Act I - “Be More Chil Part 2” by Joe Iconis “Be More Chill Part 2,” by Joe Iconis, showcases the strained and controlling relationship that Jeremy Heere has with his Squip, a nanosized super computer in his brain that is supposed to make Jeremy cool. The Squip represents Lady Macbeth, and Jeremy is Macbeth. When the Squip tells Jeremy, “you can’t just listen. You have to obey,” it is reminiscent of Lady Macbeth coercing Macbeth into killing Duncan; Lady Macbeth realizes she has to “corrupt”…
Krafft-Ebing, a renowned sexologist, published Psychopathia Sexualis in 1886 with the intention of creating a textbook that would enlighten the field of sexology. Over the course of many years, Krafft-Ebing rewrote and reworked Pychopathia Sexualis, each edition containing more case-studies and more arguments than the previous one. One of the reoccurring subjects of interest for Krafft-Ebing was masochism, which he defines as “the wish to suffer pain and be subjected to force.” (Psychopathia…
on two of the main themes from Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; trouble caused by experiments and elements of dual personality. The story focuses on the protagonist, Charles, who is similar to Dr Jekyll in many ways. He is portrayed as a troubled scientist who chooses to experiment on animals even though it could potentially cause him to lose his wife, which at the end of the story he dramatically does. I attempted to capture lots of emotion, which Stevenson doesn’t do in ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ but tried…
the societal class in which a character was born, or thrust, into is of as much importance, if not more, as a character’s personal sense of self. Both Oscar Wilde’s, “The Importance of Being Earnest” and Robert Louis Stevenson’s, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” develop themes around the central ideology of self-identity versus how an entire society views the individual. “The Importance of Being Earnest” is a sharp, satirical play that quickly and effectively points out the flaws…
Two Sides of a Monsters Story. "There are two sides to every story and the truth usually lies somewhere in the middle." Paul. J Alessi. “Beuwulf” is the oldest surviving long poem in Old English and is recognized as one of the most important works of Old English literature. The poem was written in England between the eighth and the early eleventh century. The author was an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet, referred to as the "Beowulf poet". Scandinavia is the know setting for the poem. The poem…
Once again, Salinger wasn’t oblivious to the meanings behind each character’s name. In fact, symbolism plays a part in the character Sybil Carpenter. “Sybil, bright with innocence but already tarnishing, symbolizes for Seymour the human condition: like the sibyls of old, she is the unconscious oracle through whom the prophecy is revealed, the instrument of truth” (Lane). A sibyl is defined as “a woman in ancient times supposed to utter the oracles and prophecies of a god” (“sibyl”). It is…
The Strange Cases of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in Fiction and Film Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) and the film adaptation, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2003), directed by Maurice Phillips, are accounts of the same story but told differently. Stevenson’s novella, as well as Phillips’ film version, follows a respected English physician and scientist named Dr. Henry Jekyll as he secretly struggles to suppress his dark side, and the experiments he…
Rich Choi Compare how the theme of evil is explored in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies and Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’. “Man is the cruelest animal”, says Friedrich Nietzsche. He is trying to imply that humans are actually worse than any animal on the Earth. In other words, humans are destined not to get rid of their cruelty despite the fact that they believe that they are acting in a civilized way in a civilized society. LOTF (Lord of the Flies)…
The Silence of the Lambs is a novel by Thomas Harris, it includes the abundant connotation. This novel reflects that the disorder of personalities is the root of criminal. The silence of the lambs is not an traditional horror novel, it’s the great work to analysis psychoanalytic personality. The main characters in this novel have different disorder in their personalities. Clarice Staring through the detection of cases, with the help of the Hannibal, successful finished completion of the…
In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, it revolves around the point that there are two sides to a person. There is the kind and rational side, which is represented as Dr. Jekyll, and the hateful and indulgent side, which is represented by Mr. Hyde. In the novel, the Dr.’s Hyde side made him do things that any person would regret doing. “Both sides of me were in dead earnest; I was no more myself when I laid aside restraint and plunged in shame, than when I laboured, in the eye of day,…