Sybil

they have no real bearing on proceedings as everything that the Inspector said happened did actually happen, so really it matters little and the two elders should accept their share of responsibility. They do not, though. Arthur and Sybil, also Gerald in a smaller way, try to laugh off the incident, attempt to think no more of it. Sheila and Eric on the other hand accept their share of guilt. But as the play draws to a close, Arthur receives a phone call making him…

‘Two nations […] who are formed by a different breeding, are fed by a different good, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws’ illustrates the rich and the poor in Disraeli’s Sybil. Hugh McLeod states that class hierarchy is important in the Victorian Era, generally recognized status-groups being the ‘working class, middle class and gentry – each with some degree of common identity and limited mobility from one to another’. Although some may claim that Charles…

It can be said that within the core of every human being, lies a certain amount of darkness. While this is true, it can also be said that this internal darkness can only surface given the right opportunity and within the right environment. However, once this darkness does manage to emerge, its force is powerful enough to destroy the very part of us that makes us human. This darkness and evilness of man is a prominent theme reflected in the setting, plot structure, and characterization of Joseph…

themselves, even as the inspector was questioning him he denies everything and still keeps his childish behaviour. Piestly finds Mr. Birling’s ideals to be insulting and he wrote this play to fight against these sorts of people. Mrs. Birling (Sybil) being Mr. Birling’s ‘social superior’ always tries to correct him ‘Arthur’; you’re not supposed to say such things’. Mrs. Birling seems to always put up an act around people who are not members of the family. She is a traditional woman, who …

Defined by the differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving, personality is as unique as a fingerprint. It is what differentiates us from other human beings and forms a person as a whole (“Personality”). Chapter 13 of David Myer’s Psychology focuses on personality and discusses its associated theories – the psychodynamic, humanistic, trait, and social-cognitive theories – as well as today’s research on one’s self. Sigmund Freud, an Austrian doctor of medicine, first…

Criminology is the social-scientific academic study of crime and criminals. It focuses immensely on how and why crime happens and how to prevent it. Many criminologists queried and argued about when criminology first became its own independent discipline. Hayward & Morrison (2009), cited in Hale et al (2009), claimed that theoretical criminology has been an academic discipline for over two centuries. On the contrary, Garland (2002), cited in Newburn (2007) stated that the “new science of…

Lange thought that it was hard to adjust to the comedy in Tootsie because she had just had to play a very serious role in Frances. During the shoot of an angry scene of Tootsie, she stormed out of the dressing room and destroyed the set. She said there was dead silence after the incident (“50 Facts About Jessica Lange”). “To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I’ve never done before.” This quote from Lange fits the switch from a serious film, Frances, to a comedy film, Tootsie…

Thawing the Snow Queen; Feminism in Science Fiction Here’s the truth, women hate being society’s puppet; so Joan D. Vinge snipped her strings in the novel The Snow Queen. This author made Science Fiction into a tool. The genre allows controversial issues to be stripped and placed into a different setting; it probes the reader to reflect on his or her own beliefs--maybe even challenge those perceptions. Which is why Feminism could ripen under the pages of its wings. That ideology of equality…

The Picture of Dorian Gray, a book by Oscar Wilde, is the story of a man who lost his friendships, trust, and ultimately himself, because of his own insanity. His life was wasted away by his fear of others finding out his true identity, and by his constant state of guilt. Throughout the story, Dorian exhibits many symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder. He struggles to maintain the peaceful relationships he has, and these relationships only get worse as his disorder and the story progresses…

Muriel Spark was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on February 1, 1918. She was educated in Edinburgh, the setting used in most of her novels and went on the become editor of Poetry Review, an internationally acclaimed quarterly. She later published a series of biographies on writers like William Wordsworth, Mary Shelley and Emily Brontë and is best known for her novels, Memento Mori, The Ballad of Peckham Rye and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie for which she received multiple accolades. Spark was made…