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    Personal Values and Ethical Standards In order to start this paper‚ I had to make sure I knew the differences between values‚ moral and ethics. It’s believed that values are what we learn from childhood from parents and surrounding influences of adults involved in the child’s life. Morals are the beliefs developed from that value system and how one should behave in any given situation. Ethics on the other hand is how someone actually behaves in the situation that may test ones morals and values

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    concubine. I agree with Berkman’s position on her descent into insanity and will argue that Blanche descends into madness throughout her stay at Elysian Fields; post traumatic stress disorder resulting from the loss of her husband‚ lies and a past that prevents Mitch’s acceptance and rescue of her‚ and finally‚ the pitiless mental torment she faces at the hands of her “executioner” Stanley‚ culminate in her final descent into insanity. The death of a loved one is always a stressful event‚ but the

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    In “The Halo That Would Not Light”‚ Brock-Broido depicts a woman’s decent into insanity to convey the idea that insanity is greater than reality. Through her use of symbolism and imagery‚ Brock-Broido is successfully able reveal a woman’s loss of purity to convey how harsh reality truly is. In the second and third stanzas‚ Broido states‚ “He dropped your tiny body In the scarab-colored hollow Of a carriage‚ left you like a finch Wrapped in its nest of linens wound”. This depiction of a fragile body

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    the House of Usher as Roderick Usher goes crazy‚ buries his sister alive‚ and eventually dies. In Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher‚ Roderick Usher is driven to insanity because he fears that his house is haunted. Usher is “enchained by certain superstitious impressions” that the house is cursed‚ which‚ in turn‚ leads him to insanity. This fear that his house is haunted leads Usher to overthink the atmosphere surrounding the mansion

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    story Poe breaks down the mind and shows how paranoia and insanity can go hand in hand. He uses his words productively in the story to display paranoia and intellectual decent. He lessens the story of overkill features as a method to intensify the killer’s fixation with precise and unembellished entities such as the old man’s eye‚ the heartbeat‚ and his own declaration of sanity. The old man’s eye in the story is fixated with insanity by the killers fear and total distaste for it. His infatuation

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    the sense of sound and feel. Emily Dickinson used the different stages of the funeral to show the decent of her mental breakdown. In the first stanza‚ the poem opens with “I felt a Funeral in my Brain‚” showing the beginning of the descent into insanity because with the word funeral. Emily uses “I felt a Funeral...” and not I felt like a funeral‚ thus making this seem real because if Emily were to use a simile in this poem about her mind‚ the use of figurative language would not help in Emily’s

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    and he began by analysing the components of insanity. It was assumed by a number of theorists known as alienists that every suicide was committed by a person inflicted by insanity and that‚ according to Bourdin‚ suicide is simply a disease and special form of insanity. (Durkheim‚E 1989) Durkheim continues this line of thought in order to discover what exactly is meant by such an insanity of suicide. He proposes that if suicide were to be a type of insanity then it would therefore be known as a ‘monomania’;

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    Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat” Edgar Allan Poe’s gothic tale “The Black Cat” was written to invoke a sense of shock in the reader. This short story is written as a first-person narrative in which the narrator travels through increasing levels of insanity throughout the pages. The first time I read this story‚ I thought that the narrator may have imagined it all. I thought there was a possibility that there was no cat at all‚ and the narrator suffered from delusional hallucinations. After analyzing

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    Edgar Allan Poe wrote that the single effect was the most important aspect of a short story‚ which everything must contribute to this effect. Poe’s gothic tale "The Black Cat" was written trying to achieve an effect of shocking insanity. In this first person narrative the narrator tells of his decline from sanity to madness‚ all because of an obsession with two (or possibly one) black cats. These ebony creatures finally drive him to take the life his wife‚ whose death he unsuccessfully tries to conceal

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