Evolution of Happiness : A Character Analysis of Dr. Alex Karev
“Grey’s Anatomy” is a fictional television show that portrays the life of surgeons both in and out of the hospital setting. Everyone, including surgeons, have wants and needs after a long day of work. Many of the characters are searching for love and lust. Others are searching for happiness. Of the characters who search for happiness is one of the original interns and now pediatric surgeon, Alex Karev. Alex Karev is on a constant search for eudaimonic happiness throughout the TV series, but along the way, he is faced with hedonic pleasure and negative affects the sway him from his search. After facing a life of poverty and being shuffled around foster homes, he is able to take matters into his own hands and face adversity head first to find the eudaimonic happiness from within him. …show more content…
Alex Karev was just like any other intern, but with a hint more of arrogance and take charge to him than the others, not at all being withdrawn from his peers. The other interns in his group would call him “Dr. Evil Spawn”. From the beginning of his time at Seattle Grace, he was going to “ride a career in plastics all the way to the bank” (Rhimes) . He also does not bother to even know the names of his patients, claiming that doctors are just butchers and the patients are slabs of meat. He also thinks that he is the sexiest being to set foot in the hospital, thinking that he can get with anyone that he pleases. He even ends up giving one of the nurses syphilis (Rhimes). All of these events throughout the beginning of the television series are forms of hedonic happiness to Alex. Hedonic happiness is a type of materialistic happiness. Hedonic happiness gives forms of relaxation and lasts for a shorter period of time (Waterman, 612). In Alex Karev’s case, he uses sex and manipulation of sorts in order to achieve a quick fix of hedonic
“Grey’s Anatomy” is a fictional television show that portrays the life of surgeons both in and out of the hospital setting. Everyone, including surgeons, have wants and needs after a long day of work. Many of the characters are searching for love and lust. Others are searching for happiness. Of the characters who search for happiness is one of the original interns and now pediatric surgeon, Alex Karev. Alex Karev is on a constant search for eudaimonic happiness throughout the TV series, but along the way, he is faced with hedonic pleasure and negative affects the sway him from his search. After facing a life of poverty and being shuffled around foster homes, he is able to take matters into his own hands and face adversity head first to find the eudaimonic happiness from within him. …show more content…
Alex Karev was just like any other intern, but with a hint more of arrogance and take charge to him than the others, not at all being withdrawn from his peers. The other interns in his group would call him “Dr. Evil Spawn”. From the beginning of his time at Seattle Grace, he was going to “ride a career in plastics all the way to the bank” (Rhimes) . He also does not bother to even know the names of his patients, claiming that doctors are just butchers and the patients are slabs of meat. He also thinks that he is the sexiest being to set foot in the hospital, thinking that he can get with anyone that he pleases. He even ends up giving one of the nurses syphilis (Rhimes). All of these events throughout the beginning of the television series are forms of hedonic happiness to Alex. Hedonic happiness is a type of materialistic happiness. Hedonic happiness gives forms of relaxation and lasts for a shorter period of time (Waterman, 612). In Alex Karev’s case, he uses sex and manipulation of sorts in order to achieve a quick fix of hedonic