Arkham Asylum

The first thing I noticed was his lime green hair and pale white face. I stared him down, examining his dark purple lips and smeared black makeup. The memories of the day I was assigned this project flew through my mind. Dr. Harleen Quinzel, you are to help a man who goes by the name of the Joker during his time in The Elizabeth Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane. I distinctly remember driving up to the edifice, unknowing of what I should expect. As I walked inside, I took in the sight of the plain white walls and bare silver chambers. It felt as if the vibe of the room was calling me. Almost as if it was a long lost home. I walked over to the cell where my patient was locked inside, standing in front of the stern gray bars.…

In the movie The Dark Knight, Batman fits the character type description of being continent. He struggles with his appetitive part and desires to get rid of the Joker, but really the only way of doing that is by killing him. However, the Batman endures through the temptation and does not give in to his desire to kill the Joker. On the other hand, the Joker would fit the vicious type of character in the movie. He consistently does the villainous deeds, that they have become a habit for him. He…

The Dark Knight is an engrossing tragedy film that leaps beyond its origins. Batman is not the comic character, that you spent many nights reading his comic book anymore. Because of the amazing performances, the writing, the direction, and the technical quality of the entire production, this movie created characters we come to care about. By putting all the right elements in play, this movie had given the character of Batman a literary merit. This movie is not simply present the good and evil…

It was fall of 2003 Dr. Harleen Frances Quinzel was a therapist for Jack Nicholson also known as the Joker. So on January 2nd Joker and Dr. Harleen Frances Quinzel were talking about Batman. Dr. Harleen Frances Quinzel started to fall in love with the Joker. Dr. Harleen Frances Quinzel started to realize that Batman stopped making Joker happy. So she thought it was wrong that she was falling in love with the Joker, but she loved him and she thought that Joker loved her too. So on January 6th…

The Dark Night trilogy set the gold standard for the characters Batman, and the Joker. Every casual movie goer or critic would tell you that the most recent portrayal of each of these characters isn’t as good as the Dark Night Trilogy characters. With the flop of Man of Steel, and Batman vs. Super Man, Warner Brothers, the company making DC films, wanted to take a lot of control away from directors, and unfortunately the first movie to take such directions was 2016’s “Suicide Squad” by David…

cooked it. They finished cooking the fish and sat down together to eat their dinner. The family finished their food, cleaned up, then went to bed. The next day they went for a swim in their lake. That is when Elena started acting weird. Eventually it got worse and worse and she was going insane. She constantly felt like someone was watching her or wanted to hurt her. Her dad had started to notice more and more how crazy she had been. Her boyfriend tried to help her and it was so weird because…

Asylums are supposed to stabilize the insane, but what if they did the exact opposite? In the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest not only is the sanity of the patients questioned but the staff’s too. The methods of the institution are questionable ethically and morally. Giving the patients unknown pills and taking away their masculinity is very dubious. The ways of the institute is soon questioned because of the arrival of Randle McMurphy. Due to the control, different perspectives, and…

endured. Our ability to hold the world up to our standards lends us a feeling of power and control over our lives, giving us our pride and credibility as individuals, but when it is taken away from us, it renders us feeble, fearful, and helpless to whatever reality throws at us, causing us to gradually lose our sense of self, as well as our grasp on reality. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey, we are shown through the eyes of Bromden, a patient at an asylum, to what extremes our…

The Trans- Alleghany Insane Asylum It started on a weekend in May, our school decided to plan a field trip to a mysterious building in the western part of Virginia. Don’t ask me why though—we’re all surprised they even considered it. The funny thing is, our school hasn’t taken a field trip in three years, and this is the first placed they decided to go to. The whole situation was quite strange. After a class of eighth graders went to a zoo, the principle has not allowed anyone to go on a…

Human Interaction “Class, Class please quiet down, today we have a visitor. I have studied this young man for most of my life. The year I graduated with my doctorate was the same year this man was put into Alburque Asylum for his mental state. This man has Dissociative Identity Disorder, something you all might recognize as Multiple Personality. DID is when a person obtains two or more personality states in their mind. In 1916, he was placed in this asylum as his mother felt there was something…