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After the loss of a loved one, the family is always left with a burden. Sometimes there’s a deep regret for not done enough while the person was still around and sometimes there’s guilt, feeling like you’re to blame for the person’s death. In the film, Ordinary People, the Jerrett brothers, Conrad and Buck, are in a boating accident and sadly, Buck, the older brother, passes away. Conrad is left to mourn the loss of his only brother and also to feel a deep guilt for the outcome on that unfortunate day.
Conrad’s life after his brother’s death becomes distorted and he attempts to commit suicide but fails. After spending a few months hospitalized, Conrad is back to carry out to his life as before. However, it’s not easy after all the events he’s gone through. Buck’s death leaves Conrad feeling with survivors’ guilt, no motivation for anything and anhedonia, feeling almost no pleasure for anything. He develops a lazy behavior, insomnia and loses his appetite. He joins the swimming team but has no motivation and is negative about his progress as a swimmer. He begins to isolate himself from his friends and often has flashbacks to that fateful day of Buck’s death. However, after giving it careful thought he decides to listen to his father’s advice and visit a psychiatrist, Dr. Berger. He’s
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resistant at first but with every visits loosens up about the issues concerning him. The Jerrett family had an almost perfect life before losing Buck. Beth, Conrad’s mother, exposes an anger-like behavior towards him, for being the survivor. She also feels resentment towards Conrad for trying to kill himself. In the film, Conrad, complains about her never visiting him at the hospital and that he if it would have been Buck in the hospital, she probably would have gone. Her reply is that Buck would have never been in the hospital in the first place. She’s distant and far from comforting. When Conrad comes down for breakfast and doesn’t wish to eat, instead of being concerned like a mother should, she’s quick to take the plate away and throw the food out. She’s also not very supportive of Conrad seeing a psychiatrist. Her behavior also causes problems with her husband, Calvin. She gets upset when he discloses to a neighbor about Conrad’s visits to a psychiatrist. Her behavior pushes Conrad away and is a factor for his recovery. Their relationship seems unrepairable. Calvin, the Jarrett patriarch, is different from Beth. He’s concerned and involved with Conrad’s well-being. He encourages Conrad to see a psychiatrist, despite the price of every visit. Calvin also tries to help his wife change her behavior towards their son. He listens to Conrad and tries to understand what his son is going through although it may cause him problems with his wife. Beth wants everyone around them to think they’re going on with life without any issues while Calvin prefers to be honest. Conrad begins to see a psychiatrist, Dr.
Berger, twice a week for an hour each day. During the visits, Conrad is able to talk about feelings he has relating to Buck, his parents and his hospitalization. Dr. Berger, in my opinion, follows Sigmund Freud’s psychodynamic model. Conrad is encouraged to use free association, to freely express himself about anything on his mind, no matter how disturbing. Conrad begins to express his dreams, and slowly begins to let his suppressed feelings out. Dr. Berger also challenges Conrad causing him to get upset and start yelling but soon after relaxes. He tries to comfort Conrad about Beth loving him just don’t knowing the ideal way to show
it. If I was in a situation where I needed to visit a psychiatrist, I would visit Dr. Berger as well. Like Freud, I also think the reason for our behavior because of the emotions bottled up inside of us and psychotherapy would make me feel relieved. Calvin’s advice to Conrad to seek therapy with Dr. Berger was the best thing for him to do because he always able to free himself from guilt and anger.
Throughout the novel one person who had an affect on Conrad was his father. From the beginning of the novel, Con’s father had an understanding of him. From talking to spending time with Con, his father was there most of the time. When Conrad was confused or had a question, his father would try to help and answer him to the best of his ability. Because his father was put into a home I think that he was able to understand Con a lot more. Just as understanding he was also caring. Whenever Con felt upset or happy, his father was there to share the experience. His father would always make sure that Con was all right. His father cared so much that he gave Con a number of a psychiatrist. Unlike the mother, the father would like to see Con back to normal.
