First Level : Physiological Needs

identify the main character behavior, thought, and feeling as shown in the movie that represents her needs.

a. First Level : Physiological Needs

According to Maslow’s theory, the first level which has to be fulfilled is physiological needs. Physiological needs include air, hunger, thirst and sex. Physiological needs are needs which come first in a person needs to reach satisfaction. When people cannot fulfill this such thing could be happened such as losing self control, do not have a consideration to other person, etc. Moreover, when the needs are completed the needs are no longer needs, means that the person’s physiological needs will be lost then the person will move to the next level and higher need will be appeared. In The Devil Wears Prada, Andrea as the main character is an independent woman. She has a good educational background, graduated from well known university then she got accepted in a famous fashion magazine which the most wanted job for a woman. According to the movie, the job that Andrea got is the most wanted job for a woman. It is mentioned in several dialogue that Andrea can be categorized as the lucky one who can get accepted. Emily : Millon girls would kill for this job. 04:07 Doug : Seriously Miranda Priestly is a huge deal and million girls would kill for that job. 10:10 Irv : congratulations lady, million girls would kill for that job. 20:40 Andrea shown in the movie as a healthy woman. She is very energetic and confident. In this movie, we can see that she can fulfill one of physiological need which is air. In this movie as a healthy woman she can breathe freely and get air as much as she want, she didn’t had any obstacle in fulfilling the needs. In the movie, Andrea always has time to hang out with her boyfriend and friends or sometimes with her father to have dinner together and they have a good time together. Andrea : Okay. Let’s have a drink. Friends :I want to have a toast. All : Okay. To the job that pay the rent. 10:47 Andrea : You know my Dad is coming from Ohio. We are going to out for dinner and maybe see Chicago. 26:02 From the dialogue we can see that the main character fulfill the needs of hunger and thirst. Andrea free to choose anything she want to eat and what she wants to drinks. Even though as a fresh graduate she lack of money but she still can afford to buy food and drinks that she want. She has no obstacles in fulfilling the need of hunger and thirst. The next need is sex. In the Devil Wears Prada, the main character can fulfill this need. She already has a boyfriend named Nate. They are very close together. Andrea and her boyfriend lived in one apartment. Even though the apartment is not a luxurious one, but it is comfortable for living. Andrea doesn’t have any obstacle in fulfilling her needs in sex. She can fulfill sex need anytime she want. Nate : Hey, come on. Lets go home I can think of something that doesn’t required any clothes. 11:15 Andrea’s love life is not always in straight way. After sometime beside Nate, Andrea seduced by a friend name Christian Thompson which she met when she have to take a sketch for her boss from a designer named James Holt. As the time pass by, Andrea getting close with Christian. Christian : you are my friend and crossing to the dark side. Andrea : I wasn’t saying that. Christian : you shouldn’t sexy Andrea : Sexy. Really? 33:25 Andrea : I can’t. Sorry I can’t. Nate and I just broke up a couple days ago. I can’t. 34:31 There is one moment when Andrea breaking up with Nate, Andrea and Christian have sex in Paris when Andrea go to visit fashion week. Christian is a character who appears to be the one who replace Nate. Andrea enjoys the physical touch that both Christian and Nate, who is previous boyfriend, gave to her. At first Andrea seems to deny and refuse Christian because she just broke up with Nate, but then the needs of sex appear so that she cannot deny and get sex from Christian. No matter how hard she deny and refuse Christian, at the night she drunk, she cannot lie that she wanted him to fulfill her needs of sex. From the explanation above we can see that it is clear that Andrea, the main character, doesn’t have any obstacle to fulfill physiological needs. She can fulfill the physiological needs such as hunger, thirst and sex. According to the explanation, it can be conclude that Andrea can fulfill her needs in sex. It is clear that Andrea satisfied with both of them and the physiological needs of the main character are fulfilled.

b. Second Level : Safety Needs