Women as castrators, society’s destruction of natural impulses, and false diagnoses of insanity are some of the themes which are reinforced by the Chief’s madness and hallucinations in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The main weaknesses of using Chief Bromden as the narrator of the novel are due to the fact that the Chief continuously describes his hallucinations as if they were present and constantly has flashbacks of his past which can be confusing. Additionally, his opinions on the events and characters that take place at the ward can be a biased opinion of the Chief. This particularly interferes with our knowledge and understanding about what is actually happening at the ward. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, one very confusing thing that interferes with our understanding of reality and fantasy is Chief
Nowadays people don’t hold themselves liable for their anger and blame someone or something for their own behavior. Enraged outbursts are likely to happen anywhere no place is exempt in this mad world. Hales states in her essay, “Three things responsible for this angry world are: time, technology, and tension.” When we’re running low on patience and all tensed up, we don’t recognize how we treat or talk to people. We have lost our tolerance for inconvenience. It’s a feeling of weakness that sparks our raving madness and being furious for a moment won’t do us any good.
I dreaded the first glance at objects around me. It was not that I feared to look upon things horrible, but that I grew aghast lest there should be NOTHING to see. At length, with a wild desperation at heart, I quickly unclosed my eyes. My worst thoughts, then, were confirmed.”(59-64) This is an example of sensualism because the narrator is just waking up and in a groggy state of mind. An example of sensationalism would be when they take the narrator into a torture chamber because its over the top and in a gothic excessive nature.
Now, in part three of the book this is where he gets punished for his actions and the process of turning him “sane” begins. The process of punishment which Winston experiences, reemphasizes the theme of fundamental horror of physical pain, all that is happening to him cant be stopped, he is under the control of the party through O’Brien who is more then determined to change Winston. In this part of the book, we find out that Winston starts thinking that nothing in the world is more worse then the physical he is experiencing. O’Brien’s power over Winston is an example of the manipulation of the mind the Party has over their subjects, it is impossible to resist it as the body too is under control. We know that O’Brien is part of the
As he says, “it is a high time to face the persecutors who haunt the bright kid with thick glasses from kindergarten to the grave.” The bullying, the teasing, and the harassing for their abilities and their “disgusting taste” must be stopped, as stated in his writing. Using a firm tone toward the issue you can tell he has experienced this, and that connects him deeper with the audience though pathos. Leonid Fridman shows a very negative attitude towards the focus of “Nerds and Geeks.”He supports disagreement through pathos, satire, and a impressive word choice, He over take the mind of the reader with these rhetorical strategies. Through elementary school, middle school, and in high school, everyone needs their nerds and
This paradise has become a dreadful room where Winston gets brainwashed. On the other side of the wall of darkness is Winston’s deathly fear, rats. This factor in the book has showed what Winston was deathly afraid of. In the dream of the golden country, Winston dreams of O’Brien saying, “We shall meet in a place where there is no darkness” (Orwell 111). This is literally interpreted into the room where the light is always on.
The judgement of humans in any way causes an illusion of fear for the person. Discrimination is a major role that the community plays and people tend to become afraid and aware of this situation. In The Chrysalids by John Wyndham a nuclear radiation causes a difference between a human and a deviation. The Waknuk society discriminates based on their perception of the true image, without any proof of the genuine definition which impacts people with great fear. The society breeds ignorance of the physical change of a “true image” that is not subsequently developed, influences the fear of deviations.
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Fear always springs from ignorance.” Fear is always present in one’s longevity if he or she lacks knowledge of the word itself, which means if you lack knowledge of something, you will always be intimidated until an action is taken to triumph over your anxiety. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee and The Crucible by Arthur Miller recognized this quote as a true statement and I agree to the contribution made by these authors in validating the quote. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee symbolized Jem and Scout as character with fear and innocence . Jem and Scout were always intimidated by Boo Radley because of the stories they heard about him, they believed he is a malevolent phantom who eat squirrels and
“He shouts, ‘Rhinotomy!’ Then he places a steel saw under his nose with the jagged edges facing towards it. His lips, black as his arms, tremble, which makes one think he is smiling. Then his arms move vigorously, with each movement he shouts desperately ‘Rhinotomy!’ As the jagged edges edge themselves into the nose, fresh blood begins seeping out” (Yu Hua 362). Being persecuted during the Revolution, he is unable to assimilate the terrifying memories into his experience which results in a lingering of his traumatic experience, and only through the practice of masochism can he free himself from the nightmare. Freud defined the term ‘traumatic’ as ‘any excitations from outside which are powerful enough to break through the protective shield’
Another example is when Poe uses phrases such as, "It was open-wide, wide open and I grew furious as I gazed upon it". He uses the first person point of view to create a tension between what is recounted and what is not recounted, so that the reader is caught in suspense, having to work out what he can. The use of repetition in first person point of view helps to enhance an uncertain sense; it creates the suspense of not knowing what will happen next, it limits the whole use of the language and the details like a ‘block’ which won’t let you go through, who’d stop you before you realize and discover what will happen