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- 231: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... to gambling and his addiction to alcohol (Silverman 29-38). The greatest contributor to Poe's despair would have to be his self-inflicted addiction to alcohol. His foster family's social status made his alcoholism a shameful vice, and a source of conflict. Using it as an escape of sorts, Poe's life was greatly affected by the substance, disrupting his work, his first engagement, and his time with his ...
- 232: Charlie Chaplin
- ... became a leading player and writer. Late in the year 1900 Charlie is cast as a cat in a production of Cinderella at the London Hippodrome. Less than a month later his father died from Alcoholism. Soon afterwards his mother Hannah is committed to the Cane Hill Asylum, and never completely recovers her sanity. For almost the next ten years Charlie performs in various rolls throughout Europe. In September of 1910 ...
- 233: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- ... His inspiration to write even more in his spare time was brought on by his marriage. Shortly after their marriage, Doyles father, Charles, was confined inside a nursing home in London, England because of alcoholism and epilepsy. Jean Leckie and Doyle had three children, a son, Denis Percy Stewart born in 1909, another son, Adrian Malcolm born in 1910, and a daughter, Lena Jean Annette born in 1912.15 In ...
- 234: Charlie Chaplin
- ... became a leading player and writer. Late in the year 1900 Charlie is cast as a cat in a production of Cinderella at the London Hippodrome. Less than a month later his father died from Alcoholism. Soon afterwards his mother Hannah is committed to the Cane Hill Asylum, and never completely recovers her sanity. For almost the next ten years Charlie performs in various rolls throughout Europe. In September of 1910 ...
- 235: Salvador Manuchin
- ... assess for suicidal intent, advise a physical, ask about weapons in the home, and work on both family and individual levels with interventions aimed at interactions (arguments, nagging, money problems, abuse) that presently maintain the alcoholism. A typical situation as described by Neil Jacobson in 1995, an un-intense family with a cool emotional atmosphere unconsciously selects a member to turn up the heat; brother and sister start fighting. This turns ...
- 236: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- ... His inspiration to write even more in his spare time was brought on by his marriage. Shortly after their marriage, Doyle's father, Charles, was confined inside a nursing home in London, England because of alcoholism and epilepsy. Jean Leckie and Doyle had three children, a son, Denis Percy Stewart born in 1909, another son, Adrian Malcolm born in 1910, and a daughter, Lena Jean Annette born in 1912.15 In ...
- 237: Charlie Chaplin
- ... London in April of 1889. His parents, Charles Chaplin and Hanna Hill were music hall entertainers but separated shortly after Charlie was born, leaving Hanna to provide for her children. Unfortunately his father died of alcoholism in 1901 and his mother became ill, constantly going in and out of mental institutions. Chaplin lived his childhood in and out of run-down furnished rooms, state poorhouses, and an orphanage. His childhood was ...
- 238: Winter In The Blood An Analysi
- ... disquieting. Furthermore, the narrator of the novel is disheartened by the loss of his brother, Mose, and his father, First Raise the two most cherished people in his life. After struggling with guilt, sorrow, and alcoholism, the narrator overcomes these down falls through re-identifying with himself and his culture specifically through the help of his grandfather, Yellow Calf. In the opening line of the novel, the narrator provides a vivid ...
- 239: The Neurosis Of Passion
- ... many admirable qualities none the less. In Miss Skiffins, Wemmick has found a mate who loves him out of mutual admiration and with a deep affection. Clara too is able to break the patterns of alcoholism and of the chaotic household she was raised in through her marriage to Herbert. Again this marriage is not one based upon passion, but upon mutual respect and adoration. In a novel where the issue ...
- 240: The Black Cat Literary Critici
- ... first cat or rapping with his cane upon the plastered-up wall behind which stood his wife's body. We might argue that what the narrator calls "perverseness" is actually moral sense. Guilt about his alcoholism seems to the narrator the "perverseness" which causes him to maim and kill the first cat. Guilt about those actions indirectly leads to the murder of his wife who had shown him the gallows on ...
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