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How the 21st Century Student Would Analyze Hamlet

answer might lie with the inner conflicts that were raging within Hamlet regarding his concept of honor and his desire to o the ri...

Psychopathic Behaviour According to Hervey Cleckly

that the theory Cleckley laid out in 1941 became the subject of his 1957 books, The Three Faces of Eve and The Caricature of Love;...

Benefits of Insanity as a Legal Defense

insanity. Of course, if they do avoid a criminal sentence, they are often locked up in an institution for a very long period. Whil...

Insanity in Comparative Literature

freedom as expressed in The Awakening is a freedom from rules, expectations and people. Yet, other types of freedom had also been ...

Insanity Themes in The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

and ones own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depress...

Argument that Hamlet Was Not a Victim of Insanity

he is perfectly sane when he says that he is going to act insane in order to get revenge upon Claudius (Hamlet - Insane or Not?). ...

Broadening of the Insanity Defense

not have full control of their faculties. These orphans of society are often compelled by an emotional or mental imbalance that p...

Historical Significance of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper'

relationship between Gilmans story and the reality of late-nineteenth century life for American women. Shortly after the America...

Analyzing 'The Tell Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe

deed, he nevertheless is overcome by his guilt which seems to lead him to insanity. He begins the story however by not denying his...

4 Articles on Insanity Defense and Mental Disability

not prison. II. THEME OF THE FOUR ARTICLES The theme of these four articles -- Craziness and Criminal Responsibility, Introducti...

Insanity Pleas

In eleven pages this paper examines how 'famous' people often use pleas of insanity as defenses. Fourteen sources are cited in th...

Plea of Insanity

laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as to not know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, o...

A Psychiatric Analysis of Madness and Selected Literary Works

This paper analyzes two psychiatric approaches to addressing madness and insanity. The author utilizes the works of R.D. Laing, D...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper and Insanity

In six pages this paper examines the theme of insanity as portrayed in Gilman's story. Ten other sources are cited in the bibliog...

'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner and Insanity

In 5 pages this paper examines how the theme of insanity is depicted within the characterization of Emily and her mental illness. ...

Clairvoyance, Insanity, and the Life of Mary Todd Lincoln

This paper examines the life of Mary T. Lincoln, wife of US president Abraham Lincoln. The author discusses elements of her insan...

Mental Illness and the Law

In two pages insanity is defined and the ways in which the law dictates mentally ill individuals are to be treated by society are ...

Serial Murderer Jeffrey Dahmer's Plea of Insanity

This paper consists of five pages and discusses how the insanity plea was not plausible in the case of psychopathic murderer Jeffr...

Symboliism in Bartleby, The Scrivener and The Yellow Wallpaper

who flatly refused to accept the mundane. These two characters, both centers of nineteenth century American literature, each made...

Friedrich Nietzsche Quote from Beyond Good and Evil and its Validity

The validity of the quote 'In individuals, insanity is rare, but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule' featured ...

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Perspectives on Mental Illness

In twelve pages mental illness is examined from the perspectives of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in terms of labels suc...

Psychological Views of the Insanity Legal Defense

In eight pages the legal system is discussed in an overview of how the insanity defense is used from a psychological point of view...

Sanity, Insanity and Society From A Swiftian Viewpoint

Jonathan Swift's satiric work A Digression Concerning the Original, the Use and Improvement of Madness in a Commonwealth provides ...

Insanity and Sexual Hysteria in Turn of the Screw by Henry James

trouble him--but never, never; neither appeal nor complain nor write about anything; only meet all questions herself, receive all ...

Analysis of 'Why I Live at the P.O.' by Eudora Welty

In five pages this research paper analyzes Welty's popular short story with the emphasis upon family eccentricities and the post m...

Motives for Crime

or perhaps he decides that he will inject his victim with enough heroin to kill. These ideas do not require much time to implement...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

how the sane are seen as insane. Once a person is in such an institution it seems as though they are automatically pegged as insan...

Abolishing the Insanity Defense

suggest that its special nature puts it in a different class, so to speak, from other defenses that have to do with the causes of ...

Oedipus’ Trial

and queen of Corinth. As a young man, Oedipus heard the prophecy that he would murder his father and marry his mother. Thinking th...

Insanity in The Yellow Wallpaper

a dutiful wife, but there is clearly no connection between the two, and in this one can see one of the most powerful foundations f...