Attitude is determined by an intellectual decision – a personal judgment – this is right and that is wrong.
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The Makings of a Good Character – Point of View – Belief
Your character’s point of view may be that the indiscriminate slaughtering of dolphins and whales is morally wrong because they are two of the most intelligent species on the planet, maybe smarter than men. Your character supports that point of view by participating in demonstrations and wearing T-shirts with Save the whales and dolphins on them. That’s an aspect of characterization. Syd Field – The Screen Writer’s Workbook. Continue reading »
The Makings of a Good Character- Individuation and the Art of Change
While there many paradigms through which you might view character arc change, the one that appeals most to me is based on the concept of Jungian ‘individuation’. Continue reading »
The Makings of a Good Character – Motivation
Motivation = that ‘something’ (or bundle of ‘something’s’) that initiates, guides, and maintains goal-oriented behaviour – that which your character wants, needs, or fears that drives the action.
Astrologically, I believe motivation is primarily symbolised by the placement and connections of three natal planets: Continue reading »
21st Century Slavery – Now you see it – Now you don’t
What constitutes morality isn’t easy to define much less pin down.
But what constitutes slavery most certainly is… right?
Free will.
Who’s got yours? Continue reading »
Jane Austen and the Enlightenment
Underlying Enlightenment ideals was Locke’s assertion that the mind is a blank slate receiving and ordering worldly sensations for the benefit of the individual. With this, the focus shifts forward: the individual is valorised and self- interest legitimized- no longer is he encouraged to blindly follow established teachings (i.e. church, government, aristocracy). Instead he’s to be the creator of his own meaning and truth. Continue reading »
Feminism and Jane Austen
However if we look to the basic premise underlying Enlightenment feminism – that women, not having been denied powers of reason, must have the moral status appropriate to ‘rational beings’, formed in the image of a rational God – we must reach a different conclusion. At least two of the three of Austen’s heroines examined were apparently presumed by the men in their lives as capable not of forging their own moral code, but only of regurgitating that of their lovers. Continue reading »
Grandma Brown
can’t say i hate ya…didn’t know ya well enough for that…can’t say i love ya neither…knew ya was a Brown rat… Continue reading »
Troilus and Cressida or a good, hard look at the footprint of something short of an idealised and benevolent God
Many don’t like realistic theatre. We don’t want to pay good money to see a story where (unlike our everyday lives) the loose ends are not tied up. Such untidiness threatens our personal cosmologies – i.e. the carefully constructed psychologically spatial orientation through which we view the world. Continue reading »
The Moral Maze of Self Interest
For although‘morality’ has meant many different things to many different people – the bottom line has always been – ouch – morality = self-interest. Continue reading »
