Analysis Black Swan

Night Swan is initially an outcast because she is a “half breed” but her frivolous behavior pushes her even further as a disgrace to women. Night Swan discusses the real reason her and Tayo are outcasts, “they are afraid, Tayo. They feel something happening, they can see something happening around them, and it scares them. Indians or Mexicans or whites—most people are afraid of change.” (Silko 92). Night Swan teaches Tayo about miscegenation and how the people do not physically fear them, but rather fear the concept of change occurring around them. Night Swan

Yearning is a feeling most people have felt and experienced. Yearning causes feelings of sadness and

Desire is a strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen. John Updike’s, “A&P”, shows desire throughout the story with Sammy. Sammy sees these three girls in the store he worked in. He thought the girls were desirable, but the other girls did not think the girls were that popular. Sammy noticed the girls right when they walked in the store.

To want is to feel a need or a desire for; wish for. Many will do whatever it takes to somehow please the desires they can't control. Some wants are for selfish reasons and are only beneficial for the one who wishes them, but there can be wants for others too. They can be good or bad. To achieve the impatient needs you might have to disobey the rules, or defy the authority and law. Studies have been recorded to test people and their own personal wants, many of the results ended with them choosing the choice more so beneficial to them. Also in many occasions they chose the choice that would’ve normally been against the rules. In these cases someone is faced with a want that they should not be able to achieve because it's against their given

Not everything one desires is unattainable or even possible. Desire can be a bittersweet feeling, depending on how far one needs to go to fulfill it. The costs that come with pursuing overwhelming desire can be dangerous and not even worth the intended outcome. Overwhelming desire for something unattainable can lead to various consequences such as harmful dishonesties and a personal denial of the truth that can lead to a fanciful life.

The individual’s idea soon leads to desire; a strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen. Many should know desire has

The magnificent "obsession" can be one of two things. It can be a thing of beauty, a gifted ballet dancer gracefully contorting their body to a harmonious pace. But it can also be a thing of darkness, a face of white like Bergman's vision of Death with red, piercing eyes included. Director Darren Aronofsky is no stranger to telling tales of obsession. In fact, most of his films deal with the dueling sides of that fiery driven coin. With Black Swan, his latest film, he once again delves into the mental state of one who is obsessed, and, once again, he creates a thing of visionary brilliance. Black Swan, slow burn though it may be in the former half, quickly transcends both its lead character and her story

Black Swan and Whiplash both feature intense practice sequences that build upon the narrative of obsessing over a craft. This intense and obsessive practice leads up to the conclusion of the films; where each character gives their absolute best performance. Nina’s final transformation into an impure and sinful character is completed when she grows black wings and slams her mother’s hand in her door. During the performance, Nina gets into an altercation with herself and stabs herself in the pure White Swan costume. Andrew transforms into “one of the greats” as he is embarrassed by Fletcher on stage. They both have their careers riding on their performances. They both fail to begin with; Andrew not knowing the chart the rest of the band is playing and Nina falling during act I of Swan Lake. Yet their greatness is proven when they give the final goodbye to their parental figures and former youth. Andrew runs off stage, hugs his dad and his former reality, as he knows his life will never be what it once was. Nina exchanges eye contact with her crying mother as she looks proudly onto her daughter dancing like she never could.

The main character in the film Black Swan, twenty-eight year old female Nina Sayers, displays signs of numerous disorders through her abnormal behavior. Nina’s life is consumed by her occupation: professional ballerina/dancer. Nina resides with her mother and rarely socializes with others. She has difficulty concentrating, is restless, irritable, suffers from muscle tension, and sleep disturbances from nightmares. Nina also feels very uncomfortable in social and intimate situations. She appears to be unable to successfully interact with those around her. The interaction that Nina has with her fellow dancers appears to be strained and superficial. Nina exhibits behavior that indicates she views all other dancers as competition instead of

Black Swan is a psycho thriller film that narrates the life of a ballerina called Nina Sayers (played by Natalie Portman). She is a young, ambitious dancer working for a prestigious NYC ballet company. According to the movie, she was around twenty-some year old when the story begins. Even though the main point of the movie is how bad Nina wanted the lead role for a theater production called Swan Lake, the dark drama around the movie is built by the psychological illness of its protagonist. Nina’s disordered relationship with her roommate/mother Erica, played by Barbara Hershey, sets the stage for Nina’s psychological breakdown. In the movie, the role that Nina always wanted requires her to play both the black and white swans. Her innocent, almost child-like personality makes her a perfect hite swan; however, she was having trouble getting into the character of the white swan’s dark and seductive counterpart. This film brilliantly captures the brutal physical and emotional demands that ballerinas face in their short-lived career span.

In life, it is natural to desire things, whether it is to open doors for one person or being able to see your family once last time. This type of desire has spanned over generations from the 1400s to modern day, from Verona, Italy to outer space. Critically acclaimed William Shakespeare, Pulitzer Prize winner Conrad Ritcher, Tony Award winner William Gibson, and Oscar winner William Broyles Jr. demonstrate an important message in life. Nothing worth having comes easy but you should never give up.

Patrick Solitano Jr., better known as Pat, is a white male of about 35 years of age who has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and is undergoing treatment. He was released from a mandatory hospitalization in a detention facility after eight months on the premise that he would continue taking medication, attend therapy, and comply with his restraining orders. He was also assigned a parole officer.

Every need is rationally and mechanically filled, so Numbers are perfectly happy. They do not want for anything. As an emotion, desire represents an irrational impulse and is targeted by One State. Sex is scheduled and regulated to prevent frustration. Yet desire is an impossible human fact to get rid of. All the novel's characters desire something with enough force to risk their lives. I-330, S-4711, and R-13 live for revolution, as O-90 desperately wants a child, U admires and wants D-503, and D-503 years for I-330. D-503's passion for I-330 tears his tightly structured world apart, both literally and figuratively. The rebellion he supports breaches the walls of his glass city, and he begins suffering from lovesick delusions. Zamyatin argues that Utopia cannot exist because desire can never be truly satisfied, even when wants are mechanically inventoried and

In the beginning of the film, Nina was depicted as an average, normal person living in New York that yet lacked the freedom to express herself as a sexually free, young woman due to her mother’s controlling behavior. When she wins the coveted Swan Queen role, the feeling of immense pressure that comes with the role causes Nina to lose her tenuous grip on reality and descend into a living nightmare. For example, she experiences symptoms such as interpreting normal behavior from Lily as an attack because of Nina’s jealousy toward Lily’s effortless embodiment of the Black Swan (Schacter, Gilbert, Wegner, & Nock, 2014). Nina’s attention to negative behavior to Lily is a result of her own imagination – she starts conceiving events that did not happen such as a lesbian fling with Lily and her constant attempts to sabotage Nina’s ability to perform as the Swan Queen. In addition, she suffers through hallucinatory episodes that involve bodily horror, such as her skin tearing off her body and the appearance of an evil twin, every time she reaches a step closer to her full transformation of the Swan Queen.

In addition to civilization, Freud expands his view of human nature according to pleasure. According to the “Beyond the Pleasure Principle,” hunger and love regulate the world. Though the original thought was taken from Schiller, Freud applies it to the core instincts he believes to sum up human nature. Hunger represents the instincts which aim at preservation of the self while love strives after objects and preservation of the