Can moral obligations be blinded by religious views? For some, the sense of religious pride reigns stronger than the moral belief. In the beginning, citizens of Hillsboro from the novel Inherit The Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, acknowledged religion as something far more valuable than the moral truth. As the novel continues the prosecuting attorney, Matthew Harrison Brady, enters the scene which reveals the prejudice of the courtroom regarding the case of Bertram Cates. When Brady takes on the challenge, the exposure of excessive pride and boasting of recent cases won can be seen as a certain Dramatic Personality Disorder from a medical standpoint. Throughout the novel, more symptoms of the disorder are revealed through Brady, who continuously proves to have a Narcissistic Personality Disorder or otherwise known as NPD. Classified as part of the Dramatic Personality Disorder, a Narcissistic Personality Disorder is based on the extremity of self-admiration. The origin of the specific personality disorder comes from the Greek root word “narcissism,” which is based on Greek mythology of Narcissus who was a man that fell in love with his own reflection in a pool of water. The cause of the illness is unknown, however professional mental health doctors believe the condition may be due to how a child was raised. When still in the adolescent years, excessive unconditional or an insufficient amount of love from the parents may be the cause of the disorder. Early signs of the mental illness can be spotted by adulthood. The majority of the people who are diagnosed with Narcissistic Personality Disorder show symptoms such as being conceited and garrulous by exaggerating achievements and goals that are unrealistic while ... ... middle of paper ... ...t the novel. Taking on the challenge to go against Drummond was a sign of having the mental illness, but as the court case continued the condition became more obvious and the fall of Brady becomes more conspicuous. As the fall of Brady went on, various other symptoms for the disorder became apparent which establishes the fact that NPD is present in Brady. Works Cited “Narcissistic Personality Disorder.” Cleveland Clinic. The Cleveland Clinic Foundation. N.P., 20 May 2005. Web. 19 May 2010. Lawrence, Jerome, and Robert E. Lee. Inherit The Wind. United States: Random House, 1955. Print. "A Critique of Inherit the Wind: Analyzing One of the Most Anti-Christian Films in History." Protestantism. Web. 02 June 2010. "Narcissistic Personality Disorder: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia." National Library of Medicine - National Institutes of Health. Web. 02 June 2010.
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The novel Inherit The Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee is a book about a trial that goes down in the little town of Hillsboro about a teacher who broke the “Butler law” (a law that prohibits teaching evolutionary theories in public schools). The townspeople are very excited because because three-time presidential candidate, Matthew Harrison Brady is coming to town to join the district attorney. The town is so excited for this that they had a carnival like picnic with hot dogs, cotton candy, and lemonade just to celebrate Brady coming to town. When everyone crowds into the courtroom the tensions rise when Brady and Drummond (Cates attorney) start to bicker over everything that they bring up. The trial really starts
According to the Mayo Clinic, narcissistic personality disorder “is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for admiration and a lack of empathy for others.” Generally people that suffer from narcissistic personality disorder
In each of these four areas, the behavior can look different. For example, one style of distorted thinking can lead the person to have an inflated sense of self while another’s can lead to chronic self-loathing. This paper will compare and contrast histrionic and narcissistic personality disorders.
In 1979, there was a lack of an appropriate instrument for measuring narcissism. (Emmons, 1984)
Therefore, when the partner provides negative feedback, an individual with narcissistic characteristics becomes upset or angry. They feel that they do not get what they deserve, which stems from their sense of entitlement. Especially individuals with vulnerable narcissistic traits react to this sort of provocation with reactive and displaced aggression (Krizan & Johar, 2015). Vulnerable narcissism is the more covert, introvert, feeling entitled, exploitative, self-absorbed, and aggressive form of narcissism. The more known form of narcissism is grandiose narcissism. This is the more overt, extravert, exhibitionist, high self-esteem, feeling entitled and hostile form of narcissism. It was only until recently that research started to divide narcissism in these two forms of narcissism (Lamkin, Campbell, van Dellen & Miller, 2015, Pincus & Lukowitsky, 2010). It has led to interesting discoveries, such as a gender difference (in the traditional binary form) in what kind of narcissism is shown the most in individuals. For overall narcissism, men show higher
A Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is a mental disorder in which people elaborate sense of their own importance ("Narcissistic Personality Disorder"). They have a deep need for admiration and have a lack of empathy for others. They also believe they are superior to others and have little feelings but are really
Between 0.7%-1% of the adult population suffer from the Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Pathological narcissism is under-reported because, by definition, few narcissists admit that anything is wrong with them and that they may be the source of the constant problem in their life and the lives of their nearest. Narcissists resort to therapy only in the time of a life crisis. They tend to blame the world, their boss, society, God, their spouse for their misfortune and failures.
Havelock Ellis (1898) first developed the concept of narcissism as a psychological construct referring to excessive masturbation by the people become their own sexual objects. Then this concept was adopted by Sigmund Freud (1914/1957) and other prominent psychoanalysts. Interestingly, the term “Narcissistic Personality Disorder” was first introduced by Heinz Kohut (1968), the founder of self psychology, and “Narcissistic Personality” by Otto Kernberg (1970) who is the major contributor of modern object relations theory. The DSM did not adopt the diagnosis of Narcissistic Personality Disorder until in the third revised edition published in 1980 (Siomopoulos, 1988). Thus, throughout the last century, the general term “narcissism” has been usually seen in the literature rather than Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
A lot of people may not have come across this mental condition: borderline narcissistic personality disorder. You might even be thinking that this must have something to do with the definition of narcissistic personality disorder. The truth is this conception is totally wrong.
Origins of this disorder date back thousands of years, the earliest being in Greek mythology. Narcissus, a handsome young man, who upon seeing his reflection for the first time, fell so in love with his own image he laid there looking at himself until he died. Unlike the evil queen in Snow White, he didn’t need a magic mirror to tell him he was the fairest of all because he believed it to be true. In the early 1900’s, psychoanalysts started viewing narcissism as a healthy part of the human psyche, to a point. Austrian psychoanalyst Otto Rank was one of the earliest to publish a paper on narcissism in 1911, in which he connected it to self-admiration and vanity (Coombs, C.B., 2014). It wasn’t until about 50 years ago that it started being recognized as an illness with a treatment solution. This invisible wall, built from the dance between self-worship and self-hatred can be broken. Only if the person is willing to dig deep and learn where self-image went
1 out of 16 American people have had or have a Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for admiration and a lack of empathy for others. The two articles that I read about focus on the social impact of narcissistic people, the articles “Do Today's Young People Really Think They Are So Extraordinary? An Examination of Secular Trends in Narcissism and Self-Enhancement” by Kali H. Trzesniewski, M. Brent Donnellan, and Richard W. Robins and “Egos Inflating Over Time: A Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory” by Jean M. Twenge, Sara Konrath, Joshua D. Foster, W. Keith Campbell, and Brad J. Bushman. Most American’s have an abundance of self
NARCISSISM: “The attitude of a person who treats his own body in the same way in which the body of a sexual objec...
The morbid manifestation of a narcissistic personality disorder is characterized by a brittle self-esteem feeling that those affected try to compensate themselves by their own greatness, superiority and contempt for other people. Many are captured by powerful fantasies that revolve around power, boundless success, glamor, beauty or even ideal love. They tend to construct and outwardly present themselves as grand, but they often surpass their own Narcissists are regarded as self-centered individuals who have egocentric and needful characteristics. Internal self-determination serves the purpose of maintaining an inner balance as well as self-worth and well-being. A narcissistic personality style is by no means necessarily morbid as long as it