It shows us how he feels about the war. He knows the events happened. If you do not believe his stories, he does not care. He knows they are true. O’Brien also seems depressed while telling these stories.
In this book by Ken Kesey, McMurphy’s interactions with the patients and encouraging of laughter help the patients develop from fearful individuals to courageous men. When McMurphy sees how fearful the patients are around Nurse Ratched, he is determined to help dispel their fear using laughter. When McMurphy first arrived at the ward, the men were too scared to laugh around Nurse Ratched, as shown by Chief’s statement that “nobody even dares let loose and laugh”(13). The patients are so afraid that they view opening up and laughing as a bad thing and prefer to keep to themselves. The few times they are unable to contain their laughter, they immediately smother it up by “snicker[ing] in their fists” (13).When McMurphy notices this, he begins trying to make them laugh.
Ethan Frome was published in 1911, which means she wrote it somewhere between 1909 and 1911. During this time period Edith’s husband was becoming increasingly ill. He was in and out of mental institutions and was even abusive toward her. Kellogg states, “He picked senseless quarrels, shouted abuse and in general humiliated his wife and embarrassed their friends” (190). Referring to Edward, Kellog writes, “He was treated by a New York neurologist, Dr. Kinnicutt, for ‘nervous disorders.
Friar Lawrence was the cause of their deaths for his irresponsibility and lack of urgency to solve the conflict he started. Although Romeo and Juliet met with no involvement by the Friar, he was the one who encouraged their love and married them. “In one respect i’ll thy assistant be, / For this
Salinger, the author shows how the ravages of war do cause psychological breakdowns. Each character from both stories reflect Salinger’s theme on war through their psychological breakdowns. In “A Perfect Day for Bananafish”, Muriel Grass is married to Seymour, who had just returned from war. Because he was so shaken up from fighting in the war, the Army put him in the hospital for treatment. They released him a little while later which the family psychologist strongly disagreed with.
Bundy’s first girlfriend and true love broke up with him because she didn’t think that his live was going anywhere and he became very depressed. Bundy accepted this expectation of himself which led him to stop going to classes, drop out, and begin a horrific murder spree to help gain back his confidence. This criminological theory also says that when social bonds or relationships start going down the drain then violent behavior or deviance can begin to take place. As mentioned earlier, Bundy had a very interesting family situation that contributed to his behaviors. He was told that his grandparents were his parents and that his actual mother was his sister.
The narrator tells us in “The Yellow Wallpaper,” “If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression – a slight hysterical tendency – what is one to do?” (Gilman 66). She suffers from a nervous disorder that her husband does not think is significant problem. In line 12 of the story, the narrator says “So I… am absolutely forbidden to ‘work’ until I am well again” (Gilman 66). From the way she describes it, her disorder affects her more than her husband realizes or gives her credit for. In “The Story of an Hour,” Mrs. Mallard has a “heart trouble” that apparently needs to be watched to some extent because Chopin wrote, “Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death” (Chopin 516).
Sylvia felt as though she had almost been neglected from the love she believed she should have received from her husband Gellburg; whereas Gellburg was completely unaware of the way Sylvia was feeling because he was too absorbed in his own world and job, but more importantly he thought Sylvia deserved much more than he could ever give her. It wasn’t until towards the end of the play when life as they knew was slipping between their fingers; they were able to finally overcome the fear and embarrassment of telling each other how they really felt. The extract from pages 84-86 supports this as it shows how both characters are now a lot more sympathetic rather than being cold and lifeless. When Hyman suggests that the cause of Sylvia’s illness may not just of been because of the obsessive state she got in over Germany but also because of Gellburg’s behaviour, but he refused to believe it.
This poem explain the feelings of, the docter, who seems immune to what’s happened, and speaks formally, the father who speaks less formally than the doctor, the mother who is clearly scarred because after the abortion she doesn’t want to have children anymore and is scared about what her father would say if he knew, the porter who seems to be more worried what would have happened if the boiler man had placed the foetus in the fire and they then later found out it was alive when they put the foetus in the fire, the boiler man who speaks the least formal out of the five, but he is also scarred about the incident as he has nightmares for nights afterwards. ‘Unto us...’ is about a foetus who is wishing to be alive, the further the poem gets, the more the foetus expresses its love for the mother and as its love grows it’s suddenly aborted and is dropped in a sterile bin, and at the end of the poem the foetus believes its mother is not a real woman. ‘Stobhill’ uses the form of dramatic monologue which I prefare to the first person narrative technique used by Spike Milligan. Some quotations in ‘Stobhill’ are: ‘Her career would be jeopardized ... fear of her father’ This is said by the doctor, this expresses how the doctor doesn’t care about the foetus’ welfare this only shows he doesn’t care much about the mother, but still cares enough to contemplate the fact her career would be jeopardized. ‘I have sometimes wondered how he got over conceiving me, or
Rachel is unable to deal with her life after Carlton dies, and she abuses sleeping pills to cope with her pain (Phillips 191). She also sleeps with many different men because it is the only way that she is able to feel better (Phillips 99). The narrator says of happiness: “Julian was the only one left who might remind her what it looked like” (Phillips 80). Rachel is miserable and turns to any pleasure source she can find, which is one reason she wants Julian back. He does not know she abuses sleeping pills and is so miserable because she presents the illusion that she is doing okay.