Nakia was in a relationship with a psychopath. A person with a psychopathic personality lacks the ability to love or establish meaningful relationships. A psychopath is a predator who pretends to love you in order to lure you into his deadly game of power, control, and manipulation. The man who Nakia thought was her knight in shining armor turned out to be a nightmare. Throughout their relationship, he emotionally abused her, held a gun to her head, criticized her weight, made false accusations, cheated, called her names, and physically assaulted her during pregnancy. A psychopath seeks to destroy your self-worth and self-esteem through cruel and methodical mind manipulation. In her book, Dangerous Liaisons: How to Recognize and Escape from Psychopathic Seduction, Claudia Moscovici writes about psychopaths and how they seduce women. She reveals the process of psychopathic seduction: Idealize, Devalue, and Discard. Let’s examine Nakia’s abusive relationship using the Idealize, Devalue, and Discard phases, so we can observe how a psychopath operates. 1. Idealization Phase During the Idealization Phase the predator lures you in with the promise of love He’s a charmer, seducing you with sweet whispers so you can’t see him for who he really is: a cold blooded slithering snake waiting to sink his fangs into your self-esteem and feed off your soul Nakia says during the honeymoon phase of their relationship, her abuser was charming, chivalrous, and romantic. He showered her
‘‘Fleshmarket’’ is set in Edinburgh in 1828. Two of the main characters are Robbie and Essie who are brother and sister. They live in an awful, poverty stricken environment in the old town after everything changed when their mother died at the hands of Doctor Robert Knox. Robbie Blames Knox for his horrible life and suffering as he believes Knox has not suffered yet and he took away the good life Robbie nearly had before Knox operated on his mum and this leads to his deep obsession with Knox.
In this writing assignment I will be giving a detailed interpretation on Robert Nozick’s writing, “Love’s Bond”. First I will give an explanation on Nozick’s account of the nature of love. Secondly, I will explain why Robert Nozick believes that in love there is no desire to trade up to another partner. Lastly, I will also explain why he says that it is incoherent to ask what the value of love is to an individual person.
In this essay I intend to explore the narrative conventions and values, which Oliver Smithfield presents in the short story Victim. The short story positions the reader to have negative and sympathetic opinion on the issues presented. Such as power, identity and bullying. For example Mickey the young boy is having issues facing his identity. It could be argued that finding your identity may have the individual stuck trying to fit in with upon two groups.
Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal is a strangely riveting play so filled with unlikable characters that it makes one want to scream and throttle which ever one is closest to hand without prejudice as to which persona it might be as they are all equally detestable in their own way. Unfortunately, the infuriating characters are exactly what make the play so fascinating. Each of the characters in the play, originally intended to display that life is an inescapable machine, exhibits many disturbing psychological qualities, and the main character suffers a slew of near textbook psychological misfortune. Whether Sophie Treadwell created her play with this facet intentionally or not is unknown, but the examples are so perfect it is difficult to think
Such characters are often portrayed in an exaggerated fashion and typically in the role of a villain or antihero, where the general characteristics and stereotypes associated with psychopathy are useful to facilitate conflict and danger. Because the definitions, criteria,
In Webs of Violence: The Camp Grant Indian Massacre, Nation, and Genocidal Alliances by Nicole Guidotti indepthly analyzes the endless possibilities that surround such a brutal tragedy and critically questions our basis of understanding that is derived from mass produced narratives. The Camp Grant Massacre exemplifies the paradigm of a mass produced historical narrative that erases, silences, and conceals various aspects of what took place at the time. Guidotti makes this notion of incomplete storytelling evident numerous times throughout the chapter. Guidotti references countless historians, socialists, and individuals from countless fields, in order to not only strengthen her arguments, but to also provide a more detailed comprehension in
Bailey, Beth. Sex in the Heartland. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: Harvard University Press, 1999.
