...Lady Macbeths Trials In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth supporting character Lady Macbeth has many struggles she has to overcome, throughout the story it becomes apparent she suffers from many mental disorders. The two disorders she shows examples of suffering from are post partum depression and panic disorder. She has acquired these disorders from the loss of her child and the stress of her husband’s murders. These disorders greatly affect her actions and decision making throughout the play. Despite her mental disorders one thing remains constant, her love for her husband and her willingness to do anything he needs. In the play Lady Macbeth shows many attributes of someone who suffers from panic disorder. Panic disorder is a mental illness that causes someone to experience severe random panic attacks. In the play when Macbeth kills the king Lady Macbeth suffers one of these attacks when she panics that her and her husband will be caught for murder and treason. People with panic disorder fear a recurring attack, you can tell Lady Macbeth fears an attack because she is constantly putting up a front in order to control her emotions...
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...In Macbeth, Lady Macbeth plans out many murders and vicious plans that come back to hurt her later. Multiple acts of insanity are illustrated within the play through Lady Macbeth. Lady Macbeth also shows multiple signs of an increase to her mental illnesses. The increase of side effects to her mental illnesses drives her to insanity throughout the play. Through the insanity, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), is one of the main illnesses that Lady Macbeth encounters. Lady Macbeth shows signs of PTSD towards the end of the play. One sign/symptom that Lady Macbeth expresses, is the feeling of horror. At the end of the play, Lady Macbeth becomes hostile towards everyone around her. Lady Macbeth talks as if the murders had just happened. “To bed, to bed! There’s knocking at the gate: come, come, come, come, give me your hand. What’s done cannot be undone.” (Shakespeare, Macbeth, 5. 1....
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...Macbeth a play written by William Shakespeare has the main character Macbeth suffer from the many symptoms of Brief Psychotic Disorder throughout the play. “Brief Psychotic Disorder, also known as brief reactive psychosis, is a mental disorder that is characterized by the symptoms of hallucinations and delusion. When having these hallucinations, someone might hear voices or see things that aren't there”. By looking at these symptoms, it is easily said that Macbeth has Brief Psychotic Disorder, shown through the play when he has cases of hallucinations and doesn’t act as himself, which is very common among people who have Brief Psychotic Disorder. Macbeth shows many cases of having constant hallucinations throughout the book, including when he sees a floating dagger, when Macbeth hears voices about killing King Duncan, and when he sees Banquo’s ghost at the banquet. The first hallucination Macbeth has is when he sees the dagger just before he goes to kill King Duncan. He is having the desire to kill King Duncan and starts to not act normal and says “Is this a dagger which I see before me”(2.1.44). By Macbeth seeing a floating dagger and not knowing what is going on, this is not something normal that usually happens to Macbeth and that he is not acting as himself. This...
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...Upon being introduced to Macbeth, he is portrayed as a war hero turned evil by his ambitious desires and greed. His wife Lady Macbeth is described as a power-hungry woman whose evil thoughts and cruel desires have earned her the reputation of a woman too masculine to fit the description of the fragile, gentle beings that women in those times were thought to be. From the beginning, Lady Macbeth is seemingly blamed for corrupting her once honorable husband. It has been argued that Lady Macbeth convincing her husband to commit murders for power is the sole root of all of their problems. Alternatively, some might believe that Macbeth already had the desire for power, and that Lady Macbeth simply gave him the last bit of motivation he needed. I’d like to propose a different perspective, that neither Macbeth nor his lady are evil or ill-natured, but suffering from a crippling mental illness...
