Mental Illness Portrayed with Balance In Silver Linings Playbook, a romantic comedy-drama featuring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, mental illness is explored as both an insight into the struggles of the daily life of those who suffer and a look at how American society perceives those with mental illnesses. BAFTA Award winning director David Owen Russell directed the film. His other works include such successes as Three Kings and I Heart Huckabees. The film, released on November 16th, 2012, has a uniquely lighthearted approach to a serious story of a bipolar man and a woman suffering depression. Silver Linings Playbook does an excellent job of both exposing the daily struggle of those with mental disorders and the perception and blurred lines American society has when viewing mental illness in the country.
We are introduced to a majorly significant and complex character, named Curley’s wife. Steinbeck shows us that Curley’s wife is flirtatious, mischievous (despite the patriarchal society of the 1930’s) but most of all she is an isolated character. Her hasty marriage to Curley proves to be failed attempt to escape her own spiral of disappointment of not fulfilling her ambition of becoming an actor. This ironically is a main theme in both texts. This essay will analyse and compare the presentation of Lady Macbeth and Curley's wife through the structure, themes, what is said about them, their actions and what they themselves say.
Electra fights with her mother, Clytemnestra, and her mother’s lover, Aegisthus, because she feels betrayed by them as they killed her father. When Electra and Orestes are finally reunited, they plot against their fathers killers, and finally kill them. The play has several themes, such as vengeance and deception which are extenuated by the heightened realism style of the play. In Electra’s introductory speech, I would emphasises her agony of her father’s death, as this is the main reason the character is vengeful. To fit with the heightened realism of the play, I would exaggerate the mental pain that the character is going through by associating some lines with physical pain, such as ‘But my mother, and her bed mate Aegisthus, Split open his head with a murderous axe’.
The romantic love of Romeo and Juliet has become very popular and is the ideal example of star-crossed lovers. The love of family honor is what keeps these lovers apart: the feud between the Capulets and Montagues. The purpose of this essay is to provide examples of these two types of love, which will then be compared and contrasted. People should understand Romeo and Juliet, and further study its themes to build up a successful literature pathway. Romantic love is the most basic type, where two people have a mutual connection of love towards each other.
However, Shakespeare presents Benedick’s change in a more positive and light-hearted manner, whilst Macbeth’s change revolves around negativity and wrong-doing as the approach to each individual genre is different, where comedies are humorous and happy, whilst tragedies are gloomy and grief-stricken. INTRO: The opening scene of the play, ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, is significant as Shakespeare introduces the genre of the play as a romantic comedy through the comic names given to Benedick and Beatrice by each other. Beatrice nicknames Benedick as “Signor Mountanto”, which uses sexual innuendo expressing their love hate relationship, created by the definition of the word ‘montanto’ (technical term for an upward thrust in fencing). This insulting, but hilarious comment would have only been understood by the Shakespearean audience. Opposing this, Benedick personifies disdain in the form of Beatrice, by calling her “Lady Disdain”, suggesting that she is in fact, the epitome of disdain or contempt.
How love is presented in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and a selection of poetry by Philip Larkin Many people consider Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ a stereotypical romantic love story. In some ways, it does meet these expectations. The archetypal lovers are brought up in ‘fair Verona’ by grand families ‘alike in dignity’. Because of the families' on-going conflict, the two 'star-crossed lovers' find themselves hurtling towards an ill-fated end. 'Violent passions lead to violent ends', therefore the romance becomes a tragedy.
The movie shows how the character Helen was brutally beaten by her husband and was later divorce by him. This shows that he is stronger and more powerful than her, he feels that he is in control by demonstrating violence and thinking he as the
With Chaucer’s humour there is also satire which parodies ordinary life and the previous tale. Because of the position of the Miller’s Tale as an answer to the Knight’s Tale, we have to look at what that means. Seeing as the Miller’s Tale is a direct answer to the Knight’s Tale of high romance and courtly love, we get the juxtaposition of two very different tales that really are about the same thing. Chaucer shows us that the fabliau can be a parody of the romance genre. In both stories we have a love triangle with a woman which is unobtainable and two men that fight over her.
Throughout the movie, Eastwood portrays how revenge and the irrational actions of others ultimately contribute to the death of an innocent man through the use of imagery. Due to the unfortunate events of Dave and Jimmy’s youth, both characters struggle to make logical decisions in dealing with difficult obstacles. In a film comment by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the critics argue that the kidnapping and rape of young Dave and Jimmy’s past troubles as a convicted felon, foreshadow how “Jimmy’s wrongful vengeance” is the act of “a kingly father” (Paul Arthur 44). Eastwood portrays Jimmy’s character as a defensive man who is trying to run away from his past reputation, where Dave is seen as a sensitive victim of his horrific sexual torture. After young Dave escapes from further sexual abuse by two sadistic men posing as cops, he
The tragic and humiliating end to his life, alcoholism and gambling leaving him vulnerable to exploitation from his sworn enemy Heathcliff, transforms him from the ‘tyrannical’ antagonist of the early chapters of the novel to more of a figure of pity or disgust in the reader’s eye. In this tragic show of the effects of mourning in obsessive love Bronte foreshadows the agony Heathcliff feels at Cathy’s death, the main crux of the plot. Heathcliff’s obsessive response to Catherine’s death is similar to Hindley’s in that he degenerates into destructive madness, only it is more controlled.