The Psychological Disorder of Adrian Monk Nishant Thakur PSY1012 Media Project Submitted to: Janie Allen May 1, 2012 1. Synopsis Monk is an American comedy drama murder mystery series which debuted on July 12, 2002 on USA Network. It continued on the network for complete eight seasons gaining many critical acclaim and awards along the way. The final Season concluded on December 4, 2009. The series revolves around the life of Adrian Monk, a private detective who helps San Francisco Police Department, his previous employers solving murder cases.
Macbeth seeing Banquos ghost is not his fear but his guilt over killing his best friend. With Lady Macbeths’ case she makes the crucial mistake of worrying about the future ultimately this causes her to go insane because she keeps thinking that she will be caught. However that is not the reason for her insanity, she was consumed by the guilt of forcing Macbeth to kill Duncan, she could no longer live with herself so she committed suicide to put an end to her misery. In modern society both of the misfortunes of Lady Macbeth and Macbeth can happen to anyone, why do human beings do anything to become successful even if it requires them to push others under the bus. Guilt is the number one reason for depression in America and the second highest reason that causes people to commit suicide in todays society.
Another example of his cleverness is when he killed all the people that were threatening his wife to marry him and thought up a way to get rid of them. Odysseus greatest weakness is his pride. Although pride can be a great thing, he has too much of it. Odysseus is a great warrior but he isn’t perfect and has flaws, such as his pride. One of Odysseus’s strengths is his creativity in solving problems.
In Romeo and Juliet, Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin is killed out of anger by Romeo, her husband. Juliet might be suicidal because of the death of her cousin and the problems that death caused. The death not only caused the exile of her secret husband the death also caused her arranged marriage to happen earlier than planned. Since the beginning of the story Juliet might have been suicidal and some events might have just pushed her through the limit. Juliet also shows many classic signs of bipolarity.
edrn, f]nfhn l',fn True Grit True Grit is about a little girls named Mattie Rose and her adventure to find her father’s murderer Tom Chaney. She encounters several obstacles in her path for vengeance. Whether it was sickness, money troubles, snake bites, Mattie with her admirable determination was able over come them. The book starts off with Mattie’s father taking in Tom Chaney under the impression that Tom was a decent man. Little did Mattie’s father know his faith in his ability to judge one’s character would lead to his unexpected demise.
He was mentally unstable due to his upbringing and abusive father. His love for his mother made him the way he is. He killed older women for pleasure and to use their skin for things like masks, furniture and belts. Of all the murderers out there, he has to be the worst. The world is a better place without
All the men in the bunkhouse feared Lennie, and Curley wanted Lennie dead. Lennie always liked Curley’s wife so when she offered to feel her hair, Lennie immediately said yes. Once Lennie felt her hair, he could not let go because it was too soft, and strangled her to death. Lennie knew what he did was wrong, but did not know the consequences that followed. George had to kill Lennie instead of the other guys dealing with Lennie.
“Katherine has admitted it, confessed.” Katherine’s fear of losing her life motivated her to confess that her and a few others were telepathic. First she had a fear about her abilities being found out but then she had to fear her life if she did not tell the norms what was so different about her and why she was running away. “I’ve killed him Michael. He’s quite dead.” Rosalind’s fears lead her to kill a man, yet she felt so guilty about it, although they tortured many of her kind. She may have felt guilty as she thought the norms would find out that she killed the man and then they would kill her.
This is where it is evident that the color red symbolized deception. In the plot John Scotties friend, Gavin Elster, asked John to follow his wife. Gavin was concerned with what she was doing during the day because she had been acting unusual by going off for hours and not remembering what she did. Gavin, however, had his own motive; he deceived John by having him follow the wrong person so he can get away with murdering his wife. Consistently throughout the film, every time Scottie was being deceived, there was red in the scene.
He even sees beauty in the rotten corpses that he studies. When Victor creates the monster however, his power reaches its peak and he loses control over himself. Where he once was able to see beauty and goodness, in his family, nature and the corpses, Victor now sees only ugliness. What was once his life’s passion, the creation of the monster, is now evil to Victor. Victor’s immense powers become too much for him to handle, costing him his self-control.