Melancholia

Charlotte Perkins Gilman is an American short story writer, essayist, novelist, and autobiographer. One of her most famous works his her partially autobiographical, “The Yellow Wallpaper”. It was published in 1892 in New England Magazine, and was considered a very controversial piece. The story shows the mental and emotional results of the typical rest cure prescribed during that era and the narrator’s reaction to this course of treatment. The rest cure that "The Yellow Wallpaper" describes…

which Hippocrates considered that there was a problem in one of these mentioned fluids is like, if a person possessed too much yellow bile, then the person would have a “mania”, and if the person had too much black bile, would be suffering from melancholia. Therefore, an excess of black bile was considered to be too dark for the mood of a person; consequently, the person became sad and melancholic. In addition, he believed that if all these fluids are in equilibrium in the body, the person would…

evidenced by a constant pattern of mood swings and behavioral changes. These symptoms often result in hasty actions and difficulty in maintaining health relationships. People with borderline personality disorder may experience intense episodes of rage, melancholia, and anxiety that can last from a few hours to days. Nurses should teach the symptoms of BPD, encourage…

“It is difficult for grown-up persons, unless perchance helped by a hateful memory of their own terrors in childhood, to realise the terrible agonies of fright and anguish, which seize some nervous children when they are alone in the dark, or are left by themselves in a large room, or have to pass a room or closet of which they have conceived some formless dread, or are sent alone on a strange errand” was a quote adapted from “The Pathology of Mind: a Study of its Distempers, Deformities, and…

Creating life. Humans have been chasing the impossible for so long, to the point where they can no longer realize the difference between the unattainable and the achievable. Unfortunately, humans are not willing to tolerate the fact that only God is able to create the perfect life-sustaining human. Mary Shelly leads it all with having Dr. Victor Frankenstein create life from lifeless material. The being Victor created had a menacing semblance. Despite his alarming aura, the monster was delicate…

Figure 1 is a flower dress that was designed by Alexander McQueen. It looks carefully planned because every aspect of it seems to be in the right place. The dress is very unusual in a sense that it gives the spectator a virtual bouquet garden tour. It is a nude silk that is cautiously festooned and embroidered with flowers of different colours and sizes. McQueen created the impression of a real flower garden by using different shades of pink, violet as well as white to represent the flowers. He…

Edgar Allan Poe’s Writing Style Edgar Allan Poe was an author of the 19th century, and had many tragic tales in his life. This included many of his closely loved ones dying of tuberculosis, being in debt for half his life, and never having a loving father. Despite all this, he chose to be an author, and wrote The Raven, Annabel Lee, The Black Cat, The Tell-Tale Heart, and El Dorado. Mr. Poe was an amazing author of his time, taking actual parts of his life and putting it into a different story…

Abstract Depressive disorders are prevalent and continue to grow in the United States and globally. People have attempted to define depression since the beginning of time but in the 17th and 18th centuries, studies for depressive disorders began to utilize the scientific method. The introduction of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1952 increased the quality of diagnosis, assessment, and treatment for people exhibiting depressive symptoms. The DSM-5 published…

rapidly became popular during the nineteen-teens and twenties. The music also chronicled many blues singers’ personal issues with racial problems/discrimination associated with being black in the prejudiced and segregated South. Vocals dripping with melancholia were the black community’s spokesmen and spokeswomen for expressing social and political issues. Artists such as Billie Holiday who sings an influential blues protest song entitled “Strange Fruit” which was written by a Jewish poet that…

mother. When another man came in and threatened his relationship with his mother, he got rid of the both- the man for protection of the fantasy and his mother out of betrayal. Norman felt betrayed by his mother because she ruined the fantasy. His melancholia after his mother dies is what causes him to dig up his mother’s bones and take on her personality. The mother that we see in the film is the piece of his mother he has kept with him after losing her.…