A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner is a short story in which it could see reflected the influence of the author's life. ... Regarding the events of the story, they develop in the nineteenth century. ... In the same line, Faulkner deals with issues such as gender, race and class and also he describes the romance between a southern lady and a northern man who represents the different ideologies in each location This short story about tragedy presents the life and death of a southern woman who became mentally ill while living in isolation according to the obsolete traditions of the South A...

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Zossimov, feels that Raskolnikov has some sort of monomania and the Dr. has "some suspicions of insanity." ... Every time he feels that he might be exposed or thinks of redemption he tends to get short of breath or nearly stop breathing altogether. ... Raskolnikov's madness not only drives the plot but rather is the plot itself for Dostievsky's Crime and Punishment is not merely a detective novel; on an underlying level it is the story of the suffering of an individual due to the ideas of the day, which represents 1800s Russia with its tyrant, communist leadership and economic desp...

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Zossimov, feels that Raskolnikov has some sort of monomania and the Dr. has "some suspicions of insanity." ... Every time he feels that he might be exposed or thinks of redemption he tends to get short of breath or nearly stop breathing altogether. ... Raskolnikov's madness not only drives the plot but rather is the plot itself for Dostievsky's Crime and Punishment is not merely a detective novel; on an underlying level it is the story of the suffering of an individual due to the ideas of the day, which represents 1800s Russia with its tyrant, communist leadership and economic desp...

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Heathcliff's love for Catherine is fanatical to the point of insanity as he is even jealous of the worms decaying her corpse. ... Out of all the short stories, sadism is most evident in the Count from "The Snow Child". ... The fact that she has emphasised his loneliness in this way may heighten the idea that it is significant in provoking his insanity. ...

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Arising from these new techniques came the Romantic approach to the development of Gothic novels, and short stories. ... In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher", the author depicts the workings of a human mind on the verge of insanity through the use of an allegory of which all characters and events of the story symbolize the human mind's transition into madness, universally conveying the terror that overwhelms and finally destroys the fragile mind of Roderick Usher. ... The foundation of the story's meaning is found within the connection between Roderick and Mad...

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By doing a close reading of this passage, we will be able to understand the narrator better, and hence, get a better understanding of the story. ... This trait of self-inducing entrapment is continued till the end of the story, where she once again traps herself, this time in the abyss of insanity. ... The words "tired" and "exhaust" were used many times throughout the short passage and she also describes herself as "fretful and querulous", which are all signs of tiredness. ... Being the central image of the whole story, the yellow wallpaper plays a very important role towards the understan...

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By doing a close reading of this passage, we will be able to understand the narrator better, and hence, get a better understanding of the story. ... This trait of self-inducing entrapment is continued till the end of the story, where she once again traps herself, this time in the abyss of insanity. ... The words "tired" and "exhaust" were used many times throughout the short passage and she also describes herself as "fretful and querulous", which are all signs of tiredness. ... Being the central image of the whole story, the yellow wallpaper plays a very important role towards the understan...

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Cultural Narratives Sean and David's Long Drive tells the story of two friends who decide to travel around Australia in a Ford Falcon to escape their dull and boring lives in urban Australia. ... The varying settings used in the text are an integral part of Sean and David's story, furthermore the way in which Sean describes and interacts with his surroundings is equally important to the creation of the story as an anti-travel text. ... This technique almost always works against the locale they are at; the characters are usually close to insanity or just really annoying. ... Its sh...

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Each time the story flashes back to speak about Kreisler, the readers are led to discover more and more strange mannerisms about him. ... He shows a vast variety of emotions within a very short period of time whilst speaking to Abraham " he was furious and full of anger which then quickly turned into excitement and laughter. ... Kreisler's emotions were constantly changing vastly that the characters around him in the story (as well as the readers) could never predict when, or where, or how he's mood will change. ... His insanity and constant ˜ups and downs' in his...

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Cesare Lombroso was an Italian criminologist born in Venice, Italy on November 18, 1836 to parents of Jewish decent. He wrote several books which were published including a book on antisemitism. Blaming Jewish people for their conditions and proposed assimilation as the answer for problem of preju...

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At age seven - after spending 12 weeks in a one room schoolhouse with 39 other students of all ages - Tom's overworked short tempered teacher lost his patience with the child's persistent questioning and relatively self centered behavior. ... Most interestingly, because this paper was the first ever to be typeset, printed, and sold on a train, an English journal gave him his first international notoriety when it featured a story on it in 1860. ... His mother was showing evidence of insanity that was aggravated by the ups and downs of a difficult life. ...

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The term capital punishment is derived from the Latin caput, meaning "head". It originally referred to death by decapitation, but now applies generally to state authorized executions. Crimes occur in every society around the world. Historically, criminals convicted of these crimes were dealt with in different ways, some of which are sentenced to death. Capital punishment has been banned in most western countries, although, countries like the United States, despite earlier attempts to eliminate capital punishment have now had an increased amount of support from several states, in the use...

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