Sleazy Lawyer Essay James Goode R.A.F.T Exercise
Is it not clear your honour, that this loving wife was experiencing a brief moment of crippling insanity that caused her lash out against her husband? I am certain that she is a caring wife who sees him as a flower would see the sun, this love for him was indeed taken and shattered as she was told of their imminent divorce while she was already stressed for she was expecting child. Do you not believe that a woman with child, experiencing such crippling emotions might indeed lead her to have a moment of insanity?
As you can see before you stands my client and it is quite obvious she is expecting a child very soon. It has been proven many times that while a woman is pregnant hormones can affect how they think and act. Anyone who has ever been pregnant or with someone who is pregnant can clearly see that. Does it really seem so unlikely that while the brain is experiencing such moments of stress and internal chemical warfare that Mrs Maloney would attack her husband in a brief moment of insanity. Mrs Maloney’s actions were assuredly due to temporary insanity from the effects of being pregnant and then being told by her husband that he wished for a divorce.
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What happens if you take away the sun from a flower your honour? Does it not wilt and die? Well in the case of my client Mr Maloney was the sun and Mrs Maloney his flower. To be told that the very thing that gives her life is leaving her could cause any person let alone this caring wife to lash out against this cruel action of her husband. Have we not seen from the way she has pleaded temporary insanity and is so distraught over the death of her husband that she truly cared for
Quite Mad Indeed Cleomenes was able to invade strong rival enemy cities like Argos; and even bribe the Pythia at Delphi to try to remove his co-king from reigning in Sparta. However, one thing that he was most known for was his supposed madness. There are many reasons that try to explain Cleomenes’ insanity, but one that Sparta particularly claims to be true is that he became addicted to the Scythian’s culture of drinking undiluted wine. The reasoning behind this claim is purely a cover up for the state of Sparta to explain away Cleomenes’ madness rather than to admit that he was truly insane.
Even after murdering Patrick, she would still love him somewhat and regret killing him immediately if she was normal. Even after being told terrible news, she shouldn’t consider murder as a proper reaction. If it wasn’t for her unborn baby, she would’ve accepted being jailed or even worse, executed. “She knew quite well what the penalty would be. That was fine.
Even after she got married and had kids it could be seen throughout the home footage that her kids were very playful and loving there was nothing that could have made her insane in her home life. While in her personal life I do believe that there were some things making her stressed out such as her depression and deciding to follow the teachings of Michael Peter Woroniecki, but I feel that because she was given help for those problems especially her depression she should have been healthy enough to recognize whether her
Justice Tindall, whom was present at the M’Naughten trial when the insanity plea became a legal defense, breaks these rules into 3 statements. “Every person is presumed sane unless the contrary can be proven otherwise” (Allnut, et al. 293), which in this case it cannot. “A person suffering a ‘partial delusion’ should be dealt with as if the circumstances of the delusion was real” (Allnut, et al. 293). If Minnie was suffering from some sort of delusions, she would have used that as an excuse once Mr. Hale found her or would’ve had some crazy story on what happened. She got straight to the point.
Can you cause insanity by depriving someone of socialization? In the story, “A Rose for Emily,” it seems to hold true. Emily grew up under a controlling father that did not let her associate with the townspeople. Later in life, after her father died, you began to see her insanity creeping out. She denied that her father died for three days until she finally allowed someone to come in to take his body away for a quick funeral.
Mary Maloney is a very loving and devoted house wife and mother-to-be. Though her dream of having the perfect American family was destroyed by the bewildering news of Patrick choosing another women over Mary and their child. Innocent is all Mary Maloney is, due to her indistinct state of mind caused by her heinous husband’s decision to desert her and her child while she is unable to control her emotions due to her being pregnant. Mary is not guilty of murder instead innocent due to diminished capacity.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey, considers the qualities in which society determines sanity. The label of insanity is given when someone is different from the perceived norm. Conversely, a person is perceived as sane when their behavior is consistent with the beliefs of the majority. Although the characters of this novel are patients of a mental institution, they all show qualities of sanity. The book is narrated by Chief Brodmen, an observant chronic psychiatric patient, who many believe to be deaf and dumb.
The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin and the Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Stetson were both written by women to express how they were treated in their time period. Both of these stories were criticized because they challenged the belief that a woman should not be just a docile wife. These two pieces of literature utilized symbolic imagery, repetition, and dramatic irony to convey the common theme shared that women are opressed by the standards of society. In Chopin's Story of an Hour, Mrs. Mallard sees the outside world through the only window in her room.
A tarnish yellow creature stands in fear as it lingers behind bars viewing the shadow of a male figure. However, the acts of oppression can enrage the creature to break free. Feminist writer, Susan Glaspell, in the short story, Trifles, asserts how women are oppressed by male dominance in their marriages in the 1916. Glaspell’s purpose is to promote awareness of how much isolation and an abusive relationship can influence a woman’s insanity towards men. She adopts a calm yet caution tone in order to express the effect men have on women.
Ken Kesey uses his novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, to describe the lives of patients in a mental institution, and their struggle to overcome the oppressive authority under which they are living. Told from the point of view of a supposedly mute schizophrenic, the novel also shines a light on the many disorders present in the patients, as well as how their illnesses affect their lives during a time when little known about these disorders, and when patients living with these illnesses were seen as an extreme threat. Chief Bromden, the narrator of the novel, has many mental illnesses, but he learns to accept himself and embrace his differences. Through the heroism introduced through Randle McMurphy, Chief becomes confident in himself, and is ultimately able to escape from the toxic environment Nurse Ratched has created on the ward. Chief has many disorders including schizophrenia, paranoia, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder, and, in addition to these illnesses, he pretends to be deaf and dumb.
Insanity or Insecurity Society, It is always changing, just like the people in it. No one wants to look out of place in the world so they do what they can to fit in. Everyone does it differently it might be acting a certain way, or changing style, but with fitting in comes rejection. Just like trying to fit in, dealing with rejection is done differently, most people try to fix the problem before they start to get labeled.
Insanity is not a valid defense for one main reason. You are either crazy or you are not. In the end, Mack Herring was acquitted for murder. He felt as if he was pressured into doing it and he also thought he was helping her by committing the crime.
I’m defending Mary in the short story, “The Lamb to Slaughter,” written by Roald Dahl. I am pleading for my client, Mary who is not guilty in the murder of Mr. Maloney. Mary would have never murder her husband, because she is six months pregnant. She couldn’t lift the heavy weapon used to kill him while carrying a baby. Mrs. Maloney was at the neighborhood grocery store at the same time the murder happened.
The Role and Effect of Internal Conflict Internal conflict can add a lot to a character or story, no matter what the conflict may be. The conflict in a story can deepen the reader's interest and relation to the character and the story itself. In the three short stories the main characters all face different types of internal conflict. The mental struggle against one's own thoughts is something that drives their actions, which may or may not be positive. In the story Lamb to the Slaughter, Mary Maloney must endure the subconscious rivalry she has against her husband.
You'd think something happy as getting a birthday cake and having someone sing happy birthday was so exciting at first than it turned bad because the husband is a rude person who doesn't seem to appreciate his ”fadingly pretty" wife. The wife started to cry because she got her hopes up for something that seemed so nice and meaningful but it turned out to be bad as her husband saying something under his breath and him feeling embarrassed at the fact that the wife surprised him for his birthday in public. I'm sure that the couple didn't have the best relationship, I believe the man is abusing her, not physically but mentally. I believe the author’s purpose of writing this short story was to make the reader have empathy for the wife or basically