Erikson's Psychosocial Stages Of Mary Lennox, By Mary Lewis

Mary was much different than most girls of the age. Her mother, a vocal advocate for the advancement of women’s rights, was much of her inspiration. So, Mary was often viewed as rebellious, which apparently she inherited. Also like her mother, Mary was a compulsive writer. She constantly wrote in her journal, through this she demonstrated her crazy perseverance that her father was very proud of. Because of her father and Mary’s incredible intellect, Mary was often in communication with the greatest intellectual

Mary’s book revealed the situation of England in 18th century: a masculine society. Men are thought to be superior, so, it is natural for men to control his women. Due to this thinking, women should behave “ladylike” to attract men’s attention, make him fall into her and eventually get married. Once a girl gets married and produce offspring, her duty to this world is done. In their mind, a “ladylike” girl should be quiet, modest, oppress their emotions, and innocence. Mary mentioned a doctor published a book on “appropriate” roles for woman to take while at the same time the book author criticized Mary as “unladylike” because she is overly demanded.

According to Erikson’s theory we go through eight different development stages in life. Each stage contains continual development and growth, meaning we develop throughout our entire lives. In this paper, we look at every stage and how did my mom achieve or fail to achieve the tasks Erikson claims happen in each stage.

A central dogma of feminism is the separation of female sexuality from the societal confines of reproduction. In “The Bloody Chamber”, the female protagonist is a seventeen-year-old virgin who goes on a journey of sexual self-actualization in her marriage to the Marquis. Throughout the narrative, we are

In reviewing Mary’s case, we find she has various biological, psychological, social, and cultural factors that

The Lover by Marguerite Duras and Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker are both transgressive novels and post modernist fiction. Both novels tell a story of a young girl in which is experimenting with her sexuality at a young age. In The Lover the narrator is in love with a man who is giving her money. Blood and Guts in High School is a fictional novel about the main character’s love for her father amongst other men. The goal of this essay is to explore the desires in which drive both of the young women’s sexual behavior that Duras and Acker express through their narrators.

According to Freud, development is sexual motivated and a child goes through five psychosexual stages: oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital. Freud believed

Sigmund Freud’s psychosexual theory and Erik Erikson’s psychosocial theory are two similar, yet diverse psychoanalytic theories that have provided an enhanced understanding of human’s development. Foremost, Freud and Erikson supposed human growth is a gradual process that essentially occurs unconsciously. Additionally, both theorists believed that personality progresses in predetermined stages and that in order to progress to the next stage, a conflict must be resolved. Their concepts diverge in more ways than they’re alike; however, in

Firstly, I would like to look a Marys childhood it mentions in the case study that Mary has never wanted for anything. What does this mean? Does it mean material things, wealth, position, it mentions that she was considered to be privileged. Did Mary receive the emotional love and understanding from her family. There is no mention of a father in Marys family background. Mary also had very little understanding of life’s experiences. For me reading this case study my assumption is that Mary had a very sheltered life. She came a middle class family and seemed to have a social standing in life. There is also a mention of her social life but no close friends for Mary to confide in. Marys husband came from a working class background this I believe

In the short story by Roald Dahl he has introduced us to the character Mary. She is a devoted housewife as she waits for him to come home. The author Dahl takes time to explain her care and love her husband Patrick. Her desire to have everything shows she is selfless, even though she is pregnant. In the beginning of the story, “On the cupboard behind her there were two glasses and some drinks”. This shows how devoted she is as she waits for her husband to come back from work. When her husband, Patrick comes from work she treats him with love and kindness. “She stood up and went forward to kiss him as he entered”. Mary is also six months with child and for being pregnant, she is quite peaceful as people know women who are expecting children

Maryjane was feeling like an outside during her puberty period when she was comparing her age and her body from the age of fifteen and sixteen. she was trying to imitate and her friends who smoke cigarette. She was pretending that she has smoke cigarette before. Maryjane say “the harder I tried to assimilate, the more I had the feeling that I was distancing myself from my culture, betraying my parent s and my origin, that I was playing a game by somebody else’s rule”. I would say that she was compete felling like an outsider, because her character was complete changed., she started to lie to their parent smoking cigarette, I mean Maryjane was an extraordinary person now. Maryjane does not want to talk to their parents anyone because she always

First, loneliness, shame, self-deprecation, and regret are the dangers associated with female sexuality in Susan Minot’s Lust. The reader is introduced to a nameless, teenage girl, who decides to

Fourthly, Industry versus Inferiority is another period discussed by Erikson’s psychological developmental theory. According to him, it starts when the child is six and ends at eleven years old. Throughout this period, especially in school, if children are encouraged to do things right, taught to persevere, permitted to finish their work, and are applauded for trying industry develops. But if they are criticized for trying and failing, or are often harshly condemned, the feeling of inferiority evolves, thus causing these children to never learn how to prideful of their accomplishment even they do something right they still believe that they never can do

Still of school-age, Stephen’s distant admiration for Eileen initiates his recognition of women as sexual beings and foreshadows the important role women and relationships will play as he matures. When daydreaming about an idyllic mental image of Eileen, Stephen artistically compares her girlish “long thin cool white hands [to] a Tower of Ivory [and] her fair hair [to] a House of Gold,” (Joyce 49). Stephen’s meticulous focus on Eileen’s physical features introduces him to viewing females as sexual and attractive. According to Freudian theory, children as early as the age of twelve develop healthy sexual feelings and behaviors described as “genital”, or sensual, love (Freud 85). However, as opposed to Freudian theory, Stephen does not view

As stated, directly, “Mary Lennox had never heard the truth about herself in her life”. The young girl had never once been told she was rude, or bitter, disagreeable. While living in India, she was catered to always, and that kind of treatment can begin to make a person believe they are the center of everything. No one can be happy that way, living in a world