Insanity

Insanity is defined as “the unsoundness of mind or the lack of ability to understand”. This is a definition Hamlet clearly does not fit. Throughout the entirety of the play Hamlet maintains the ability to think analytically and demonstrate self-control in…

Although their logics are flawed, both storytellers are able to justify their motives behind the murder. Both narrators ' true identity are eventually uncovered by their insanity. In The Tell-Tale Heart, the narrator begins to reveal that he could hear things from heaven and in the earth. This is proof that something is wrong and that he is not normal. The narrator then continues to tell his story and states that he never…

In Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex and Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote, a confusion of identity stemming from the limits between reality and fantasy leads to the main character’s insanity. Both characters fall in social status as a result of their experienced psychotic tendencies. Through their failure to comprehend situations, culminating in naïve attempts at societal reparations and failed acts of charity contributes to the similar endings where the social statuses of Don Quixote and Oedipus fall.…

faced but a select few greatly impacted the characters. In The Wars, Timothy Findley has created a vivid atmosphere in which the characters must surrender to change due to the loss of innocence, the enforcement of gender roles, and the inevitable insanity the characters…

signs of his insanity is seen through his eyes. They are described as being wavery and uneasy, alternating between warm and welcoming to “ deep and uneasy eyes “ (Ross 418). The author repeatedly mentions the look of his eyes, and put emphasis on their abnormality. His eyes evoque an illogical fear in The Boy, similar to the gripping horror and powerlessness he felt when first confronted to the box stall. This feeling, linked through Vickers’ eyes, foretells his sinister secret. His insanity is…

Murder of Gonzago shows Hamlet trying to get Claudius to confess, ultimately Hamlets false display of Insanity creates deception in itself by drawing attention away from his true motives, and when Claudius lies to everyone in the speech pertaining to the murder of the King of Denmark. Ultimately Hamlets actions created deception by drawing attention away from his real motives by displaying false insanity. Hamlet only pretends to be insane in order to deceive the rest of the characters with the…

am a man // More sinned against than sinning.”(3.2.62) At this stage Lear believes all his misfortune has been caused by his ungrateful daughters and he is not insane but merely angry. However, Shakespeare shows that Lear is starting to accept his insanity, which is the first step in order to recover the sanity he once had. Amidst the storm and Kent’s pleads of…

are all mentally ill: those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better” (King 561). He also writes about the different types and degrees of insanity in humans. An example is when he explains, “ If we are all insane, then sanity becomes a matter of degree”(King 562). This is where he comes into to talking about how someone 's insanity could be to the higher degree of murderers like Jack the Ripper, or a low degree of talking to one’s self when under stress. King explains in his…

The concept of light versus darkness is one that has been present for many generations, in both literature and other forms of media. The dominance of such idea lies in the fact that from the beginning of time, light and darkness has been accepted as an archetype which established two opposing sides, classic examples being good versus bad, or hope versus despair. This archetype is further present in the play Twelfth Night, in which William Shakespeare utilizes light and darkness in order to…

delicate condition. Nancy Theriot, Professor and Chairperson of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Louisville, writes in her text, Diagnosing Unnatural Motherhood, Nineteenth-Century Physicians and 'Puerperal Insanity', physicians were very clear that the woman's insanity was brought on by her situation, and that the puerperal (post childbirth) state simply lowered the woman's strength so that she could no longer deal with the adverse environmental conditions. Kindness, rest and…