There come moments, when the world seems to be unbeareble with all its growing roughness and ill-natured consuming passion. When everybody and everything around demands something from you - now ,immediately, at once. When the chaos of modern life stresses you, causes constant headache. Not the usual headache - the one, when you can't define where exactly it aches. Like a separate cosmos, filled with a substance of disasters, it blows up, quakes or floods. And then ,when after a dozen of "magical" pills you hope that you are saved, at least for a couple of hours, - new horror appears. Thoughts. Numerous thoughts, dialogues, questions run through your head ,resembling butterflies, flying vigorously around the light bulb. The light magnetizes them, keeps them in a constant movement, in a nervous dance - their mortal dance sometimes. The light is your consciousness. It always works. Analyzes events , plans, people, phrases, which circulate in your head. They"re so real, that you can almost touch them, hear them, answer them. And you do. The battle of words can be feverish, endless - that's when you loose control. You give up all attempts to remain a master of your own self. Lying motionlessly on a bed and staring blankly into the ceiling , you"re subdued by a freaky game of exact antithesises. Panic terrorizes you , when a thought strikes: the person here is not you already, but a society-made zombie. And a total calmness lulls , whispering coldly in your ear, that it's inevitable, hopeless to be changed.You"re nobody and everybody at the same time. This new form of being relaxes. Silence and void - the only two states you are aware of. And suddenly you've ceased to realize anything at all. You are asleep. You've escaped.
The main character is a madman. ... A madman can not control his or her feelings. ... (p.39) Another characteristic of a madman is hallucinations. ... Even though in the story the character said he is not a madman, this shows that he is clearly a madman with an obsession he had to take care of. ... The main character is a madman. ...
A Madman's Insanity Guilt depends on a person's self-conscious; if the mind cannot conquer self, it is weak. The "Tell-Tale Heart," by Edgar Allen Poe, reveals a madman's insanity. ... This madman went insane over the old man's eye because he probably felt this eye was without a soul. ...
In Twelfth Night we come across a plethora of complex characters that entertain us through out the romantic play. Yet there is one that stuck to me from beginning to end, Malvolio. Although at the beginning Malvolio seams to be a simple type character with his religious and proper ways, we see ho...
In 1918, Lu Xun created "A Madman's Diary", which is part of the short story collection called Call to Arms. ... "A Madman's Diary" is a series of diary entries written by a madman who is suffering from a persecution complex. The entries are the madman's narration of his fear that people surrounding him are attempting to eat him, including the people closest to him. ... In "A Madman's Diary", everyone in the village that knows the main character considers him an ill man, including his own brother. ... When the madman talks of people wanting to ...
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold; that is the madman. ... The madman "sees more devils than vast hell can hold." ... Love is the madman's perpetrator. The lover, just as much in a state of uncontrollable emotion as the madman, sees beauty in "a brow of Egypt." ... By describing the lover, poet, and madman as "tricks," Theseus thereby negatively refers to love's affliction upon them as mere deception. ...
The Tell-Tale Heart "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a suspenseful story based around a murder by a madman. Although murders are traditionally person versus person, the madman's murder is basically person versus himself. ... He sees himself as the perfect madman, smarter than most and able to see how great madness can be. ... The madman believes that he being mad causes his acute sense of hearing. ... It was but a vulturous eye that led the madman to murder. ...
1.) You do me wrong to take me out of the grave: Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire that my own tears Do scald me like molten lead. Context • Act IV, Scene VII King Lear to Cordelia Development of Character • Lear asks for Cordelia's forgivenes...
It is a very small percentage of people that can relate to guys like the Madman in Maupassant's story. ... The Madman was a person who was highly admired, as he was also a judge and is the person who is supposed to enforce the law. ... Although he is a Madman, he seems to back up everything he says in a way that we don't normally think of it. ... The Madman lives in a harsh reality. ... But I guess in a sense, there is a Madman in all of us. ...
