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- 4831: Invisible Man
- According to Goethe, "We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe." Despite the hyperbolic nature of Goethe’s statement, it holds some truth. Because of this element of truth, society looks to psychoanalysis as an important tool for understanding human nature. Furthermore, psychoanalytic criticism of authors, characters, and readers has a place in ... is structured like a language,"(1) thus directly relating literature – the art of language - and psychoanalysis. Searching the database of the Modern Language Association for articles about the use of psychoanalysis for understanding Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man yields one article by Caffilene Allen, of Georgia State University, in Literature and Psychology in 1995. Thus, further study of this subject seems warranted. As Allen points out, "Purely psychoanalytic interpretations of Invisible ... of at least Freud throughout his novel."(2) Because of the rarity of psychoanalytic critiques of Invisible Man, this paper will examine the character of the invisible man in the Prologue and Epilogue of Ellison’s masterpiece using the theories of Sigmund Freud, Carl Gustav Jung, and Jacques Lacan. The first step in this study should be to look at previous psychoanalytic critiques of Invisible Man. As stated earlier, Caffilene ...
- 4832: Invisible Man
- According to Goethe, "We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe." Despite the hyperbolic nature of Goethe’s statement, it holds some truth. Because of this element of truth, society looks to psychoanalysis as an important tool for understanding human nature. Furthermore, psychoanalytic criticism of authors, characters, and readers has a place in ... is structured like a language,"(1) thus directly relating literature – the art of language - and psychoanalysis. Searching the database of the Modern Language Association for articles about the use of psychoanalysis for understanding Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man yields one article by Caffilene Allen, of Georgia State University, in Literature and Psychology in 1995. Thus, further study of this subject seems warranted. As Allen points out, "Purely psychoanalytic interpretations of Invisible ... of at least Freud throughout his novel."(2) Because of the rarity of psychoanalytic critiques of Invisible Man, this paper will examine the character of the invisible man in the Prologue and Epilogue of Ellison’s masterpiece using the theories of Sigmund Freud, Carl Gustav Jung, and Jacques Lacan. The first step in this study should be to look at previous psychoanalytic critiques of Invisible Man. As stated earlier, Caffilene ...
- 4833: Robert E. Lee
- ... life to his death on October 12, 1870. The first few pages set the scene by listing a substantial amount of facts about the names and backgrounds of his parents Harry and Ann and Lee's wife, Mary Custis, with some reference to his father's army career and political life. After Lee's early years, the reader will learn of his schooling at the Military Academy, West Point, followed by his life in the Army before and after the Civil War. The biography ends in the latter ...
- 4834: Robert E. Lee
- ... life to his death on October 12, 1870. The first few pages set the scene by listing a substantial amount of facts about the names and backgrounds of his parents Harry and Ann and Lee's wife, Mary Custis, with some reference to his father's army career and political life. After Lee's early years, the reader will learn of his schooling at the Military Academy, West Point, followed by his life in the Army before and after the Civil War. The biography ends in the latter ...
- 4835: The Shining: Summary
- The Shining: Summary Stephen King's The Shining is a story about a family, the Torrances who stay at Overlook Hotel for the winter season. The father, Jack Torrance takes his family (wife, Wendy and son, Danny) up to this remote ... a recovering alcoholic who was fired from the university where he taught creative writing, for assaulting one of his students. He stopped drinking after he got drunk one night and nearly ripped his son Danny's arm out of his socket. So, much to his benefit the Overlook was to have no alcohol for the duration of the winter Danny is a young boy who has problems, or so his mother ... thinks. Danny has an imaginary friend named Tony who comes to him in his dreams. Danny uses Tony to interpret his psychic abilities or "the shining" as Hallorann calls it. Dick Hallorann is the Overlook's head chef who sticks around to show the Torrances the kitchen and supplies before he embarks on his vacation for the winter. Hallorann notices the shining in Danny and his father and offers his ...
- 4836: The Destruction of the Ozone Layer
- The Destruction of the Ozone Layer The February 17, 1992 edition of time magazine's cover story started like this: "The world now knows that danger is shining through the sky. The evidence is overwhelming that the earth's stratospheric ozone layer-our shield against the sun's hazardous ultraviolet rays-is being eaten away by man made chemicals far faster than any scientist had predicted." Now this is interesting rhetoric, but there is no evidence here to support this article at ...
- 4837: Last Of The Mohicans
- ... they meet the singing master David Gamut who asked to accompany them to Fort William Henry. Not to far away in the same forest, were an Indian and a White man talking about their race’s existence in the "New World." The Indian was Chingachgook, the chief of the Mohicans, and the White man, Hawkeye; this was the name given to him by the Indians. They talk for a while and then decide to eat. Uncas kills them something for dinner and shortly after, The Party on it’s way to Fort William Henry runs into them along the path. They stop for a while and talk and then ask for directions to Fort William Henry. Hawkeye is suspicious of their guide and ask ... in the end, he is to fast for them and they return to Duncan and his party. Feeling that they were still not safe, Hawkeye offers to help them at no cost. They boarded Hawkeye’s canoe and they head for safety. Chingachgook and Uncas offered to lead the horses up stream to where the others were going by canoe. They go to and island at the foot of Glenn’ ...
- 4838: Macbeth - Nature vs. the Unnatural
- Macbeth - Nature vs. the Unnatural Nature’s Reaction In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, there is a strong relationship between nature and how it reacts to the events that occur in the human world. In the beginning of Act II, Macbeth murders King Duncan so that he can ... er the one-half world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtained sleep. (53) "Nature seems dead" because human life also seems dead, and as people are silent and in shock from Duncan’s death. Nature reacts in the same way that humans do by seeming dead. After the murder, nature continues to act. It suddenly became cold, referring to the cold-blooded murder. Nature didn’t stop ...
- 4839: The Bluest Eye By Toni Morriso
- The Bluest EYE Toni Morrison The Breedlove family has moved from the rural south to urban Lorain, Ohio, and the displacement, in addition to grinding work conditions and poverty, contributes to the family's dysfunction. Told from the perspectives of the adolescent sisters, Claudia and Frieda MacTeer, Morrison's narrative weaves its way through the four seasons and traces the daughter's (Pecola Breedlove) descent into madness. Through flashback and temporal shifts, Morrison provides readers with the context and history behind the Breedloves' misery and Pecola's obsessive desire to have "the bluest eyes." This short ...
- 4840: The Search for Black Holes: Both As A Concept And An Understanding
- ... teaspoon of matter off a white dwarf would weigh 2-4 tons. Upon the first discovery of a white dwarf, a debate arose as to how far a star can collapse. And in the 1920’s two leading astrophysicists, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekgar and Sir Arthur Eddington came up with different conclusions. Chandrasekhar looked at the relations of mass to radius of the star, and concluded an upper limit beyond which collapse would ... amount of mass, but that which is left behind, if greater than 1.4 solar masses, is a densely packed ball of neutrons. This star is so much more massive that a teaspoon of it’s matter would weigh somewhere in the area of 5 million tons in earth’s gravity. The magnitude of such a dense body is unimaginable. But even a neutron star isn’t the extreme when it comes to a star’s collapse. That brings us to the focus of ...
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