Motivations brought by love, money, and fear
The Demoness Kali
“The Demoness Kali” brings about how love, money, and fear motivate various actions in the society. “The Demoness Kali” is a short compiled by Shyam Selvadurai. Shyam Selvadurai was born in the year 1965. He moved to Toronto, Canada due to the race riots which erupted in 1983. He has a degree in directing of theatre writing of plays. He once worked as a scriptwriter mainly in television stations from which he decided to specialize in the writing of short stories. He has compiled many short stories one of them being The Demoness Kali. In his story, “The Demoness Kali” by Shyam Selvadurai well illustrates that love, money, and fear are great motivators for many actions in the society. The three above factors have a great impact on the actions that take place in the society as per his story. This is as follows;
According to the author fear and love actually creates a great motivation on how people carry out their day to day activities. This is well demonstrated when the author experiences a certain fearsome dream as per the Buddhist Jataka story. The author dreams being a mother and hence a certain fearsome event occurs. This hence pushes her to run through different hard and life-threatening places to save an infant on her harms. The fear actually motivates her to take the risk. This is also brought about by the love she has for the infant. She passes through thorny bushes and sandy soil leaving scratches on her body mainly to save the infant. All this actually occurs as a result of the experienced fear as well as the love o a mother to her infant.
According to the author, money is actually a great factor o motivation in the society. This comes out clear when the author’s father lost a job mainly because of the mistakes he made. The author’s father actually made a mistake which later went ahead to incur the company where he was employed a big loss. Due to the importance of money, he was sacked. This hence means money is all that the bosses needed and the making of profits was their goal as well as motivation. This even went ahead to cost him a job after another. It is through this, the author demonstrates money as a great motivator in the society. At the same time, the author’s grandmother was against the marriage of the author’s mother and father mainly because the father was from a poor background. This is so because money acted as a motivator on the side of the grandmother. Despite the grandmother not willing to allow the marriage to take place, the mother agreed to the deal because she loved the father. It is the mother’s love which made her get married. This hence shows that love can motivate people to perform various tasks as it is with the case with the couples.
Lastly, the author’s mother went ahead to make a surprising decision due to the love of money. She could not tolerate staying in poverty having been raised in a rich family. Despite all the love she had she decided to go back to Colombo. She did all this for her to get all her needs satisfied. This then indicates that money is a great motivator on how most of the people act.
As per the author, love, fear, and money are the primary motivators of the many actions which take place in the society. A large number of individuals end up performing many mysterious activities under the pressure of love, fear, and money. The above three factors can actually determine the day to day running of activities in the society as well as individuals.