· Identify a section or passage from your memoir that would be worth analyzing through one of the lenses. Summarize this section briefly, in a sentence or two.
· Then analyze this section or passage through one of the lenses in a few sentences.
· Close your blog post with a lens question related to your analysis, that any classmate—no matter which memoir they are reading, can respond to. (Examples: Is anyone else starting to feel that their memoirist’s memory is unreliable? Is anyone else’s memoirist struggling with his/her performance of gender role norms? Is anyone else seeing examples blurred lines between the “colonizer” and the “colonist”?)
· Respond to at least 2 of your peers’ posts.
In "About Alice," there is another instance where Calvin and Alice remembered something differently. He said, "When I saw Alice at that Monocle party, she was wearing a hat. At least, I've always remembered her as wearing a hat. She later insisted that she'd never owned a hat of the sort I described. Maybe, but I can still see her in the hat—a white hat, cocked a bit to the side."
ReplyDeleteThis particular section of the book can be seen through the psychoanalytical lens. However, unlike the instance with the men who smoke pipes, this directly involves Alice. It is interesting that Calvin insists what Alice wore. Wouldn't Alice be the more reliable person since she was the one who owned it?
The question that I have for everyone is, is there an instance in your memoir where your memoirist and someone else have differing memories?
Based on my memoir , "Orange is the New Black," Piper's memories is different from her friend because Piper was a smart women in college who got involved in the drug industry while her friend was already in the drug industry living a difficult life.
DeleteIn my memoir "Brain on Fire" the entire book revolves around the idea of the main character Susannah and her close relatives having different memories of the lengthy period of time that Susannah's disease was attacking her body. She has no recollection of the month she spent in the hospital. She can remember certain bits and parts about her behavioral changes and when her seizures occurred but she has no chronological recognition of events and is forced to rely on her family and hospital videos to fill in the missing pieces.
DeleteYour memoirs all have so many theories incorporated, I feel like I can barely find my way out of gender performitivity😭.. But it's fine.. I can't really distinguish whether or not memories have been distorted in "Running con Scissors" because the story is only told from one perspective, but there's a great chance that certain scences and memories could have been exaggerated or exacerbated for the purposes of making the story a good read.. Nevertheless, the memior is a pretty great story lol.. I think you guys would have fun reading it😅
DeleteIn "Girl, Interrupted" Susanna speaks of a "parallel world" where "things happened that had not yet happened in the world we'd come from. When they finally happened outside, we found them familiar because versions of them has been performed in front of us." This reflects the mirror stage through the psychoanalytical lens because in this mirror stage kids can see the movement of limbs or sections rather than the whole thing. Then when they grow up they realize the whole picture and it's them doing the action. This generates a feeling of familiarity because they have seen the movement of the limb outside the world they're in and now it has happened in their world. Does this mirror stage help explain Deja Vu?
ReplyDeleteIs there a connection to a parallel world in your book or a deja vu moment?
Wow, I love your question! Even though your analysis does not apply to my book, I think that there is parallel that could be formed between Lacan's Mirror Theory and Deja Vu moments. It can help explain that perhaps Deja vu moments are a creation of the mind, something that has been instilled in an individual during the mirror stage. There are some Deja vu moments that I, at times, feel like never happened in real life yet they are stored in some part of my Brain irreversibly.
DeleteThis is a really insightful question especially just having to think about how it connects to my memoir. Even though the question cannot be answered by my memoir exactly some overlap exists. I say this because although the memoirist doesn't directly hint at their being a separate parallel world she does hint at their being two versions of herself or a parallel of ones self. The sick version of herself and the healthy version of herself. The main character experiences several deja vu moments because during the lapse of her disease she feels like a completely different person but somewhere inside her own self she understands and is able to distinguish that she is acting and behaving in a way unlike herself. Its like the old self is somewhere in their but has no control of the actions performed by the sick self.
DeleteIn "Girl, Interrupted", Susanna brings up the idea that a suicide is a "premeditated murder" that requires a "strong motive" and "good organization". The motive of the suicide can stem from things outside of the person's reach that can't be fixed or resolved by that person alone. After having the motive, the act of killing oneself requires a person to have full control over what he/she is doing. According to Lacan's mirror-stage theory, a person realizes that he/she can only control his/her own actions and no one else's at an early age. Connecting this back to Susanna's suicide description, some people think that suicide is the only option left that is in their control. They see suicide as the solution because it is both seen as a way to resolve the issue he/she has with things outside of their control (you don't have issues if you're dead) and as something that is in their full control. Therefore, suicidal thoughts can be traced back to the mirror-stage theory. (I hope I didn't sound like I'm justifying suicide in anyway or some crazy stuff like that).
