Social Hierarchy And The Twisted Lip

First off, when someone walks around with two faces, he or she will begin to live with two distinct lives as well. For example, Dimmesdale is seen as the greatest saint in the Puritan community, but he is secretly holding onto an unrepented sin. His humanly desires get the best of him when he commits adultery with Hester Prynne and hence produces an “elf child” named Pearl. The sinner is put on a pedestal and adored by his congregation in broad daylight. On the other hand, he is self-convicted through severe physical and mental reprimanding in the middle of the night. In the novel, Hawthorne explains, “In Mr. Dimmesdale’s secret closet, under lock and key, there was a bloody scourge...he kept his vigils… until his knees trembled beneath him...sometimes in utter darkness...his brain often reeled and visions seemed to flit before him...” (Hawthorne 141). At Dimmesdale’s Election

The legendary fictional character Sherlock Holmes was constructed by a basis of a French criminal expert and a famous police investigator. He is known for his prowess in perception and analysis. On the other hand, Holmes sympathy towards people is near absent. Holmes loves to breakdown the story of each person he comes in contact with it. However, he does make a mistake occasionally. Although, there are many positive representations of Holmes, the Downey-Holmes is the best.

Lastly, Holmes has so much bravado.  As the creditors were swaying to arrest Holmes, “Holmes fled”(Larson 325).  This shows he won’t be a man and face the consequences. He won’t fight back. As Holmes fled, he shows the reader this fake courage and fake dignity.

Hierarchy, a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority. In the United States, hierarchy is not uncommon. In Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ifemelu an African immigrant from Nigeria experiences the reality of what the “American Dream” truly is like for an immigrant. Adichie uses her character's life as to show how race affects her in America. Ifemelu moved to the United States with the illustration that she would easily be able to get a job, go to school, find love and be able to send money home in Nigeria. Instead, she was faced with many obstacles like racism. Racism is one of the major social issues of the modern world. It affects millions of people worldwide and is one of the deepest social problems in the United States.

Throughout the movie “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” you see many examples of status hierarchy, depersonalization, adjustment, and institutionalization. These patients are subject to anything people in charge tell them to do. Adjusting to the system is very hard, especially when you are surrounded by others with different minds.

The “Black City” was always lurking and ready to “welcome men back” (247). Holmes fully represented evil and turned the White City Black again. He went so far as to, “erect his Castle close to the Fair grounds so as to gather in these victims by the wholesale” (336). Holmes earns money off of the fair by turning his “Castle” into a hotel to lure women in (85). Holmes embodies every part of evil and near the end of his life, he even states that he was born with the devil inside of him (109). Holmes displayed his likeness to the devil even further when Larson says: “He liked being near enough to hear the approach of death in the rising panic of his victims” (256). Holmes believed he played in a game where he was all powerful. He moves women and children around as if he possessed them: “He possessed them all and reveled in his possession” (350). Without people being attracted to the White City that Burnham built with good intentions, Holmes never would have been able to take advantage of people by welcoming back the Black

The antagonist of the novel, H.H. Holmes, is depicted as quite the ladies’ man. Larson helps the reader to recognize that Holmes’ good lucks and charms will help him lure in his future murder victims later in the novel. Holmes has no apprehension when it comes to making a mess of people’s lives’. Especially, when it comes to getting what he wants. Throughout, the story Homes continues to convince multiple women to marry him without legal documentation. He then disposes of them in various ways, gaining joy from their deaths. Holmes always concocted a story to get the attention off of him when asked

Larson includes a description of this by referencing the work of a famous psychologist and stating, "...in his path-breaking book The Mask of Sanity, Dr. Hervey Cleckley described the prototypical psychopath as 'a subtly constructed reflex machine which can mimic the human personality perfectly'" (88). Holmes greatly demonstrates this ability and takes it one step further by manipulating people. He uses it almost like a superpower. In his time, Holmes was considered handsome and certainly charming. People often found Holmes to be a sweet and caring guy, which he then used to his advantage. For example, Holmes knew how to treat a woman. Holmes in multiple cases would have long relationships with women which he then used not only to kill his lover but also a family member as well if he wished. He could also manipulate Men, such as the workers he hired and fired in in a repeating cycle in order to build his hotel for virtually no cost. Most people would not have suspected Holmes to be a psychopath or a murder. Holmes' ability to not only disguise his psychopathy but also to manipulate people, allowed him to have complete control over the situation and commit his crimes with little to no

