Man Versus Oneself There is a constant battle between good and evil within oneself. In some‚ the battle rages far deeper than others. The works: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson‚ Double Vision by Pat Barker‚ an article "The Duality in Gothic Fiction" by Murel Bailey‚ the Wikipedia entry of “Two-Face”‚ the 1963 film‚ The Nutty Professor‚ and the 2003 film‚ The Hulk all demonstrate this struggle in a most extreme way. The novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll
Premium Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson Novella
Pat Barker author of Border Crossings uses a variety of literary techniques to enhance the readers understanding of child criminals and how society deals with these children. Barker utilises the techniques of flashbacks and dialogue to illustrate that morals can change‚ while the use of minor characters explores the idea that children criminals are victims of circumstance‚ while dialogue and juxtaposition exposes the subjectivity of truth. Barker’s effective use of flashbacks and dialogue explores
Premium Morality
Regeneration by Pat Barker‚ is an attempt to illustrate the lasting psychological effects the helplessness and terror of no man’s land had on survivors of the First Great War. Rather than focusing on the battlefields of World War I‚ Barker sets Regeneration in Craiglockhart hospital‚ a real hospital treating soldiers for war neurosis during the period dramatised in the novel. Regeneration revolves around Capt. Siegfried Sassoon’s (Dec.) protest of the war (an historic event)‚ and Dr. W.H.R. Rivers’
Premium English-language films World War II World War I
through the medium of dreams as though they are “the voice of the protopathic heard at last” (Barker 239). Through his treatment of Sassoon and the contemplation of his own dreams‚ Rivers reaches the conclusion that the war can no longer be completely justified. In Siegfried Sassoon‚ Rivers finds that he does not have a shell-shocked soldier to cure‚ but rather one with a case of “powerful anti-war neurosis” (Barker 15) and his attempts to treat Sassoon begin to unravel Rivers own convictions. At the
Premium Siegfried Sassoon Sigmund Freud Unconscious mind
Psychoanalysis in Regeneration (Pat Barker) Barker‚ influenced by the work on Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud‚ used her character of Dr. Rivers in her novel Regeneration to explore the mental effect of trauma on the soldiers during the war. On pg. 31 of Regeneration‚ Barker directly references Freud’s work through the character of Dr Rivers- “He had some knowledge of Freud‚ though derived mainly from secondary or prejudiced sources‚ and disliked‚ or perhaps feared‚ what he thought he knew.” I
Premium Psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud Psychological trauma
De’Corrius Sampson-Young English 1B Professor Channing April 1‚ 2012 Prison Reform Prison reform is the equivalent of a double edge sword with a spike at the bottom of the handle. It is made to cut for protection‚ and prevention‚ but also is made to cut so that things can be built. The sword cannot hunt for you but if used properly you are able to provide food for yourself. Throughout the existence of modern day prisons‚ people have commented that prison only makes criminals better criminals
Premium
texts‚ accentuating women as the corrupting power and showing how this emasculates man throughout both texts. Similarly‚ the corruption of the natural order is a theme which recurs throughout Macbeth and A Simple Plan‚ through this showing how the emasculation of man then also acts as an imbalance to the scales of natural order. Although this changes from period to period‚ an imbalance in the natural order is always corrected. In Macbeth‚ the corruptibility of man is explored by showing man as corruptible
Premium William Shakespeare Corruption Political corruption
Although Dulce et Decorum Est and The Rear-Guard are very different poems set in very different scenarios‚ they have similarities‚ and can be related to the Ghost Road; indeed‚ both poems and the novel make the reader confront the uncomfortable truths of war. It is interesting that all these texts are so psychological in that they show a man being driven to insanity through the horrors that they witness‚ whether it’s the ‘smothering dreams’ of Dulce et Decorum Est’s speaker or the soldier ‘with sweat
Premium Poetry Dulce et Decorum Est Literature
Explore the ways in which Pat Barker presents Rivers’ relationships with his patients in Regeneration‚ and discuss how your response to Rivers is shaped. As William Rivers is a psychiatrist his perceptions of war are altered by the patients that he treats. Characters such as Burns‚ Prior and particularly Sassoon have an impact on how he views the world outside of Craiglockhart. Rivers himself has not been on the front line fighting‚ and therefore only sees the war through the eyes of his patients
Premium Patient World War II United States Declaration of Independence
In Equus‚ Shaffer uses Dysart’s monologue to explore whether it is better to rehabilitate or incarcerate children whom commit crimes‚ while in Border Crossing‚ Barker uses dialogue. Shaffer uses Dysart’s opening monologue to show that while rehabilitation seems more effective than incarceration‚ it can leave people with no worship or imagination. Dysart states that ‘[he’s] officiating at some... ritual sacrifice… the sacrifice is a herd of children‚’ indicating that Dysart knows that although he
Premium Sociology English-language films Social responsibility