the fact, the film focuses on an older couple dealing with growing older and their time with a young man named Billy, I believe the score

books that portray all types of “father-daughter” relationships. Some fathers are abusive, some are loving or (delete) and some are either (delete) non-existent. In On Golden Pond you see a distant, almost nonexistent, relationship between Norman Thayer and his daughter Chelsea. Norman and Ethel raised their only daughter on Golden Pond in the summer time, where they spent their time picking strawberries, swimming, staying up late, reading, boating, and fishing. The time periods where Chelsea is growing