Beautiful Tragedy

The Strength of Words and the Lessons You Learn During the pilgrimage to Canterbury, 24 tales were told from all different types of people, from the poorest in the city to the richest. In the Canterbury Tales, a famous tale is heard from a Nun’s Priest about a widowed wife left with two daughters to live graciously with what God had given them. One-night Chanticleer: the noblest chicken on their farm, is awoken by a dream, a nightmare of being eaten by a fox. He is called crazy and thought to be sick but little did all his wives know that dreams in fact can be a portal to the future and can teach valuable lessons. In the “Nun’s Priest’s Tale,” the story teaches valuable lessons that dreams should not be overlooked, people shouldn’t be prideful in making choices, and people should watch out for false compliments. Firstly, dreams should never be overlooked. The noble chicken, Chanticleer, tells different stories of many scenarios that tell Pertelote, his wife, that he must listen to his dreams. A critic writes that “Pertelote calls him a coward and cynically suggests indigestion as the cause” (Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia). Chanticleers wife is embarrassed of his claims about the nightmare he just had, and tells the rooster he must purge himself of this nonsense. Pertelote goes on and on about how a dream is just a dream and there is no significant importance to any of it. With her nagging, this leads Chanticleer into many short stories about how dreams are, and can be…

was that these women got prettier. This leads to a lot of these harmful processes being romanticised. After all, if Beyonce does that to look like she does, why shouldn’t I? Susan Bordo discusses this in her piece ____. She relates this type of romanticization back to the late 19th century. Back then, the “medical condition” hysteria, which included symptoms of foggy perception and nervous tremors and faints, became synonymous with femininity as typically only women were diagnosed with it. So…

She had been rather intrigued as to whether or not he was going to loosen the ribbon garter of her stockings. Now she'd have to wait much longer to find out. He wasn't idle, however, and Violet almost giggled at the rigid and jerking movements that Lorelei briefly suffered at the hands of her 'companion' as he no doubt untied her dress for her. No words were exchanged, and Violet fought to submerge a very unwelcome (and inappropriate) feeling of jealousy that he and Lorelei might well get up to…

misconception, it will leave the public with a bias forever and cost geniuses and their families an enormous amount of money seeking for seemingly better medicine heavily propagandized by media for financial purposes. The movie A Beautiful…

I find myself at times when I hear the music of some point of disappointment or stress that I had experienced in the past. The song composer was a poet named Katharine Lee Bates. In 1925 she wrote the song based on her inspirations at Pikes Peak. This I relate to relieving stress or disappointment because the tune is for Celebrating for our love of country as well as the dream of patriotism. I can conclude that the song had an impact on my life during the time of stress or discomfort. It…

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say (“F. Scott Fitzgerald”). I am renown around the world for this quote and it is very applicable to my life, because I am a writer. Although lots of my stories were not successful, I had a few hits that made me as famous as I am today. In these few minutes, I will tell you about my early life and where I came from, secondly my life and work in Europe, and lastly, my work in film and end of my time. To…

In “A Beautiful Mind”, John Nash is a brilliant man who had a lot going for him. He created various theories and equations that drove him further into the world of knowledge. However, it seems as if the smarter John got and the better jobs he was offered, the worse his hallucinations got. Hallucinations are triggered from stress; therefore, I feel that because John may have been so stressed about his life, job, education, etc. this caused the hallucinatiions to begin. I feel like John had to be…

Both the film and novel portray the theme of family yet display them differently through their use of dialog and speech. Benigni portrays a deep family connection which contrasts with Fly Away Peter in which Jim and his father experience a tense relationship. In the film, Benigni has used the actor’s speech to portray the close bond the family share. Whilst Guido and Giosue are heading to the concentration camp, Dora explains to the solider “My husband and son are on that train. I want to get on…

points in their life, so too do individuals with a mental illness. A Beautiful Mind is a film that can be seen from multiple perspectives. One of those perspectives is through the lens of neuroethics. Not only does the film portray neurodiversity, it also challenges the audience to think about schizophrenia in the context of consciousness and “the self”. Though schizophrenia has long been characterized as a thought disorder (TD), recent literature is arguing to characterize schizophrenia as a…

Amber Wilkinson Psychology 340 12/7/2016 “A Beautiful Mind” is based on the true story of John Forbes Nash. Nash was a brilliant mathematician who won a Nobel prize for his study of mathematics. In the movie John Forbes Nash; who was portrayed by Russel Crowe, suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. At the beginning of the film John Forbes Nash starts his career at Princeton University as a mathematics student where he was well known for his intelligence. Nash is an arrogant, awkward…