Ted Honderich

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath relies heavily on shift in tone and topic to portray the ongoing descent into depression that is the basic story arch for the main character Esther Greenwood. Plath employs a large arsenal of techniques to convey the necessary shifts in the novel. One of the most obvious methods is a direct statement of shift by a character. The direct shift is combined with hints through typical behavior, such as crying. Plath also uses contrasting statements both through Esther…

Judith Wright 's Woman to Child and Sylvia Plath 's Morning Song have a focus on the way that mortality is perceived by society, expanding on this by implying that it is ultimately controlled by nature. In Morning Song, Sylvia Plath examines the concept of longevity and youth. This is evident in the unusual simile, "like a fat gold watch," in the First Stanza. The unconventional comparison between a baby and gold watch draws parallels between the superficial constructs of society and the deeper…

Sylvia Plath’s poem, “The Mirror,” is full of imagery and comparisons. Plath uses these in order to emphasize the point she is trying to make with the poem about beauty, aging, self-image, and the way society views the three. Comparisons are made throughout the poem that convey feelings and ideas that would not have the same affect if they were explicitly stated. The poem is narrated by the mirror itself, which is personified by Plath. According to Aidan Curran, this makes the poem seem both…

Poetry comes to people in many different ways and times of their lives, as for me, you can say we are perfect strangers. But never the less that fact will not get me out of this essay. So with my expectations low, I started browsing through some poems. Just when I was about to give up on finding an interesting poem that I liked and could understand, I came across Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus” (pages 549-551). This is a dark poem about a woman and the things she experienced while in a…

term evil has no fluent meaning throughout humans history, today that changes. The definition of evil is not one that is easily defined nor readily available to us as a human species. However through the study of serial killers such as Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and Albert Fish. and their treatment in the court system, one facet of a very large topic can be explored in an attempt to place a dialectic definition on such an arbitrary topic as evil. Through the case study of…

Ted Bundy states to the Pensacola police, “I’m the most cold-blooded son of a bitch you’ll ever meet.” Bundy gives a perfect description of himself after being convicted and taken into custody by the Pensacola Police Department. Bundy was very open about the thirty killings he convicted, and he offered the Pensacola police officers details about these killings that forever changed the lives of the very frightened and disturbed American people Bundy, above all, did not want to be caught, ever.…

During the 19th century, France had their own version of the famous Britain serial killer Jack the Ripper, and his name was Joseph Vacher. Joseph Vacher killed twice as many innocent people then Jack the Ripper. The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and The Birth of Forensic Science, written by Douglas Starr gives the story of Joseph Vacher’s life and the brutal crimes he committed. Starr also introduces the criminologist Alexandre Lacassagne, for whom he gives credits to for the…

Simple hypotheses generation and ACH were the SATs used in the case study of who murdered Jonathan Luna. The case study detailed an assistant U.S. attorney Jonathan Luna’s personal and professional life, along with his financial issues, infidelities, previous and current cases and of course his confusing unsolved murder. Some key questions to ask one’s self throughout examining and applying SATs are: who murder Jonathan Luna, who called Luna at 11 P.M., why would someone target him, and what…

IN the mind of the worst of the human race We all fear something, don’t we? Yes, yet it is hard to say things that we are afraid of do not intrigue us, make us wonder. Where it came from what made it what it is well this paper is my dive into the mind of something that intrigues me personally yet I am also afraid of. The mind of the serial killer the monsters among men we all fear people that can take a human life but why do they well in my research I found some similarities such as personal…

The Brain Network of Serial Killers and Psychopaths A Serial Murder Symposium was held where all the attendees discussed and agreed that there was no generic profile of a serial murderer. How a serial killer commits a crime depends on a lot of different aspects including motivation, his behaviour, how he was raised and what circumstances he had faced in childhood. How are they identified and arrested? A police officer should be trained, how exactly to decipher one from another? The Behavioural…