Yates had mental instability during the time she killed her children, and after the birth of her fifth child is when she experienced postpartum depression. After she was in prison, professionals diagnosed her with insanity and postpartum depression. Genetics also played a part since there was a history of mental illness in her family. After the death of her father, she stopped doing everything she normally would do that would take care of her and her kids and Yates had become even more depressed. Yates had not realized how much mental illness there was in her
24th July 1999: Victoria is taken to North Middlesex Hospital's casualty department with scalding to her head and face which the doctors immediately suspect have been deliberately inflicted. Kouao presents another story as to how the injuries were sustained to Lisa Arthurworrey and PC Jones. 6th August 1999: Victoria is discharged from the hospital and is collected by Kouao after her explanation for the injuries is accepted by child protection authorities. October 1999: Trial evidence reveals that from October 1999 until the following January, Carl Manning forces Victoria to sleep in a bin liner
Building the Bonds of Attachment Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children by Daniel Hughes I. Issue of Child Abuse a. Fictional case study of Katie that follows her from birth through eight yrs. b. Parents of Katie—Sally and Mike and their relationship c. Neglect of infant but Sally provides basic needs but not on a regular basis d. Age two—physical abuse of Katie starts with father hitting her and shoving her away and verbal abuse from both parents e. Age three to five—physical and verbal abuse from both parents, Katie is not getting her basic needs meet on a regular basis f. Age five—after a severe beating , neighbor calls police to report and Katie is placed into permanent state custody II. Summary of the book This book follows the neglect and abuse of Katie and is told in story format for parts of the book.
She often referred to the poet, John Donne, throughout the film to relate her illness to what she loved and studied all of her life. It served as symbolism, representing her view the quality of her life and ultimate mortality. She reflected to the times when she was uncompassionate towards her own students and compared it to the feeling of inhumanity she was experiencing in the hospital. As Vivian’s cancer progressed, she decides to continue various intensive chemotherapies under the care of doctor and former student, Jason Posner, who viewed her as less than a person and more as an objective. On the other hand, Susie Monahan, Vivian’s nurse, served as her advocate from the beginning of her treatments to Vivian’s death.
Effects of guilt in the play Macbeth The effects of guilt tie into Macbeth with the theme of night and darkness. Guilt causes the main characters’ consciences to overcome them mentally and physically causing their downfalls. In the tragedy Macbeth by William Shakespeare, the recurring theme of night and darkness is used to symbolize guilt and conscience such as when Macbeth and Lady Macbeth want the darkness to conceal their evil deeds and in the end, when Lady Macbeth is afraid of the darkness and nighttime. In Act I, after King Duncan names Malcolm the Prince of Cumberland, Macbeth is already planning to kill Duncan. He asks the darkness to come and hide his evil deeds so no one would see the terrible thing he was about to do.
“The Black Cat” and “The Fall of the House of Usher” are two of Poe’s stories that exhibit profound examples of fear of one’s self, and Poe uses these conventions to express his characters emotions outwardly. For example, in “The Black Cat,” as the narrator starts to lose his patience with Pluto, he says, “The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take flight from my body; and a more fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame” (Poe 706). The narrator of this story is plagued by his addiction that is seemingly haunting him.
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Discuss madness in relation to Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’. The ‘revolting’(pg 3) paper is the eponymous metaphor of the novella. The wallpaper has layers, hidden depths and intricacies which can only be seen by close examination and only understood by the narrator by her when her obsessive interrogation of it reaches its disturbing climax. This wallpaper is an allegory which represents the complications of a woman’s position in conventional marriage behind the façade, or outer ‘pattern’(pg 3) of the sanction. Throughout the text, Gilman attempts to uncover the often disturbing truths that lurk beneath the surface of something seemingly innocent with reference to her own socio-economic philosophy; that is the economics of marriage and the nature of the mentally destructive sub-ordination of women within it.
It will also explore how she presents Boo Radley as both a hero and a villain in her novel, and study how she arouses sympathy from the reader. To kill A Mockingbird can be categorised into The Southern Gothic genre, which uses supernatural or unusual events to reveal the culture of the American Deep South. Among the Gothic elements are the unnatural snowfall, the fire that destroys Miss Maudie’s house, and the mad dog that Atticus shoots. In the beginning of the novel, it seems that Boo Radley is the gothic villain. On page 14, we learn about where he lives.
Her use of words in ‘Elm’ is also interesting. “Faults” could be emotional and/or physical and this shows the psychological states explored throughout Sylvia Plath’s work. “Malignity” symbolises evil and the intensity of how disturbed her life was.Another poem by Plath that I found to be personal on an intense and disturbing way was ‘Mirror’. It is clear as Plath looks into the mirror that she is unhappy, watching her age. A mirror never lies, but Plath cannot find solace in what she sees.