ReplyDeleteMy question: Is there evidence in your memoirs that can be examples of a thought process stemming from the mirror-stage theory?
In the memoir, About Alice, the mirror-stage theory is prominent as the book follows Calvin, the memoirist, and his life with his wife, Alice. With this, the book's focus is on Alice, however through the eyes of Calvin. This change of perspective ultimately highlights the use of the mirror-stage theory, where Alice is in relation to Calvin's words.
DeleteI am reading the same book as Sinead, and I see that the way of the author writes is related to the mirror stage theory. The author, Calvin spends so much time describing how amazed that he "got" his wife that it makes me question how he views himself. It seems like even though he is a grown adult, he is still stuck in the baby stage of the mirror theory.
DeleteI am reading Brain On Fire, in the memoir, throughout the course of her illness the author continuously struggles with the fact that the effects of the unknown illness she posses doesn't allow her to do certain actions or remember certain things. This idea could be affiliated with the idea " of being able to control our own self" because, in this case Susannah is constantly frustrated because her growing inability to control her body and not being able to do things she used to be able to do.
DeleteIn "About Alice, " Calvin trilling discusses the way in which his writings about his wife create a stern perception of her role in their relationship. Going as far describing her as "the sensible person who kept everything on an even keel despite the antics of her marginally goofy husband,"(4). In other words, she was the one that kept things "together" while he was the opposite. Looking through Judith Butler's Gender Performativity Theory, I think that Alice was fulfilling a behavior that has been exclusively deemed a certain gender's characteristic. For a very long time, women have been perceived as domestic masters of the household. The are suppose to cook, clean, and maintain the things and people that are associated with the household. Essentially. they keep things "together" just like Calvin says Alice was. Meanwhile, what I find interesting is the fact that while a man is has the designated role as the headmaster of all things, his role is flexible enough to allow him to be "marginally goofy."
ReplyDeleteTherefore, my question is, why does the male gender get off easy with some things that females will be censured for? Also, why do double standards exist?
I really love your questions Isatou. To answer your first question, based on my memoir, men don't really get off easy but it is expected for them to be incarcerated as opposed to women. I think this is because since the beginning of time, there is a set standard for women that cannot be broken and women are always being stereotyped and labeled. I think that these double standards exists to put genders in place and to just have power over one another.
DeleteBased on my memoir, males don't really get easy off with things since they're considered most likely to be aggressive and go to prison rather than a female.
DeleteMales usually get off easy with things that are considered "dangerous" or something of that nature because I'm pretty sure we have all heard of the saying "boys will be boys", meaning that if a guy does something that a guy would usually do, he'd be off the hook. Women are supposed to be pretty, polite, and petite and if they stray away or do things differently from the norm, they are looked down upon. Also, I agree with Christina as to why double standards exist.
DeleteI agree with Cierra. I think that men get away with doing things that would be looked down upon if women do the same things because of gender stereotypes. Gender stereotypes have been repeated throughout history and are so imbedded in society that it would be impossible to reverse.
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DeleteIn the memoir, “Orange is the New Black”, Piper’s jail sentence has been put on hold for about five years but has resumed thanks to a judge. To mentally prepare herself for prison, she had “already read the books on Amazon about surviving prison, but they were written for men.” The gender lens is evident in this passage because the theory states that gender is a series of repeated acts. Based on that quote, the memoirist is implying that we would expect a man to go to jail versus a woman and if a woman were to go to jail, people would tend to look at her a certain way because that’s not what’s expected of a female. Are any of your memoirists experiencing gender norms role in society?
ReplyDeleteI like this question, Christina! I like how you use the gender lens on your memoir, it shows a part of the story that I don't think I'd notice on my own. Good job!
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Hey Christina! My memoirist does experience gender norms role. Before he married his wife, Calvin competed to "get" her. This signifies that one of the roles of a male is to "get" a woman.
