...Shakespeare in Film Individual Assignment Macbeth is well known to be one of Shakespeare’s shortest yet darkest tragedies. The rich, psychological turmoil experienced by the main characters and the incorporation of elements such as the supernatural culminates in a tragedy that is one of Shakespeare’s most intense and grim. I will be examining the 1971 Roman Polanski film due to the unique life story of the director and the gruesome murders that occurred prior to the film. The film employs the use of gratuitous violence, nudity and graphic imagery that far exceeds that of the text, which Roman Polanski masterfully uses to highlight the inherent madness and evil that drives Macbeth and in doing so, successfully creates an psychologically disturbing film with an atmosphere of perpetual dread. Firstly, one distinct feature about the film that differs from the text is the inclusion of nudity seen in several scenes. Macbeth itself draws largely upon the theme of the occult and madness as the main driving forces, with the inclusion of the prophetic apparitions, visions of ghosts and mental breakdowns. The scene showing Macbeth seeks out the witches for the 2nd time exemplifies the occult brilliantly as it opens to a huge coven of naked witches huddled around the cauldron whilst chanting “Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, cauldron bubble”. In the book, there was no mention of other witches apart from the three and by including the scene, the huge gathering...
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...or her different is the building blocks of a person’s personality. This paper will introduce the study of the life span and personality of shock rocker Marilyn Manson. It will be discussing Manson’s environmental development. It will discuss the moral psychological development, social support, and family support of Marilyn Manson. Each area helped in molding Manson and gave Manson adjustment to his life. It will show how his morals differ from societies morals, and how he was and still is perceived in society as a “Shock Rocker.” Marilyn Manson was born Brian Hugh Warner, January 5, 1969 in the town of Canton which is in the state of Ohio, to Hugh, and Barb Warner. At a tender age of five Manson entered in the Heritage Christian School. At this time Manson became instilled with fear, and became terrorized by the Christian school. The Coughlin (n.d.) website states he believed he was cheated and abused due to the teachings of the arrival of Christ and the apocalyptic conspiracy theories preached at his school. To complicate Manson’s childhood Manson suffered molestation from a neighbor and did not inform his mother for a long time of the molestation. Manson’s environment was at first church and family. Going to a faith-oriented school Manson was educated about how he would be damn for his sins, which made Manson fear religion. As stated by Coughlin (n.d.), “Nightmares soon visited his 12-year-old mind. “I was thoroughly terrified by the idea of the end of the world and the...
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...Easy Riders, Raging Bulls Sex. Drugs. Rock and Roll. Three simple words that helped shaped an era that brought some of the greatest movies, such as The Godfather, Jaws, and The Taxi Driver. In the book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, by Peter Biskind takes us on a bumpy and wild ride of the era that challenged new ideas to young filmmaker’s that stimulated an edgier movie industry. This book is compelled of hundreds of interviews, with directors, stars, agents, and even one night stands. It tells the up close and personal story in way that celebrities never talked about drugs, sex, and money and the repercussions. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls is remarkable in the way that gave us an understanding and behind the scenes of Hollywood’s last golden age. “The 70s were the first time that a kind of age restriction was lifted. Young people were allowed to come rushing in with all of their naïveté and their wisdom and the privileges of youth. It was just an avalanche of new ideas, which is why the 70s were such a watershed” (Biskind 15). A small low budget biker movie made in 1969 sparked the new era of movies, known as Easy Rider. This movie was a shock but a huge success to Hollywood for the fact it was made with drugs, booze, and violent rivalry. Once Easy Rider was successful a new breed of directors were in demand, such as Francis Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich, George Lucas, and Martin Scorsese. This book contains so much research and extensive interviews of not only the directors, but...
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...In Los Angeles during the summer of 1969 there was a sequence of seemingly unrelated murders of innocent people. With the death of a rising star, Sharon Tate, national fame was gained through the murders. They looked closer at the suspects and began seeing that the they were all related in the since as being within close proximity to each other upon their free time. As they began being interviewed no one seemed to be explaining any type of relevance towards each other. As more and more people got suspected and arrested there seemed to be more people who were affiliated with the Manson family. With that being known began the downfall of the cult. Vincent Bugliosi was the prosecuting attorney and author of “Helter Skelter”. Being so close to...
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...Charles Manson, a seemingly crazy man, was convicted of murder on multiple occasions, a classic American criminal who will go down into history forever. The brutality of his murders, the accomplices he recruited, and the number of people killed make this one of the most well known serial murderer stories in American history. His trial and conviction were more complex than a typical case because others were involved. However, Charles Manson’s life and character led to these crimes, and he was definitely deserving of his guilty verdict and life sentence. Manson was charged with murders, but the case was complicated because he never actually committed the crime; he just convinced others to do it. Manson’s followers committed a total of nine murders...
