Insanity

The Tell-Tale Heart is a classic story, beloved by many for its dark and creepy atmosphere and its portrayal of a man's slow descent into insanity. It is only natural that one would think to adapt it to the stage, and cost effective too. The story only takes place in one location, only requiring one simple set, and is mostly dialogue save for the murder scene, and even then, fake blood and trapdoors are easy to come by in the drama industry. This particular low budget adaptation included in…

that this was not really her wanting to commit the crime, but that it was all due to her mental illness that was getting worse day by day. She pleaded innocence by reason of insanity, but it was rejected by the jury and they found her guilty sentencing her to life in prison. Years later she was found not guilty by reason of insanity and was transferred to a hospital to receive treatment…

How does Clarke create such a vivid impression of the bull in 'Friesian Bull'? In ‘Friesian Bull’, Clarke uses alliteration, description of the bull’s body and vocabulary of rage and insanity to create a vivid impression of the bull. Throughout the poem, Clarke makes use of alliteration to create a vivid impression of the bull. Clarke uses sibilance multiple times: she mentions the ‘steel bars between [the heifer’s] trap and [the bull’s] small yard’ in the first stanza, and she describes…

They include the similar spine-chilling mood, a signature of Poe’s. Also, They include the themes of death, secret fears, and insanity, and leads into the characteristics of Poe in Avi’s novel and Poe’s own short stories. The stories each contain a character that is not mentally stable, but is rather quite insane. This sometimes leads to extremes occurring, but is key in both author’s…

focuses on fear driving previously normal people mad. For example, in “The Fall of the House of Usher” the narrator, who has kept his senses throughout the story despite his friend’s descent into madness, is finally driven into a brief moment of insanity by the end of the story. The storm, combined with his colleague’s mad ravings, their isolation, and the house collapsing around him induces fear in the narrator and causes the fit of madness in which he shares his friend’s delusion in seeing…

“Irresistible Impulses: Edgar Allan Poe and the Insanity Defense,” Cleman writes , “Poe’s familiarity with the scientific/medical accounts of insanity in his day has been well established.” Poe had his own theories about insanity and would often refer to himself as being insane. He was fascinated with the subject of mental disorders and often his characters reflected his vast knowledge of the symptoms and effects they can cause. Poe profoundly stated that he sensed insanity and intelligence has…

deterioration and eventual insanity. Gilman further reinforces this idea through her response to her short story, titled “Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wallpaper,’” which gives evidence that Gilman uses the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” to reflect her own debilitating state caused by the rest treatment and postpartum depression. In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Gilman uses the narrator of the story, Jane, to show the effects of Dr. Mitchell’s rest treatment on her…

delusional and strange, he describes his motivation as fear of the old man's pale blue eye. One night while watching the old man sleep, he hears a loud thumping noise that he assumes ids the old man's heart. This symbolizes the narrator’s madness and insanity. Paranoid that the neighbors might hear the loud…

and faces the consequences for his poor decisions, he starts to see the world in a different perspective with new eyes. In his play The Tragedy of King Lear, William Shakespeare depicts a variety of motifs and symbols, such as betrayal, blindness, insanity, justice, and compassion, which comments on human behavior and actions. Initially,…

“ touched Strouts head once with the muzzle (Dubus 66.)” this shows his insanity as he begins to go out with the murder “Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair” This shows Emily's insanity by providing a description of what it was like for her dead husband to lay there and rot for years…