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Han Tran Dr. Ewell English 308W November 15, 2016 The Bloody Chamber In the short story “The Bloody Chamber” by Angela Carter depicts a naïve young girl who is also the narrator who marries a widow named Marquis. The girl is excited to venture into the world of adulthood, but that excitement ceases when she discovers the horrifying truth of her new husband. Her husband begins to display a side that she has never seen before and what was supposed to be a fairy tale love becomes a story full of lust

A Deeper Understanding of Three Tall Women According to Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysis is a “procedure for the investigation of mental processes which are almost inaccessible in any other way” (Fodor and Gaynor 147). It becomes a deeper contrast of a person’s mentality to consider the design of “interplay” within the “urging and checking forces” of the conscious and unconscious (Fodor and Gaynor 147). Freud’s representation of “Three Tall Women,” relate the characters by the “neuroses that

Attending the psychology lecture has been an interesting experience for me, which I learn about different psychological theories explaining how our behaviors and thoughts are changing by the surrounding stimuli and factors. While I attain the theoretical knowledge, I also understand the important to convert this knowledge into daily applications. Among the theories I have learnt in the lesson, I found the psychoanalytic framework of Sigmund Freud is more appealing to me as I can somehow relate it

Aphrodisiacs started with Greek mythology. The word aphrodisiac comes from the name Aphrodite the goddess of love and means foods that inspire lust. The sparrow was the first recorded aphrodisiac because of its association with Aphrodite and how lustful everyone believed them to be. Europeans ate sparrow brains in hopes of capturing some of this lust and using it themselves. In the 13th century St. Thomas Aquinas, a friar, wrote that aphrodisiacs provide nutrition and produce a vital spirit. Meat

The story Alice in wonderland, depending on how you’ve become familiar with it, has been told in various ways, however the same basic components remain the same: a girl follows a white rabbit down a hole in the ground and through a door into a completely extraordinary world containing talking flowers, a caterpillar with a pipe, a mad tea party, a debatably helpful cheshire cat, and a hot-headed red Queen of hearts, along with her infamous roses. Of course any and all film adaptations pertaining to

Maca root is coming into its own with regards to a possible alternative to over-the-counter medications. In the United States, maca root is a supplement as opposed to an actual medicine, so you should research anything with maca to examine its uses, benefits and possible side effects. Here?s your complete guide to taking maca root pills, including maca supplement dosage, how much maca to take and any possible side effects to this superfood. What Is Maca Root? What precisely is maca root? Maca

Sigmund Freud, known as the father of psychology, has developed some of the first theories of modern psychology. One of his well known theories is the structural model of the psyche. According to Freud, most of what drives humans is buried in the unconscious mind. There are three main forces that drive humans: the id, the ego, and the super-ego. The id is the sum of basic personal needs and desires. It is completely selfish and has no care for sensibility or reality. It strives for what it wants

T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is inhabited by both a richly developed world and character and one is able to categorize the spaces in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” to correspond to Prufrock’s mind. Eliot uses the architecture of the three locations described in the text to explore parts of Prufrock's mind in the Freudian categories of id, ego, and super-ego; the city that is described becomes the Ego, the room where he encounters women his Id and the imagined ocean

Authoritative Discourse in A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man   In James Joyce's A Portrait of An Artist As A Young Man, the main character, Stephen Dedalus, struggles between his natural instincts, or what Bakhtin calls the "internally persuasive discourse" that "[is not] backed up by [an] authority at all", and his learned response, reinforced by the "authoritative discourse" of religion. To Stephen's "internally persuasive discourse", his natural sex drive is not 'wrong'. It is only

Mistreatment of Women in Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians In Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee introduces the controversial idea of civilized and barbaric through a nameless empire. The novel features the first person narration of an unnamed magistrate who becomes conflicted upon his duties after meeting Colonel Joll. As the antagonist of the novel, Colonel Joll coincides with the depraved actions of the Empire, one of the most prominent being imperialism. Later in the novel, the Magistrate