Porphyria

There is a thin line between normal and abnormal. Normality is completely relative to the society in which one exists. Each culture has its own definition of average and each person is expected to live up to that definition. When someone does not meet that expectation, they are often ostracized from the group and labeled an outcast, or even a monster. Although the “monster” itself faces many struggles throughout life, the family of the “monster” is often left conflicted between fitting in with…

more disturbing of the two poems. Other than the fact that Porphyria’s lover strangles her to death with her own hair, there are even more disturbing concepts that are only realized when the poem is read more closely. At the beginning of the poem, Porphyria did everything when she walked in. She started the fire and put her lovers arm around her and laid his head on her bare shoulder. After her lover kills her, he then proceeds to put her head on his shoulder. “I propped her head up as before,…

According to a study, the general population is affected around 15 to 25 percent with acute or chronic urticaria in their life (30). The most common incidence of acute urticaria has been noted higher in people with atrophy and in teenagers and young adults (31), Few cases have been reported to develop both conditions of angioedema and urticaria, occurring simultaneously. A study has been noted that approximately half of subjects have both urticaria and angioedema, Whist 40% had been noted with…

In the works of Othello, All the Pretty Horses, and Porphyria's Lover, the authors show how love can affect a person's emotions and destroy them. People's feelings can make life so much better and build them up, but it can also tear them down. What makes love destructive? People are controlled by their emotions and act upon them. Feelings such as fear and jealousy can cause one to fall apart. get the wrong impression of a person and do physical and emotional harm. Shakespeare shows how…

The world is a place that is shaped by stories. Whether it be stories told by individuals or those found in a newspaper, we hear them and, inevitably, they shape our opinions. However, the majority of these headlines have a darker undertone and are related to the atrocities people have committed, not the good. Based on these headlines it is natural to assume that people are inherently evil. This assumption is not true. Although people are born with a sinful nature, the way that they are raised…

told. The first step in of comprehending vampire lore is to understand a number of the biological factors that may have triggered to such myths. One of the most credible explanations for vampire beliefs is the disease porphyria, which transpired regularly in Transylvania. Porphyria is a blood-related ailment where a critical function associated with blood cells is lost. This leads to rapid tissue damage, giving the victim a dreadful pallor as well as enlarged teeth as a result of gum damage.…

origin of vampires is still unknown, but it is dated back in Translyvania, Romania. One myth of a vampire is the drinking of blood. It is said that blood with sustain vampire’s undead existence. Vampires came about because of the rare disease called Porphyria, which caused the lowering of hemoglobin levels in blood. As a result, many medieval people who had this disease practiced drinking fresh blood. Many other myths of vampires were sleeping in coffins, immortality, resistance of sunlight, and…

Over the course of history, all nations and tribes have all had their own share of stories of beasts and creatures. Most tribes have superstitions of creatures that hide in the dark, or rise with the full moon. There is an everlasting reservoir of recording of such beasts, although mainly fictional. However, to most people before the age of the information and experimentation, people believed in these lores wholeheartedly. One mythical being that has painted its picture all over the globe is the…

Every living being, whether alive years ago or still present, constantly lives in a state of change. Humans and their belief systems have evolved over time; for instance, science and medicine come a long way from the past to today, and continue to further unravel. Written by Linda Lafferty, The Bloodletter's Daughter is a novel that touches on a piece of people´s history in the early 1600s. Early science and development serves as one of quite a few outstanding themes within the book. One…

The feelings of emptiness and hopelessness are factors in which may influence an individual’s decision to commit suicide to put an end to their insufferable emotions. It is not normal for one to seek for death if there is not an ulterior motive that had triggered them to do so. Margret Atwood’s short story “Lusus Naturae” is written in a first person point of view, in which the setting of the story is during the mid 1800s when modern medicine and faith clashed between one another. Atwood had…