Bumpy Road to Attainment of Self-Actualization in Jessica Jung’s Shine

Abstract

Life is an amalgamation of both positive and negative experiences. Such experiences crush the zeal and the optimism of an individual resulting into inner demise of a vibrant soul. The sole objective behind this research paper is to reach to an individual self-actualized state despite the on-going upheavals in the female protagonist Rachel Kim in the fiction Shine by Jessica Jung. A self-actualized person has a total regeneration in his thinking process and visualizes life with a renewed lens and transformed energy. The Korea-America girl, Rachel Kim in Shine moves to Seoul, Korea, and makes hard endeavours to accomplish her childhood goalmouth of becoming a singer in the K-pop industry. In this research ordeal, Rachel is seen from the lens of Abraham Maslow’s Pyramid of Needs of Hierarchy. The research paper touches on a universal plane to every human being, who wishes to attain the state of self-actualization- the level of quality, acceptability, and readability in one’s public life by incorporating multifarious abilities and talents in diverse aspects of life.