A Psychological View of Benjy ’s Mental Retardation Benjamin Compson‚ a character from The Sound and the Fury‚ is the youngest child of Jason and Caroline Compson who has round the clock supervision. His keepers say‚ "he been three years old thirty years" (Faulkner 17). Mental retardation is a condition that is associated with a person who develops slowly. "The label mentally retarded is applied when someone is significantly below average in general intellectual functioning (IQ less than 70)
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The Sound and the Fury by William Falkner‚ is full of family connections that allows one to deeper understand the time period of the book. Although the family does not really work together‚ each character has a reason to be in the family. Although‚ the character‚ Caddy Compson never has her own section in the novel‚ telling her side of the story‚ she is one of the most important characters that truly helps‚ confuses‚ and changes the course of the novel. Caddy is seen as a promiscuous lady whom does
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Common Elements of Eastern Religion REL/133 January 07‚ 2012 Common Elements of Eastern Religious Many religions of the world have eight elements in common. The elements are a belief system‚ community‚ central myths‚ ritual‚ ethics‚ characteristic emotional experiences‚ material expression‚ and sacredness. These elements help shape religions and the people who believe in them. In this paper I discuss how these elements are similar or how they differ in each of a few of indigenous religions
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Quentin’s neurosis: a psychoanalytic interpretation On looking at The Sound and The Fury‚ Faulkner’s fourth novel ‚ through the lens of psychoanalytic discourse‚ we may easily discover that this novel keenly deals with the various psychoanalytical and psycho-sexual problems of the Compsons family; as a matter of fact‚ Benjy is a congenital moron‚ Quentin suffers from neurosis and melancholia‚ and Jason is a monomaniac. However‚ of the three brothers‚ Quentin deserves our special
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The Phallocentrism in ‘If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller’ and the Feminism in ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ All literary texts‚ according to Bennett and Royle (153-154)‚ can be thought about in terms of how they represent gender difference and how far they may be said to reinforce or question gender stereotypes and sometimes provoke us to think about the very idea of gender opposition. On top of the essential anatomical or biological difference between the male and female‚ various kinds of gender-stereotypes
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Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway A Reflection of the Author’s Life “In people’s eyes‚ in the swing‚ tramp‚ and trudge‚ in the bellow and the uproar‚ the carriages‚ motor cars‚ omnibuses‚ vans‚ sandwich men shuffling and swinging‚ brass bands‚ barrel organs‚ in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplanes overhead was what she loved; London‚ this moment of June.” Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (published on 14 May 1925) is a novel detailing a day in the life of
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The text under interpretation is the extract from Virginia Woolf’s novel “Mrs Dallaway”. Virginia Woolf was born in london at the end of the 19th century‚ her life wasn’t easy as she lost almost all her family. That caused her several breakdowns and through her works one can see her poor mental state. In some of her novels she moves away from the use of plot and structure to employ stream-of-consciousness to emphasize the psychological aspects of her characters. Themes in her works include gender
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Literature Between Wars Critical Commentary of Virginia Woolf’s ‘Mrs Dalloway’ The very first sentence in this extract gives an insight into how Woolf has set to present her main character‚ Clarissa as someone who is lighthearted and somewhat pretentious‚ as she concerns herself with such a trivial matter as buying flowers for her upcoming party. Claiming that she will buy the flowers herself and alleviate the burden of her servant Lucy who has enough to do‚ it is also ironic
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Interpreting Virginia Woolf ’s Homosexual Subtext in Mrs. Dalloway How does Virginia Woolf ’s Mrs. Dalloway intentionally show Woolf ’s lesbian-feminist critique of the institution of marriage and acknowledge the competing discourses of lesbianism and male homosexuality? Eileen Barrett ’s "Unmasking Lesbian Passion: The Inverted World of Mrs. Dalloway" answers the question showing that Woolf used her text to inform the reader of her views. The probable thesis of the article is that Virginia Woolf
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This particular novel: The strange case of dr jakyll and mr hyde contains a lot of Gothicism in it which is portrayed throughout the play. Gothic writing has a tendency to be very dark‚ focuses on the evil side of human nature‚ have supernatural and unexplained factors to it‚ and feature numerous suspense and thriller. All of those may be seen in the book The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. This book focuses on the darkness which means that it specializes in frightening‚ mysterious‚ depressing
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