Sleepwalking

We choose what we want to believe. There is no proof of what was before one’s life or what will happen after one’s death. It all comes down to faith when observing the inexplicable. There is no defined purpose; therefore, an individual creates their own life meaning. Sunset Boulevard (1950), directed by Billy Wilder, is a black and white film, where Norma Desmond, a famous actress of the silent film era, cannot come to terms with her career’s end. Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), directed by Guillermo…

Laura Lee ENGL117C Dr. Amy Kenny Blood for Blood In the tragedy of Macbeth, Shakespeare fills the play with grotesque scenes that are stained in blood. Throughout this Shakespearean tragedy, the functional role of blood is utilized as a trope in order to indicate both Macbeth’s and Lady Macbeth’s emotional progression through the emphasis on their acts of violence which results in the growing guilt that they share. Shakespeare utilizes the trope of blood to foreshadow the destruction of both…

For every person that has set foot on earth, sleep is a natural thing. We slide under the covers, fluff up our pillows, and close our eyes. We fall asleep, wake up in the morning unable to remember the past few hours, and feel refreshed; it’s just that simple (Healthy Sleep). Or is it that simple? “Until the 1950s, most people thought of sleep as a passive, dormant part of our daily lives” and to the average human mind sleep is just that, but sleep is much more complex than we may think…

Super-diversity is utilised to refer to having a large number of migrants and people of different ethnicities in a society (Spoonley, 2014:2). However, despite this definition super-diversity is used in context to refer to religious and linguistic diversity as well. The term ‘Integration’ is known as “an evolving relationship between migrants and the host society” (Spencer, 2011:202). This term is less accepted in the UK, instead, they use ‘assimilation’ which is defined as “an expectation that…

relationships recorded. The entire Macbeth play revolves around how well the Macbeths can keep a secret and deceive their company. Ultimately, without knowing it, Lady Macbeth fails at concealing what she and Macbeth have done. This happens in the famous sleepwalking scene, where her internalized guilt and worry shines through, revealing her murderous secret to the doctor and castle worker. As for the rest of the play, she wears a mask thicker than tar. Her deceptiveness is shown early on in the…

Madness is a state of wild, chaotic behaviour and loss of reality, a theme that is common amongst the characters of Shakespeare’s plays. It lends a distinctive suffering of inevitable self-destruction in tragedies, some form of downfall or breaking point reaction such as traits of madness is essentially what is used to develop the storyline and show the contrast between the many personas in the story. He adequately explores many roots that lead towards madness as well as various forms of it, two…

Wait For It is about waiting out any problems that might have arisen. The song, sung by vice president Aaron Burr’s character, is all about waiting for one’s chance to come as opposed to taking control and taking a chance on their own. Prior to Banquo’s death, “it is concluded. [Banquo’s soul is] flight/If it find heaven, must find it out tonight” (III.i.146-147). In other words, Macbeth is claiming that night is the night in which Banquo’s life is to end. if his soul is to go to heaven, that…

Imagine you are in a world where individuals have the chance to create a very powerful bond with an animal, you are a teenager who just turned the right age to finally have a chance to bond with a spirit animal. However, you did something thought impossible. You summoned one of the four fallen great beasts who were thought to have died long ago. Would you believe it, or would you think you're dreaming? The Spirit Animals series is written by Maggie Stiefvater. Other books written by Maggie…

Freud’s Theory of Psychosexual Development Freud’s theory of psychological development described how the personality developed over the course of childhood. While the theory is well-known in psychology, it is also one of the most controversial. Freud believed that personality developed through a series of childhood stages in which the pleasure-seeking energies of the id become focused on certain erogenous zones. This psychosexual energy – “libido” – was posited as one of the basic primal…