Wednesday, April 22, 2009

knowledge at work-4

My topic for this assignment is a quote from the movie 'khuda kay liye'.
"You don't understand the pakistani perspective of this do you? a muslim man is allowed to marry a non muslim girl but not a non muslim girl!. I will be the laughing stock of the pakistani community"
It clearly shows that the man who said this, Hussain, changes his perception only for his own convenience. When he smokes, when he consumes alcohol and when he has a live - in relationship it is not wrong at all. However when his daughter does nothing but wishes to live the rest of her life with the man she loves who unfortunately does not follow Islam, she is perceived to be wrong and someone with no ethics and morals! This very quote led him to do such sinister things to his own daughter. He forced her into marring his first cousin forcefully, who in turn got her pregnant and kept her hostage in a small village at the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan. He was a victim of emotions winning over reason and therefore did all thses cruel, inhuman things in the pursuit of God and in the name of religion. This triggers powerful emotions in her. Primary emotions such as, fear, anger and disgust along with secondary emotions like shame and embarrasment which eventually culminated into hate. She began to reason out her life in that small village and thought of innumerous ways to escape. It was the physical environment and the conditions she was kept in that brought about these changes in her emotions. This is an evident example of the Jameson Lange Theory. The main reason as to why Hussain said this was due the external factor which was a man who brought about the emotions of fear, shame and embarrasment in him. once again. He was so blinded by what that man said that he failed to reason it out and once again emotion won the war against reason. At these instances, the Quran was used as conformation baised and the source was the conditioning of the Islamic people.

1 comment:

  1. Revise what the James Lange theory states PLS!!
    the objective of K@W is to examine 3 things... go through them... have u done justice to them?

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