The sole purpose of the “prison diary,” was to supplement Holmes’s memoir in a last effort to prove his innocence. Remarkably, even after committing a string of tragic crimes including fraud and murder, Holmes still attempts to use his charming personality and deceiving ways to present himself as a, “man of warmth and piety,” in order to once again avoid being persecuted. However, explains Larson, it is actually sad how painfully easy it is to see through the lies of Holmes’s memoir and diary- they’re so sentimental that it is evident that they serve as a cover up of his actual evil and perversive nature. All in all, these details of Holmes’s actions in prison truly demonstrate the fact that he is insane- he believes that the police is completely incompetent and that he can easily trick them with his deceptive memoir and prison diary. However, little does he know that his tactics are becoming less and less effective and are actually beginning to expose his mental instability as the investigation against him proceeds. After reading this passage I was felt a combination of disgust and

During the movie One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, there were several instances of status hierarchy, Adjustment, depersonalization, and Institutionalization. A Status hierarchy symbol is the nurses station and a fall of status hierarchy was when Nurse Ratchet got her nurses cap back dirty at the end of the movie. They show adjustment in the movie with the lack of letting them watch the world series. Some of the ways ward depersonalized the patients was by rationing out the cigarettes after Mac's gambling stint, wearing the same clothes, taking medication at a set time, and the extreme of Mac's Lobotomy. Institutionalization is shown where Mac finds out that a lot of the ward is in their because of free will.

Everyone wears a mask at some point, some of us are just better at hiding it. In the book “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald many challenges are being faced. Many fake people are being discovered. Lying is a common aspect faced for many decades to hide what we don’t want others to know to gain or keep their respect/reputation . Gatsby, Daisy, and Myrtle all wear masks to try and hide their superficiality so that people can like them.

Holmes decides to convince Pitezel to take out a very large life insurance policy to scam an insurance company by staging Pitezel’s death and substituting another corpse in his place, which he assured Pitezel he would had no trouble getting ahold of. In all reality, this was Holmes’ way of getting out of the predicament he had put himself in by trusting someone too much. In November of 1893, Holmes and Pitezel leave Chicago to travel across the country and commit frauds along the way. In July of 1894, Holmes attempts to swindle another pharmacy in Saint Louis, Missouri, just as he had done when he first got to Chicago. This time, on the other hand, it does not work out for Holmes. Holmes, for the first time ever in his criminal career, he is behind bars. While in jail, he meets Marion Hedgepeth, whom he shared a jail cell with. Holmes shares the insurance swindle plan with Hedgepeth, who “gave Holmes the name of a twisted attorney that could put over an insurance swindle” (Hounded to death by ghosts of the castle he built, 1914, p. 19, col. 1-7). Holmes promises Hedgepeth five hundred dollars for the hook up with the attorney if the attorney can make the plan happen. Holmes ends up being bailed out of prison by his third wife, Georgianna Yoke, after Holmes told her false reasons why he was arrested in the first place. Once again, Holmes has received another lucky charm where he could have been in jail for much longer, and perhaps put away forever.

A total Institution involves using internal or external means to enforce social norms.There are four characteristics of a controlled environment that are exemplified throughout the film “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” Status hierarchy, depersonalization, adjustment, and institutionalization are the four characteristics of a controlled environment.

We wear masks to hide our real personality from someone. In the stories we read in class everybody masks something from a family member. In Charles by Shirley Jackson it states “Charles?” She said “We don’t have a Charles in the kindergarten.” (Jackson pg.11). Laurie is a good kid at home, but at school he gets into all kinds of trouble. Every time Laurie gets into trouble he blames it on a kid named Charles. Another story we read was Fatal Flower by Laurence Yep. In the text it states “She blinked when she saw the beautiful stranger gazing up at her. The stranger’s face had eyebrows like the leaf of the

The short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Man with the Twisted Lip,” is based on disguises of wealth and appearance and how these disguises change the point of view that people have in the social classes and what they think about each other during the Victorian Era. Disguises can be used to create an identity for one’s own personal gain or to protect an individual 's identity. Neville St. Claire uses disguise to validate his place as a gentleman. His status as a beggar allows him to become the successful gentleman that he should be, by concealing his true self to the social class system. Sherlock Holmes uses his persona as a protection to keep the people of London safe and out of harms way. Between the two personalities of St. Claire and Holmes is the outcome of what others may think of them; St. Claire knows the identity that he has created is not accepted by the social class while Sherlock Holmes identity is seen as a hero and is accepted by the social class. One uses his disguise purely for monetary gain and the other uses the identity in order to solve mysteries and protect his city. As shown in the “The Man with the Twisted Lip”, disguise is only allowed when the social class accepts the identity.