The Alphabet House is a fictitious novel written by Jussi Alder-Olsen. The author was the son of a psychiatrist and grew up in the surroundings of “insane asylums.” Getting to know a few of the patients, the author became associated with one chronically mentally ill patient who used two sentences during the thirties and a third sentence after meeting again in the seventies. The objects of World War II and mentally ill individuals intrigued the author to combine the two when he was engaged in a conversation with his mother’s friend who worked as a nurse in Bad Kreuznach—a German town in the district of Rhineland-Palatinate. In the beginning of the second part, the war has ended twenty-eight years ago and Bryan is now on the way back to Germany …show more content…
Scott is a psychiatrist in Coventry. Being well known in his field, he receives calls requesting his service overseas; the Olympics is coming up in Germany and he is needed to volunteer in the health booth. At first, he is hesitant, but ends up going because it might also help him to look for his best friend. His assistant is Ken Fowles, who helps him find distributors. On the second day of the interviews, the last interviewee was a Canadian man, Keith Welles. Ken finds Keith ineligible, but Bryan seems interested. With his great impression, Bryan requests a different business with Keith: going to Germany to help search for …show more content…
During the errands, he passes one of the malingerers, Kroner. After contacting Keith about finding information and future instructions, he rests so he can start his volunteering the next day. The volunteer work is to go to the booth and check the health of the athletes who are participating in the games. Finishing his work, he has planned to follow the malingerer to find any clues where James might be. After following him all day for around a week, he knows all the stops he goes to and his general schedule. He met Petra, a nurse at the Alphabet House who cared more excessively than the other patients. He asks questions on how he might find James as she replies on what Kroner told her saying, “… [James] is buried in the memorial grove beside the panorama view on the Burghaldering, up beside the colonnade.” As he gets to the memorial, Lankau is there, ready to shoot him with the ninety-four-Type Shiki Kenju pistol. They get into a grotesque fight where they are stopped by children who run up to stop them. Lankau is weaker so Bryan has him take him somewhere private to talk to him. After getting the partial truth, he leaves and goes back to the hotel to call Keith to inform him on the newly acquired
Irony is not always funny; verbal, dramatic, and situational irony are often used to assert truth or to add depth to an author’s writing. In Erich Maria Remarque’s book, All Quiet on the Western Front, the reader experiences years of life on the front of World War I through the eyes of a young German man, Paul Bäumer, who has enlisted with his classmates at the expectation of their schoolmaster. Remarque uses irony throughout his novel, best displayed in the names of the characters, the various settings, and in the deaths of the characters.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Dead Poet Society explore the struggle for independence through characters who are subject to an environment in which they are rewarded for their conformity. Dead Poet Society outlines the complications of young students at Welton Academy after a respected English teacher named Mr. Keating inspires them to seize the day. However, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest explore the events that transpire in a mental institute after an exceedingly ‘difficult’ patient arrives and the impact this has on Chief Bromden. Both texts critically explore the struggle for independence.
Annemarie is a normal young girl, ten years old, she has normal difficulties and duties like any other girl. but these difficulties aren’t normal ones, she’s faced with the difficulties of war. this war has made Annemarie into a very smart girl, she spends most of her time thinking about how to be safe at all times “Annemarie admitted to herself,snuggling there in the quiet dark, that she was glad to be an ordinary person who would never be called upon for courage.
Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic. Second ed. N.p.: Yale University Press, 2000. Print.
Koehn, Ilse. Mischling, Second Degree: My Childhood in Nazi Germany. New York: Greenwillow Books, 1977.
Treichler, Paula. "Escaping the Sentence: Diagnosis and Discourse in 'The Yellow Wallpaper'." Rpt. Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism Vol. 37. Detroit: Gale 1991. 188-194.