DeleteMy memoirist faces difficulty with acting "appropriately" in regard to the biological gender he belongs to. He often idolizes his mother and performs in ways that resembles her actions and behavior, rather than following his dad's example or any other of the kids in his school. Interestingly, he does this while at a tender stage of his childhood. Which makes me question, if there were no societal and external influences, would the children that express 'feminine' qualities continue to express them past their developmental ages?
DeleteOn the contrary, my book challenges gender norms by portraying women as strong even with mental illnesses. These women undergo unimaginable events and they still manage to be alive and functioning.
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ReplyDeleteBased on my memoir, “Orange is the New Black,” Piper gets caught for carrying drugs on her so before she was took to jail she read a book on surviving prison, but it was written for men. This demonstrates a gender lens since the book Piper read was meant for men as if men were the only gender that went to prison. This shows the relationship between judith Butler in which she believed that the gender lens took place constantly from generation to generation. Society viewed men as more dominant and aggressive which was why the book would be meant for a male reader. Do you guys have male characters who are viewed as aggressive or dominant?
ReplyDeleteI like your question! I think you can also ask about if she learned anything from those books, or if the subject matter is too different for what Piper needs.
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Hey Jada! In the memoir that I'm reading, male characters are definitely not viewed as aggressive or dominant. This is partly because the memoirist is a male himself. When I read the memoir, though, I feel that the woman, Alice, is portrayed as dominant, at least slightly.
DeleteIn my memoir, all the male characteristics are portrayed as caring and loving. The author's father figures are always supporting her, her boyfriend is always there for her, and all the male doctors are caring. There was a moment when the father is more emotional than the mom. The portrayal of men differs in where the setting takes place in.
DeleteNice Question! Based on my memoirist he is not portrayed as someone who is aggressive. My memoirist Augusten is a male that is not considered to be dominant either. I think its because he doesn't act like any other man because like Bao said their portrayal or behavior differs based on the environment they are around.
DeleteIn my memoir, "Girl, Interrupted", one of the patients in Mclean Hospital, Wade, often talks about how he wants to be like his father. Interestingly enough, his father allegedly killed a bunch of people and is portrayed as an aggressive person. The fact that Wade wants to be like a violent and aggressive person alone shows that gender stereotypes are strongly reinforced through repetition in an intimate environment (kid-and-parent relationship).
DeleteIn my memoir, "The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong", almost every male character is dominant because it was expected that a male would hold a office position or be able to provide for the family.
DeleteIn my memoir, "The Last Lecture", there was a part where the memoirist recalled his football coach getting on his case a lot. Pausch, the memoirist, wasn't a big fan of that and regarded his coach as a rude dude. Pausch also remembers that the assistant coach had at one time told him that the coach wouldn't be so tough if he didn't care. This stood out to Pausch, as he remembers it years later. In a postcolonial lens, this shows that we tend to remember important things, and those important things shape who we become later in life. Does anyone else have a character that learned a valuable life lesson as a kid?
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Nice question! In About Alice, Calvin Trillin speaks about parties, specifically called Monocle Parties, where people purposefully went in looks for marriage. Those who attended went to find a spouse. It may not be a lesson, however, Calvin and his friends or acquaintances all know about these parties and are expected to find a partner from these parties. Therefore, it is almost a standard from their teenage and young adult years, where they know the traditions of their lifestyle. Calvin does note that most of these marriages end up failing, so maybe that's the lesson from the parities.
DeleteIn my memoir, I think my character did learn a valuable life lesson as a kid and that is to be who be yourself. Even though, it was hard for her to do that while being bullied she learned that those words were didn't define who she was as a person.
DeleteI think my memoirist Augusten learned to accept who he is. He knew that he was different from the other boys in his surroundings. Its similar to Victorias character in which the lesson learned was that you should be yourself and not let others opinions impact you.
DeleteMy memoirist learned, after getting bullied, not only to just ignore the harsh words, but to deflect them. She learned to make the best out of a situation, not just for herself, but for other people. After her experience with HIV, she did everything that she could to spread awareness and assure that no one else is in her situation.
DeleteIn my memoir, "Brain on Fire," a specific scene describes Susannah's recent release from the hospital and one of the many social encounters she had with people who knew her before she had the disease and are seeing her again for the first time. Susannah observes that people "were talking down to her, as if [she] were a toddler or a very old person."
