INSIGHTS INTO PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT: THE INFLUENCE OF CHILDHOOD IN CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT AS PORTRAYED IN THE SELECTED MALAYALAM MOVIES

Abstract

Abstract:

This paper intends to focus on analysing the impact of childhood trauma and childhood experiences in shaping one’s character as an adult. Here, the aim is to show that childhood has a profound impact on individuals. Itis capable of shaping the physical, emotional, and social development of a man. Certain characters from the three Malayalam movies “Forensic” (Dir. Akhil Paul,2020), “Amala” (Dir. Nishad Ebrahim,2023) and “Iratta” (Dir. Rohith M. G, 2023) is thereby taken inorder to analyse the same. The paper also tries to understand how the experiences, relationships, and environments of a child during his childhood play a crucial role in influencing his or her personality, behaviour, and overall well-being throughout their life. What the child sees, hears, experiences, their living conditions, behaviour of people around him, the way he is raised, mannerisms of people surrounding him etc. during this phase will be unconsciously captured by him and later gets reflected in his character when he begins to start his own independent life and these will always have an influence on him till his death and he will always tend to reflect the same in the future. Many aspects of an individual's personality are shaped during childhood. The parental and societal influence on the child’s personality development is looked upon and the reasons behind the careless behaviour of the character’s parents are also being analysed in this paper. This topic is being studied in the light of theories such as Psychoanalytic Theory, Socio psychological theory, and Trauma Theory.