Aileen Wuornos without a doubt is one of the most interesting, animated, and sickly entertaining serial killers of modern times. Wuornos also happens to be one if not the first female serial killer sent to death row and executed. She was held responsible for the murder of 8 men found in central Florida around I-75. Aileen was known as a street walker, a hitchhiking hooker, but yet had a romantic relationship with a Tyra. Serial killers usually have a traumatic childhood, so it must be apparent that something went tremendously wrong with Aileen as a child that led her to be a psychotic serial killer.
Mr. Zannata March 30, 2012 Battered Woman’s Syndrome: Homolka's Excuse Karla Homolka was the wife and accomplice of the infamous serial rapist and killer, Paul Bernardo. Homolka used the battered women's syndrome as a legal defense for her actions, but there is an abundance of evidence to prove that she lied and used the disorder as an excuse to lessen her sentence. Learned helplessness is used to describe a phycologic response of a person to the repeated unpredictable exposure to a painful stimuli. This may have been the case with Homolka, yet, as stated on a women's advocacy site, out of the group of women who are diagnosed with 'learned helplessness', only a very small percentage commit acts of murder or sexual assault. Therefore this disorder does not give Homolka an excuse for her crimes.
When Abigail was talking to Proctor she says “She is telling lies to about me! She is a cold sniveling woman, and you bend to her!”(Page 15, act one) she is basically showing her jealousy towards his wife. This stirred up the witch trials because Abigail wanted to be with Proctor and she would do just about anything. The fact that John proctor realizes all of his flaws and confesses to all of his sins is another reason why he can be considered a tragic hero. When Proctor had to go to the court to get his wife out of being accused of upholding witchcraft he eventually confess to his sins he committed.
However, he also creates a model of Greek man as Jason that lead to the tragic deeds at the end. Although Medea has just cause to be angry, but does she really need to be violent and does Jason deserves our utter contempt? After all the ungratefulness Jason gave her, Medea becomes angry is very understandable. She has done a lot for Jason but he denies all and being unfaithful to her. In the play, Euripides has described Medea as a woman who “wild with love”.
From the ancient version, the evidence can be obviously seen that Helen is always be blamed by the others. For example, she is blamed by Odysseus as “a faithless woman.” He thinks Helen is willing to go with Paris causing “a Romantic adventure.” Moreover, she is blamed by the noble men of troy, they say, “Man must fight for such as she.” Also, Helen is regards as all that agony and death as they say to each other, “For her face was like to that of an immortal spirit.” The noble men of Troy are insulting her even she is staying by them. We can see that Helen is blamed unfairly just
Overall young women aged 20-24 report the highest levels of violence. Up to 120 women are killed by their partners each year an example of this is that Paul Dalton killed his wife, cut her body up with an electric saw and stored pieces in the freezer. In contrast only around ten men were killed by there female partners between December 2003 and December 2004. In violence against wives (1980) Dobash and Dobash reported that the majority of women in their study were attacked twice a week in their own homes. The factors that seem most likely to cause a violent incident are sexual jealousy, money and their partner’s expectations of the women’s housework or homemaking skills.
In the other hand Medea’s evil part takes control in almost all the play since Jason left her and betrayed her, she became totaly crazy and irrational in the search of revenge. Her anger was so strong that she would do everything to make Jason suffer in the worst way posible. Medea first killed Creons daughter wich Jason had left Medea for and then she killed her own children as Jason loved them and wanted to take care of them. She did this just with the simple excuse that it was better for them to die bye her hand than with a less loving hand. Medea’s ambiguity is really important for the play as this is what makes the story happen.
Jett McCoy Composition 1 Online 09/22/2012 Why moms kill their own children. One of the most unthinkable crimes is when a mother kills her own children. Over the past few decades due to media coverage they have talked more about this topic. There are many different reasons for this type of crime. A very popular reason is post-partum depression.
TIME TO BLOCK GUN VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN If October is like every other month, 46 women in the United States will be murdered with a gun by an intimate partner. Public attention was gripped by the most recent mass shooting, at the Navy Yard in Washington, but during Domestic Violence Awareness month, we need to focus on the fact that women face a heightened risk of gun violence. Women are more than three-and-a-half times as likely to be killed by an intimate partner as men. A gun in a household with a history of domestic violence increases by 20 times the risk that a woman will be killed there, compared to households without guns. Similarly, more than 75 percent of stalking victims are women — and stalkers use weapons to harm or threaten their victims in 1 out of 5 cases.
Throughout all ancient Greek literature, there is one theme that consistently arises. This is the theme of women. In ancient Greek literature, women and depicted as cunning deceitful people and this implication is supported by characters such as Clytemnestra, who embodies all that is fraudulent and deceptive in the world. She loses our faith in women because of her ruthlessness in killing her husband Agamemnon and she is clearly feared by those under her. One example of this is the watchman whom she has posted on top of a building to look for the beacon signal.