Claustrophobia

Name: Zheng Huang Course Director: Dr Alison Halsall Course: HUMA 1780 C 4th April 2015 The Shining vs. The Shining Some people believed nothing can scare you if you do not do any conscience. However, a lot of things can scare people in real life. Monster is one of them. Monster, different people have different definitions; also have different perspectives for the type of monsters because people feel scared of different things. Some people think ghost is monster. Other people think ugly people…

drowning in it. I cut myself and feel the bright red seconds bloom into peonies. I glare at the clock and the hours shatter at my side into a million nothings. Everyone moves on, everything moves on. Mocking me, while I’m stuck inside the walls of claustrophobia. It’s been six years since I’ve been fixed in the same position, the same room. Two thousand, nine hundred and ninety days, three million, one hundred and fifty three thousand, six hundred minutes. So much time to figure it out, yet I…

grand outdoors of Branagh’s film, here the action never travels outside the close-confines of the immediate home. While Whedon’s house is not quite reminiscent of the city Barton advocates for, its small scale creates the desired atmosphere of claustrophobia, which is exposed by the camera angles. Whedon arranges many shots so that the camera must look through a doorway or window, as if the audience itself eavesdropping along with the characters. Whedon fashions a world conducive for “noting”…

In 1966, DC Comics introduced the world to a psychotic plant loving Poison Ivy. According to Wikipedia, "Poison Ivy's origins were revised in Secret Origins #36, 1988, written by Neil Gaiman." In this story, Poison Ivy, previously known as Pamela Isley, studied advanced botanical biochemistry at a university in Seattle. There, she was seduced by her professor, Dr. Jason Woodrue. Woodrue used her in one of his experiments and injected plant and animal based toxins into her. These poisons not only…

“The names we’ll give to the canals and mountains and cities will fall like so much water on the back of a mallard. No matter how we touch Mars, we’ll never touch it. And then we’ll rip it up, rip the skin off, and change it to fit ourselves.” What makes a villain a villain? Is it their complete insanity, or inexplicable behavior? Or do these attributes make them the victim? The victim, who may be seen as a madman, is quite neurotic in their actions, similarly to prey when it is being hunted.…

There are some things that persist throughout history and into the modern world. One of such is the increase of pain or stress levels of an individual to obtain information. These said situations are often classified as torture. These acts have been used since the stone ages into the modern ages, and although have changed drastically over time, still remains. Despite what critics say, torture tactics of interrogation should not be allowed to be used in official government situations; there are…

Disorder in Black Swan Black Swan is a psychological movie that tells features the life of Nina Sayers who struggles in the life of a ballerina, who is played by Natalie Portman. The Black Swan’s repulsive hallucinations of claustrophobia and power are the film’s main themes. It taps inside our biggest fear of failure and carries out our most primitive desires to be better than others. It forces us to question how hard we work to be successful and makes us realize that if we lose sight of what…

The ceiling suddenly becomes lower, causing a sense of claustrophobia, because the gym is directly above this pool. There are only four people swimming: three girls playing basketball in the water and one man swimming laps. I greet the guard and tell him that I have the water which he responds, “It’s clear”. As…

The room is dark and dismal. Every curtain drawn together obscures the light. It’s suggestive of the despair filling the deepest recesses of Tank Brooks’ soul. Struck by a boundless trembling, his heart beat loudly gathers voice, filling his head. He sits ensnared in a whirlwind where his ability to reason is all but lost. On the walls are his dusty old family pictures, treasured memories of happier days. Each a reminder of those he loved and then lost. Over the years he came to learn that it’s…

Many will speak of Edgar Allen Poe, and call him a madman, a necromaniac, and that he had to have been suffering from some sort of mental illness to write the things that he did. In actuality, Poe was an author who crafted beautiful, thought provoking stories about the simple reality of life and death. This can be proven true through several of Poe’s works, including “The Black Cat”, “The Premature Burial”, and several others. Edgar Allen Poe did have an obsession with death, but he shared this…