Superego In Regarding Henry

On a cold winter day in Bath on December 30,located in the Bed and Breakfast lodging center,a mysterious disappearance has occurred. Billy Weaver,a seventeen year old businessman was last found in this lodging center. The lodging center’s landlady has denied the accusation of the claim of her murdering Billy Weaver.

Henry uses logical and ethical approaches to help make his point stand out more to the

After the Vietnam War, Henry was crazy and unstable. For instance, when Henry was watching television and he bit through his lip with blood pouring everywhere (977). The blood was getting on his bread every time he took a bite, but because of his lost ability to think straight Henry doesn’t even flinch as blood pours everywhere. Also, at the end of the story Henry snaps on his brother Lyman. He punches Lyman, which leads to a fight ended by the laughing of Henry (980). During the fight with Lyman, the extent of Henry’s mental changed, to turn on a family member and physically strike him. Henry illustrates how crazy he is when he jumps in to the river all of the sudden to “cool off”(981). This action by Henry ends his craziness and his life.

I feel that before Henry had gotten shot he was a id and after he got shot he was the more playful id that he was a superego he did have a few of those moments but other than that he was more fun and less self centered and cared about his

He first shows symptoms when Jan and Alex,his mother and his brother, come to visit him while he is away at school. They notice the early triggers such as his mistrust him clocks and technology, he takes his phone apart and explains how cell phones control society and he does not trust the use of them, along with clocks and telling time. He believes time is a false concept. Alex doesn’t see that his brother is not thinking clearly, and questions his logic with the clocks, explaining that they are just objects.Henry begins to get aggressive and confused. “Henry looked at them mushily, drawing his eyebrows together as if his mother and brother were in conspiracy not to understand him.”(Cockburn, page 17). Along with these triggers, he also heard voices from animals and trees telling him to do certain actions, Henry often felt forced to do things that he also didn’t want to do. Another example, the trees told him that he needs to strip down and jump down the Estuary, therefore he was actually never suicidal, but instead threatened by the inner voices in his head. Henry went through many episodes and was tormented by his symptoms and did many things wrong, even though he knew better.

Moreover, another event from the movie that shows his (CD) is his attempt to kill his mother. After running away from her in the woods and hiding, he tries to push his mother of a cliff. This plan was once again stopped by Mark. This ultimately led to Henrys death. This shows just how maladaptive or out of touch with the world Henry was. As I pointed out earlier, Henry was a very intelligent and manipulative child. He convinced his parents and other elders around him to believe that he was the perfect child and tried turning them against his cousin Mark. He even had Mark’s doctor believing that Mark had a problem. According to (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 12/10/09) both of these events are characteristics of (CD).

In the movie "Regarding Henry", Henry shows both his superego and id part of his brain. His id part is very defined in the beginning of the movie. First, in the beginning of the movie Henry is very focused on work and when he apologized to his daughter he only talked about how he won the case and how the case is related to something Rachel did. Second, when he got home he ran out of cigarettes so he goes down to the convenient store and demands for some ,but as he says, "I need some cigarettes!" A man pulls out a gun and shoots him, one on the shoulder and one in the brain but the bullet went just deep enough to not kill him. However he did lose most of his memory and forgot about his family ,but when he didn't know how to tie his shoes his daughter Rachel showed him how and he asked, "Where did you learn that from?" Then Rachel said, "I learned it from you." Then when he heard that he regained his memory of her daughter.

The superego is the morality principle where a person feels responsible towards society. It also blocks out aggression and can cause guilt. Greg operated in his superego when he returned home, “He thought ahead of what his father would say and wondered if he should tell him about Lemon Brown. He thought about it until he reached his stoop, and decided against it,” (Myers 8). He didn’t want to tell his father about Lemon Brown because he didn’t want to get in even more trouble or another lecture, “Greg pushed the button over the bell marked Ridley, thought of the lecture he knew his father would give him, and smiled,”

Crane’s novel “The Red Badge of Courage” is a compelling war novel focusing on the psychological growth a soldier goes through as he experiences war. He starts us with Henry with the naive idea that war is a quick shot at fame. He imagines himself being a superhero on the battlefield, and returning home with stories to swoon all of the women with and impress his mother. However he doubts his own courage in the face of danger. Crane takes us through the psychological growth and maturity that henry experiences during the battle.

In Chapter 1, Henry is completely engaged in his own thoughts. He daydreams about his farm, his home, and the conversation he had with his mother. This shows that, at the beginning of the novel, Henry is excited and has unrealistic ideas of glory. He is a dreamer. He doesn’t think of death, especially not the possibility of his own death. In Chapter 2, Henry starts to connect with the other soldiers in his regiment. He listens to the soldiers talking the enemy and the coming battle. As he listens to these stories, Henry doesn’t know if they are all true and because he doesn’t know if they are true and whether or not to believe them, he starts to become afraid. He keeps his feelings to himself, separating himself from the others.

In the film “Regarding Henry,” Henry Turner undergoes drastic change in his life after he is shot in the head. He loses the majority of his memories and completely changes as a person. As a result, throughout the movie Henry depicts a simple contrast between the impulsive and spontaneous id and the moralistic superego. Before his severe head injury, Henry displays the negative side of his id. For example, he ends up lying in a court case without thinking of the consequences it may have on anyone else. This ends up only feeding his selfish and impulsive desire to make more money for himself. Then before he goes to the hospital Henry impulsively feeds into his cigarette addiction and goes to the store to buy cigarettes, which eventually results

In the movie “Regarding Henry” Henry show part of his mind that relates to attitudes about what is right and wrong and to feelings of guilt by forgiving his wife after she cheated on him. Henry forgave his wife after he allegedly found out his wife “Sarah” was cheating on him with one of his closest friend/colleague. After finding this abrupt news Henry stormed out of his wife and ran of to one of to a familiar place for him, The Ritz Carlton, After going to the Ritz he allegedly found out from one of his former colleagues that Henry was also cheating on his wife with his colleague. Later, realizing his wrongdoing Henry went back home to apologize to his wife. In this section of the movie Henry’s superego came out and showed part of his mind and attitudes about what is right and wrong and to his feeling of guilt/sympathy towards the situation. Secondly, Henry showed his more complex superego by pulling his daughter out of the magnet school. In this scene of the movie Henry realizes that it is time to turn his life back around so, he decides to pull his daughter out of a magnet school that doesn’t accept many children, to make up from lost time he has spent working and missing eleven years of her life. This section of the movie shows the biggest part of Henry and his superego side by showing the feeling of guilt that sunk in when he realized how much time he

Most of Henry’s decisions revolve around his impulses and doing what he pleases at the time. He becomes a giving, kind, and caring person… a way different person then he was before. Before the accident he did not have a relationship with his daughter and barely had one with his wife. After the accident he spends lots of time with the both of them showing love and affection constantly. He is never strict with Rachel and even knocks over his orange juice to get a laugh out of her.

There are a wide variety of theatrical movements that have occurred over time. One of these includes the theatre of the absurd. Theater of the absurd refers to the literary movement in drama popular throughout European countries from the 1940s to approximately 1989. A definition of the term "absurdism" is referred to a literary and philosophical movement that flourished after the Second World War and bears a close relationship to Existentialism. Absurdism 's signature attitude is therefore black humor, an ambiguous mixture of tragic pathos and preposterous comedy, which finds it compelling literary expression in the work of authors such as Samuel Beckett (“Absurdism” 3). In this paper, I will explore the development of absurdism in two different plays, The Room and Waiting for Godot.

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