back to the Kentucky Plantation from where she recently escaped. A ghost assumed to be Sethe’s daughter, Beloved, returns several years later to haunt her home. Due to the horrible experiences of slavery, for the most part slaves suppressed these memories in an attempt to disregard the past. This suppression from the past causes a loss of self-individuality. Sethe, experiences this loss of self, which could only be cured by the acceptance of the past and the
Re-memory is defined as “the process of remembering and what is being remembered” (Smith). The concept of re-memory arises in Beloved to make an emphasis on the legacy of slavery. Re-memory is an important part of Sethe’s present because it captures the emotional and mental scars that Sethe and other characters in the novel endure because of slavery. Time after time the characters in Beloved engage in an internal battle with their memories. In a way, they all choose to
killing five children aged between age 10 and 17. My research has shown that while the main motives of the serial killers still remain unveiled, at the same time the psychological research argues that there is a strong connection between childhood memories and a tendency to kill. Psychologists claim that serial killers are not born but made. In my research I was trying to find the connection between these women’s childhood and their becoming a serial killer. Toppan’s father, for example was an alcoholic
Introduction Michael Haneke’s film Caché/Hidden (2005) has provoked endless debates since the first day when it came out in 2005. The audiences leave the theatre jolted and subsequently keep thinking for days due to its ambiguous narrative construction (Cousins, 2007). Based on the surface reading of the plot, it is a thriller contains a mixture of domestic contradictions, amnesia and the mistrust between middle class and lower class. A French bourgeois family living in the cosy suburb of Paris
Roots formed in Memory and Ethnicity Different social scientists have used various approaches to explain ethnicity when trying to understand the nature of it as a factor in human life and society. Examples of such approaches are: modernism, primordialism, constructivism, essentialism, perennialism, and instrumentalism. Whether you agree or disagree with their proposed theories, one fact remains true: ethnicity is an important substance for human beings, especially in identifying oneself
Research/ Methodology ¬¬¬¬¬The initial of contemporary personality theories is known as the psychoanalytic theory developed by Sigmund Freud. Psychology wasn’t the only academic subject influenced by Freud’s theory; it also influenced literature, art, philosophy, cultural studies, film concepts, etc. To comprehend Freud’s theory, it is necessary to begin with the understanding of the unconscious. Freud supposed that most human actions are caused by thoughts, desires and ideas that are in a person’s
us the Shofar’s main purpose- to terrify. Reik asserts that the dread inducing sound produced by the Shofar “unconsciously recalls to every hearer the old outrage, and awakens his hidden guilty conscience, which, in consequence of the child’s repressed hostile wishes toward the father, slumbers in each individual, and admonishes him to repent and improve. The Shofar thus becomes a reminder never again to carry out that old outrage, and to renounce the gratification of the unconscious wishes which
Afterward Elaine determines to forget her previous suffering. In that case, she suppresses her memories efficiently that as soon as Cordelia re-unites with her once again after having failed at a private school, Elaine does not recognize their past (Macpherson 62-63). Therefore, at high school Elaine is able to reestablish her relationship with Cordelia again. At that time the relationship between Elaine and her friend are reversed and it looks like as if Elaine has more power than Cordelia. At this
Wharton, Plath and Gilman use the relationship between America’s middle-class idealization of the home and the popularity of the Gothic to distort the icon of the home, from a hub of warmth, joy and growth to a deeply disturbing brokenness that is reflective of the broken relationships within the home, challenging the false claims of the home as a safe, protected place. All three writers subtly link terror - the most important ingredient of the Gothic to acts of transgression, and show how the home