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...English 11 December 4th 2015 The Guilty Conscience of Lady Macbeth vs. the Narrator of “The Tell-Tale Heart” One in five people have mental health issues, but five in five people have mental health. William Shakespeare’s character Lady Macbeth from the play Macbeth and the narrator of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart.” both are examples of mental health issues. Lady Macbeth’s mental illness was brought on by the guilt she felt after committing a murder, but for the narrator of “The Tell-Tale Heart.” the mental illness was present before the murder. This showing that it was not a result of guilt. Before the murder of Duncan in the play Macbeth, Lady Macbeth seemed happy and showed little to no signs of mental health issues. After the death of the king and guards, you can see the change in Lady Macbeth. She starts to sleep walk, she mumbles about feeling guilt and she no longer wants to be in the dark. In the play when murders happen it is always a dark stormy night, this is to set the mood of it being dark and scary. (Enter Lady Macbeth with a taper) DOCTOR. How came she by that light? GENTLEWOMEN. Why, it stood by her. She has light by her con- / tinually, tis’ her command. (5.1.133). Lady Macbeth doesn’t want to be in the dark anymore so she carries a candle with her everywhere she goes, even sleep walking. Another sign that the guilt of the murder sent Lady Macbeth into a mentally ill state would be her continuously trying...
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...Lady Macbeth is the secondary character in The Tragedy of Macbeth, she is the wife to the main character Macbeth and they plan to murder their way to be king and queen. At first Lady Macbeth showed strong will and pushes Macbeth to kill the King of Scotland. But slowly through the story she loses self control and begins to show weird signs of some mental illness. The mental illness i'm diagnosing her with is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD). For lady macbeth Having PTSd occurred during the killing of King Duncan, Banquo and The Macduff family excluding Macduff himself. Killing people has to be one of the most traumatic incidents a human being can experience, and I will explain what PTSD is and the side effects it causes, My reasoning for...
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...most common war injuries is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and the effects can be devastating. PTSD is an emotional illness classified as an anxiety disorder and usually develops because of a terribly frightening, life-threatening, or otherwise highly unsafe event, PTSD (posttraumatic stress disorder) is a mental health problem that some people develop after experiencing or witnessing...
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...Why is Macbeth is still relevant in today’s society? Is it not time we found something new? It’s been over 400 years, keep up people. Shakespeare’s plays are still relevant today; they explore the humanity in people. Macbeth was a greedy, jealous and unhappy with his life. He was extremely susceptible to pressure. Shakespeare managed to accurately depict many truths about the human race; many in modern society fit the profile of Macbeth in one sense or another, partly because human nature hasn’t changed a great deal since the Elizabethan era. Themes such as guilt, shame, anxiety, paranoia, trauma, mental illness, psychological vulnerability, envy, inferiority, manipulation, greed and murder are still relevant in the 21st century. Macbeth desired and in the end achieved the title of King of Scotland, but not without sacrifice. Not only did Macbeth desire the king’s title, but his wife Lady Macbeth also wished to be queen, mounting pressure upon him drove him towards darkness. Macbeth became exceedingly jealous towards Duncan. In Macbeth’s eyes he had everything he wanted including happiness. Duncan was the king Macbeth desired to be. With Duncan in the way Macbeth’s desires were unattainable. Macbeth was ambitious, but with the influences of the three witches and his power hungry wife he became greedy and thoughtless. Realising his dreams could easily become reality, with encouragement from his wife, Macbeth plotted against King Duncan, ruthlessly murdering him whilst in lay...
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...John does not see any clearly visible signs of ailment in his wife, he believes there is no serious ailment afflicting her. This point is further reinforced when the narrator admits her condition is getting worse and goes on to say: “John does not know how much I suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him” (Gilman, 649). Even aside from physical signs of discomfort, John’s wife makes constant pleas that her condition is only getting worse, which John disregards. John’s limited understanding of medicine and the human body added with his neglectful take on his wife’s complaints leads to the eventual deterioration of the narrator’s mental state. Often in literature we have seen that power in the wrong hands leads to corruption and eventual destruction. A great example of this would be the story of Macbeth. Similarly, John in “The Yellow Wallpaper” uses his influences and powers as a physician and husband to first assure the narrator’s friends and family that there is nothing wrong with her. Then he takes away the narrator’s free will and makes her completely reliant on him. Throughout the story John refers to his authority as a physician: “I am a doctor dear, and I know” “Can you not trust me as a physician when I tell you so” (Gilman, 652). These constant reminders of his authority solidify his control over the decisions regarding his wife’s health. On top of this, John shuns any fears and discomforts the narrator has with the house: “there is something...
