Sol Wachtler's, After the Madness, is a riveting, powerful story about a distinguished public servant that finds himself on the other side of the law. The main character, who is also the author, writes about his experiences as a defendant and occupa Continue Reading...
You are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy, as once I was" (92). This statement is significant because it reveals Montresor's sense of revenge as well as another motive for his actions - his health. It would seem that Montresor blames Continue Reading...
He tells Laertes to keep his good friends close to his heart, but Polonius' definition of friendship is not so much of fellowship, but who can prove politically advantageous to the young man. Question Two examples of sublime reasoning in the play Continue Reading...
Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper:A Decent into Madness or Feminist Liberation or Both?Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper chronicles the so-called rest cure of a nameless woman who has just given birth. The womans physician-h Continue Reading...
Michel Foucault's Madness and Civilization (mentioned on page 5 of 11, "the reading list") Michel Foucault's Madness and Civilization is a complex work with so many different themes that it requires strenuous and concentrated reading to understand Continue Reading...
(Barlow 45 -- 57) ("Hamlet") How should Readers Account for his Behavior throughout the Play? The way that readers should account for his behavior, is that a series of events began to influence the way Hamlet and the different characters were reac Continue Reading...
Truman: I am not a fan of compromise on this issue, Harry. But we have to prepare that we may need it. Stalin was instrumental in winning this war, and he's powerful enough that we cannot simply dictate our terms to him. I know the risk that compro Continue Reading...
Governments are interested, not only in promoting private entrepreneurship, but in becoming more entrepreneurial themselves. At the same time, regulatory bodies have been sharply criticized for allowing too much creativity and experimentation (e.g., Continue Reading...
Studies have indicated that those who are creative and significantly well thought, of often have issues with depression, alcoholism or drug use. The model created guidelines that illustrated commonalities among elite creative people to include: r Continue Reading...
Heaven and earth! Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him as if increase of appetite had grown by what it fed on: and yet, within a month, -- Let me not think on't, -- Frailty, thy name is woman! -- a little month; or ere those shoes were old Wi Continue Reading...
Strangelove, put him over the top" (p. 61). The learning curve was clearly sharp for Kubrick, and he took what he had learned in these earlier efforts and put this to good use during a period in American history when everyone was already ready to "d Continue Reading...
Wuthering Heathcliff descends into madness during these episodes. He has become consumed with rage and vengeance. In Chapter 27, he holds Catherine, Nelly, and Linton hostage and forces Catherine and Linton to marry. Chapter 28 switches its focus fr Continue Reading...
Annabel LeeIntroductionEdgar Allan Poe was a master of the Gothic genre and often used themes of love and death in his works to probe the psyche and the line between sanity and madness. One of his most notable poems, Annabel Lee, offers a disturbing Continue Reading...
Yet this realization comes to Don Quixote as part of his journey, which is how age and experience also presents itself to any individual -- in a gradual, subtle manner that is learned with the passing of time. Therefore, it is accurate to state that Continue Reading...
To act in a murderous, vengeful way that is contrary to his true nature, and to assume madness creates madness. At first, Hamlet suggests that vengefulness in a corrupt court is a kind of sanity, when he vows to put on an antic disposition, but he a Continue Reading...
Shakespeare and Insanity An Analysis of Insanity in Four Plays by Shakespeare Shakespeare lived at a time when the old medieval Catholic world was splitting apart and giving rise to the new modern Protestant world. In the midst of this real conflic Continue Reading...
Film Analysis The Last Kiss Never before has Takashi Kusama reached the perverted depths of sadism as he has through 2003's The Last Kiss. The Last Kiss is based on American Gothic writer Edgar Allan Poe's short story "Ligeia" in which an unnamed Continue Reading...
Nursing & Women's Roles Pre-and-Post Civil War The student focusing on 19th century history in the United States in most cases studies the Civil War and the causes that led to the war. But there are a number of very important aspects to 19th cen Continue Reading...
Daniel's Seventy Weeks There are varying views about the meaning that should be ascribed to the Book of Daniel 9:24-27. This work in writing will review those various meanings and attempt to disseminate precisely what the prophecy in Daniel 9: 24-2 Continue Reading...
Similarities among the Characters The Russian trader in the "Heart of Darkness" approximates Enoch in "Things Fall Apart" in providing the spark the leads to the explosion of the narratives. The Russian trader tells Marlow about Kurtz's secret, wh Continue Reading...
