The madness of Poe’s narrators illustrates the potential of the mind to distort reality‚ and causes the reader to question the narrator’s reliability. “The Cask of Amontillado‚” “The Black Cat‚” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” are all told in the first-person point-of-view. The narrators of these stories are unreliable due to their mental instability‚ and therefore the validity of the narratives that they offer must be questioned. Montresor‚ the narrator of “The Cask of Amontillado‚” feels justified in
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The playwright ‘Cosi’ has several backdrops throughout the book. The main once is obviously the theatre but the more in depth backgrounds is the movement of the people in the real world. The Vietnam Moratorium‚ which was fighting for the government to return all the troops from the Vietnam War and the Sexual Revolution‚ which was a social movement that fought against the traditional codes towards to sexual relationships. The Vietnam Moratorium The moratorium was a mass demonstration against
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the Significant Ideas of Love‚ Fidelity‚ Sanity and Insanity in Cosi? In the play Cosi Louis Nowra challenges the important themes of love‚ fidelity‚ sanity and insanity within a range of dramatic techniques. Cosi is set in Melbourne‚ during the early 1970’s. Numerous political and radical events were occurring. The Vietnam War protest was raging‚ the sexual revolution was rolling‚ and mental illness was still misunderstood and mistreated. Due to these contexts‚ love‚ fidelity‚ sanity and insanity
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Cosi by Louis Nowra is a play within a play‚ Meta Theatre‚ and is a semi-autobiographical‚ touching and a biting portrayal of human relationships and mental illness. Prior to the 1970s‚ people who suffered from ‘mental disorders’ were sent to mental institutes in order to prevent them from bringing shame onto their families and the community. The ‘illnesses’ ranged from true mental instability‚ such as OCD and schizophrenia‚ to alcoholics and drug abusers. This is what Nowra’s play is based around
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Madness may be “mental incapacity caused by an unmentionable injury.” | Hamlet was not mad 1. Madness gave time to come to terms with his “unmentionable injury’ 2. Hamlet’s madness only manifests itself when he is in the presence of certain characters. When Hamlet is around Polonius‚ Claudius‚ Gertrude‚ Ophelia‚ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern‚ he behaves irrationally. When Hamlet is around Horatio‚ Bernardo‚ Francisco‚ The Players and the
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“Money Madness” by D.H. Lawrence is a critical evaluation of the rush after affluences that is visible all around us in this Modern Day World. Money has become a powerful player in societies of today and holds more importance than anything else in the modern day lifestyle. The poet‚ through his pen‚ has tried to exemplify this situation and present the social and moral degradation that such madness for a thing so materialistic renders. The poet says that wherever we look there is madness for money;
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Firsthand Madness Although some say that Charlotte Perkin Gilman’s choice for narrator’s tone and view point in the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” only gives readers an askew view of what occurs in the story‚ it reality it is the perfect perspective to view the main characters downward spiral into insanity. The author allows the reader to glimpse the narrator’s madness as it first begins to grow through subtle shifts in tone. Near the beginning of the story‚ the author uses slight changes in
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“I can’t stand real things. If I could put up with reality I wouldn’t be in here.” How does Nowra allow the real world to be escaped but also a constant presence in his play? Through the use of many diverse characters‚ Louis Nowra in his play Cosi reflects on the idea that the concept of reality has the potential to differ when based on different perspectives. Nowra explores the true meaning of reality and reveals that although certain mentally challenged people believe they are isolated from
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I. Introduction and Overview There is something very interesting about a book with a cover promising lurid tales of sex‚ drugs‚ and cheap labor. The persona of Eric Schlosser’s subject and the effective marketing behind it are very verbose in nature. Here in this book‚ Eric Schlosser is keeping with the long tradition of the so called‚ "yellow" journalism‚ in wresting the black market‚ from the back alleys of public consciousness and putting it on display in the storefront of the
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of distraction while attempting to expose Claudius. As the plot develops‚ readers can see a progressive change in Hamlet’s behaviour‚ as he quickly becomes obsessed‚ erratic‚ and paranoid. In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ it is clear that Hamlet’s madness is the main cause of tragedy in the play. This can be seen through
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