Nina Petrova Personality

Finally, when she found her way to England, she became Kat, “[the name Kat] was economical, street-feline, and pointed as a nail.” The short, hard name was a reflection of her hard demeanor. Kat constantly tried to separate herself from the commonality of her environment. When she was told that her tumor was fairly common her reply was that, “She would have preferred uniqueness.” Kat wanted to stand out; she did not want to be another “Clarissa, Meliassa or Penelope,” but she understood that conformity, to the values of her society, would be a requirement if she wanted to succeed in her personal and professional life. With this in mind, Kat chose to integrate those values into her own personal approach.

My initial observation of Dashkova is her ability to be extraordinary despite her difficult upbringing. Her intelligence was compelling to the Empress Catherine and the men that she had encountered during her traveling. Dashkova portrayed herself as a strong, versatile woman, who’s not only different from most of the women during the time period, but can also outperform her male counterparts in various tasks (e.g. surgery, debate, carpenting, etc.) (pg. 144). She surprised the readers at the first moment when she met Prince Dashkov, a Moscow man. She fell in love with him and got married at the age of 16. The proposal was informal and emotional unlike the traditional arrangement with its strict regulations. Just 5 years after, Prince Dashkov passed away, leaving Dashkova 2 children and his mountainous gambling debt. In the most hopeless scenario, Dashkova managed to raise her 2 children and provided her son a wonderful education while still remaining faithful to the Empress Catherine II. She declared, “My own poverty affected me not at all” (pg. 149).

Nina had freedom. She lived in New York alone, worked as a tour guide in China. She lived away from her family and with their complicated pasts. She’s a sister of three and is the youngest and most independent. Leila the oldest sister and Ona the middle child. All three sisters had their own kind of way of dealing with the family. Ona one of the quieter child committed suicide and that might’ve been her way of escape.

Sofia Petrovna follows the life of Sofia Petrovna, a typist who works at the Leningrad publishing house. After the death of her husband and capture of her son, Sofia goes insane. It’s a type of unhinged that demonstrates itself in mirages minutely dissimilar from the deceits those surrounding her voice to guard themselves. Sofia Petrovna proposes an extraordinary and fundamental account of Stalin's Great Purges through simple fictional story arcs. First, there is the vanishing of seemingly innocent people. Sofia looses several people in her life throughout the duration of the novel with almost no warning or explanation. This provides an effective look into

In the book Sofia Petrovna, the author Lydia Chukovskaya writes about Sofia Petrovna and her dreadful experiences as a widowed mother during the Russian Stalinist Terror of the 1930s. There were four basic results of the Russian Stalinist Terror: first, it was a way of keeping people in order; second, it kept Stalin in power and stopped revolutions from forming, made people work harder to increase the output of the economy, and separated families as well as caused deaths of many innocent people due to false charges.

From the first scene to the last, she shows her obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. As defined by Rathus, this disorder is categorized by the person’s “inflexibility and fixation on rules,

Oksana starts her story by telling how she worked as a trench digger in the war in 1941. “She later became the chief statistical inspector of Tchkalovsky Rayon, near Gorky” (55). She met her husband in 1945, he died soon after in 1949, but they had a daughter in between that time and she never had the desire to get married again. To Oksana she was not poor in the time that she lived with her parents and then with her husband she says, “We were not making enough to feel secure” (56) financially. She now hated her life because she had no job because she didn't have the money for new documents and without them you don't work. Before the war she was happy with her life as it was after the war everything went downhill. “Would you describe your self as poor now? Absolutely. I have no housing. I cant get my passport exchanged so I cant get a job” (56). She couldn't deal with the hand that was dealt to her and she believes it was destiny. “Why are you poor? I don't know. Maybe we did something wrong at some point.” (57) If we leave all the choices in life to destiny then nothing will get done and we will always be stuck in one spot. “So why are some people poor and others rich? Because there is no justice in the world” (58). I agree with her answer but only for certain things does it apply. After interviewing Oksana, Vollmann asks to interview her family. She had one daughter Nina, a son-in-law Nikolai, and two granddaughters Elena and Marina. Nikolai seemed to be suffering from radiation poisoning from cleaning up at Chernobyl. Oksana cared much more for her children than Natalia but she was more able to since Natalia had seizures that would last hours. She couldn't get her children back from the orphanage without a doctors note that stated that she was seizure free. Neither of the women believed that their way of living would improve in the future so they gave up on trying to make

Comes into the soap opera as the daughter of notorious tavern owner Georgie Zamdela. Georgie was incharge of the underworld in Horizon Deep and many people who watched Isidingo referred to him as the gangster or mafia of the deep. Nina took over his role as the gangster and her cunning looks made you fear her even on the other side of the television screen.