...ld have been furious. But he stayed calm and by doing that Conrad could trust him and knew he was a good person. The third piece of evidence is when Conrad wouldn’t tell Dr. Berger anything about himself, he didn't scream at him saying you're wasting your money or anything like that. He opened him up with techniques and stayed calm. Conrad wouldn't tell Dr. Berger much. He kind of just painted a vivid picture in Dr. Berger’s head. But dr. Berger didn’t get frustrated he kept working at Conrad calmly and soon saw the picture in HD. So By Dr. Berger stays calm at all times made Conrad feel safer and better, faster even when Conrad would scream and swear at Conrad Dr. Berger stayed calm and content. In conclusion Dr. Berger helped Conrad and Calvin a lot by treating them as family, Dr. Berger being there for him at all times, and Dr. Berger staying calm at all times.
Conrad experienced a tremendous amount of psychological pain because of the loss he felt, he had no one to talk to about the death of his brother and best friend in the boating accident which resulting in a suicide attempt. The relationships he had with his mother Beth and his swim team friends suffered dramatically because of all of the pain he held
Conrad's psychological problems generated from the facts that he repressed his feelings and that he looked to others for approval. He hid all his feeling and emotions and judged himself based on what others saw and thought. When Miss Melon, Conrad's English teacher, asked him, "Do you want an extension?" Conrad's immediate response was "NO"(18). He rejected her offer of assistance because he felt that help took away from his dignity and self pride. Conrad internalized what everyone else said and did and judged himself based on this. Conrad thought about himself: "All his fault. All connections with him result in failure. Loss. Evil… Everywhere he looks, there is competence and good health… He does not want to contaminate, does not wish to find further evidence of his lack of worth"(116). Conrad looked at everyone else and concluded that everyone else was "ordinary" and that he was a problem. He was afraid that since he was not "normal," ...
Calvin and his son have two sons their oldest Buck is extremely popular at school and their youngest Conrad who looks upon his brother. The family seems financially privileged but becomes dysfunctional when buck dies in a boating accident. Buck and Conrad were boating when Buck died and Conrad cannot stop blaming himself. He is so emotionally distraught that he attempts to kill himself. After being in the hospital for a month he is physically cured but he is still emotionally distraught and cannot stop blaming himself.
In Heart of Darkness, all of Joseph Conrad’s characters seem to have morally ambiguous tendencies. The most prominently morally ambiguous character is Kurtz, whose distance from society changes his principles, and leads him to lose all sense of decorum. Conrad takes a cynical tone when describing Marlow's journey. Marlow's voyage through the Congo gives him insight to the horrific, dehumanizing acts that his company and Kurtz conduct. Conrad creates a parallel with the tone of his writing and the misanthropic feelings that the main character experiences. Furthermore, Conrad creates a frame story between Kurtz and Marlow, adding to the symbolism and contrast between contextual themes of light and dark, moral and immoral, and civilization and wilderness. After being sent on a horrific journey into the Congo of Africa, as an agent for the Company to collect ivory, Marlow finds the infamous and mysterious Kurtz. Kurtz, who has totally withdrawn from society, and has withdrawn
Tessitore, John. "Freud, Conrad, and Heart of Darkness." Modern Critical Interpretations." Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987. 91-103.
The child’s game had ended. After I nearly ran Kurtz over, we stood facing each other. He was unsteady on his feet, swaying like the trees that surrounded us. What stood before me was a ghost. Each layer of him had been carved away by the jungle, until nothing remained. Despite this, his strength still exceeded that of my own. With the tribal fires burning so close, one shout from him would unleash his natives on me. But in that same realization, I felt my own strength kindle inside me. I could just as easily muffle his command and overtake him. The scene flashed past my eyes as though I was remembering not imagining. The stick that lay two feet from me was beating down on the ghost, as my bloodied hand strangled his cries. My mind abruptly reeled backwards as I realized what unspeakable dark thoughts I had let in. Kurtz seemed to understand where my mind had wandered; it was as though the jungle’s wind has whispered my internal struggles to him. His face twisted into a smile. He seemed to gloat and enjoy standing by to watch my soul begin to destroy itself.
