Motivation In Forrest Gump

The critically acclaimed movie: Forrest Gump, directed by Robert Zemeckis, tells the heartwarming story of a simple boy and the adventures throughout his life. However, the film is abundant with many themes that relate to one's life. For instance, the idea of motivation, and how one’s actions are influenced. Zemeckis’ character, Jenny Curran, exemplifies this theme, throughout the trials of her life. It is shown that,Jenny’s motivations are shown to never truly be her own, due to the negative influences within her life. Due to how her childhood relationships influence her adulthood relationships, and the end result of such abuse. Nonetheless, there are significant moments with in her life that display, the good that's left inside her convinces

Consequently, goes about rebuilding her life by recreating the situation she endured throughout childhood. Ironic how she spend so much time attempting to flee from her father only to return to different incarnations of him,over and over again. To demonstrate how warped Jenny is take a look at the type of man she dates in college. After finally leaving the god-forsaken place that ruined her, the man she tries to love is date rapey and not to mention physically abusive. Jenny’s college boyfriend emulates the type of man her father was, but instead of ending the cycle, she excuses his behavior and treats it as a normal way to end any old date. Even when someone (Forrest Gump) attempts to reach out and save her, Jenny instead reprimands him for ‘ruining the date’. Disheartening to see how the cycle of abuse affects Jenny’s ability to see her worth, she is only able to view herself as someone, no something, unclean and shameful. Hence why, Jenny goes on to work at a strip club, under the guise of performing and reaching out to people. A nude performance where men attempt to maim and mangle, Jenny’s body. But she once more excuses the carnal behavior, saying “A lot of people try to grab [her].” It is a wonder why Jenny allows this treatment to continue, but it can be explained, for the simple reason that she truly believes her body is not her own. This feeble minded though allows for the return of physically abusive boyfriends. Wesley, the boy from Berkeley that sweeps Jenny off her feet, by beating her down to the ground. A weak, vulnerable girl like Jenny, can not begin to comprehend that she is worth more than the inhumane exploitation she endures. However, Jenny a little while later Jenny returns to Forrest, like the parable of the prodigal son, Forrest welcomes the damaged woman into his home, as if everything she ever did wrong was nothing. At last Jenny