A Literary Analysis Of 'The Elevator Of William Sleator'

Macbeth is fearful of how the witches know his deepest desires to be king. If word were to get out about Macbeth's sinful thoughts and his desire for power, he believes that we would be ruined. Banquo notes the fear in Macbeth right away, showing how Macbeth is fighting against his ambitions the instant he hears the prophecy. Due to his fear, Macbeth tries to use force and aggressive words to convince the witches to speak: "Say from whence/ You owe this strange intelligence, .

Coming from a tumultuous and difficult childhood, he has developed traits of solemn and antisocial natures. His undying love for Catherine causes intolerable pain spanning from his youth until the day he dies. Catherine’s obsession with social status and her superficial nature causes her to be in a limbo between choosing to love Heathcliff or Edgar Linton. One day in the midst of an emotional conversation between Nelly and Catherine, Heathcliff hears a snippet of what they are talking about. Catherine hisses, “It would degrade me to love Heathcliff...

Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution only added to the hysteria as people started to believe that if humans could evolve, they could possibly devolve too. Victorians viewed deformity as a form of regression, so many people feared Mr. Hyde because they did not want to end up like him. They believed that if they were to surround themselves around him, they too would develop “ape-like” features and tendencies (Stevenson 25). A wall was put between the normal and the abnormal as Victorians feared that they could be exposed to deformities and invade their bloodline simply by being in the same room with someone. Victorians wanted a separation between them and the “freaks” because this realization that anyone could become Mr. Hyde was terrifying.

The narrator was occasionally cruel to Doodle. The narrator tries to get Doodle to touch the coffin that was built for him when he was born. When Doodle refuses, he threatens, “Then I’ll leave you here by yourself”. Doodle, being young and handicapped, is very dependent on his brother. Being alone terrifies him, and he uses that fear to force his brother to do something that scares

In the book, The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James, the mental state of the main character, the governess is questionable and often argued by the audience. The governess reports several sighting of two ghosts, Peter Quint and Miss Jessel, however, the strange events degrade the credibility of the governess and readers must decide if they were real or fake. The governess is insane because she imagines the ghosts, displays excessive fear and anxiety and is extremely paranoid over the safety of her charges. All of this reasons are symptoms of insanity which lead us to logically believe she has a mental illness.

Therefore, John represents the bars of the wallpaper which confines the woman and doesn 't allow her to be free. First, we can observe the descriptions or feelings that the narrator expresses when speaking about John. Although these descriptions or feelings may seem positive at times, they slowly become more negative and judgmental throughout the story as she realizes that John doesn’t

In this metaphor he is not only talking about the ducks but himself. He is frightened by the idea of losing his innocence in exchange for adulthood and wonders what will happen to him. Throughout the novel he uses motifs to describe his fear and anger of this change. The motifs he uses are the museum, the cliff and the ducks. Holden is terrified of change.

They began “begin to internalize both the negative and the positive stereotypes” (Ward 2013). The false belief as well as the threat to their livelihood makes the stereotype seem more real that it actually is. The lack of courage in standing up for their individual uniqueness again reinforces

The book Where the Sidewalk Ends and the poem “Kidnapped” by Shel Silverstein is inappropriate for children is because of the frightening content and may give children fears for all strangers. The poem describes scenes that are too graphic for young minds, giving them thoughts of being, “Dragged me from the car down to some cold and moldy basement, where they stuck me in a corner” (18-20). This quote gives horrific images of being kept as a prisoner and being kidnapped, which could give children nightmares and terrifying thoughts. Also, children may be uncertain about what strangers are safe and which are not after reading scenes like , “ They stopped me on the sidewalk, and offered me some candy, and when I wouldn't take it they grabbed me

Week One: Hysteria in The Magic Toyshop The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter has many intense and strange characters. One could come up with many problems that each character faces but I will focus on Margret and what could be considered, her hysterical behaviours. Conversion hysteria is when a repressed psychological symptom becomes converted into a physical or behavioural symptom. In On Psychotherapy of Hysteria, Freud explained repression as the ego’s effort to keep bad thoughts and impulses out of one’s awareness and that it can be used as a way to not dealing with or avoiding something.

It is challenging to tell which of George and Martha 's tales about George 's past or about their son stand factual or untrue. Martha defends her verbal abusiveness by saying, “I 'm loud and I 'm vulgar, and I wear the pants in the house because somebody 's got to, but I am not a monster. I 'm not” (Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?). This leads the couple to indignation and competition for dominance in their relationship. Likewise, Nick and Honey 's lives remain established on illusion.

In The Yellow Wallpaper a dangerous effect of complete isolation is paranoia. It is linked in with the obsession of the wallpaper as the narrator does not want anyone else becoming interested in it. The narrator wants the wallpaper all to herself to study and becomes suspicious of John and Jennie. She claims to have “caught [John] several times looking at the wallpaper” and “caught Jennie with her hand on it” (162). This effect of isolation is dangerous because the narrator locks herself in her room and throws the key out of the window in order to free the women who are trapped in the wallpaper.

In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird the theme is to be careful who you trust. Just because you let someone in your house doesn’t mean you should trust them. While Aunt Alexandra 's missionary circle was over, Mrs. Farrow started speaking about an unknown man stirring up the town. The man was Atticus and she was bad talking him in his own house with Scout, Calpurnia, and Aunt Alexandria there.

I asked my dad if he thought people with this disorder are too afraid and ashamed to tell people that they pull their hair out because of a disorder they have, his response was ”I think they are afraid because it causes too much attention and more anxiety” (Walkup, Shane, 11, Dec 2015). That is why I am too scared to tell anybody about having Trichotillomania. I feel like if I tell people at school or ballet they would think less of me or think that I am broken. If I tell people they could make fun of me and I do not want that to happen because it will cause more stress.. I cannot say that people with this disorder think the same as I do.

In society people judge by seeing what 's on the outside and don 't know what 's happening on the inside of a person or the whole truth to something. In other words, they judge a book by it’s cover. In “To Kill A Mockingbird”, Harper Lee shows us why not to judge a book by it’s cover. Jem and Scout think Mrs.Dubose is plain mean when really she 's a morphine addict, Aunt Alexandra doesn 't see any usefulness in Calpurnia but in reality Atticus couldn 't of raised the kids the way he did without her, and everyone thinks Boo Radleys a killer when actually he just wants friends and he 's the one who saves the children. In our world today people assume that someone that looks okay on the outside is doing fine when they could be suffering in silence from bullying, and people who don’t see global warming may not consider the issues even though it is a real problem.