Melancholia

“Acquainted with the Night” by Robert Frost is a poem about a life full of loneliness and isolation. The poem follows the narrator as he goes through life feeling companionless and sees the world as a pessimistic place. Frost uses many different devices to show the meaning of this poem, such as tone, form, and cycling. Through these devices, he shows the constant depression and sorrow that the narrator feels. Frost uses tone throughout the poem to explain the way the narrator feels. He first…

1) Albrecht Durer, Melancholia I, 1514, engraving. The expressive qualities of complexity, in this painting, are given by the combination of stippling, hatching, and crosshatching, they were also used to create texture and depth. Horizontal, diagonal and vertical lines are present in this painting associated with distance and the distant horizon. In this artwork, the artist used both, straight lines and contour lines, and a mixture of shades. I found that the areas that are clearer have very…

I’m a dead man. Humorless, forever somber, what I was supposed to be my entire life. But you know that, they all know that. The papers, the news, I’m dead world! But I wasn’t always dead, and I wasn’t always alive either. Ah yes, my first baby steps, one small step for man, one giant leap to comedy gold. Ha ha, you can keep that Armstrong, both of you. That stuff’s way too powerful. But yeah, I’m a comedian, or at least I was until my bones manifested into the meaningless microphone I’m…

Though arising from separate time periods, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper and May Sarton’s Journal of a Solitude share fundamental commonalities in the discussion of writing as a means to bring form to their self-identities. Written in journal form, both texts reflect on how the individual lives in solitude and how this isolation brings about self-examination. Gilman’s and Sarton’s honesty with the reader, as well as themselves, allow an empathic understanding of how these…

‘The French Lieutenant's Woman’ is a postmodernist novel, which embodies a Victorian novel in which a battle between modern and conventional qualities takes place. Fowles presents this fight through the two women that Charles falls in love: Sophia Woodruff and Ernestina Freeman. In fact the entire book is based on different antithesis regarding diverse characteristics. First of all, the most emphasised contrast is between Sophia and Ernestina. One represents the past and the present which is…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in 1860 on July 3 in Hartford Connecticut. As a child, her upbringing was not the best; her father left the family and Gilman’s mother was left alone to raise two children. Resulting from their splitting up, Gilman moved around constantly, and her grades in school suffered. Throughout her life, she was known as a writer and a social activist. In 1884, she married Charles Stetson, who was an American artist. Together, they had a daughter named Katherine. In 1900,…

Depression has had a lot of conflict in the medical world and in society. Some believe that when a person has depression they are making it up in their head, and others base their belief on scientific facts and research about depression. The major thesis of this book is deciding whether or not depression is a real medical disease, or is it just something that society wants us to believe. The book overall was easy to follow, and the author used a lot of facts to back up what he was trying to…

Hippocrates early mental concepts proposed that mental disorders had natural causes, he categorized such disorders as mania, melancholia, or phrenitis associating such abnormalities with dreams and a person’s personality. In contrast Plato viewed the psychological phenomena as responses of the whole organism, he emphasized individual differences and sociocultural influences, and…

At this point he has (presumably) already dealt with Ahab’s relation to the white whale. We are reminded of Ahab comparing Moby Dick to the wall, the mask that exists between the perceived world and whatever lies beneath the surface. Something is “pressing the pulse of the life that has seldom exhibited itself” (Whitman 3) into this surface. Yet Ahab expresses the fear that there might, after all, be nothing behind. That “there’s naught beyond” is exactly what Ishmael discovers in this chapter…

The Princess Bride is a compelling novel that retains your interest by telling enthralling tales of revenge, love, despair, and hate. It includes most of the typical stereotypes that is found in your average fairytale, but it is far from your average classic fairytale with its ever-present plot twists. Each character has a downfall, and none of them are completely valiant and selfless. Each character has a captivating motive behind their actions. A typical hero is not included in the story…