ReplyDeleteA postcolonial reading of this passage suggests that Susannah is being "othered" by some of her relatives, close friends, and/or acquaintances because she is by definition "different" to the Susannah she was before she became ill with the disease. She has experienced these encounters very frequently because she physically looks different and acts different due to her loss of memory and motor skills. In Susannah's case she is being "othered" due to her disease. However, this "othering agent" is different than the typical colonized and colonizer post colonial concept because this type of "othering agent" is not meant or intended to be malignant. Usually people treat sick people different by showing sympathy and in a sense being ignorant to this persons feelings as a result of their different treatment towards the ill individual.
Does any one else have a character who is emotionally affected by being "othered" due to a disease or illness? Does this mirror a colonizer colonizing an individual? Is this type of "othering" justified?
In my memoir, "Brain on Fire," a specific scene describes Susannah's recent release from the hospital and one of the many social encounters she had with people who knew her before she had the disease and are seeing her again for the first time. Susannah observes that people "were talking down to her, as if [she] were a toddler or a very old person."
ReplyDeleteA postcolonial reading of this passage suggests that Susannah is being "othered" by some of her relatives, close friends, and/or acquaintances because she is by definition "different" to the Susannah she was before she became ill with the disease. She has experienced these encounters very frequently because she physically looks different and acts different due to her loss of memory and motor skills. In Susannah's case she is being "othered" due to her disease. However, this "othering agent" is different than the typical colonized and colonizer post colonial concept because this type of "othering agent" is not meant or intended to be malignant. Usually people treat sick people different by showing sympathy and in a sense being ignorant to this persons feelings as a result of their different treatment towards the ill individual.
Does any one else have a character who is emotionally affected by being "othered" due to a disease or illness? Does this mirror a colonizer colonizing an individual? Is this type of "othering" justified?
I think this is a great application of the post-colonial theory, because it does depict a way of 'othering' people that is especially common in our society today. Does your memoirist every explicitly claim that this kind of behavior is offensive or disliked? If she does then I think it's part of the responsibility of the 'bullied' individual to claim their ground and make others understand that she doesn't enjoy being treated differently because of her physical or mental illnesses. It's hard for someone,at least personally speaking, to not try to act in a sympathetic or careful manner when acting with someone who could be potentially emotionally sensitive and fragile, especially right after an event that was traumatic like the becoming ill with such disease.
DeleteWithin About Alice, the memoirist, Calvin Trillin, speaks about his wife Alice in the most honest way possible. He speaks very highly of her, as he describes both her strengths and weaknesses in the highest of words. When Alice passed away, people who didn’t even know Alice wrote Calvin letters of deepest regard and wrote about how Alice had an impact on their life. Although not knowing Alice, Calvin wrote about her in such a way that her appearance had a positive and selfless aura, “they may not have known her, but they knew how I felt about her. It surprised me that they had managed to derive that from reading…”(6). This shows that through Lacan’s mirror theory, Alice’s appearance is based on Calvin’s word, where the I, Alice, is in relation to the other, Calvin and the readers. Overall, as this memoir is in Calvin’s perspective, where he puts Alice on a pedestal. A question I have is: are there a person that you must rely on the memoirist’s opinion, or another person’s opinion, to see how they are or behave? Can you truly know someone based on someone else’s opinion?
ReplyDeleteI think this question is incredibly mind boggling! In my memoir, "Brain on Fire", the author visits her boyfriend's relatives. However, she looks ill and when she arrives at the house, everyone is giving her weird stares. They do not know the true her because she is not in the right state of mind. They have to rely on the boyfriend's account of her personality from before. But even so, people have different perceptions of people's personalities because your personality changes depending on the person you're interacting with. I think that you have to try to get to know the person for yourself to get a true sense of how that person is. If that person's opinion of you is bad, then the person talking to him will think you're not a good person.
DeleteIn my memoir, "Positive", the author's classmates relies on each other's opinion about Paige since she has HIV. It seems like since someone doesn't want to be around her others don't want to go near her either. But in my opinion, you really don't get to truly know someone based off of what others say because sometimes people can just judge each other off the way that they look and make may conclusions just from that. So if you really want to truly know someone sit down and have a conversation with them or just be around them and see how they interact with others. Because people are more than just their looks and their disease.
