Christopher Sly's Portrayal Of Alcoholism

In his article “Watching New Love as It Sears the Brain,” Benedict Carey expresses that love is not necessarily an emotion but rather a neurological and physical phenomenon. After comparing new love to mania and obsession, Carey offers evidence of romantic love as a neuropsychological event through the description of the caudate nucleus (a specific part of the brain which produces the neurotransmitter dopamine), explaining the cause of desire and passion in relation to love.

Love comes in numerous ways and can be expressed in countless fashions. Love is powerful, has a meaning, and is capable of eclipsing time all due to the human psyche. One can love anything from a family member, to a fictional character in a TV show, or even an inanimate object. The fluidity of love is what makes it so difficult to understand if one is “in love” or has ever experienced love. Experiences often mold a person’s perspective on what love truly is. Love is not an emotion, but rather a condition of the mind that cause one to act in ways that are uncharacteristic. It can be blinding, obsessive, and pure, depending on the reciprocation of the love. Since love is an abstract concept, one simply cannot measure how much love they have received or given alike. Although the human brain can perceive and interpret other’s actions or words as signs of love and care, in which the mind processes this into the mental psyche that is love.

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Sly is able to slip into Lord status quite easily, although he has trouble maintaining it. For example, Sly wakes up indicating his social class: “For God’s sake, a pot of small ale” (Ind.2.1). This is clearly something a Lord wouldn’t drink, as indicated by the servants’ response- wine is a much more suitable drink for his station. This desire for ale is a sign of his class, one that the actual Lord and his servants can’t seem to shake him of. In fact, even after he starts to believe the lie that he is a Lord, he can’t help himself from requesting ale: “Well, bring our lady hither to our sight, /And one again a pot o’th’ smallest ale” (Ind.2.72-73). If he were among polite society, this would get him arrested for impersonation immediately as a Lord would never. In this way, Shakespeare is implying that social identity must be innate and it cannot simply be slipped on like a coat. Sly may look and be addressed like a Lord, but he certainly doesn’t act like one. However, Sly does manage to adopt the speaking pattern of a Lord. Originally, Sly speaks in prose, as evident when he introduces himself:

However, this phrase may be used to refer to mere lust but in most cases it implies true love attraction with a desire for an intimate relationship being the main motive (SelfGrowth.com, par.1). Although this notion has been held by societies from the medieval times and beyond, recent research has reiterated that love at first sight is actually perfectly natural. A research conducted by Syracuse University in the United States of America established that falling in love directly affects the functioning of 12 regions in the brain causing an euphoric feeling due to the release of chemicals such as adrenalin, dopamine, vasopressin and oxytocin (Science Daily, par.1-2). These findings have shed more light to the essence of love at first sight. As a literature trope, love at first sight is common especially in Western literature, film and poetry. Moreover, Urban Dictionary (par.1) suggests that this trope has developed to become one of the most important and developed theme. For instance, Mandal's poem titled My Love at First Sight is a typical illustration of this:

To be more detailed about the storyline, the play begins with establishing who the Montagues and Capulets are- that is, two of

According to Lieberman, we human has both the ability to connect to the social world, and it is the basic needs for us to survive (Lieberman, 2013). Dr. Lieberman explained everything in the society at neurological perspective- the brain activity. Since social connection can be explained by the brain activities, love can be explained the same way. Because love is based on the social connection, in order to love someone, we need to know them first. The process of “getting to know someone” require social skill. There are serval different ways to look at our brain activities and it will explain the relationship between our brain and love.

Although Helen Fisher divides love into three categories, lust, attraction, and attachment, these categories don't help in determining what love is or how and why we are attracted to some people and not others. Her categories give us tools for putting romantic love into context, but not in explaining what love, unless you accept that it's solely brain responses to a person. That feels like the whole chicken and the egg discussion. What will you react to? What will you be attracted to? What will get brain activity going? Cause and effect. What Dr. Fisher discusses is the effect of love, but not what it is.

