DOCTOR FAUSTUS Also from Routledge: ROUTLEDGE · ENGLISH · TEXTS GENERAL EDITOR · JOHN DRAKAKIS WILLIAM BLAKE: Selected Poetry and Prose ed. David Punter EMILY BRONTË: Wuthering Heights ed. Heather Glen ROBERT BROWNING: Selected Poetry and Prose ed. Aidan Day BYRON: Selected Poetry and Prose ed. Norman Page GEOFFREY CHAUCER: The Tales of The Clerk and The Wife of Bath ed. Marion Wynne-Davies JOHN CLARE: Selected Poetry and Prose ed. Merryn and Raymond Williams JOSEPH CONRAD: Selected
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Diagnosing Holden Caulfield In the book The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger‚ the main character‚ Holden Caulfield‚ has strange tendencies that could be diagnosed as a mental disorder or multiple disorders. Thinking like a psychiatrist‚ this book has plenty to dissect. Reading a classic‚ such as Catcher‚ can really draw the reader into the story and make them feel like they are a part of that world. Holden Caulfield’s world has a lot going on. In order to properly diagnose Holden‚ consulting
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Caroline Dillon 5/15/13 Mrs. Lynch Period 3 While reading The Catcher in the Rye‚ Holden Claufield suffers from abnormal behavior. It’s safe to say that Holden doesn’t exactly act like a normal teenager does. Holden suffers from bipolar disorder. A mental illness which causes you to be depressed‚ feeling low and useless‚ as well as manic behavior that causes him to be sleepless‚ irrational‚ and act out with wild behavior. Bipolar disorder can be expressed as a manic-depressive illness. It is
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Holden Character Analysis Essay Like many teenagers‚ Holden Caulfield is a teenager that deals with adolescent issues‚ and adult life. In J.D. Salinger’s novel ’’The Catcher in the Rye’’‚ the main character Holden Caulfield‚ describes in detail the parts of his life and his environment that bother him the most. Holden is a teenager that can relate to most teenagers like us‚ his life revolves around problems‚ and he seems helpless in evading them. Holden can be characterized as a sensitive‚ self-conscious
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The book Catcher in the Rye is set in the 1940’s. Holden Caulfield is a sixteen year old boy from New York City‚ and he’s recently flunked out of several prestigious boarding schools because he doesn’t apply himself. You can tell from reading just a few simple pages that he indeed is an extremely bright kid‚ but he is viewed as a judgmental cynic and doesn’t give much of anything a chance. Their are about a million different things that "kills" Holden‚ but phony people are at the top of his extensive
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going through chronic depression and their use of different coping methods which eventually leads to a mental breakdown. This teenager‚ Holden Caulfield‚ psychologically crumbles under manic depression through a series of agonizing events. These events truly affect his psychological state and eventually separates him from his chance of regaining his mental health. Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye fails to overcome his mental challenges and attempts
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Amelia Lee Freeland 1/2 Who is Holden Caulfield? Many adolescents struggle with finding who they are and how they fit into this world. According to Lewis Judd ’s “The Normal Psychological Development of the American Adolescent‚” adolescents develop a sense of self-concept through the means of experimentation‚ daydreams‚ and in actual or physical activities. Holden Caulfield‚ in The Catcher in the Rye‚ is one such example. Troubled by the early death of his brother‚ Allie‚ and
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growing up is more difficult without healthy coping mechanisms and communication skills. When Holden was in New York‚ he visited a museum and described it as. “...in that museum was that everything stayed right where it was...you could go there a hundred thousand times… only thing would be different would be you “ (128). Museums contain snapshots that show the past in many different ways. In relation to Holden‚ he likes them because they do not change‚ unlike his ever changing world‚ and everything is
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Factors Influencing the Selected Residents of Baranggay in Catanuan Quezon to Patronize Quack Practices. Diane R. Sosa Calayan Educational Foundation‚ Inc. Chapter One Introduction Background of the study Complementary and alternative medicines‚ including quack practices fundamentally rooted on the medical systems and techniques of ancient people such as Chinese‚ Egyptians‚ Greeks‚ Asian Indians and Native Americans. Contemporary biomedical research has tended to be sceptical
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most well known of his plays are Tamburlaine‚ The Jew of Malta‚ and Doctor Faustus. Marlowe was a great innovator of blank verse‚ unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter. The richness of his dramatic verse anticipates Shakespeare‚ and some argue that Shakespeare’s achievements owed considerable debt to Marlowe’s influence. Doctor Faustus was probably written in 1592‚ although the exact date of its composition is uncertain. Doctor Faustus is a play of deep questions concerning morality‚ religion‚ and
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