Morgan Le Fay Instr. Zimmerman SWK 594 27 November, 2012 Mommie Dearest: A Diagnostic Hypothesis of the Mental Status of Joan Crawford Mommie Dearest was written by Christina Crawford as a biographic testimony of the abuse she endured throughout her childhood and early adulthood years from her adoptive mother and late actress Lucille LeSueur, otherwise known as Joan Crawford. Christina’s depictions of her mother imply Joan suffered from many psychosocial factors that were significantly distressing to her and impaired her ability form meaningful functional relationships with others. Before proceeding further, however, it is worth noting that the author does not mention any formal medical or psychiatric diagnoses in her book which indicate Joan
Norma Jeane Mortensen experienced a difficult childhood. She never knew her father, and her mother, Gladys, developed mental illness and was eventually placed in a mental institution. (Being Marilyn, 2010) Since Monroe’s mother is not capable of taking care of her, she was passed on to a series of orphanage houses and foster families. Some of these families are a friend or a relative of her mother. It is said that she had lived in a total of 11 foster homes throughout her youth, and when there was no family who would foster her, she would sometimes end up at the Hollygrove Orphanage in Los Angeles.
She takes the patients freedom away, and makes their stay at the hospital even worse. She does not let the men get a say in what they want, if they want something they get it after a long time, or they just do not get it at all. She knows the weak spots for all the patients, and just where to peck at them. The patients try to please her during the group meetings by telling her their darkest secrets, and then they feel deeply ashamed for how she made them act, even though they have done nothing. She maintains her power by the use of shame and guilt against the patients, making them feel horrible.
Characterization and simile are two literary techniques that help aid comparing and contrasting the two people. In the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, all the patients in the ward fear Nurse Ratchet. Nurse Ratchet is a very prim woman, she is never seen out of character. “ The nurse tends to get real put out if something keeps her outfit from running smooth, accurate, and a precision-made machine…. What she dreams of there in the center of those wires is a world of precision efficiency and tidiness like a pocket watch with a glass back, a place where the schedule is unbreakable.” (Kesey 28,29) Through this quote you can tell the preciseness that Nurse has, she is not a lax person she is very stringent when it comes to the rules she has in the ward.
In purple hibiscus women are often shown as inferior to men. They are expected to tolerate the severe physical, mental and verbal abuse inflicted by the head of the house, which is why mama was silent and refusing to retaliate for such a long period of time. Mama could easily be forgotten for a lot of the book as she seems to blend in the background, as she is a woman of few words. Even walking through the house she never made a sound and the conversations Kambili describe with her were brief and rare- unlike those she had with her father, a lot of which resulted in violence. That is why the ‘slip slap’ had such great significance as she suddenly started to make noise which was a great shock to the norm of the novel.
All characters in The Grapes of Wrath bear moment's of deep self disappointment; however, Ma does not create a chance for them to stumble. Instead, she protects her family from people who would try to break their spirit. For example, Rose of Sharon is approached by a religious woman, who panics her into believing that the baby she will have will be ruined for life. Ma Joad understandingly knows how easily ones spirit can
Low self-esteem “Kate is 21 years of age and has a very poor self- confidence and fact she hates the way she looks. As a result, Kate has such low self-esteem that it prevents her from using health care services. Kate’s mother is concerned about her daughter’s health and wellbeing’’ In Health and social care, health care professionals are required to empower service users and raise the self esteem of those who need it. Low self-esteem is when an individual is not confident of one's self and feels inferior constantly looking for approval from everyone else but him/herself. Discriminatory practices can result in a lowering of self esteem, it can leave the service user feeling low and not knowing their self-worth.
In William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying the reader is taken threw many different narrations that each hold different points of views, opinions, life experiences, and relationships then each of the other characters. Betty Alldredge’s criticisms focus mainly on Addie Bundren, the mother of the family that the book is about, and how she’s affected her family members and their character and continues to do so even after she’s passed on. While some may think Darl’s craziness is an act, his bitterness isn’t a contributing characteristic, and Addie raises her kids the way she does because she’s simply a mean person I would have to disagree. I agree with Betty Aldredge with two key points that she discusses about Addie’s favoritism to Jewel and how it’s made Darl become bitter and eventually succumb to madness and how her want to live life to the fullest has affected her marriage and the way she raised her children. In Alldredge’s criticism of Faulkner’s novel As I Lay Dying one of the prominent things she discusses and give a valid, and strong point on is Addie Bundren’s favoritism to her illegitimate son Jewel and how it made Darl become bitter and eventually undoes him.
It can be inferred that John made her obtain this nervous condition because being part of the cult of true womanhood could take a strain on one. She probably was just tired and exhausted from the work. Since he was a physician, everyone including their friends and family believed him. His wife did not even believe she was ill but he
Because of the fewer scenes and events used in short story, they have to be selected and ordered, lead swiftly to the moment of crisis face by the main character. Each scene reflected the conflict progressing between the women and her husband in order to compare the social class of both in society or at home. From the beginning, she was totally under the control from her husband who is a “high standing physician”, neither in treatment nor working outside. She felt can “not get well faster” and deep depression on herself. She gradually lost her sanity and became extremely madness at last, the story reached its climax and the women tear the wallpaper off the wall and felt freedom due to “pulled of most of the paper and can’t put her back”.