Melancholia

Dancing Within Sanity Through the discourse of The Yellow Wallpaper and The Tell Tale Heart, both wrapped up and enclosed in the open space that entails its given genre, Gothic Literature. However, despite its given distinction of characters, settings, gender, and action, both are dually intertwined in regards to the nature each narrative and plot takes. The Tell-Tale Heart illustrates and manifests itself with a distinct narrator with a kind of “split nature”, a man who can perhaps…

Have you ever looked forward to something so much that you're nearly exploding with anticipation? Well, that's how I feel as I sit on this boat with my best buddy in the whole wide world, Blake. It's the nicest day of the summer and I've been itching to take my new boat out for a spin since I bought it last summer. Obviously, I had to take Blake with me becasue we've been on boats since we were little boys. Now, at twenty-one years old, I get to sit back and relax on a boat of my own. "Hey…

People with disabilities have been discriminated, not only in the 1930s, but throughout the sum of time. Many people of the mentally ill community were taken advantage of and were the “test monkeys” for some inhumane treatments. From before, after and during the 1930s, they were thought of as a burden to society. In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice And Men, Lennie Small, one of the main characters, suffers from an intellectual disability. Although he is not the brightest, he is big and strong but does…

Oppression of Women in The Yellow Wallpaper Throughout time, women have been treated as less than men, and authors like Charlotte Perkins Gilman have revealed the unequal power in her writings, such as in works like Women and Economics and The Yellow Wallpaper. Her most well-known story, The Yellow Wallpaper, follows the story of a woman who is undergoing treatment for postpartum depression. The narrator, the woman, was prescribed a rest cure, a treatment in which the patient can only rest and…

Another delicate nuance that I would like to consider about her marriage. In order to remarry she should probably discuss it with her only son, who by the way was the prince and could have his father’s throne. Neither the movie nor the text do not speak about it, but if we try to picture the possibility that they might have discussed her marriage, Hamlet definitely would oppose to her marriage plan, which after all Gertrude ignored, or perhaps she did not discuss it with Hamlet which she had…

Ella Hepworth Dixon’s The Story of a Modern Woman presents methods of grieving in several conflicting ways and through the personal and public lenses of many of its characters. Death, the unwelcome stranger, repeatedly appears in the novel, lingering in the setting of its first seven chapters and stealing several characters additionally. The main character, Mary Erle, experiences the deaths of her father and closest friend over the course of the narrative, as well as the losses of several…

stems from a place deep down in the soul, and frequently this comes from a saddened core. Sylvia Plath’s poetry is no different; she incorporates her struggles with depression and suicidal tendencies in “Lady Lazarus.” Although this poem address melancholia in a beautiful pattern, “Lady Lazarus” acts as a peephole into the darkest realms of Plath’s existence. Through personal accounts of loss and devastation, Plath paints a lugubrious picture of her overall state of despair and emptiness. Dark…

involved in her life (Wurtzel, 1994). Lizzie states that her family has a history of mental problems, cousins who attempted suicide, a great-grandmother who died in an asylum, a grandfather that was an alcoholic, a grandmother “with the terrible melancholia”, and her father (Wurtzel,…

William Shakespeare wrote Hamlet at a time when England was embroiled in debate about the nature of ghosts. The Elizabethan people believed in the existence of spirits. However, there was a discrepancy in how the people believed the spirits interacted and influenced the populus. The conservative held to the old doctrine stating that ghosts were spirits of deceased people and therefore not evil, while the reforming denied the possibility of ghosts in favor of spirits being evil devils. The…

Victor Herbert (1859-1924). At age 19 he had played as a cellist with every major orchestra in Germany. He was one of the greatest influences on American theater, bringing it from vaudeville to more operatic, story-based works. His first composition which showed he was a reputable composer was his Suite for Cello and Orchestra, Op.3. Herbert’s works were known for their mix of European Romanticism and American Tradition. He also worked as the composer of the first original background film score…