the empty pillow

The Empty pillow
Using the theory of reason action-Fishbein and applying it on a 5 min. scene of
the movie by: AlomaniQ8 THE EMPTY PILLOW This is a love story that it’s
events occur, in Egypt, in the fifties, where there were strict traditions about love
between non married lovers, and where the word of the parents rules the lives of
their sons and daughters. In that movie, a young man (salah) who is still a student
falls in love with a beautiful girl (Sameha), whom she is also an eighteen years
old student, they are both college students, that get supported by their families.
The scene begins, when Salah asks his father that he wants to be married, but his
father laughs, and asks him if he is able to support himself or her. Salah’s father
suggested that he should wait until he graduates and gets a job, so he could marry
her. Salah refuses, saying that she would get married to someone else, and her
parents will not wait for me until I graduate. Unfortunately a doctor proposes to
her and asks her hand to be his wife. Sameha’s father and mother agree instantly,
without giving Sameha any notice, only thinking of the position and the how they
would guarantee a wonderful future for their daughter with this doctor, adding
that he is a very nice man and have great reputation. Sameha says that she is
young to be married, and disagree. Sameha’s father say’s “no doughtier of mine
argues with me in such matters, you will do as I say” Consequently, Sameha stop
arguing. And shows yielding. She think about the hard time choosing between the
two, the one she loves! or the fine rich physician, which her parents ergs her to
marry. In order to prevent the marriage, Salah meets her in the desert where they
used to meet. He starts convincing her to run a way with him. Sameha refuses,
saying that her parents might have a heart attack, then she will not forgive herself.
Salah remembers, what one of his friends suggested to him, and that he should
rape her, and in this way she would be his according to the traditions.
Consequently he tries to do so. She cries and begs him to let her go. But he
refuses, until he notices the ring that she is still wearing, which he brought to her
as a token of their love. Sameha runs a way. Sameha thinks hard and consults her
heart and mind. Salah calls her but she refuses to answer. The next scene she is
observed in a nice car with the doctor. The doctor opens the car door for her. The

next week she gets married to the doctor. Other events happen in the next scenes
where Salah graduates and get a job, making great success in his curare as a
businessman. Salah marries the daughter of his boss. Salah invites Sameha and
her husband (the doctor), so she sees the position that he got and the beautiful
wife that he is marring, thinking that Samaha would be jealous and regret that she
did not wait to marry him. But Sameha congratulates him and showing that she is
happy with her choice to marry the doctor. Using the Theory of Reason
Action-FISHBEIN. Fishbein refers to beliefs, attitudes, and intentions. We have
referred to these as the cognitive, affective, and cognitive (behavioral)
components of attitudes. In this theory, the receiver’s variables such as the
demographic: age, sex, education, religion and the personality have a direct
impact on beliefs and how they are evaluated. The behavior is a function of the
individual’s behavioral intention. Intentions are compromised of two
components. 1. Affective attitudes, which are a function of beliefs about
consequences subjective Evaluation of those consequences. 2.Subjective norms,
which are a function of beliefs about the expectations of others times my
motivation to comply with them. Behavioral intentions are the only direct
determinant of behavior. And are determined by affective attitudes and subjective
norms. The personal component: Belief: How true is it about the attitude object?
Evaluative: Hoe good or bad is it? Social component Normative beliefs: How
supportive is the person? Motivation to comply: how much do I want to listen to
this person? The research study: In the text, page (108-112) we see the example
of buying a new car. We have two consumers A and B. Both of the consumers are
placed in an equal weight on the attitude and the subjective norm components.
For consumer A, a calculated attitudes by adding the multiplying attitudes to
evaluate the belief by considering the consequences of buying a new car, such as
better gas mileage, prestige less money in bank, and higher insurance premiums.
We notice the sum of belief evaluation tends to be in the positive +8, while
consumer B belief evaluation of his attitude tends to be in the negative –6
consequently we say that consumer a has high a positive attitude towards buying

a new car, while consumer B has a negative attitude towards buying a new car
according to their money in the bank, which wouldn’t allow them to buy the car.
As for their normative belief (motivation to comply), the subjective norms are
measured based on the important referent such as, spouse’s, father’s, neighbor’s,
and child’s opinions and would they agree on buying a new car. Again the
subjective norms are ca! lculated, resulting the same results as the attitude
evaluating, as having positive for consumer A and a negative for consumer B.
Concluding the behavioral intentions of the two consumers towards buying a new
car. Hence consumer A has positive results the attention is to buy a new car is
positive. And for consumer B, the attention of buying a new car is dismissed. In
the scene the person who is measuring her attitude is Sameha, who tries to
calculate the consequences of marring the doctor and forgetting the student that
she loves. She evaluates her belief by first, considering her love for the student
Salah. Consequences of marrying the doctor Belief evaluation And leaving Salah
1. Salah is the one she loves (+3) x (+3) >From the scene we see that she is in
love with him. Dating him and wearing the ring that he gave to her as a token of
their love. 2. Salah is a student (+3) x (-1) Being a student is an obstacle in their
marriage, but she does not care if he is a student or not, as long as he could
convince his father to support them financially, and we see that when she asks
him to tell his parents to come to her parents and propose. 3. Salah tries to rape
her (+2) x (-3) She gets extremely upset and resists him and begs him not to do
such a thing. So she have a negative feeling about his actions. 4. The doctor has a
very Bright future. (+2) x (+2) She knew that she would be a doctor’s wife and
she would be, pleasing her parents if she would marries him. But she don’t care if
she gets married in the first place because she tells her parents that she is still
young to get married. 5. The doctor is a nice and a (+3) x (+2) Gentleman who
treats her nicely. After Salah tries to rape her, observing that from the scene. She
considers marring the doctor because her parents know him, they say nice things
about him in the scene. And she has no choice but to obey her parents, and that is
observed when she yielded to her father’s argument with her when he imposed

his opinion on her. Calculating the results of the attitude we can figure her
attitude of leaving Salah and marring the doctor to be +7. Confirming that from
the scene, when she is observed riding with the doctor in the car and refusing the
calls of the student Salah after his try to rape her. As for the subjctive norm effect
we can observe different subjective norms MARRING THE DOCTOR &
LEAVING SALAH Formative beliefs Motivation to comply (How supportive is
this person?) (How much do I want to listen to this person)? 1. Father (+3) x (+3)
Since he is her father and she obeys his orders, and being raised in a family so
strict. She yields to her father’s decision. Observing that from the scene when she
stops arguing with her father. Also when she refuses to run a way with Salah,
because she loves her parents and she is afraid to lose them. 2. Mother (+3) x (+3)
Sameha’s mother supports her father. Since he have the last word in the house. So
Sameha have a positive belief towards her mother’s opinion in marring the
doctor. 3. Salah (-3) x (+2) Salah tells her to run a way with him. So she won’t
have to marry the doctor. She refuses, and instead she tells him to talk to his
father to help them financially. And he tries to rape her she consults her heart and
mind. Sameha finds a little amount of possessiveness of taking Salahs opinion to
marry the doctor. Resulting that Sameha, evaluated her attitude and subjective
norms, and found that she would be better off with out Salah, and we can see that
in the scene. When she refuses to answer his calls. Consequently in order to do
what her parents wanted, measuring that from the positive results that she got
from her both parents, as for her to marry the doctor +12. She is observed riding
with the doctor in his car, and marring him in the next scenes. Finally we see that
Sameha had made up her mind to marry the doctor and abandon her lover after
she measured her attitude and subjective norms.