Essays on Moralizing

Introduction

There are many different reactions to mental illness. These approaches culminate in various responses and perceptions about people with mental disorders. There are various labels people create when dealing with persons with mental illnesses. Social stigma involve discriminatory behaviour directed at singling out people with mental challenges and treating them with fear and panic. However, this phobia of people with mental illness seem to create other dysfunctional behaviours when it becomes excessive. The purpose of this essay is to identify the patterns of functional issues relating to the stigmatizing beliefs and behaviours towards people with mental illnesses. This will ...

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is best characterized by his ambition, which leads him to commit heinous murders and eventually causes him to become insane. In “Macbeth”, one of the greatest tragedies ever written, the protagonist transforms from a valiant nobleman to an insane and violent tyrant, whose downfall comes as a relief by the end of the play. The tragedy is a literary genre which tackles a serious or somber topic, and in which the protagonist has an unhappy fate, usually brought about by a major flaw in his character. In the play, Macbeth first kills Duncan to take ...

The Importance of Being Earnest, a play by Oscar Wilde, is often considered a classic, and ahead of its time in terms of social commentary. The play, a comedy of errors in which people put on fictitious personalities to get what they want, touches on the triviality of Victorian culture and the institution of marriage, among other things. However, despite its ravaging of the continental lifestyle that many rich people in the Victorian era experienced, the play does not reach to the point of moralizing, or providing solutions or lessons to be learned from the work. Instead, the play is more of a ...