Help!

[sunramoonga]

HELLO! i'm new around here and i am quite desperate! i must begin my final diploma, i have a subject in my mind, but i dont't have a text to reffer to... i want to write about madness in literature and the fact that madness does not actualy exists ... i need a text about mad people - english literature!
PLEASE HELP ME!

[ajoe]

Good luck.

[Jester]

one flew over the cuckoo's nest comes to mind. Hmm.... thats the only one i can think of....

[subterranean]

I once swore that I never use this one emoticon...ever!!!

But I'm totally sick and tired with this home work thread thing...:flare: :flare:

so....here it goes...

:banana:


as Ajoe wrote...good luck!

[Scheherazade]

How about Jane Eyre?
Or Wuthering Heights?

[subterranean]

Sche, what sort of madness he/she refereing to anywayz?

[Jay]

Was thinking about nicknaming her 'Schez'... Sche looks too much like 'she' to me. Or... :p.. Scher :D :angel:

[subterranean]

well i think sche is a she....i like callin her (i assume sche is a she) Sche..just like i like callin jester lizzy poo :)

[Isagel]

Hamlet seems like an obvious choice, but I guess it has been analyzed alot before.

I wonder how you define madness, an on what grounds you say that it does not exist.
There is a japanes writer who wrote much on this subject - about the sanity in insanity. I´ll see if I can remember his name. That is not english lit, but perhaps it can give you ideas.

[Scheherazade]

*is as she as anyone possibly can be* ;)

Call me Scher! (pronounced like Cher, the singer) :)

[Shore Dude]

Hamlet seems like an obvious choice, but I guess it has been analyzed alot before.
Come to think of it... so many of Shakespeare's works have characters with huge emotional dilemas, or what one might refer to as -- the brink of madness. Macbeth, Othello, Romeo & Juliet, Henry IV, etc.

Jeez, Shakespeare was like Dr. Phil of 16th century.

[Jay]

Call me Scher! (pronounced like Cher, the singer) :)

'twas the idea ;):p

[rocksea]

There is a japanes writer who wrote much on this subject - about the sanity in insanity. I´ll see if I can remember his name. That is not english lit, but perhaps it can give you ideas.

Isagel, are you talking abt Banana Yoshimoto, author of Kitchen?

[Sindhu]

HELLO! i'm new around here and i am quite desperate! i must begin my final diploma, i have a subject in my mind, but i dont't have a text to reffer to... i want to write about madness in literature and the fact that madness does not actualy exists ... i need a text about mad people - english literature!
PLEASE HELP ME!
How About Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys?
I never promised you a Rose Garden by joanne Greenberg
Girl Interrupted: kaysenne Susanna
And for reference you could try Mad Woman in the Attic -Gilbert and Gubar.

[Sindhu]

Hamlet seems like an obvious choice, but I guess it has been analyzed alot before.

I wonder how you define madness, an on what grounds you say that it does not exist.
There is a japanes writer who wrote much on this subject - about the sanity in insanity. I´ll see if I can remember his name. That is not english lit, but perhaps it can give you ideas.
Are you thinking of Kenzaburoe Oe, isagel?

[rocksea]

hey sindhu!!!!! after long time!! you are alive!
happy to see you back :) hope u r keeping well,,

[Isagel]

Are you thinking of Kenzaburoe Oe, isagel?

No, I think it might be a short story by Mishima.

So glad to see you here again! You have been missed!

[Sindhu]

The Madness and Perversion of Yukio Mishima?
And it just struck me that Malvolio in S'peares Twelfth night would be a good example.

[Sindhu]

hey sindhu!!!!! after long time!! you are alive!
happy to see you back :) hope u r keeping well,,
Thanks! I've posted the reason for my absence on the chat thread, so send some congratulations my way! :wave:

[Jay]

SINDHU!!! HEYA :D:D:D So great to see you back :D:D:D
*hugs* :D