The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh is one of the most well-known paintings in the world. It is beautiful and complex, yet plain and boring. Like the man himself, Van Gogh’s paintings are complex and require a second look. Vincent van Gogh was a deeply troubled man throughout his life. He suffered from anxiety and mental illness, ultimately causing his suicide at the age of 37.
When he is alone he beats and tortures himself because of the deep pain he feels for not confessing his sin. Dimmesdale also becomes very sick mentally because of the pain he puts himself through and also the pain of guilt that is built up inside him. When Dimmesdale is out in public he is seen as a pure Minister. To the Puritan community Dimmesdale is seen as a saint. This results in Dimmesdale having to hide his guilt when he is out in public, which in return slowly destroys his soul because he usually is not put into a position where he must lie.
The Depressing Case of Richey Edwards If you asked even the most passionate American music buff who Richey Edwards was the answer would most likely be a resounding “I’m sorry, who?”. However, in the United Kingdom he is known as the lead guitarist and musical genius behind the notorious Welsh band, the Manic Street Preachers. He also suffered a terrible array of demons that can be derived from clinical depression. “People say to the mentally ill, ‘You know so many people think the world of you.’ But when they don’t like themselves they don’t notice anything. They don’t care about what people think of them.
Coupled with regret is shame as well. “I am afraid to think what I have done; Look on ’t again I dare not” (2.2.52). Macbeth feels bad and ashamed that he doesn't want to think about what he's done. Committing dreadful crimes brings forth suicidal thoughts. “Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy” (3.2.22).
We dredged him up, for killed, until he whined "O sir, my eyes — I'm blind — I'm blind, I'm blind!" Coaxing, I held a flame against his lids And said if he could see the least blurred light He was not blind; in time he'd get all right. "I can't," he sobbed. Eyeballs, huge-bulged like squids Watch my dreams still; but I forgot him there In posting next for duty, and sending a scout To beg a stretcher somewhere, and floundering about To other posts under the shrieking air. Those other wretches, how they bled and spewed, And one who would have drowned himself for good, — I try not to remember these things now.
Miner refers to dentists as holy mouth men and bathrooms as shrines for odd ritual practices. His language is clearly satirical and creates the notion of the "Nacirema" as vain and self obsessed. Also, they seem to be a masochistic society built around willingly subjecting themselves to pain and torture. The “Nacirema” knowingly allow “medicine men” and “holy-mouth-men” to perform debilitating painful procedures to prevent the unavoidable decay of their mouths and bodies. Miner makes subtle comedic reference to the classic stereotype of doctors having atrocious handwriting when he writes, "write them down in an ancient and secret language."
Unlike Bridges’ work, since the beginning Stevenson sheds light on the negative aspects and flaws of Eros. As “humanity” describes him, he was not the image of perfection but, on the contrary, had a “broken nose/squinty eyes” (lines 3-4), “boxer lips/ and patchy wings” (lines 7-8). Some of these descriptions show he was somehow victimized, but at the same time they allude to the carelessness of his image as an individual. In response to this, Eros simply rests the blame on the shoulders of humanity for that which “you (referring to humanity) create” (line 20) by the constantly “dissolved (love) in loss” (line 23) and “lust” (line 15). Both Stevenson and Bridges by the use of similar techniques of narrative and writing portrayed a clear picture of the god of love.
Gene recalls Leper saying, “‘Like a savage underneath. Like,’ now there was the blind confusion in his eyes again, a wild slyness around his mouth, ‘like that time you knocked Finny out of the tree,”’ (145). Leper knows Gene’s deepest, darkest secret that, if it got back to the boys at Devon, could ruin his life there, and throw Gene into bitter isolation. Similar to jouncing Finny off the limb, this is an accident. It was a reflex, a “survival of the fittest” reaction that Gene did out of anger, fear, and confusion.
(Act-1, Scene-3, 362-365). Iago is also a very racist character. As Peterson says, “He doesn’t like Othello’s skin color.” He relates Othello to an animal, or sub-human being. He tells Brabantio that his daughter is sleeping with a beast/animal, and that he needs to keep a closer eye on her. He proves his racist nature when he says to Brabantio, “Even now, now, very now, an old black ram is tupping your white ewe.” (Act-1, Scene-1, 90-91) He also says that, “… your daughter and the Moore are now making the beast with two backs.” (Act-1 Scene-1, 117-118) Othello in Ashland didn’t do as good of a job portraying how Othello is in Shakespeare’s original play.
However, as a direct result of his guilt, the Reverend becomes increasingly ill. Those best acquainted with him attributed his decline to a too earnest devotion to study and fulfillment of parochial duties. Yet the Reverend is aware of the fact that the “poison of one morbid spot was infecting his heart’s entire substance. . . .” (Hawthorne 137).