Apparently, Karas has developed a drinking problem since his wife left him. Perhaps, being drunk causes Karas to feel as if he is dreaming. “Her sleep had always been provisional, what there was of it peopled by demons and faceless shapes and, and she told him once, by the murders of children” (152). Again, William Gay brings up dreaming. The reader can understand from those lines that Karas’s wife has always had bad dreams.
In this famous novel, Blanche Dubois goes to live with her sister Stella Kowalski. She has to tell her sister the bad news that she lost their family home, Belle Reve, and also took off from her teaching job due to her bad nerves. This is the first indication of Blanche’s insanity. She is clearly unaware because she says, “Is there something wrong with me?” Another sign is Blanche’s horrible drinking habit, which research shows can lead to making horrible decisions and can alter ones life. “Both Blanche’s drinking and her endless hot baths suggest that she is attempting to wash away her past and emerge through a sort of watery purgatory.” Stanley, Stella’s husband, does not really like Blanche and accuses her of being crazy, which is an accurate description.
Juliet also shows many classic signs of bipolarity. According to the article “Bipolar Disorder and Suicide” symptoms of bipolarity include “poor judgment, feeling hopeless and helpless, withdrawing from others and are unable to think clearly”. People with similar symptoms that last more 1 week may be experience manic or depression episodes. An episode is a strong mood swing which is caused by a brain disorder known as bipolar disorder. In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet shows she feels hopeless when she threatens to stab herself if she doesn’t find a way to get out of her upcoming arranged marriage.
What could I say? I’m crying because I don’t know any of the dances?” Isabel also ends up sleeping with one of her bestfriend’s husband. Since she hasn’t had sex for awhile it was easy for her to fall into seduction. “And then he was in me and I was crying out, in pleasure… It was over and wrong… what would Liz say to me?” Besides the wrong she had done, Isabel is a good person at heart and tries to redeem herself by helping out the woman she hates most, Margaret Casey. “I had to cut myself off from the danger… Margaret had no manners.But I would help Margaret
The woman even goes so far as to describe her lack of interest in her child by saying, “It is fortunate Mary is so good with the baby. Such a dear baby! And yet I cannot be with him, it makes me so nervous” (Gilman 314). The woman, in addition to her loss of interest, also suffers from trouble sleeping and feeling tired much of the time. “I think sometimes that if I were only well enough to write a little it would relieve the press of ideas and rest me.
I was bound for Grace, Arizona, where Hallie and I were born and raised,…” (Kingsolver 8). This explains the reason of why Codi was in a sense of becoming a “ home ignorer” (Kingsolver 79). Codi wanted to have that feeling of Hallie being with her in order for Codi to feel like “home”. On the other hand, Hallie was more of being a “homemaker”. Hallie was more open with her emotions, “Hallie would stay up all night rubbing the backs of people’s hands and holding their shell-shocked babies.
The truth may comfort the person or drive him or her insane. In the Secret Life of Bees Lily desires to know her past in relation to her mother. She knows her mother has been to Tiburon, South Carolina and is curious if her mother has been to Augusts’ house before, “Had my mother been there and bought this picture? I always promised myself one day, when I was old enough, I would take the bus over there. I wanted to go every place she had ever been”.
The only way that he would write stories is if his experiences in life left behind an emotional scar. Maryann Burk Carver, wife of Raymond Carver was his supporter and mother of his two children at a young age. In “Raymond Carver Life and Stories” written by Stephen King, Carvers life becomes open and evaluated within the public eye. Maryann had a “tipsy flirtation” at a party in 1975 where Carver’s alcoholism had taken full effect. Carver’s aggression grew wild in those years almost killing her when he hit her with a wine bottle across her head (King 2009).Carver’s alcoholism years only became worse after this incident with his wife.
This is shown when she is sleepwalking and goes through the past and shows that she regrets what she has done. “Out damned spot. Out, I say!” from Act V scene 1 At the end of Act I she is reading a letter she got from Macbeth. The letter talks about the prophecies the witches told him. About becoming the Thane of Cawdor, and becoming the King.
In 1845, her brother, Branwell Brontë had become addicted to opium, a highly addictive drug that came from opium poppies, and was used in narcotics in medicine. This heavily affected his health, and led to his early death in 1848. Because of the multiple deaths that have taken place in her life, this led her to favoritism in elegies and other pieces with dark tones and moods. It opened an ability to really feel and experience her poems. She and her sister wrote under names of men, and shortly after Emily’s and her sister Anne’s death, Charlotte, being the last living Brontë, confessed to their false names before her