DeleteYes because people tend to be honest when discussing others because they're judgmental
DeleteI believe that you can't truly know someone based on someone else's opinion because sometimes people act differently depending on who they are interacting with, therefore different people can have different perceptions of you depending on how you act when you are around them. Some people can see you as fun and outgoing and others can see you as shy and quiet.
DeleteIn "Brain on Fire" by Susannah Cahalan, there is a scene where the author is being diagnosed by a doctor. The author has a mental illness and the doctor asked her arrange some blocks to make it look like the pattern in a picture. She was unable to do it but kept on trying while her frustration was mounting.
ReplyDeleteFrom Lacan's point of view, Susannah is angry because she can not control her surroundings; she can not control those blocks to fit the pattern in the picture. However, in a way, this also means that she can not control herself because she has no authority over what signals her mind is sending to her arm. She keeps trying and trying because she seeks validation from the doctor, because she wants to seem better. Her ego is her force of motivation because she does not want to fail. At the end of the scene, she has a self reflection where she realizes that she is not functioning at the level she could before.
Does anyone have a memoirist who's ego is the force behind their actions?
In Positive, our memoirist participates in beauty pageants even since she was a young age. While at first it was just out of fun, I think that maybe because she wanted to stand out in a good way was a reason why she was so persisting in trying to convince her mom in letting her participate. She wants to hold on to doing pageants despite her HIV becoming public.
DeleteIn "Positive", Paige recalls the time when she wanted a better understanding of what HIV was since she was taking health classes and learned all about that disease. At this point Paige realizes that everything about her life is different.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the Post-Colonial Theory, one can say that Paige herself starts to see herself as different. Due to the fact, that she has asthma and HIV it is hard for Paige to see herself as normal because all her life she thought that she was just like other children but in reality she isn't. Well, Paige is 'different' to both those who have HIV and those who don't, because most people who had HIV around that time were not able to live but so long because the medication for HIV was not yet out. But Paige was born when the medication had been out. As for those who don't have HIV Paige was seen as the disease herself and nobody wanted to be around her.
Was there a time when the memoirist of your memoirs realized that their lives her not the same as others?
In my memoir, Brain on Fire, I feel that the memoirist Susannah certainly experiences this event where she feels that her life is unlike other because of the unusual illness she posses. She has no control of her actions, she isn't ale to properly socialized with her friends and relative, and lives within a bubble of the unknown du to the fact that no one knows what is going on with her.
DeleteYes, in my memoir, Lady Hyegyong married the crown prince, so the expectations for her was different than those of other girls her age. She had to act more mature and understanding because of this status.
DeleteI believe that Piper from OITNB has a big ego which is apart of the force behind her actions. She knows that she is a smart, preppy, educated woman but she went ahead and got involved in a drug ring. Maybe she used her education and smarts as a tool to combat her illegal actions.
ReplyDeleteIn OITNB, Piper was outraged that there were no books directed towards helping incarcerated women - as men are usually the ones who are incarcerated. This is a strong example of the gender performativity theory, following the fact that men and women are portrayed a certain way and that they're supposed to behave a certain way. Is your memoirist a victim of gender norms? How would the memoirist's life be different if they adhered or followed these gender norms ?
ReplyDeleteIn my memoir “Running with Scissors” the memoirist Augusten Burroughs was staying at Dr.Finchs home and there was a moment in which he was contemplating about what Dr.Finchs reaction would be when Augusten revealed that he was gay. Augusten said “[he] was worried about their reaction to [his] deep,dark secret.”This essentially relates back to the gender lens in which there exists established gender norms. The theory states that gender is a repetition of acts. I think that he was worried about revealing that he was gay because he deviates from gender norms and it’s not a continuation of these repeated acts. Does anyone have a memoirist in which he/she sustains the repeated acts or digresses from the gender norms?
ReplyDeleteThis is a great question :). And yes, my memorist Piper digresses from gender norms by simply going to jail instead of being a classy, successful young woman her family wants her to be. She is restricted and put into a box because her family expects so much from her but she breaks away from that.
