Philip Larkin

The human condition questions human morality, the capacity to communicate deceit and the capacity to feel which is manifested in the perception of authentic or deceptive relationships, reflection and realisation and the altering of an individual’s identity. Shakespeare’s King Lear explores the human condition through characters of the play which give insight of the aspects of humanity. Shakespeare’s universality of concepts of deceit, realisation and identity provides relevance to the modern era…

“A Rose for Emily” (1930) is an eerie short story of a strange woman named Emily, a Southern Belle who lived in a large house during the period after the Civil War. William Faulkner tells a tale of Emily whose controlling father passed away, turning her towards a mysterious life of confinement and solitude. Then a man named Homer came into her life and everyone was excited to see that everything seemed to be well at last for Emily. But the reader, along with the people in the story are shocked…

The Stanford Prison Experiment was an experiment based on the roles of people, and how easily people will fall into those roles. The prisoners were stuck in the basement all day for 6 days, and both the guards and prisoners lost their morals and individuality. The act of dehumanization also provided the prisoners with fear, anger, and helplessness. The Stanford Prison Experiment was not a physical genocide, but a psychological genocide. Genocide is the “intent to destroy, in whole or in part,…

psychological genocide. The prisoners were stuck in the basement all day for 6 days, and both the guards and prisoners lost their morals and individuality. The act of dehumanization also provided the prisoners with fear, anger, and helplessness. Philip Zimbardo was a psychology professor at the University of Stanford. He wanted to operate an experiment that would show how people act in adverse conditions, and the psychological effects. So Zimbardo put offers for volunteers for the experiment in…

Throughout the books The Lucifer Effect and Inside, there is a substantial focus on the state of incarnation, along with narrative accounts that detail the effects of prison. There is a common theme in both of the books that identifies the harmful nature of the prison system, and expounds how a prison can negatively affect the psychological well-being of a prisoner. As detailed by the authors, Zimbardo and Santos, the prison system damages the mental and emotional well-being of the prisoners,…

As Truman proceeds to his car to go to work in a closed form frame (6), a barking Dalmatian charges him. The composition changes at this moment depicting a point of view shot (8) of the neighbor’s Dalmatian through Truman’s eyes. The dog is close to Truman’s face, as if to signify his fear of the animal. This psychological technique allows for the audience to witness an emotion more carefully, in this case, the emotion is fear. The low camera angles exhibited the enlarged action of the dog and…

The Psychology of Evil What does it mean to be evil? chances are when everyone is growing up ask at one point, what makes someone turn from good into evil? In the lecture we went over one layout of Milgram’s obedience study we went over during a lecture also could help explain what we now think evil is. In This study Milgram tested the obedience of people to see how far they would go on inflicting pain on someone else because someone of authority told them too, which made people wonder if…

“unconscionable acts” committed at Abu Ghraib were likely caused by “the anxiety and helplessness” of their living conditions in Iraq (76). In attempt to investigate the motives behind sadistic acts in situations similar to the Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal, Philip G. Zimbardo, author of “The Stanford Prison Experiment,” held a study in which twenty-one “normal-average” male college students were brought to a “mock prison” to observe the influences of imprisonment on psychological behavior (Zimbardo…

Violence Every human being has their own unique identity. It is unique because they have different kinds of thoughts and personalities. Humans analyze problems differently. Some think that problems have solutions and other don’t even think, they just react. Reacting to a problem can be dangerous when not thinking of what is being done. In today’s society people are seen out in the street screaming and honking to other cars. This behavior is an instinct that comes out from a human when they…

Polymodality and Dual Modality Concepts and Definitions According to Vincent Persichetti, “polymodality involves two or more different modes on the same or different tonal centers. The modal strands may be melodic or harmonic.” In the most traditional conception a melodic line in order to be considered modal, apart from being diatonic to a mode (traditional or synthetic), needs to contain no alterations. This also applies to modal harmonic content. Persichetti states that “a pure modal…