Personal Narrative: Brown V. Brown

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Here we stand in this court room, where the people are going against my defendant, Mr Brown, and they believe this man is sane. They believe that my defendant is a cold hearted killer who had complete intentions. However, I believe wholeheartedly that my defendant is only an insane man, driven to mania, that needs nothing but help. I shall prove to each and every one in this room that he is medically insane.
First off, I can prove the madness through his few first sentences in his confession. My defendant actually believes that he can, and I quote,”Hear all things in Heaven and Earth.”. This proves that he heard auditory hallucinations. It also shows a false sense of belief in thinking he could possibly hear all in either. This also shows that his mind is very warped in believing what's real or not, and what's sensible or not. This, in short, proves that he is also,without any doubt,insane.
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This shows a lack of real emotion or remorse. A lack of either is usually a symptom of insanity. He also showed no real anger at the man he killed, just an fixation or urge. He was obsessed with the idea of murdering him, and his ‘vulture eye’ gave his maniacal mind a reason. This proves further that he is an crazy man in need of medical assistance. The biggest piece of evidence that he is overwhelmingly crazy and a danger to himself and others is the quote “I was never nicer to the old man than during the week before I killed him.”. This shows that he is prone to false emotions. He may also be used to disguising any guilt, not that he would feel any. These are all symptoms of sociopathy. Sociopaths are people who are either incapable of feeling real emotion or have an very dark, morbid view of life. I believe my defendant is an sociopathy riddled with other mental disorders, combining to make a bomb ready to explode and

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