The major research area discussed in the selected article is the neurology of love specifically, the brain activity observed through functional magnetic resonance imaging techniques (fMRI) observed when study participants viewed images of their long-term spouses (Acevedo et al, 2011). This is part of a larger area of research that aims to define and measure the impact that feelings of love have on the brain and the neurological system, or perhaps the processes and activities in the brain that are causal of the feelings of romantic love. Research in this area has been undertaken from many different angles and with a variety of reliable and relevant findings, yet the actual knowledge of how love works in the brain remains fairly limited (Erwin, 1999; Emanuele et al, 2006). Studies of initial feelings f romantic love during early stages of attraction, dating, and among newlyweds is somewhat more extensive and the results verified in numerous studies, however long-term love is not nearly as well-researched and appears to be more complex, making it more difficult to state conclusions with any degree of certainty (Emanuele et al, 2006; Acevedo et al, 2011). Both for intrinsic reasons and because feelings of love are associated with mating behaviors, in humans as well as other species, this research areas is highly important (Fisher et al, 2006).

The Induction scenes in The Taming of the Shrew introduce the reader to Christopher Sly, a drunken tinker who is booted out of a tavern just before he passes out. While he is in his alcohol induced sleep, a Lord returns from hunting to find Sly and then devises the plan of dressing Sly in the clothes of the aristocracy and tricking him into believing that he is a wealthy Lord. Sly awakens to find himself surrounded in splendor, and even though he doesn't really believe he is a wealthy Lord, he plays along hoping that maybe it is true. A troupe of players is brought in to entertain the new Lord Sly and the play they perform is the story of the taming of the shrew. With too much time and money on his hands, the Lord highlights Shakespeare's emphasis on the hierarchal class order as it is represented in The Taming of the

In the English countryside, a poor tinker named Christopher Sly becomes the target of a prank by a local lord. Finding Sly drunk out of his wits in front of an alehouse, the lord has his men take Sly to his manor, dress him in his finery, and treat him as a lord. When Sly recovers, the men tell him that he is a lord and that he only believes himself to be a tinker because he has been insane for the past several years. Waking in the lord’s bed, Sly at first refuses to accept the men’s story, but when he hears of his “wife,” a pageboy dressed in women’s clothing, he readily agrees that he is the lord they purport him to be. Sly wants to be left alone with his wife, but the servants tell him that a troupe of actors has arrived to present a play for him. The play that Sly watches makes up the main story of The Taming of the Shrew.

Falling in love is an experience that involves very intense affective and cognitive changes including euphoria and overwhelming joy, increased arousal and energy, emotional dependency on the partner, craving for emotional union with the beloved, and obsessional thoughts about and focused attention on the special other. (Steenbergen et al., 2014,). Discovering how love develops for human species have been studied from researches through different studies. Each study aimed to prove their theses, that was of course different for each of them. Researchers are still split in two main groups: there are some who think that love as an emotion come after cognitive changes and these cognitive changes are able to affect it. On the other hand, we have the other half, that, as me, thinks that love comes after physiological changes in our brain or in our body in general. Both of the two theories have been proven through psychological studies. The analysis of the results of the studies I have chosen will show to what extent both cognition and biology are able to affect the development of love, and after the analysis I will be able to answer my question about the following topic, in short, find out which of the two plays the biggest role in the development of love.

Everyone knows what love is, and everyone has felt love at some point in their life. It is a universal feeling, a good feeling. The question is though, is there a chemical equivalent to love? What happens to the brain in love? According to Sultan Tarlaci, when a person is passionately in love he or she feels pure happiness and they are willing to risk more and fear less. He goes even further to state that a person is basically obsessed with the person whom they love and are willing to die for them.

Alcoholics seek control in a world of social constructs set by somebody else, an escape from the torture of everyday life, peace from the constant voice in their head making them believe they are not good enough, numbness from negative thoughts and emotions. Alcohol keeps them safe from their paralyzing thoughts and away from reality. By intentionally numbing themselves, alcoholics no longer have to deal with how much of a failure they feel. Throughout O’Neill’s repertoire, alcoholism runs rampant. The theme appears autobiographical as it represents the turmoil throughout his tragic life. O’Neill’s writing illustrates how alcoholism can create solitude and

Emotions are instruments that aim at “the possession of suitable objects”, thus leading us to “reach the perfection of our personality”. In this sense, Arnold and Gasson defines emotion as “the felt tendency toward an object judged suitable, or away from an object judged unsuitable, reinforced by specific bodily changes according to the type of emotion”. Perception must occur before an emotion can arise. The individual makes a judgement about the perceived object in relation to themselves after which the emotion if felt. This step between judgement and feeling the emotion is instantaneous, with no perceptible time interval. The emotion is then expressed through a pattern of physiological changes. One of the emotion is Love. It is a feeling of strong or constant affection for a person. Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get-only with what you are expecting to give-which is everything. Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby — awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.