As humans we are constantly being shaped and altered by the environments that we’re in. This plus the procedural growth and aging of ourselves helps to set in motion who we really are. These themes play a big role in the game “Far Cry 3” as the main character, Jason Brody, is put into a new environment where he has to rapidly grow to protect the ones he loves, but his sanity is constantly being attacked. There are multiple theories surrounding this game and the topics of insanity, but this will deal with Jason slowly losing himself and his sanity to the island and rejecting this theory. In the land of the insane, the only way to survive is to adapt. Far Cry starts off by solidifying the fact that the Jason is an ordinary guy who just likes …show more content…
Ryan’s theory takes a look at how there are multiple parallels between both the antagonist and protagonist of this tale and asks a simple question “Is Jason Brody the predecessor of Vaas Montenegro?” (Ryan Hollinger 1:52). This theory has many points that can be seen as valid with a couple if statements that seem to be grasping for straws to insinuate a point. There is a piece of information that can be seen as speculation but can be also seem plausible “Vaas was once Jason and Jason will inevitably become Vaas” (Hollinger 10:35). By staying on this island for so long and being consumed in the environment of drugs and violence can take its toll on a person, which is showcased in Vaas. Jason is slowly going through this as well as he does take numerous drug trips and is slowly becoming numb to the violence around him. Some of Hollinger’s points can be easily disproved or thrown away from sheer disbelief, “Jason’s constant falling and taking damage from this, showcases his decline” (Hollinger 6:40) and the breakdown of Vaas name (Hollinger 18:19). Overall the theory is sound but can be refuted as the narrative is a good look into the realm of reality, but can also be seen as a talk on the human
Jason pictures himself in a world where he won’t be distracted, which will give him the opportunity to focus and achieve his goals. He started thinking about it, planning what he’ll do and how he’s going to make the best out his second chance. “He won’t be like his dad, he thinks, he won’t waste his chances. He’ll grab what comes and run with it” (Allison 34). It will be all about him and the basement, who he will become, who he was meant to become. “In the basement, they won’t feed him much, so he will get all dramatic skinny. He could learn to eat imaginary meal meals and taste every bite-- donuts and hot barbecue wings and stay all skinny and pure. He’s going to come out that basement Brad-Pitt handsome and ready for anything” (Allison 34-35). In his mind, these are all the opportunity that he’ll get to become who he wants to be.
“The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do.”- Stefan Molyneux. Insanity is an inherently foreign but ancient concept, it can be defined as when the mental processes of a person functions out of the social norm. An example of a person with such a mental state is Crake from Margaret Atwood’s book, “Oryx and Crake”. Crake is a mature and brilliant but unhinged person, who is responsible for the destruction of mankind, who believes that the root of all problems in the world is man himself. This could define Crake as a psychopath, with an askewed moral compass, as he knows what his actions are wrong but he continues with them. In the tale, the main character, Jimmy/Snowman, recounts his past
Jason was confounded by how to pass this trial and was saved at the last moment by Aeetes'
The Yellow Wallpaper as a Guide To Insanity "There comes John, and I must put this away- he hates to have me write a word" (p659). As evident by the above quote, Gilman places the narrator of "The Yellow Wallpaper" as secluded as she could be; she is placed in a large house, surrounded only by her husband and by little help (Jennie), when it is unfortunately clear that her relationship with her husband is based on distance and misunderstanding: "It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so"(p 663). Gilman further confines her narrator as it becomes clear that the poor soul has absolutely no one to talk to; that is, no one who can understand her. The narrator is cornered by her loved ones, she is isolated from the world under her husband-doctor orders, she is thus physically confined to her shaky mental realm. The next aspect of the narrator that zooms us into her state is her tone: "I really have discovered something at last..
For this reader response I decided to read “World Gone Mad” by Derrick Jensen. This reading was about society and it’s sociopathic, and psychopathic tendencies. I agree with the author's point of view almost completely. In his writing he mentions how the government and the people who are in charge of society share a lot of the same traits of socio/psychopaths. He did this by siting in his work the definitions of the Sociopaths, and psychopaths with examples of them as a stereotypes and in the world of the government. For example, he starts off his work talking about how the “go green” commercials and movements make him upset because of how the world currently is, and how they have ways of “fixing it”. The way that they are fixing it though, is just like putting a rug over how we are destroying the world.
Forcing someone to take medication or be hospitalized against their will seems contrary to an individual’s right to refuse medical treatment, however, the issue becomes complicated when it involves individuals suffering from a mental illness. What should be done when a person has lost their grasp on reality, or if they are at a risk of harming themselves or others? Would that justify denying individuals the right to refuse treatment and issuing involuntary treatment? Numerous books and articles have been written which debates this issue and presents the recommendations of assorted experts.
