Hunter Pelt, Motivation and Emotion

11.  Self-Conscious Emotions. When did your character display a self-conscious emotion (pride, embarrassment, guilt, or shame/humiliation)? What concomitants (i.e., co-occurrences) of cognitions, motivations, and /or behaviors (choose at least aspects) did your character have——that is, why did he/she experience the self-conscious emotion; how did if affect his/her motivations or behaviors?       Shep was the best friend of Vivi's first love, who died in the war; Shep and Vivi began dating longer down the road, eventually marrying and having children.  As an older woman, Vivi has a revelation about her marriage.  She realizes that she has put her husband, Shep, through hell time and time again; yet, he is always there to pick up the pieces (her alcoholism; her nervous breakdown; her post-traumatic stress, etc.).  There is one night when she sits down with him at the table and asks, "Have I ruined your life?"  Her thoughts (r...

Basic Emotions. Looking at the categories of basic emotions, describe a time when your character felt one of the basic emotions. Why did your character experience this emotion and what purpose could be served by feeling this emotion?               The basic emotion I want to explore in relation to my character is shame.  Shame is one of the most prominent emotions that Vivi experiences as an older woman.  After Vivi's nervous collapse during which she brutally attacks her own children and is thus involuntary Baker acted, she has little memory of the experience itself.  While she is institutionalized, her life long friends come to visit her nearly every day.  Vivi does not talk about the incident except once, during which she asks her dear friend, Caro, to describe every mark that Vivi put on her children.  Years later, Caro explains to Vivi's daughter, Sidda, that Vivi was so wrought with s...