Desire

I wanted to die. I didn’t want to be here anymore. I was close, too. I had been on the side of the bridge – the cold wind blowing through my hair. My eyes were focused on the tips of my shoes and the water beneath me. My heart was racing and I was breathing heavily, but I didn’t notice it – I had the devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other. The devil had made it to the opposite shoulder to smother the angel, and, hissing, it filled my head with obvious lies and plausible truths.…

that particular scene symbolized the duality of Nicole’s personality. Initiated by Nick’s alleged assault, Mrs. Diver’s mental illness reappears. Rather than a cheerful wife and mother, who enjoys the life, she became a depressed woman, who needs help. Another time, when the color of Nicole’s clothing symbolizes sort of a contradiction, is in the scene at the beach on the Riviera: “The Divers went out to the beach with her white suit and his white trunks very white against the color of their…

Discussion Points: This play makes me upset. While I do enjoy reading it and watching clips of the movie in class, I find the patriarchal thinking and domestic abuse to be frustrating to read. I know the play was written during a different time period where these actions and thoughts were normal, however, I get frustrated with the characters as I read about them. I hope that at the end of the play, Stella is able to finally leave Stanley and his abusive tendencies and seek a new life with her…

[It is about 7:30 am in the morning. Stella and Blanche are near Lake Pontchartrain out for a morning stroll. This is after Stanley has left for work. Stella has on a blue sundress with a white Sunday hat with a blue tie around the hat to match the color of her dress. Blanche has on a pink pants suit with a white rose on her hat. The area has a few runners come by throughout the play and some walking their dog as well.] STELLA: How was your trip sister? BLANCHE: I didn’t like it. Not one bit.…

The man is not insane, and should be given the complete punishment, since he is guilty for this crime. This man was aware of his surroundings and the actions he conducted. Also, he was very careful at the time of crime. He left no clues at the scene of crime, and he controlled his behavior when the detectives arrived at the old man’s house. So, he was sane enough to understand the appropriate actions to be taken. First of all, he was conscious about his surroundings. "Madmen know nothing. But…

In the end, we are all a product of our own desires. What makes us human is the emotions and the willingness to create or learn. Our desires shape the characteristics we exude and the lengths we go to achieve said desires. The novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley presents the theme of what makes us human and what is natural. Also the sense of responsibility in the case of Victor Frankenstein who creates a monster with the desire to create offspring for him and his wife or for a reason to be seen…

Self Through an Empirical Perspective Many theories exist in trying to explain the reason for a woman’s lack of sexual desire, with various treatments that are being studied and suggested to revive one’s sexual desire. In Reclaiming Your Sexual Self: How You Can Bring Desire Back into Your Life, Hall uses a psychosocial approach to explain why one might lose their sexual desire and how they can reclaim it on their own. The focus of this paper will be to demonstrate the lack of empirical evidence…

Both A Streetcar Named Desire and A Taste of Honey include characters who are victims of their sexuality. These two texts were written in 1947 and 1958 respectively, and this period of time showed a specific attitude towards homosexuality: Homosexuals were treated with constant disrespect and homosexuality was also classed as a mental disorder. These views were also evident towards women who engaged in sexual relations outside of marriage. The negative attitudes towards characters such as…

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen in his article “Fear of the Monster is Really a Kind of Desire” examines the issue of being with a monster or better be the monster ourselves. The desire it can be either for power, freedom, or even just to be the center of attention. “We distrust and loathe the monster at the same time we envy its freedom, and perhaps its sublime despair” (Cohen, 190). People tend to watch scary movies and read monster stories and feel attracted to one of the monsters and wish to be that…

Excessive desire can have disastrous consequences, a recurring theme In the film ‘The Talented Mr Ripley’ directed by Anthony Minghella and produced in December 1999. one scene in particular that explores this is the ending scene of the film (Peter's death scene), as it contains a variety of film techniques in culmination that are skilfully used to captivate audience's attention and create emotion to portray Minghella’s message that excessive desire can have disastrous consequences . A few of…