Claire Standish or “the princess” portrays the stereotypical popular teenage girl in The Breakfast Club. She is in detention with everyone else because she decided to skip class and go shopping, which also plays into the stereotypical teen girl image. It can also be assumed that she is spoiled and rich since her father tried to get her out of detention but failed, and she mentions to the group that her parents only use her to get back at the other one. She brings a fancy lunch of sushi while the other teens either have nothing or the standard lunch one’s parents might pack for them. There are a couple of times in the movie that she brings up her social standing and could even be considered as looking down on those who are not as popular as her. Even closer towards the end of the movie she informs the others that if they were to say hello to her in the hallway in front of her friends, she would have no choice but to ignore them. By the end of the movie, she has opened up to everyone else about her fears of letting her peers down and has formed a close relationship with Bender.
In the book Sickened by Julie Gregory, the feminist literary theory can be applied to get a deeper understand of the character’s roles in the book. In one passage, the protagonist Julie gets very ugly haircut when she is seven years old, and as her and her father walk out of the salon, a group of teenagers laugh at her. When Julie asks why they're laughing, he says, "They're laughing at you because of your ugly hair. You're just not pretty like other little girls. I know you're not smart enough to understand that, but I'm your daddy, I'll protect you" (Gregory 36).
One of the fairy tales she relates back to is sleeping beauty. The protagonist’s husband is hinted to more than once as a beast or a non-human form. The protagonist describes her scare using very descriptive words such a “a huge man, an enormous man, and his eyes, dark and motionless as those eyes the ancient Egyptians painted upon their sarcophagi, fixed upon [her]” (Black, 957). Carter’s use of animals and violent non-human characteristic helps the reader come to the conclusion that the antagonist is an apathetic and merciless character. The psychopathy personality disorder has these very distinct traits. Unquestionably, the antagonist is a psychopath and it is foreshadowed through the violent animal characteristics. According to psychology today a psychopath is callous and has a lack of empathy. There are now several lines of evidence that point to the biological grounding for the uncaring nature of the psychopath. For mentally stable humans, caring is a largely emotion-driven
Sex At Dawn by Chrstopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha, describes our current society as a sexual hypocrisy where monogamy is the norm and everything else falls under taboo. Based on prehistoric facts, they argue that we derive from a sexually free and promiscuous culture, and were never meant to be in lifelong monogamous unions. In Paleofantasy by Martha Zuk, looks at evolutionary theorists, like Ryan and Jetha, who use the Paleolithic Age for guidance on how our current society should live. Zuk’s argument is that people want to make our nature into one-form, but humans are not designed for one-way/form of life. As for our sexual system it too can not be put into one-form. Zuk shows various points on popular assertions, creating uncertainty to the reader. This therefore shows how difficult it is to determine a precise natural sexual practice from our past, and debunking Ryan and Jetha. For this reason, Zuk provides a better argument regarding how we should use prehistoric history in present day.
The history of publishing has been plagued with literary hoaxes — from the somewhat harmless Ern Malley hoax to the most recent Belle Gibson scandal. Unfortunately literary hoaxes will continue to happen, unless publishers begin to fact check manuscripts before publication. Publishers claim they are unable to do this due to the financial cost of the procedure and this is a believable claim. If you spoke to an average person they would say that the print industry is dying, thanks to the rise of digital technology, and there has been a downturn in profits.
These three questions lead the discussion-based book to a cohesive understanding and theorization of psychopathy (Hare, 1993). Hare begins the novel by giving a few horrific examples of psychopathy in action. One story in particular that was significantly disturbing was one about a man who murdered his girlfriend’s infant child by picking it
“Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by an inability to form human attachment, aggressive narcissism, and antisocial behavior defined by a constellation of affective, interpersonal and behavioral characteristics, most of which society views as pejorative” [1]. Some of these characteristics include irresponsibility, grandiosity, cunning, deceitfulness, selective impulsivity, sexual promiscuity, lack of empathy, etc. People who are psychopathic display not only antisocial behavior but also emotional impairment such as the lack of guilt. They are able to prey on others using their charm, deceit, violence or any other methods that allow them to get what they want. A strong feature of most of the behavior
Amy Dunne at first expression is a nice, cool, stylish female who would be an ideal daughter and wife. She is her parents’ inspiration for a children’s book series called “Amazing Amy”, which was about a perfect girl who overcomes all obstacles that come her way. To her husband Nick Dunne, she is a dedicated wife, who loves him dearly, and struggles to make her marriage work. Okay now let’s give you the real Amy, analyzing her throughout the book it seems she should be diagnosed with Borderline personality disorders.