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Research Article | Open Access
Volume 14 2022 | None
Application and Exemplification of Caroll Gilligan’s Theory of Moral Development in Anees Salim’s Tales from a Vending Machine
K. Sabitha, Dr. K. Syed Ali Bhadhusha
Pages: 2548-2551
Abstract
Carol Gilligan, a psychological theorist was born on November 28, 1936 in the New York Metropolis. She pursued her Doctorate Diploma in social psychology from the Harvard University. Gilligan was a research assistant to Lawrence Kohlberg, however she soon became unbiased and criticized a number of theories related moral development. Carol Gilligan’s Stages of theory of Moral Development is an advancement of Kohlberg’s theory. Carol Gilligan opines that Kohlberg’s theories are based upon the male thinking method. According to Gilligan, Kohlberg’s idea is based totally on the moral thinking of privileged white guys and boys. She believed that girls face plenty of psychological challenge and they are not moral widgets. The female perspective on moral improvement incorporates, being concerned which suggests its impact on human associations. Hence she proposed a principle which has the same three stages of Kohlberg but with exclusive stages of ethical development. Carol Gilligan believed women’s morality arose from actual- life styles dilemmas, not hypothetical ones. She came up with three degrees of moral improvement that emphasize an ethics of care. At the pre conventional stage, women are focused on the self. At the conventional level, women have come to awareness on their duties closer to others. At the post conventional stage, a girl has found out to see herself and others as interdependent. In spite of the fact that the names of the stages are same, the stages are contrast in their strategy. The ethical improvement in Gilligan’s hypothesis depends on favorable social practices, for example, self sacrifice, caring, helpful, genuineness, decency and regard. Anees Salim is an Indian writer known for his works The Blind Lady’s Descendants, Vanity Bagh and The Small Town Sea. Tales from a Vending Machine is his third novel. Hasina Mansoor is the protagonist of the novel. Unlike the stereotyped women in a society, Hasina Mansoor, the Vending Machine operator, at the international airport departure lounge become determined, ambitious, confident, and self established. A woman typically finds hard to hold even herself, however Hasina additionally seems after her family. She even thinks of the entire Muslim Community. She hates Jews (Juice) and America because they hate muslims. This paper focuses on the conventional stage of the protagonist in Tales from a vending Machine. In this stage, according to Carol Gilligan’s Ethics of Care women are concerned with care for others and being selfless.
Keywords
caring, sacrifice, love, ambition
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