Egdon Heath

When you think of psychology what is the the first name that comes to mind? My guess is that you thought of Sigmund Freud. Even though none of his theories of dreams or sexuality have any empirical evidence, he is still one of the most influential figures in all of philosophy. One of Freud’s ideas that does have substance is the idea that our minds are dynamic and contain both conscious and unconscious memories, thoughts, and desires. Freud labeled these phenomena the id, ego, and superego. While

In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, we are presented with a young man torn asunder after the sudden demise of his father. There is a point in the play where Hamlet vocalizes his feelings of displacement and loss within his world. The “To be, or not to be” monologue plunges the audience into the confused psyche of Hamlet, allowing us to empathize with Hamlet's existential crisis. This window into Hamlet’s dilemma strikes the audience, it is relatable in that we all face moments in our lives where we stand

Batman's ethical dilemma. 3. Understand how to describe a scene from the film The Dark Knight with concrete terms WHILE you explain your understanding of a school of ethics. For example: The final scene between Batman (Christian Bale) and the Joker (Heath Ledger) literally places the latter upside down so the viewer sees the character in a symbolic posture of seeing the world from a completely different perspective from Batman. Batman and the Joker come from opposing world and ethical views: Batman's

“Brokeback Mountain” and “Amelia’s body” illustrate the vast differences of men and women in the West. One, about privacy and hidden secrets, and the other where a whole town knows every detail of this woman’s life. Both show the difference each gender has in the West and how their circumstances and gender roles affected them. “Brokeback Mountain” is a consensual love story between two men who live married lives and even have children. A major difference between this and “Amelia’s Body” is the consensual

Imagine yourself in a secluded place with just you and the person you love. Being together seems thrilling and maybe even effortless. Adversely, for Jack and Ennis, the main characters in Annie Proulx’s “Brokeback Mountain” in The New Yorker, being together was nothing short of laborious. For example, both Jack and Ennis would lie to their wives about where they would go, in consistent efforts to continue meeting up to be together and have sex. Some of the remote places these encounters occurred

Known as the 'Iron Lady', Margaret Thatcher certainly lived up to her moniker. She was strong, smart, and helped Britain to become the great country it has grown to be. However, she was, and remains to be, a controversial figure in European history. She was the first ever woman Prime Minister in Britain, which worried a lot of people. Many citizens during this time doubted that a woman could ever successfully run a nation. Along with that, she passed laws and made decisions for the country that provoked

The Mountains is a play about a young man that returns home from the city to help his father in his work as a home doctor. The play opens with the young man by the name of Richard, or as his sister Laura calls him Dick. The two have a long conversation trying to catch up with one another after Dick has been gone to school for the past eight years (Wolfe 57). At one point the two go to talk about how the mountains kill the folk around them. How the mountains kill the folks around them is what pushes

Born on October 13, 1925, Margaret Thatcher, née Roberts, politician and former British prime minister became Britain's Conservative Party leader and in 1979 was elected prime minister, the first woman to hold the position. Her first two bids for a seat in the UK Parliament, in 1950 and ’51, were unsuccessful, but after marrying Denis Thatcher in December 1951, passing the bar in 1953, and giving birth to her twins, Carol and Mark, she was elected to the House of Commons in 1959, controversial isn’t

Two boys kissing! Eww right? Reactions like these are one of the most controversial concerns in our society, especially when it comes to cowboy culture. American cowboy’s social construction won’t accept or tolerate such thing, mainly because of their macho type ways. In the book Brokeback Mountain, Annie Proulx challenges the view of normal cowboy culture with the two main characters, Jack and Ennis. Although Jack and Ennis see themselves and appear to be normal cowboys, Proulx describes them as

The Escapism and the Fragile Illusion When people talk about the movie Brokeback Mountain, the first impression associating with it must be the homosexuality of the lead characters. As a phenomenal and controversial movie in 2005, it is an adoption of Annie Proulx’s short story about the forbidden love between two cowboys Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist under the background of the conservative Wyoming in the 1960s. However, the Brokeback Mountain discusses concepts beyond romance, as Ang Lee, the director