Brooklyn: Transformation Of Identity And Emotions

Abstract

Our contemporary societies are growing more cosmopolitan, with people from many cultural origins coming together and expected to coexist despite having quite different values, customs, manners and standards. The rising diversity of today's society makes it more difficult than ever to define oneself. Migrations, Inventions, Modernization, and Globalisation are examples of phenomena that alter people's sense of cultural self-awareness as well as how they see their environment and other cultures. The subject of immigrant life, conflicting emotions, responsibilities and its connection to identity and a feeling of belonging is a topic that is brought up in multicultural works, particularly in the novel and its film adaptation that serve as representational mediums, such as Brooklyn. Brooklyn is a 2015 British- Canadian –Irish romantic drama film directed by John Crowley and written by Nick Hornby, based in Colm Toibin’s  2009 novel Brooklyn of the same name. The protagonist of this, Eilis Lacey, leaves Ireland in search of better chances in Brooklyn. She makes the decision to relocate to Brooklyn as soon as the church allows it. She has an Italian-American boyfriend and works at the Department Store while residing in Brooklyn. But due of her sister's passing; Eilis has to go back to Ireland. Her boyfriend asks her to marry him in City Hall without telling anyone before she leaves for Ireland. She intends to stay for a moment when she first gets back, but she loves living in Ireland and has no intention of going back to Brooklyn. After experiencing a family crisis at home, Eilis is forced to choose between the old and the new, the past and the future.