So no truer statement could be made than, the characters in the Batman comics and movies, are dependent on psychological disorders. Of all characters in the Batman, The Joker is the prime example of psychological disorders. The Joker is the main antagonist of the series, and causes the most dangerous and destructive crimes out of all the villains in Gotham City. As his name would suggest, all of his crimes revolve around clowns, pranks, jokes, ect. However, The Jokers true goal, is the corruption of humans and bringing chaos to the world.
He only finds himself happy again after he attempts suicide. After he realizes he does not need to drown himself, he “felt a great desire to laugh, to laugh at himself, to laugh at this strange, foolish world” (Hesse 77). This laughter is a healing
How can anyone foresee what will make them happy or unhappy or how they will react or feel about it when it actually does happen? Another author named Michael Mendelsohn, writes an article titled “Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness”, whereas he concentrates more on the chemistry of happiness. Mendelsohn thinks happiness is a brain condition made up of fifty percent genetics, ten percent circumstances and we control the remaining forty percent with our thoughts and actions. These two authors try to offer an explanation and understanding for why some people are happier than others. “The Pursuit of Happiness” suggests what we imagine occurrences and possessions that we believe would make us happy or unhappy.
He acts and feels happy to meet the project leaders as well, from Danziger to Rossoff. This constancy continues all the way though the book, with Julia, Felix, and even Jake, who Simon begins to fear soon after. His amiability allowed him to meet, greet, and befriend new people easier and made his reactions easier for the reader to grasp. His happiness and attitude towards others depict him as an outgoing person as well. Simon’s curiosity stays with him throughout the book, from when he first joins the project, to Jake’s meeting with Carmody.
Anyone who was positive in the movie they tried to hurt or they killed them off. Young minorities are faced with theses images everyday from music videos on down to television shows and I feel that it was an awful depiction of black culture. I do feel that the movie is detrimental and can taint a young urban minorities mind; it could lead young men and women to idolize criminal lifestyle. When Goldie refers to himself as a “hero” I could almost imagine what is going on in a young teenager’s mind. Their probably thinking the movie was great or they want to sell drugs, be a player or pimp just like him without seeing the truth.
Mad Men, Misogyny and Madison Avenue Lauren Goodlad’s essay, Why We Love “Mad Men”, focuses on characterization of Donald Draper, a mysterious ad man who embodies miscontrived notions of masculinity, while balancing the contrasting roles of fatherhood and playboy. She claims that the rotating cast of characters that surround Don Draper and fragile situations that each of those characters inherit, is what makes Mad Men so captivating. The essay then address the tropes that make Mad Men so addictive, but it is fundamentally bankrupt when it comes to explaining what Don Draper is truly a symbol for. Goodlad’s essay is opens with her talking about her feminist aversion to men like Don Draper. She continues by addressing masculinity in a modern sense and brings up the idea that men are now dramatizing ones passions as opposed to shunning it, hiding it in the recesses of their identities.
In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the main character initially demonstrates qualities of being a tragic hero, but by conclusion of the play his deceitfulness and his overwhelming gullibility lead him to be portrayed as a criminal. Macbeth has serious issues with power, greed, and even his own self- esteem and self- conscious. He knows when he kills Duncan and Banquo that it is the wrong thing to do but he still does it anyways. He also becomes obsessed with idea of power and becomes more power hungry as each day passes. He has become an unstoppable killing machine who believes he is invincible once the three witches reveal their prophecies and their apparitions to Macbeth.
While Jersey shore may be an entertaining show, they are overpaid to just party and being bad influences. MTV on the other hand may say that whether people like it or not they are getting tons of ratings and the cast deserves what they get. They may believe
The media not only distracts society from reality, but also provides temporary pleasure; for example, television instantly fulfills the wish for relaxation. If people have the self-control to sample television in small doses, it can be relaxing without being harmful. However, when television is integrated into the daily routine and becomes "necessary," people rely on it for artificial happiness. Depending on entertainment for pleasure is detrimental to health and mind. For some people, entertainment yields greater joys than physical activity does.
By having sex to rebel against the mind-controlling Youth Movement’s talks about pro-creational sex, Julia goes against the Party because “sexual privation induces hysteria…and could be transformed into war-fever” (822). Sex poses danger to the Party, and because the Party outlaws it, Julia becomes an outsider. Unlike Winston and Julia, Parsons transforms from an outsider who hated Big Brother to an insider after staying in “the place where there is no darkness” (757). The place Parson transforms in refers to the room in the Ministry of Love in which torture alters people’s beliefs. Parson originally holds the belief that evil exists inside the Party, but he changes his beliefs to a pro-Party stance, even going as far as to thanking the Party for saving him.