Self-determination in cocktail

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Self-determination in “Cocktail”

        Self-determination is an ability of a person to control their own will or to make decision without interference from others. In “Cocktail” Dr.Krisana, the protagonist, is the representative of self-determined person who shows firmness of her purpose and determination to help helpless patient by giving them rights to pursue medical treatment as equally as rich people. Her strong determination is developed since her childhood when her grandmother who is kind-hearted and virtuous guides her to help needy people in scene 1: “If you have enough in your life then you must share with those who have less than you. Never forget that, Krisana” The virtue and also the example of a good person given by her grandmother gradually instill in Dr.Krisana and inspire her to fight determinedly for the sake of sick people.

        When Dr.Krisana has grown up, she is offered a position of Director of research and development in GPO (Thai Government Pharmaceutical Organization). It is a big, high-rank position from which she can gain a lot of praise, but what she is really interested in is only helping people ; “I’ve given your offer a great deal of thought, Dr.bhunbhu, but it I accept, there is one condition…That I be allowed to work on whatever the Thai people need”. She shows her strong determination even before her first step in the GPO.

        Actually, her self-determination to help people goes against the trend or the main stream of the society, and that make her goal to help people require more firmness of the will, and stronger self-determination. And, she shows that none of the obstacle can interfere her determination. The main stream is the society in which the people are mainly aware of their benefits. It is the world of business that only takes priority over money and profits. The problem is that sometimes business can not go with the sake of the humanity. Therefore, we can see many people in the play line up as obstructions to Dr. Krisana.

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        The first obvious obstacle is the Thai government. It ignores the AIDS problem as if people’s lives are not important. They do not want to admit the Aids as national problem, because it will affect the economy; the sex industry in Thailand will collapse. One of the senators even says that the right to live is only for good people and that bad people like patients with AIDS do not deserve it, but he is wrong, because some patients are innocent children. Even if, the rest of the patients are promiscuous, as humans, they should have right to pursue medical ...

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