Tapestry Proposal

Manipulation


"Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable."
-Joyce Brothers


"I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control." -Javier Bordem



The first quotation means that love occurs in a relationship when you can finally be yourself and not be manipulated. You don't have to care what the partner thinks about you, because you are no longer being manipulated. This is a kind of manipulation that is personal and isn't an intentional manipulation. You can solve this manipulation and move on.


The second quotation means that Javier Bordem is okay with people's beliefs and faiths, but he doesn't like it when those faiths aren't their own and someone else has manipulated their minds to believe something that they really don't. This kind of manipulation is deceiving, where one tries to alter someone else's ideas and opinion to benefit themselves.


Quote 1 Relations
-In the Princess and the Frog movie or various books, the princess might feel personally manipulated into believing that the frog is ugly. This is because it is a stereotypical frog. Then, she overcomes this manipulation, and falls in love with the frog.
-In the film and various books of Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs, the main antagonist believes that she is the most beautiful of them all, but she really isn't because Snow White is. Then, the antagonist overcomes her self manipulation, and becomes an ugly witch. She now no longer believes she is the most beautiful.
-In the film Beauty and the Beast, Belle meets the Beast. She immediately assumes that he is ugly. She then stops herself from being manipulated as she gets to know him better, and she no longer believes that he is ugly.
Quote 2 Relations
-An the movie The Truman Show, the main protagonist, Truman, is manipulated into believing he is in real life, but he is really in on a television show where he is the centre of attention. When he asks people what is going on, those people don't tell him the truth, manipulating him into believing that everything is normal. These people are achieving entertainment from Truman.
-"Kissing the Rain" by Kevin Brooks, where Detective Callan tries to convince Moo to change his opinion on a crime he witnessed. Callan does this so he can frame Keith Vine, although Moo doesn't agree with this. Callan manipulates Moo.
-In the novel "Assassins Creed: Brotherhood" by Oliver Bowden, the Borgia family manipulates Ezio into thinking that the Borgias are trying to protect Ezio's family. The Borgia family then turns on Ezio, murdering his father and brothers. Ezio was led to believe in something that wasn't true.