May 31, 01
Composition
of Human Personality
That Attracts Life Response of Various Intensities
Civilisation can be described as the history of development of skills, capacities,
abilities, talents in the physical, vital, mental and spiritual parts on the basis of
vital energies released and mental understandings developed. Their effectivity is
determined by the spiritual values one possesses. They are in a gradation of successive
development, though subconsciously they are simultaneously developing. An exhaustive
cataloguing of all these faculties in various parts and various shades will be a complete
Thesaurus. Here it will be of interest to note that vocabulary and diction have developed
as and when any skill acquired one more distinct shade. This will mean for our project
to be complete, no word listed in the dictionary that describes human skill, emotion or
any faculty can be omitted. Maybe this is a lifetime work for a devoted scholar who is
an original thinker. Once compiled, the work will reveal the integrality of human nature.
To extend our quest, there is the social collective, if not in the vegetable and animal
kingdoms, which contains an equally exhaustive and corresponding list of skills, etc. To
launch on both may be formidable. But, if anyone undertakes it, it will be an original
contribution to the human thought that is subconsciously organising itself. Even if the
first part of it is completed, it enables the compiler to aim at a few things.
1) The Laws of Life Response
will have a fertile field of precise demonstration.
2) If the list of endowments
is sufficiently exhaustive, ones accomplishment past, present, and future
can be calculated by a formula.
3) The potential of anyone
can be known precisely.
4) It will exactly show how,
at a given moment, the person has left about 75 to 85% of his possibilities unused.
All these faculties are only secondary
circumstances that serve the Prime Mover, the inner individual who makes the
choices at every moment. This will be best understood when we take a literary figure and
evaluate his performance, incidentally commenting on Life Responses. Ones own
life is the very best field, as all inner movements are well known. For the same reason,
one is blind about oneself. We can start with others and end with ourselves. This will
only provide an outline, not a comprehensive endowment. A comprehensive endowment can
emerge when the subtle vision of life opens.
Discussion on faculties:
q Wood cutting is physical
work needing primary skills.
q It is better than a man
trying to break a branch like a monkey. The knife personifies his primary skill. To use
the knife, one needs further skill.
q To someone asking
where is the cement company? one points out the direction without speaking.
Another asks him to go north and find it. A third says, The cement company is in a
two-storied building. Go north, you will come to a road junction, turn left, opposite to a
tree will be two 2-storied buildings. The cement company is the first building.
q One acts physically, the
other expresses primary understanding; the third, for the work in question, exhibits a
developed skill.
q This developed skill here
goes with observation, memory, capacity to describe, willingness to be of use, readiness
to forget his work for a while.
q Describe to yourself
several acts, you will see your powers of understanding exhibit their limitation.
q In Pride and Prejudice,
Elizabeth is the second daughter of a gentleman whose estate is entailed. She is not
particularly handsome, but is intelligent, independent and always cheerful. She values
culture, is unselfishly devoted to Jane, shrewd enough to know the world, if not like
Charlotte endowed with worldly wisdom. She is able to laugh at the ungentlemanly remarks
of Darcy. She has that strength but has the weakness of women for a handsome face and the
prejudice of one whose inheritance makes her ineligible on its strength for a great match.
This is a list of her major traits. Now let us go through a sequential list of her part in
the story and, roughly, put it against another similar list of what happens to her. When
we come to the end, we see the role of each of her faculties influencing life and
producing reactions. The end, as the author has chosen, bears out the composition of her
personality. There are crucial points and the choices she made at those points. At
every moment, there is a choice. We can consider only the major ones. The choices vary in
their strength depending from what depth they issue -- behaviour, character, personality,
Nature. Whether they were imposed on her from outside or self-chosen determines the
direction as well as the intensity of its outcome. That gives us some life material to
work with.
From the beginning her mind is on Jane
getting well married |
As she is oblivious of her own
interest, an attitude of selflessness, life brings Darcy to her. |
Darcys unpalatable comment |
A weak character will resent, react,
and all her energy will be absorbed by that reaction. She laughs, is unmindful. That
strength attracts Darcy. |
Has solicitude for Jane |
Life, Mrs. Gardiner have similar
attitude to her. |
Has no idea that Darcy admires her,
even when Charlotte points it out. |
Strength can be oblivious. She is not mercenary. Her strength is in her prejudice. |
Goes after Wickham |
What she seeks eludes her. His desertion does not hurt her. She swallows Wickhams
fabrications. Very partial to Wickham which leads to
the elopement. |
Refuses Collins |
A magnanimous act for one in her
position. |
Abuses Darcy |
She is more offended by Darcys
act than flattered by his proposal. |
Sees through Lady Catherines
hollow character. Not subdued by her wealth and status. |
Wealth and status seek her. |
Abused by Darcy, she is truthful in
seeing the facts. She reverses her prejudice. |
This is transformation which transforms
Darcy uncharacteristically. Life as Response gives the meeting at Pemberley. |
When she is about to be crowned, the
elopement comes. |
Her weakness for the handsome face of a
villain takes it toll on her, because this is a flaw in her character and strength. |
She overcomes Carolines
manoeuvres, but not Wickhams treachery. |
Caroline is underhanded. Lizzy is
always aboveboard. |
Darcy is insufferable for her. Such an
intense hate is really subconscious attraction. |
Her hatred makes her obliged to Darcy
as she herself uncharacteristically discloses to him the elopement. |
Her fond admiration of Wickham makes
her give him her own money through Lydia lifelong. |
To her, Pemberley is more of
Wickhams place than Darcys. |
She stands up to Lady Catherine and
defends herself stoutly. |
Her strength brings Darcy to her and
before that, Jane gets Bingley. |
Elizabeth exerts her choice when
she
1) refuses to be cowed down
by Darcys comment.
2) refuses his hand for
dancing.
3) refuses Collins.
4) refuses Darcys
proposal.
5) reverses her mind about
her family.
6) responds to Darcys
attentions.
7) discloses to him the
elopement.
8) defends herself against
Lady Catherine.
9) apologises to Darcy before
thanking him.
10) remains partial to Wickham
forever.
What is contemplated by the article, even outside life response, is on a par with compiling a dictionary. Only that a dictionary has linguistic life, if it has any life. This directory is of life, a TOOL to improve life, a rich product of lifes sweet energies.