scholarly journals The Role of Ego in Margayya’s Fall in the Financial Expert -A Psychological Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 30-40
Author(s):  
Mr. P. Jose
Keyword(s):  
Self Control ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Psychological Approach ◽  
Rational Thinking ◽  
Human Personality ◽  
Financial Expert ◽  
Illegal Acts ◽  
Psychological Influence

Ego is one of the most important elements in human personality and although everyone has ego, people manage their ego differently. Some people take it very seriously and act in a way to retaliate, if their ego is hurt while others think and balance their ego before it builds aggression which would bring their own downfall. Since people are driven by their egocentric mindset, any disgrace, disappointment or failure would hurt their ego which would force them to build aggression, reduce rational thinking and lead them to engage in unethical and illegal acts. When Margayya’s ego was hurt by the secretary of the bank when he insulted him and almost ended his finance career, he wanted to accumulate more wealth. He didn’t worry about the ways and means but focused on the destination and he was guided by his ego that led him to mistreat and disrespect people throughout the novel. His obsession with money and prestige forced him to act rudely that ended his career as one of the best financial wizards. When people are led by their ego, it would lead them to their own downfall and destruction as they would be guided by lack of self-control and distrust on others. His obsession with money led him to show off his superiority in order to defeat the cooperative bank secretary and earn respect in the society. This paper brings out the Psychological influence of ego in Margayya’s character in the novel, The Financial Expert.

scholarly journals “Dysrationalia” among university students: The role of cognitive abilities, different aspects of rational thought and self-control in explaining epistemically suspect beliefs

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikola Erceg ◽  
Zvonimir Galić ◽  
Andreja Bubić
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Cognitive Styles ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Rational Thinking ◽  
Rational Thought

The aim of the study was to investigate the role that cognitive abilities, rational thinking abilities, cognitive styles and self-control play in explaining the endorsement of epistemically suspect beliefs among university students. A total of 159 students participated in the study. We found that different aspects of rational thought (i.e. rational thinking abilities and cognitive styles) and self-control, but not intelligence, significantly predicted the endorsement of epistemically suspect beliefs. Based on these findings, it may be suggested that intelligence and rational thinking, although related, represent two fundamentally different constructs. Thus, deviations from rational thinking could be well described by the term “dysrationalia”, meaning the inability to think rationally despite having adequate intelligence. We discuss the implications of the results, as well as some drawbacks of the study.

scholarly journals Ecocriticism and Anthropocentrism in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 883
Author(s):  
Biljana Vlašković Ilić
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Natural World ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Central Idea ◽  
Human Personality ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi, the winner of numerous prestigious awards, was described as“very bold and extreme with a wonderful central idea” (Irish Examiner 2002). The “central idea” of the novel has been described differently by readers and literary critics around the world. For many, it is Pi’s relationship with the tiger, Richard Parker; for some, it is the decentering of humans in favour of animals; and yet for others, the central idea of Life of Pi lies in Martel’s unusual treatment of religions and their role in human life. In this paper we argue that that the main idea of the novel is Martel’s ecocriticism of humanity in general, and especially the tendency of humans to put themselves at the center of any story, whether about animals or gods. Martel creates a tangled web of many different stories which define Pi’s life in order to prioritize the role of fiction in the development of human personality and dissect the relations between the human, the natural world, and the text. Although he favors the animal story, the final chapter reveals that the only story humans find “real” is the one in which animals are seen as anthropomorphic.

The role of social anxiety in self-control depletion

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyndsay Ann Nelson ◽  
Jessica Williamson ◽  
Ginette Cara Blackhart
Keyword(s):  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Self Control

Abusive Supervision and Supervisor-Directed Aggression: The Role of Self-Control

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huiwen Lian ◽  
Douglas J. Brown ◽  
Lindie H. Liang ◽  
Lance Ferris ◽  
Lisa M. Keeping
Keyword(s):  
Abusive Supervision ◽  
Self Control

The role of elaboration in self-control conflicts

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Nicole Belding ◽  
Pablo Brinol ◽  
Richard E. Petty ◽  
Kentaro Fujita
Keyword(s):  
Self Control

ROLE OF THE NOVEL INTRODUCED PAN-INTESTINAL CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY SYSTEM IN CELIAC DISEASE

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
F Foerster ◽  
K Mönkemüller ◽  
PR Galle ◽  
H Neumann
Keyword(s):  
Celiac Disease ◽  
Capsule Endoscopy ◽  
The Novel

Patterns: Rosamond Lehmann

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vike Martina Plock
Keyword(s):  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
To The Lighthouse ◽  
Fashion Magazines ◽  
Female Authorship ◽  
Rosamond Lehmann

This chapter analyzes the role of fashion as a discursive force in Rosamond Lehmann’s 1932 coming-of-age novel Invitation to the Waltz. Reading the novel alongside such fashion magazines as Vogue, it demonstrates Lehmann’s awareness that 1920s fashion, in spite of its carefully stylized public image as harbinger of originality, emphasized the importance of following preconceived (dress) patterns in the successful construction of modern feminine types. Invitation to the Waltz, it argues, opposes the production of patterned types and celebrates difference and disobedience in its stead. At the same time, the novel’s formal appearance is nonetheless dependent on the very same tenets it criticizes. On closer scrutiny, it is seen to reveal its resemblance to Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse (1927). A tension between imitation and originality determines sartorial fashion choices. This chapter shows that female authorship in the inter-war period was subjected to the same market forces that controlled and sustained the organization of the fashion industry.

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