DeleteIn Positive, while Paige's childhood was a blissful ignorance, growing up and having her HIV known and no longer kept a secret changed everything. She was just like everyone else she enjoyed her simple life. However, once everyone knew about her HIV, the bullying started and she started to enjoy her life even less and less. She is reacting to her surroundings-changing her actions and her perspective on life based on her classmates's actions towards her. This lines up to Lacan's mirror theory, which shows that while one can only control themselves, they do so in response to their environment. However, this isn't the original Paige that grew up happy and blissful. So, in relation to this, does anyone feel like their memoirist is acting in an ingenuine or irrationally in response to what is going on around them? Do you think that without these environmental stimuli, the memoirist would act in a different way, more reflective of their true self?
ReplyDeleteIn my memoir, Brain on Fire, the author states "I'll always regret that I remember nothing of this pivotal scene, one of the most important moments in my life." The scene the memoirist is referring to is when Dr. Najjar finally had a clue of what the unusual illness could be and he promised her he would do anything he could to help her. This event in the memoir can be analyzed through a psychoanalysis lens for Susannah is incapable of retrieving such a memory that represented climax to the unknown world of madness that she was living in. This correlates with Freud's idea that the brain is unreliable when it comes to retrieving memories.
ReplyDeleteQuestion: Has in any of your memoirs the memoirist professed their inability to retrieve a memory that was important to them and had to rely on other sources in order to put the pieces together? Have you seen any evidence of that relates to Freud's psychoanalysis lens?
"Anita Bryant on TV talked about how sick and evil gay people were."
ReplyDeleteMy memoirist comes to terms with his sexuality once he is allowed to express himself and have more freedom when he spends a week at Dr. Finch's house, as he even claims that he feels like he isn't being treated like a kid anymore and feels two years older in terms of maturity. If the post-colonial theory is applied to this passage, it is easy to view the role media plays in contributing to the divisions of society. It can effectively manipulate public opinion and infiltrate their opinions, making them believe being someone who isn't attracted to the opposite gender than that of their own is wrong and should be criticized. More so, it even attacks the morality of a group of people that is large enough to understand that such description don't possibly apply to the entire category of beings pertaining to other sexualities.
Have any characters in your memoirs gathered the courage to admit something about themselves that isn't considered socially acceptable?
Does the media influence the characters in your books in similar fashions?
In my memoir "Orange is the new black" the main character Piper had to admit that she was involved with a drug dealer and she was trafficking large sums of money, so as a consequence she was put into jail.
DeleteBefore getting incarcerated, Piper the protagonist in “Orange is New Black” mentioned how she used to prepare herself as she awaited for her experience in a women’s prison. One of the ways she prepared herself for this was by reading books that related to survival in prison, but she said that this wasn’t too reliable because those books were written for men. This passage from the memoir can be analyzed through the gender lens because it portrays the common stereotype which states that men are more aggressive than women and are more prone to commit crimes. Society view women as sweet and caring human beings that are incapable of harming a fly. Therefore the books on surviving in prison are made specifically for men because men are more likely to fall in prison and even though there are women incarcerated, it’s more probable that male prisons are more dangerous due to the aggressivity related to men. Is anyone else reading a book in which their main character is doing something that contradicts one of the many gender specific stereotypes?
ReplyDeleteIn my memoir,Positive, applying the post colonial theory lens,my memoirist,Paige, is being colonized by HIV. By having the virus,Paige's health and so far social life is constantly at risk. Her life is revolved around her virus for which she can not escape. Like a true colonizer,HIV traps Paige and steals precious "normal" life experiences from her. Paige feels oppressed and is deemed "other" by her classmates. She is an alien among ones she has grown up with and subjugated to bullying and emotional distress. Though her classmates can also be labeled as colonizers,they would not be bullying her if she did not have the virus.This leads me to ask if anyone else's memoirist being degraded and colonized by an inanimate object?
ReplyDeleteIn my memoir, The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong, she describes how her husband, "Sado's illness was caused by rejection and lack of love. He lost his battle to meet his father's demands not because he did not want to comply, but because he desired so intensely to live up to his father's expectations that the constant paternal disapproval was too great to bear". As the crown prince, that was expected to be the king one day, he was placed a heavy burden by his father to excel in everything he does. Applying Freud's Memory Theory, people only remember the most recent occurrences, which is why all of Sado's past achievements were ignored when he finally went insane from the stress and loneliness.
ReplyDeleteSo my question is: Should people take into consideration how a person used to be before judging them? Or is it more important to judge them on how that person is currently?