The central characters in both “The Yellow Wallpaper” and A Doll’s House are fully aware of their niche in society. In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the narrator’s husband believes her illness to be a slight depression, and although she states "personally, I disagree with their ideas,” she knows she must acquiesce their requests anyway (Gilman 1). She says, “What is one to do?” (Gilman 1) The narrator continues to follow her husband’s ideals, although she knows them to be incorrect. She feels trapped in her relationship with her husband, as she has no free will and must stay in the nursery all day. She projects these feelings of entrapment onto the yellow wallpaper. She sees a complex and frustrating pattern, and hidden in the pattern are herself and othe...
“The Yellow Wallpaper” is written in journal form and is a first-person narration. The narrator explicitly refers to herself in phrases involving "I". This allows the reader to better understand her point of view. By focusing exclusively on the narrators own thoughts, feelings, and opinions, Gillman forces the audience to experience the story through the narrator’s ever-changing and sometimes unstable stream of consciousness. Though the use of first person narrative can at times allow the audience to question the narrator’s reliability, especially as she slips deeper into a state of madness, its overall function gives the story and narrator more power than it discredits. The advantage of employing first person narrative through journaling in “The Yellow Wallpaper” is that the narrator’s accounts of her life can be assumed to be told with complete honesty since t...
Kappel, Lawrence. Readings on One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2000. Print.
The author of One Flew over the Cuckoo 's Nest, allows the reader to explore different psychoanalytic issues in literature. The ability to use works literature to learn about real world conflicts allows us to use prior knowledge to interact with these problems in reality. Ken Kesey, the author of the above novel and Carl Jung, author of “The Archetype and the Collective Unconscious” wrote how the mind can be easily overtaken by many outside factors from the past or present. The novel takes place in an asylum that is aimed to contain individuals that have a mental issue or problem. The doctors and care takers are seen as tyrants and barriers that inhibit the patients to improve their health, while the patients are limited by their initial conditions
Description of the house follows, very high ceilings, old mansion it seems, with chimney stains, it has been let go. Jumps in time to narrators ex-husband making fun of narrators fantasizing about stains. The next paragraph is the father in a retirement home, always referring to things: ‘The Lord never intended’. This shows how old people have disdain for new things, the next generation appears to be more and more sacreligious. Shows streak of meanness when ‘spits’ out a reference to constant praying, narrator claims he does not know who he is talking to, but appears to be the very pious mother.
Under the orders of her husband, the narrator is moved to a house far from society in the country, where she is locked into an upstairs room. This environment serves not as an inspiration for mental health, but as an element of repression. The locked door and barred windows serve to physically restrain her: “the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls.” The narrator is affected not only by the physical restraints but also by being exposed to the room’s yellow wallpaper which is dreadful and fosters only negative creativity. “It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide – plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.”
After the invasion the Frank family went into hiding in the “Secret Annexe” with the help of Mr. Franks colleagues. This is where her two-year journey of fear begins for Anne. I am sure that such repression and fear of life would make almost any teenager completely depressed and miserable. However, Anne managed to keep her hope for a better tomorrow and man...
...ath and those who promote it. The arbitraryness of authority is then passed down to the indistinguishable names of the soldiers, down to the unordered chain of events that leads many characters to their deaths at the expense of superficial desires for men who want nothing but power. Underneath all of the horror it is Heller's strong sense of satire that keeps the reader in a comfortable hospital ward away from all the real horror, until the end when the facade wears off and the horrendous acts that World War II was capable of producing in humanity is put
“There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is a struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good,” said Susan Glaspell. Many parts of modernist writings include a dark undertone. Modernism was part of the evolution of writing and influenced writing styles today. It has a strong emphasis on what writers at the time didn’t want to publish such as psychological aspects, the drive for murder, and one’s questionable sanity. Modernism also includes the strong use of symbols and personification. In Anderson’s work, for example, he uses personification to show that Wing Biddlebaum’s hands have a mind of their own. In Glaspell’s work, she symbolizes a canary for one’s broken marriage. In The Yellow Wallpaper a woman is constantly having an inner battle with her sanity. No one truly knows if there is actually something behind the wallpaper, but no one questions it since they assume she’s an insane mother. Glaspell and Anderson have a common style of writing that includes the basics of Modernism. They also include a distance and, most often, a misunderstanding between the main characters and their relationships.