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...3673 THE ‘UNCANNY’ (1919) Freud - Complete Works. Ivan Smith 2000. All Rights Reserved. 3675 THE ‘UNCANNY’ I It is only rarely that a psycho-analyst feels impelled to investigate the subject of aesthetics, even when aesthetics is understood to mean not merely the theory of beauty but the theory of the qualities of feeling. He works in other strata of mental life and has little to do with the subdued emotional impulses which, inhibited in their aims and dependent on a host of concurrent factors, usually furnish the material for the study of aesthetics. But it does occasionally happen that he has to interest himself in some particular province of that subject; and this province usually proves to be a rather remote one, and one which has been neglected in the specialist literature of aesthetics. The subject of the ‘uncanny’ is a province of this kind. It is undoubtedly related to what is frightening - to what arouses dread and horror; equally certainly, too, the word is not always used in a clearly definable sense, so that it tends to coincide with what excites fear in general. Yet we may expect that a special core of feeling is present which justifies the use of a special conceptual term. One is curious to know what this common core is which allows us to distinguish as ‘uncanny’ certain things which lie within the field of what is frightening. As good as nothing is to be found upon this subject in comprehensive treatises on aesthetics, which in general prefer to concern...
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...The Hell of Nineteen Eighty-Four. ). Did Orwell realise quite what he had done in Nineteen Eighty-Four? His post-publication glosses on its meaning reveal either blankness or bad faith even about its contemporary political implications. He insisted, for example, that his 'recent novel [was] NOT intended as an attack on Socialism or on the British Labour Party (of which I am a supporter)'.(1) He may well not have intended it but that is what it can reasonably be taken to be. Warburg saw this immediately he had read the manuscript, and predicted that Nineteen Eighty-Four '[was] worth a cool million votes to the Conservative Party';(2) the literary editor of the Evening Standard 'sarcastically prescribed it as "required reading" for Labour Party M.P.s',(3) and, in the US, the Washington branch of the John Birch Society 'adopted "1984" as the last four digits of its telephone number'.(4) Moreover, Churchill had made the 'inseparably interwoven' relation between socialism and totalitarianism a plank in his 1945 election campaign(5) (and was not the protagonist of Nineteen Eighty-Four called Winston?). If, ten years earlier, an Orwell had written a futuristic fantasy in which Big Brother had had Hitler's features rather than Stalin's, would not the Left, whatever the writer's proclaimed political sympathies, have welcomed it as showing how capitalism, by its very nature, led to totalitarian fascism? With Nineteen Eighty-Four, it is particularly necessary to trust the tale and not...
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...Bloom’s Classic Critical Views W i l l ia m Sha k e Sp e a r e Bloom's Classic Critical Views alfred, lord Tennyson Benjamin Franklin The Brontës Charles Dickens edgar allan poe Geoffrey Chaucer George eliot George Gordon, lord Byron henry David Thoreau herman melville Jane austen John Donne and the metaphysical poets John milton Jonathan Swift mark Twain mary Shelley Nathaniel hawthorne Oscar Wilde percy Shelley ralph Waldo emerson robert Browning Samuel Taylor Coleridge Stephen Crane Walt Whitman William Blake William Shakespeare William Wordsworth Bloom’s Classic Critical Views W i l l ia m Sha k e Sp e a r e Edited and with an Introduction by Sterling professor of the humanities Yale University harold Bloom Bloom’s Classic Critical Views: William Shakespeare Copyright © 2010 Infobase Publishing Introduction © 2010 by Harold Bloom All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher. For more information contact: Bloom’s Literary Criticism An imprint of Infobase Publishing 132 West 31st Street New York NY 10001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data William Shakespeare / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom : Neil Heims, volume editor. p. cm. — (Bloom’s classic critical views) Includes bibliographical references...
