Without using words Mary is telling her family that they are not as important to her as her disease is. .
According to the American Psychiatric Association, Addiction is defined as a chronic brain disease that causes compulsive substance use despite harmful consequences. The major problem that has caused many of the family's issues in the first place is Mary's drug addition. Her addiction has resulted in social, psychological, emotional, and physical consequences amongst the family (Samuels). Each of the family members has ways of hiding and coping with their morphine-feigning mother. Psychologically, the family members of an addict who are consistently lied to, lose trust and begin an attempt to uncover a lie in every situation. Their thinking begins to change, expecting the worst out of every situation (Samuels). Mary having recently returned home from rehabilitation is left feeling anxious and restless which is common among recovering addicts. During the middle of the night, Edmund, Mary's youngest son, hears his mother moving through the house and entering the guest bedroom. Immediately Edmund becomes alarmed and thinks the worse case scenario. This is the room his mother would go to fulfill her morphine craving. Naturally, Edmund assumes his mother is more than likely using again. Socially, family members of an addict become more isolated in order to avoid conversations and questions regarding the addict (Samuels). Unlike the norm, Edmund decided to privately ask his mother about her sobriteity and she responded with a common addict response, "I'm not blaming you dear. How can you help it? How can any one of us forget?" (O'Neill, 1.1.228).
Living with an addict can be an emotional rollercoaster. Living with an addict who is living in the past is so damaging because it is not realistic. Even the most stable person can begin to feel distressed. Emotions escalated significantly from the beginning of O'Neill's play to the end.
Your journey began expecting a new life, instead you receive promised death. Soon the artificial song lulls me into a trance. ... I knew the fasted route, even knew how long the commute would take. ... This night, a night I should be commemorating, has left me paralyzed. ... How am I to determine such a blurred concept? ...
The instructions were very specific and it was clear that they took all of the stipulations into account when preparing for the Passover. ... The people were to wear their traveling clothes while eating their feast and were to be prepared for the journey. ... The celebration is to last seven days. ... Consequences for disobeying this rule at any time during those seven days were severe. ... Another important concept is regarding the slaughtering of the animals for the Passover. ...
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John Rivers and Rochester A man's love for a woman can go a long way. ... Jane sees little of Rochester during his first days at Thornfield. ... When there conversation was finally over, it turns to the concepts of sin, forgiveness, and "redemption- (Rigby 1). ... Good-night, my -" (Bronte 205). ... During her journey she meets a new man who goes by the name of St. ...
After reading It's Not About the Bike, My Journey Back To Life, by Lance Armstrong, I realized that it's not about the bike, as the title of the book states. ... From this passage, Lance acknowledges that he waited too long to go to a doctor. ... But as I sat in my house alone that first night, it was humbling to be so scared. ... I hoped hard, I wished hard, but I didn't pray If there was indeed a God at the end of my days, I hoped he didn't say, "But you were never a Christian, so you"re going the other way from heaven." ... Beyond that We are so much stronger th...
First is Thomas Jefferson's view as the early American coming into the Indians native land. ... He had been associated with them during his boyhood in Albemarle County and his college days in Williamsburg. He had heard his father's tales of journeys into the wilderness and his interactions with the Indians, but no Native Americans roamed the forest near Jefferson's boyhood home. ... "Aboriginal Homeric concepts of human behavior had early become real and concrete to him in the simple dignity of American Indians." ... He was to observe this race as a philosopher and to inquire in...
For one night we were one, united by the defeat of a common enemy. This description of the build up to, and the spontaneous celebration that ensued after Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's capture, was the cathartic culmination of an angst- and grief-ridden ten days that played out following the first major terror event on U.S. soil since the beginning of America's proclaimed "war on terror" in the wake of 9/11. ... Yet placed in the context of the ideology of America's "war on terror", they appear to support the concept of what has been termed "American exceptionali...
With the physical creation of earth, mankind, and gods came the abstract concepts of law, religion, ethics, and kingship. ... As long as the body was preserved, the ka and ba would live. ... Once in the tomb it was believed that the akh began its journey to the hall of judgment. ... By counting the number of days until the Dog Star again rose at dawn, they worked out a calendar of 365 days. ... They also divided day and night into 12 parts, hours to us, and they created shadow clocks that marked the time by the shadow cast by an upright arm onto a horizontal arm, and water clocks. ...