Nina’s mother keeping her bound in the house and a true definition of an enabler. Wanting Nina to be so perfect for the part she had played as a young ballet dancer. Nina’s mother kept her in the house and only letting her only walk, breathe, sleep, and go to ballet practice. Being that, Nina had no social experience making it hard to talk to people and

Nina had arranged the meeting with Mr. Purvis so that she could sneak off and be with Ernie. It’s the knowledge of this fact that sends the narrator into a quiet rage. She no longer pities Nina or pities Ernie when Nina disappears. She no longer wishes to have any of Nina’s belongings or even bother with Nina’s memory. Instead, she unknowingly begins to plot how to get back at Nina for her act of self centeredness.  This is why she mails the letter with Ernie’s address to Mr. Purvis. It may not directly affect Nina, but it’s a start and that’s all that matters. By carrying through with this action, she discovers her own wickedness: “Most of them on a course, as I was, of getting to know the ways of their own wickedness.” Everyone has a dark side, but we some of us may not realize it until a certain event presents itself. For the narrator it was experiencing humiliation and shame. For others it may be money, ending a relationship, or even losing a loved one. Everyone is different.

In the beginning of the film, Nina was depicted as an average, normal person living in New York that yet lacked the freedom to express herself as a sexually free, young woman due to her mother’s controlling behavior. When she wins the coveted Swan Queen role, the feeling of immense pressure that comes with the role causes Nina to lose her tenuous grip on reality and descend into a living nightmare. For example, she experiences symptoms such as interpreting normal behavior from Lily as an attack because of Nina’s jealousy toward Lily’s effortless embodiment of the Black Swan (Schacter, Gilbert, Wegner, & Nock, 2014). Nina’s attention to negative behavior to Lily is a result of her own imagination – she starts conceiving events that did not happen such as a lesbian fling with Lily and her constant attempts to sabotage Nina’s ability to perform as the Swan Queen. In addition, she suffers through hallucinatory episodes that involve bodily horror, such as her skin tearing off her body and the appearance of an evil twin, every time she reaches a step closer to her full transformation of the Swan Queen.

Her excessive drinking is leading her to have fights with loved ones, such as her mother, and interfering with her performances. Nina has several abnormal behaviors. She has some obsessive behavior such as practicing ballet at home and practicing too much at the academy and she is washing her hands and taking baths far too often. Her aggressive behavior includes lashing out at her mother and almost breaking her hand.

Nina’s sub-personality seems to be the complete opposite of Nina herself. The sub-personality displays confidence, lustfulness, and deceitfulness. She has also attempted to hurt Nina through self-mutilating while in control.

Throughout the movie, Nina was seen suffers from numerous of symptoms which seems abnormal. While her anxiety is clearly expressed, obsessive compulsive disorder may be the prominent disorder in which Nina was experiencing. First of all, she continuously receives criticism that she was trying to be “perfect” from her instructor (Thomas) during the practices. As we know, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or OCD associates psychological distress

“No matter how much we love someone, or think we know them, we can never know what it is to be inside them.” This quote is written by one of the most famous, authors around, Suzanne LaFleur. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1983 along with her three younger siblings. She was a normal child; swimming, eating pizza, and watching cartoons, but she was a total scaredy cat. She loved reading at a young age, because of the book Alice in Wonderland! Right now she is inspired by a Famous author Lois Lowry and her Anastasia series. Along with that she loves randomly reading the book The Giver and listening to Mozart. She also loves when art, literature, and language is present in Earth. She always wears a different colored sock on each foot