In the book, Catch-22, by Joseph Heller, Yossarian and several of his comrades are indirectly characterized as insane members of the American Air Force. Yossarian is labelled by his comrades as crazy because he repeatedly fakes illness to stay in the hospital and takes wild evasive action on every mission to avoid danger. Yet, by some standards, he is sane because he is trying to stay alive albeit his occupation as a soldier. Technical definitions aside, the men use the term "crazy" to describe the world around them because war is unfamiliar, unnatural, and cruel. They are on some level reacting with incredulity to the fact that they must go about their daily lives dealing with death and perilous danger. Paranoia and extreme fits of anger usually mark a person who is not fit to get along in his surroundings, but calm nonchalance amidst destruction and death can also be seen as disturbing or perverse behavior, too. Few of the characters in Catch-22 are treated unfairly, or less serious, because the airmen treat each other as
Jason flourished for the next six years, even winning his fifth-grade citizenship award. In sixth grade, however, his medication stopped working, and he became aggressive again. But Jason's teachers did not believe he had a disability and refused to allow any special "accommodations," like extra time to take tests. At Christmas, Jason was so depressed that he threatened to kill himself. After three weeks' treatment at a psychiatric hospital, he was put on Adderall, another stimulant, which helped him recover. Now he is back at school, this time with a full time teacher's aide and other accommodations for his disability. "He just had a midterm evaluation," Cathy said, "and his teachers all said that he was a delight to have in class."
...nished by his father, ends up hating Jason and calls him a heretic. Magda, the only girl in the church is liked by all its members. She gets in huge trouble because of Jason and hates him for it. Henry, the violent and unstable one gets severely injured and later hates Jason because he says he isn't good enough for Magda.
Bureaucracy and war are common subjects of many satirical novels, but Joseph Heller creates a complete illogical and absurd world formulated around both of these subjects in his own satirical work, Catch-22. In Heller’s formless novel Catch-22, Yossarian, the protagonist and a young bombardier, is stationed on the small island of Pianosa during World War II along with with many other “insane,” complex, and significant characters, who are forced into carrying an always increasing number of dangerous flying missions. While Yossarian is deployed, he struggles with the inevitability of death and his mortality, defining his own morals, finding a way to survive, and the horror of war during the chaos and carnage of World War II. The motifs of madness and absurdity, along with the theme of sanity vs insanity, circulate throughout; Heller uses many of the characters’ thoughts, actions, and the famous “Catch-22” to illustrate these themes. Heller uses different literary, satirical, and absurdist techniques, such as paradoxical statements and irony, to criticize the meaninglessness of war and life and the corrupt nature of the bureaucracy.
At the beginning of The Lost Hero, a series of events attract the reader’s attention and keep him or her hooked on the story. In Chapter 1, it describes how Jason reacts to waking up on a bus with no memory sitting next to Piper, who apparently is his girlfriend and Leo, who is his best friend in the m...
How is that even possible? The dictionary definition of the word insanity is the state of being seriously, mentally ill (“Definition of the Word Insanity”). Insanity is also classified as a medical diagnosis. Insanity came from the Latin word insanitatem (“History of the Word Insanity”). People started using this word in the 1580’s. The Latins interpreted insanity as unhealthy Modern day society uses the word insanity too loosely. Although the dictionary definition of insanity is not wrong, several cases that prove having “insanity” does not always mean “being seriously mentally ill” has came to surface.
In the short story, the Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator chooses to write about a married woman in a new home who ultimately falls down into a spiral of insanity. The Yellow Wallpaper centers primarily on the narrator and her discovery in the room she must stay in to rest. There she sees a yellow wallpaper that soon begins to take the form of a woman who is trapped, and is shaking the wallpaper in order to get out. The narrator continues trying to figure out the wallpaper and its pattern until eventually deciding to rip the wallpaper off in an attempt to free the creeping woman trapped inside. Thus, the narrator in the Yellow Wallpaper suffers a mental collapse by going insane in her attempt to understand the wallpaper which can be attributed
Jason Grace is one of the protagonists of The Lost Hero. In the very beginning, Jason wakes up on a school bus, with amnesia. Later, he finds out that his memories have been stolen by Hera/Juno, an Olympian goddess. He is the son of Jupiter, Zeus’s Roman form. Jason can read and speak Latin, and uses the Roman names for the gods. He can fly, and can also produce lightning. Throughout the story, Jason can remember snippits from his past, but is getting increasingly aggravated with his loss of memory.
In the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman it takes place in the 19th century where dealing with mental disorders was as similar as dealing with any physical disorder. Paranoia was a very common mental disorder back in the 19th century. In fact, “Under the unerring scrutiny of the two bulbous eyes in the yellow wallpaper, the narrator passes through stages from concern to paranoia and, finally, to madness” (Bak P5). This quote shows her development in to madness by the creative description the narrator gave about the yellow wallpaper. The relationship between creativity and madness are closely tie together because the narrator only thinks about the yellow wallpaper, with what it signifies, which drives her to complete madness.