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...Improve your Written English Visit our How To website at www.howto.co.uk At www.howto.co.uk you can engage in conversation with our authors – all of whom have ‘been there and done that’ in their specialist fields. You can get access to special offers and additional content but most importantly you will be able to engage with, and become a part of, a wide and growing community of people just like yourself. At www.howto.co.uk you’ll be able to talk and share tips with people who have similar interests and are facing similar challenges in their lives. People who, just like you, have the desire to change their lives for the better – be it through moving to a new country, starting a new business, growing your own vegetables, or writing a novel. At www.howto.co.uk you’ll find the support and encouragement you need to help make your aspirations a reality. For more information on punctuation and grammar visit www.improveyourpunctuationandgrammar.co.uk How To Books strives to present authentic, inspiring, practical information in their books. Now, when you buy a title from How To Books, you get even more than just words on a page. Improve your Written English Master the essentials of grammar, punctuation and spelling and write with greater confidence MARION FIELD Published by How To Content, A division of How To Books Ltd, Spring Hill House, Spring Hill Road, Begbroke, Oxford OX5 1RX, United Kingdom. Tel: (01865) 375794. Fax: (01865) 379162...
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...Food, Nutrition and Poverty Among Asylum-Seekers in North-West Ireland Mary Manandhar, Michelle Share, Sharon Friel, Orla Walsh, Fiona Hardy Combat Poverty Agency Working Paper Series 06/01 ISBN: 1-90548-512-3 May 2006 FOOD, NUTRITION AND POVERTY AMONG ASYLUM-SEEKERS IN NORTH-WEST IRELAND A collaborative study by the Health Service Executive – North Western Area and the Centre for Health Promotion Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway. With funding from Combat Poverty Agency Report authors: M Manandhar, M Share, S Friel, O Walsh and F Hardy (2006) FOOD, NUTRITION AND POVERTY AMONG ASYLUM-SEEKERS IN NORTH-WEST IRELAND Research Team Members HSE Western Area National University of Ireland, Galway (formerly North Western Health Board) Dr Mary Manandhar Senior Research Officer Public Health Department Dr Sharon Friel Lecturer Centre for Health Promotion Studies Ms Michelle Share Senior Research Officer Public Health Department Ms Orla Walsh Researcher Centre for Health Promotion Studies Dr Fiona Hardy Regional Coordinator for Services for Asylum Seekers and Refugees Ms. Theresa Shyrane Community Health Adviser Community Services, County Donegal March 2006 Food, nutrition and poverty among asylum seekers in NW Ireland Manandhar et al. Contents Page List of Tables List of Figures Abstract Executive Summary Introduction 1 1 5 1.1 Rationale and aims of the research 6 ...
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...The Philosopher’s Stone by Colin Wilson PANTHER, GRANADA PUBLISHING London Toronto Sydney New York Published by Granada Publishing Limited in Panther Books 1974 Reprinted 1978 ISBN 0 586 03943 0 First published in Great Britain by Arthur Barker Limited 1969 Copyright © Colin Wilson 1969 Granada Publishing Limited Frogmore, St Albans, Herts, AL2 2NF and 3 Upper James Street, London, WIR 4BP 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020, USA 117 York Street, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia 100 Skyway Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Mgw 3A6 Trio City, Coventry Street, Johannesburg 2001, South Africa CML Centre, Queen & Wyndham, Auckland, New Zealand Made and printed in Great Britain by Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd Aylesbury, Bucks Set in Linotype Pilgrim This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Scanned : Mr Blue Sky Proofed : It’s Not Raining Date : 09 February 2002 PREFATORY NOTE Bernard Shaw concluded his preface to Back to Methuselah with the hope that ‘a hundred apter and more elegant parables by younger hands will soon leave mine... far behind’. Perhaps the thought of trying to leave Shaw far behind has scared off would-be competitors. Or perhaps - what is altogether...
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