Superficial charm

of parallelism that contrasts Gatsby's property with his life, which is similarly shallow and vain, partly in an attempt to impress Daisy, and partly to fill the gap that Daisy's absence causes in his life. As the story progresses, Gatsby's superficial charm and allure are progressively deconstructed, and replacing it is the image of a sad and desperate mythomaniac whose fortune builds on crime and…

In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses music to present the vast extent of human emotion. In relation to the signification gap, music is a direct link between signifier and signified. Music alone can hold the emotional depth that words simply cannot encompass: “Whenever there was a pause in the song she filled it with gasping, broken sobs” (Fitzgerald, 51). Evidently, the stranger’s song captures Nick’s attention because of its haunting, poignant sentiment. The singer’s “gasping, broken sobs”…

Anti-social personality disorder is a mental illness that affects more than 2 million people in North America. Anti-social personality which is also called sociopath is when a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is anti-social and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience. This is often seen in criminals. Sociopath and psychopath are two different types of mental illnesses that are usually thought to be interchangeable with one another. A psychopath is a…

Grendel’s Crisis: Aesthetic Nihilism Billboards, magazines, and social media always promote the smartest, richest, and most beautiful people in the world. People that live the dream of the commoners. But can it be useful to create unrealistic standards— or beautiful illusions— for humans? In his novel Grendel, John Gardner explores the idea of illusion in society through Grendel’s questioning of human society. Modern society is formed on illusion, and the ones to best protect or destroy society…

Harley Quinn is a prime representation of gender expression due to the fact that she successfully avoids the typical female character stereotype. Harley is better known as the Joker’s sidekick/lover. She achieves her “sidekick” role by getting an internship in a mental hospital. She assists as a psychology intern, interested in learning more about people’s states when trapped in an asylum. There, she meets and falls in love with a patient known as the Joker, who she tries to free from the asylum…

There is also a strong possibility that psychopathy is related to genetics, being passed from parent to child. A strong connection between childhood trauma to the frontal lobes or the region that allows human emotion and abuse exists between psychopaths as well. Psychopathic brains have a reduction of gray matter, fewer neurons, and increased white matter in the frontal lobes which causes more connections between the neurons- cells that transmit nerve impulses; it also is consistent with a…

Daisy’s character appears shallow and superficial. Daisy seems to gravitate to the most important people and is easily controlled, however when Gatsby reappears into her life he reminds everything they once had which is romance, freedom and happiness. After Gatsby devoted himself to restore the…

The American Psychological Association defines psychology as: “the study of the mind and behavior. The discipline embraces all aspects of the human experience — from the functions of the brain to the actions of nations, from child development to care for the aged.” Psychology, or at least the study of the mind and behavior, has been around since Antiquity, with some of the earliest instances tracing back to almost 3,000 years ago in Egypt and Greece. It has gone from ideas of the human soul and…

Gatsby as a reckless population who construct an illusion based upon the capabilities of the wealth that blinds them. By deserting morality and shifting their focus on the acquisition of wealth and objectification of others, these pursuits become superficial and characterize the flamboyant 1920s society as shallow. Baz Luhrmann’s film adaptation of The Great Gatsby effectively captures the frivolity of a wealthy upper class, nevertheless,…

This does not mean that sociopaths cannot be as dangerous as psychopaths. There are a couple “types” of psychopaths which are based in for different groups to categorize; ((((Interpersonal: Glib and Superficial charm, Grandiose sense of self worth, Deceitful/manipulative, Pathological lying, Many short term marital relationship) Affect Lacks remorse or guilt, Lacks empathy, Shallow affect, Doesn’t accept responsibility, Need for stimulation or proneness to…