Chapter Two

Introduction Morality is one who conforms and follows the moral standards. The main protagonist named Jean-Batiste Grenouille in the novel Patrick Süskind, Perfume: the story of a murderer, defies such standards. The character is a man obsessed with scent and strives to acquire what he identifies as the “master scent”. In order to obtain such scent Grenouille commences murderous behavior upon young victims, specifically virgin girls as he is lured by the purity in their aroma. Set in 18th…

The novel brings out the character of Mr. Utterson as both an exciting character on one end and a flat and boring character on another end. At the onset of the story, the author describes Mr. Utterson as a ''lean, long, dusty, dreary.' This character creates a balance to and offers a rational perspective on the ''strange case'' that has befell his friend, Dr. Jekyll. It is evident that Mr. Utterson works as a lawyer; though the narrative does not reveal what he does on a daily basis. However, he…

done by the author purposefully for the plot development and to enhance the adventurous mode of the plot. Though a lot have been talked about Dual Brain and some attempts have also been taken to rationalize the fact that human brain is controlled by two hemispheres; one controls the good action and the other bad; so in this case Hyde represents the evil dual of the brain. But by accepting this theory we can’t rationalize the criminal instincts being a normal part of us, rather it would be…

just completed a multitude of adventures through the forest in England with his great friend, Edward Thomas, someone who too was caught in the middle between two choices: whether or not to enlist in the war or stay home; some say that Frost’s poem had a major influence on Thomas’s decision to actually enlist in the military, he sadly died two years later. Out of all of the themes in this poem, choice is the probably the one that stands out to readers the most. The reasoning behind this is…

actually worsen, the label may be a self-fulfilling prophecy, or the label can act as a stigma. Particular to McMurphy’s case, I believe he would fall into one of (or both of) the first two aspects. Either, one, he had a sliver of mental illness and institutionalizing him merely exacerbated this illness. Or, two, the label of being mentally ill ended as a self-fulfilling prophecy, where mental illness was the underlying etiology of his death. For example, in the most dramatic scene of the film,…

If someone were to question the relationship between the fields of science and the humanities, a common answer would probably be that the two could not be farther apart. After all, while the former focuses on reason and what is observable, the latter abandons these principles for introspectiveness, and what we cannot observe. Yet, the gap that divides the two schools of thought is unnecessary. While society upholds science as the dominant method of inquiry, it could not survive without the…

A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine was written by the author Mike Jay and tells the story of James Tilly Matthews. The story provides us with a vivid picture of the psychiatry, political and social aspects of the late eighteenth-century and shows the importance to present incidences of madness, conspiracies, mind control and manipulation. Matthews was introduced to the audience reading the book by interrupting a debate in the House of Commons. He…

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” written by Robert Louis Stevenson, it is about one man with two different personalities. Dr. Jekyll is the protagonist in the story and Mr. Hyde is another form of Dr. Jekyll, who plays the antagonist. They are the same person, but with two different personalities. The character struggles in the story because he is unable to control the other personality in the actions he takes. The two different personalities are different from each other physically, mentally, and…

as Bruce Wayne, taking on the role of a billionaire, philanthropic, playboy by day. At night, he switches his identity and become the crime fighting Batman whom Gotham is dependent on. DID is explained as a disorder characterized by the “presence of two or more distinct personality states” that is “associated with overwhelming experiences, traumatic events, and/or abuse occurring in childhood” (DSM-5). People who suffer from DID may also experience impulsivity, self-destructive behavior, or…

Not only this but Batman’s whole life appears to of transmuted for instance, in the pristine Batman he is optically discerned in daylight throughout the film yet throughout the latest film Batman is not visually perceived in daylight during the whole two and a moiety hours. Another immensely colossal change is the fact that in the pristine Batman the fighting is not very authentic coercing the film to be less dramatic yet in the latest Batman the fighting is prodigiously authentic and very…