Memories of Murder

The present and the future are but the slave to memory. When reading any article, novel or play, readers are always looking for different themes in the literature, sometimes even unknowingly. By the end of the reading, there is typically one standout theme greatly representing the plot and the characters. Readers must understand the deeper meaning of the writing and discover which theme in their opinion impacted the play the most. Furthermore, it is very important that the author often leaves much

Frank Sterling was a 25-year-old male without a criminal record who was falsely accused of murder of an elderly women who was killed in 1988 in Rochester, NY. Being that Sterling did not have criminal record he quickly waived his Miranda rights. Sterling was a suspect and was interrogated alone without a lawyer. Sterling had just worked a 36-hour shift dealing with truck driving and very tired during the interrogation which stated 7:00 am and lasted for 12 hours. The investigator officer uses a “relaxation”

In the film Memories of Murder, director Bong Joon-ho utilizes a few different generic tropes rather than just staying in one specific genre. To me, the two most obvious genres that he borrows from in this film are crime and drama, but it has elements of comedy as well. The most prevalent genre in my opinion is the crime genre. The story revolves around detectives, investigating a serial killer who rapes and murders women. The entire plotline is clearly within the genre of crime, and I would say

At first Aaron Stampler was been charged with murder in the first degree because archbishop was murdered in the church and Aaron was caught running away from the church with his clothes covered in blood. So Martin Vail, the lawyer takes the case believing that his client is innocent. When a psychiatric evaluation was done it is been discovered that Aaron have multiple personality disorder and the lawyer learns that Aaron didn’t committed the murder but

The malleability of memory is an enigma. While memory can be unpredictable at times, there remains an opportunity to manipulate the brain to extract memories. In court cases, however, extracting memories become problematic and challenging. In the podcast Serial, which focuses on a murder that occurred several years ago, inconsistencies and problems with memory hinder the search for truth. While Jay claims that Adnan killed his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, problems with memory cause discrepancies in

she called Jonas up to the stage and told him that he was to be the next new receiver of memory.Right after the chief elder told Jonas that he was to be the next new receiver of memory he did not know what his new selection meant.He did not know what would be come of him.Just then he had met the Giver and all the memories the Giver gave him made Jonas realize how his community was not perfect and that he wanted to leave so they made a plan for Jonas to leave.When Jonas was leaving the community with

trusted or taken seriously. Reliability is usually measured by the narrator’s actions and motives. Murder for example, the audience will often try to understand the reasoning for such a dramatic action. Edgar Allen Poe has written a character that is the prime example of an unreliable narrator. In the story “The Cask

The play Twelve Angry Men, written by Reginald Rose, examines the jury system and how jurors who are assigned to a murder trial reach a conclusion. The justice system has many challenges when finding a verdict, like confirmation bias and false memories, but it also has benefits, such as the presumption of innocence and reasonable doubt. The twelve jurors argue and have conflict when debating whether the defendant is “guilty” or “not guilty." A juror who is fulfilling his responsibilities without

capacity to see beyond. He is singled out to obtain special training from the current receiver (called The Giver) who gives memories to Jonas where he learns about the truth of pain and pleasure of life. As he receives memories from The Giver, Jonas discovers that his communities’ systems and abundant rules not only ban individual free choices but also remove memories and allow the murder of children and old, makes him develop a desire and surge to leave his unfree society. Citizens in Jonas’ community

Therefore they bridge desire and law. Freud also emphasized guilt as having a fundamental role in ones psyche. Mainly operating unconsciously. Freud subscribes to a contemporary anthropological theory of his time in that the origin of guilt was a murder of the primal father. Which, according to Freud is the missing link explaining the functioning of the aforementioned interdiction in our actions. Therefore it is the fathers death that initiates the law - functioning as the origin of all Father-God