Injustice anywhere," King went on, "is a threat to justice everywhere." As to the social and racial injustices King is speaking of, a bit of background into conditions in the South - and specifically, in Alabama - is worthy of some space in this pa Continue Reading...
In Act 1 Scene 4, as Hamlet, Horatio and Marcellus talk about the ghost, Horatio says: What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea, And there assume some other ho Continue Reading...
He questions whether he should try to clear the court of corruption or just give up and end his life now. It is this emotional doubt that drives Hamlet to act deranged at times, but he overcomes it, and almost manages to answer the difficult questio Continue Reading...
Pouliuli, a short novel by Albert Wendt, is a tragic story with many complex, interwoven themes. This essay will examine these themes, in detail, and attempt to determine the main arguments that are exposed in this novel. Pouliuli is critical of poli Continue Reading...
Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe [...] descent into madness of the main character, Francie; including the potential reasons (i.e., his family background, his relation with Mrs. Nugent, his friend, and any other relevant reasons). Francie Brady lives a Continue Reading...
William Shakespeare's Hamlet, there are several distinct characteristics of misery and madness that abound in both Hamlet and Ophelia. Their lunacy each stems from similar sources of grief, but the true evolution of their madness is methodically dif Continue Reading...
Role? King or Madman? The Art of the drama in Shakespeare's drama of Henry IV, Part I Henry IV and Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Shakespeare is of course a dramatist, that is, he was an author of plays with fictional characters in them, portrayed by r Continue Reading...
Thus, even Valerie singles out the protagonist as special from her insane peers. Susanna's conflicts are seen as more, rather than less compelling than the other women's struggles because Susanna is 'really' sane, and able to take the advice of goo Continue Reading...
Basketball Game Coverage Sports If I were to imagine myself as a sports journalist covering a basketball game, I would want to provide coverage for games that take place during "March Madness," a term used to describe a competition among NCAA unive Continue Reading...
Individual Knowledge and Power 19th century poet Emily Dickinson is famous for her writing about the sometimes odd quality of being human, or rather the unnatural social norms that humanity has constructed. Dickinson claims that "[m]uch Sense -- the Continue Reading...
Discrimination and Madness: Examining Motifs in the Short Stories of Faulkner and Gillman "The Yellow Wallpaper," by Charlotte Perkins Gillman and "A Rose for Emily," by William Faulkner, though remarkably different in style and voice, feature stori Continue Reading...
Postmodernism In order to understand the current themes in philosophy of postmodernism and post structuralism, it is important that we understand the structuralists themes, which dominated the philosophical thinking in the twentieth century and infl Continue Reading...
Allen Ginseng was a popular poet of the Beat Generation, a non-conformist free thinker who belonged to a group of people who dared to express his ideals and change mindsets. The post-World War II period was characterized by unreasonable, blind faith Continue Reading...
On the contrary, if I had been able to be a clergyman or an art dealer, then perhaps I should not have been fit for drawing and painting, and I should neither have resigned nor accepted my dismissal as such. I cannot stop drawing because I really ha Continue Reading...
America's sprawling territories makes it easy for people to leave their families and connections, making it easier to kill or be killed. On one hand, the inventions of the Fair and the belief in commercialism and industry makes spectacle possible in Continue Reading...
When one throws the element of ethnicity into the mix, the process of diagnosis becomes even more difficult. Let us take, for instance the effect of religion on the diagnosis of a mental illness. In some religions it is considered to be "normal" to Continue Reading...
7I bought male and female slaves, and had slaves who were born in my house; I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, more than any who had been before me in Jerusalem. 8I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings an Continue Reading...
That shows the same thing, that Morrison is showing racism even exists in the black community. This book shows that white society controls everything, from how people feel about each other to how they see themselves and what they think is beautiful. Continue Reading...
Tradition and Modernity in "A Madman's Diary" During Lu Xun's time, China was witnessing a landmark political and economic change. This was the time for the popular May Fourth Movement in 1919 following the announcement of the terms of the Versaill Continue Reading...
King Lear and Othello William Shakespeare's King Lear and Othello are both tragic plays where many of the main and supporting characters die. Both characters are powerful men in charge of land and the citizens within that land but lose their power b Continue Reading...
