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| SHAME (Photo credit: BlueRobot) |
I got a phone call from a machine yesterday telling me that all our campuses would be closed today because of the weather (-45 wind chills!), which seemed great at the time, but now I'm kind of sorry I'm at home. And I'm kind of embarrassed about that. Snow days are supposed to be fun, aren't they? Somehow, when you've been stuck at home a lot because of the weather, it loses its appeal.
Anyway, this week I'm supposed to be writing about my "critical approach," shame theory, and I've actually read the notes on it that the prof put up on Blackboard (we were going to get hard copies today, but that will have to wait for Wednesday, assuming the weather improves). So far, the most interesting thing about shame, to me, at least, is how shame works as a kind of social control. If the people around you think that something is shameful (like wanting to be at school, for example), then you try to avoid doing it (in this case, by not expressing your preference for being at school). It seems like a good explanation for how peer pressure works, and it also covers the entire plot of my film, The Four Feathers.
Now, I'm thinking about how random my example is-- I mean, why should that be shameful? Is that something the film is saying, too? Do the characters around Harry Faversham think that what he does is shameful for no good reason? Does he agree with them? I guess I've got a lot of questions. I just hope that means I'll have a lot of material when it comes time to write the research paper.
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