...o, while the novella’s archetypal structure glorifies Marlow’s domination of Kurtz. These two analyses taken together provide a much fuller and more comprehensive interpretation of the work. Conrad presents the idea that there is some darkness within each person. The darkness is is inherited and instinctual, but because it is natural does not make it right. He celebrates – and thereby almost advises – the turn from instinct. By telling Marlow’s tale, Joseph Conrad stresses to his audience the importance of self-knowledge and the unnecessity of instinct in civilization.
In Heart of Darkness and The Stranger Joseph Conrad and Albert Camus manipulate different styles of language and structure, yet both emphasize the isolation of the protagonists from society. In Heart of Darkness Conrad employs descriptive language and metaphors about society while using minor roles in order to display Marlow’s isolation. Meanwhile in The Stranger Camus structures the story in two parts to capture both sides of Meursault yet still develops a simple and direct writing style throughout the story to keep the theme of isolation. Through the theme of isolation both Conrad and Camus present the idea that life can be meaningless if not shared with the company of others.
I wish you'd included the details of the setting, but mainly, see question on p. 4 [Well--acknowledge that her "certainty" only exists, and is only "unextinguishable", because it's blind illusion. Do you think that's what Conrad offers us as a source of hope?] : you stop just short of moving out to Conrad, and what he may offer us by way of "certainty" and even hope in the midst of all the fogginess.
Throughout time, influential writers have produced many great works of literature. These works of literature impact the stylistic aspect of writing for years to come. Joseph Conrad, one of these influential writers, used his own personal experiences to write harrowing novels, such as Heart of Darkness. Conrad’s impact on literature is his distinctive writing style. Described as a “winding, indirect, tautological, and sometimes frustratingly ambiguous narrative structure” (Davies), Conrad has cemented himself as one of literature’s greatest authors. Surprisingly, Conrad was not directly born with the gift of literary perfection. Instead, Conrad became recognized as a literary genius through his lifetime and experiences.
Today, of course, the situation has changed. Most literate people realize that, by probing into the heart of the jungle, Conrad was trying to convey an impression about the heart of man, and his tale is universally read as one of the first symbolic masterpieces of English prose (Graver 28). In any event, this story recognizes primarily Marlow, its narrator, rather than Kurtz or the brutality of Belgian officials. Conrad wrote a brief statement on how he felt the reader should interpret this work: "My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel-it is above all, to make you see.(Conrad 1897) Knowing that Conrad was a novelist who lived within his work, he wrote about the experiences as if he were writing about himself. "Every novel contains an element of autobiography- and this can hardly be denied, since the creator can only explain himself in his creations."(Kimbrough158)
Modernism began as a movement in that late 19th, early 20th centuries. Artists started to feel restricted by the styles and conventions of the Renaissance period. Thusly came the dawn of Modernism in many different forms, ranging from Impressionism to Cubism.
I will choose Conrad’s father, Calvin. Although I am a female, I think that he is the one of the characters who in this book can connect to me the most. As I know that he always care about his son, Conrad even he lost an elder son already. He doesn’t know what’s wrong with Conrad. He doesn’t know how he can really help Conrad either. All in his mind is that his son is not okay but he never tell. So he asked Conrad to see a psychiatrist, Dr. Berger. It maybe a way that can help his son but not perfect. At least he tried. I appreciate it because I know that it is not easy to communicate to a person who has a very large generation gap even he or she is important to you. For me, I don’t even know which way to talk with my parents is the most suitable too. They always have a different point of view that I don’t agree with. For example, my mom always tell what she is angry for. No matter it is my business or not. when every time she complains, I will give her response or advice. But she thinks that I am challenging her… So I started to be a “listener”. I only listen what she is complaining and shut my mouth. The relationship between us seems good when I start to shut