Entertainment has become a concept that has undergone the trials of time and evolution to become a very influential part of everyone’s lives. In regions such as the South Pacific, the various forms of entertainment such as music, movies and art have a major impact on the daily lives of every individual and due to its extensive reach, everyone is seen to be well-versed with what entertainment has to provide. This essay shall exhort discussions based on the pros and cons of entertainment in terms of its contribution to its recipients, various represented ideas and its influential impacts on the society.
First and foremost, entertainment in its many forms has proven to provide its recipients with various recompenses. One of those involves the decrease in stress levels. Since there are vast arrays of ways that would suit the stress reduction needs of the people, entertainment becomes a subject that is mainly referred to as stress reducing concept which allows a person to divert their attention from day to day worries and regain their energy for further activities along with being intact with the better side of their behaviour. In a Pacific country, such things are essential to deal with due to the multi-cultural “disposition” of the society where everyone is to have a calm and collected mind in order to get through the day especially those who work in stressful environments and those who are schooling. So whether it be a movie, listening to music or playing games on a console, it all intrinsically helps a person to maintain a healthy mental state for further contentions to deal with in day to day activities. According to Seelam (Seelam, 2004), “entertainment to the people is like a recycling plant, converts the garbage of stress into useful material.”
Furthermore, the scope of variety in entertainment also has educational materials which offer varieties of benefits such as heightened moral senses, further depth into the knowledge about the world and a few