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...her different is the building blocks of a person’s personality. This paper will introduce the study of the life span and personality of shock rocker Marilyn Manson. It will be discussing Manson’s environmental development. It will discuss the moral psychological development, social support, and family support of Marilyn Manson. Each area helped in molding Manson and gave Manson adjustment to his life. It will show how his morals differ from societies morals, and how he was and still is perceived in society as a “Shock Rocker.” Marilyn Manson was born Brian Hugh Warner, January 5, 1969 in the town of Canton which is in the state of Ohio, to Hugh, and Barb Warner. At a tender age of five Manson entered in the Heritage Christian School. At this time Manson became instilled with fear, and became terrorized by the Christian school. The Coughlin (n.d.) website states he believed he was cheated and abused due to the teachings of the arrival of Christ and the apocalyptic conspiracy theories preached at his school. To complicate Manson’s childhood Manson suffered molestation from a neighbor and did not inform his mother for a long time of the molestation. Manson’s environment was at first church and family. Going to a faith-oriented school Manson was educated about how he would be damn for his sins, which made Manson fear religion. As stated by Coughlin (n.d.), “Nightmares soon visited his 12-year-old mind. “I was thoroughly terrified by the idea of the end of the world and...
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...The Notorious Cult Murder Charles Manson Raynette Andre ENC 1101 0B Mr.Newberry Date Due: May 4, 2011 Final Draft Raynette Andre Mr. Newberry ENC 1101 01B 4 May 2011 Charles Manson: The Notorious Cult Murder Charles Manson is a man who is famous for his notorious crimes; though he didn’t partake in them physically he did control others into doing the crimes mentally. Manson is still alive to this day, locked up in a jail cell for the rest of his life. Many people do not understand the significances of his crimes and how he affected hundreds of lives with his theories. He took the steps and controlled his follows by regulating: food intake, drug intake and what news they received from the ‘outside’. I chose this subject because many people do not understand how ill this world can be and how it has been. Hitler has been one of the few who has practiced controlling people with the steps stated above, and he was successful in his planning too. Another person is Bin Laden, who controlled people and they were willing to die for him, he mentally and physically controlled them, which made them believe that what they were doing was okay. I want everyone to be aware of people who do and say such things as Charles Manson does. In this paper I plan to make one understand that what is going on in today’s society has occurred before in the past but in different styles and more exact on who their targets were to be. These are clear signs that...
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...Born in Ohio in 1934, Charles Manson is notoriously connected to the brutal slayings of actress Sharon Tate and other Hollywood residents, but he was never actually found guilty of committing the murders himself. However, the famous Tate-La Bianca killings have immortalized him as a living embodiment of evil. Images of his staring "mad eyes" are still used today to illustrate countless serial-murder news stories. The Manson Family—including Charles Manson and his young, loyal dropout disciples of murder—is thought to have carried out some 35 killings. Most were never tried, either for lack of evidence or because the perpetrators were already sentenced to life for the Tate/La Bianca killings. In 2012, Manson was denied parole for the 12th time. Charles Manson I believe was not crazy but very clever individual. Manson had a group of people he referred to as his “family” he was a very manipulative man to the people around him. His followers numbering round the one-hundreds, also including a small portion of impressionable young girls. He had them all to believe without question that he was Jesus and his prophecies of a race war. Manson was not only influenced by drugs such as LSD but by art works and music of the time such as The Beatles song “Helter Skelter” from their white album. The first murders took place on August 9, 1969, at Roman Polanski’s Beverley Hills home at 10050 Cielo Drive. Manson chose his four most best comrades- Charles “Tex” Watson, Susan Atkins, Patricia...
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...Renita Roberson Eng.1302 W.34 Professor Miles April 28,2016 Reversion of Parole for Member of the Mason Family Dear Governor Jerry Brown: I am writing this letter as a petition in hopes of appealing the decision granted by the California State Parole Board to allow Leslie Van Houten consideration for freedom. Your decision reversing the board’s grant of parole for Ms. Houten’s release from the California Institution For Women should solely be based on substantial evidence that Houten is a dangerous threat if released back into society. With murder being the most inhumane act of crime, the continued punishment should be of a comparable caliber. It takes a great degree of motivation and psychological repugnancy to commit to the horrible acts in which Ms. Houten participated. There is an overwhelming mental barrier between final acts of defiance, and who is to say that once Houten is released she would be able to have full control of that barrier? Leslie Van Houten savagely held a pillow over Rosemary La Bianca’s face and watched as her family of cult members brutally murdered Mrs. La Bianca and her husband. Not only did she watch the attack, but also she admitted to violently stabbing Mrs. La Bianca a merely sixteen times even after realizing she had already been dead. This shows how much of little value human life means to her, because she engaged in committing a crime towards someone she’d never came into contact with prior to that night. Also, her consciousness...
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...Thinking for Themselves – Anthony D’Amelio Q8 The intellectual virtue of bravery can be defined as having the ability to think for yourself and not conform to the herd’s average way of thinking. This bravery allows a person to confront ideas and beliefs that are considered to be taboo or dangerous. Having intellectual bravery enables us to determine things for ourselves, and not just accept what we have been told. The consequences for straying beyond society’s accepted viewpoints and beliefs can be very severe. Professor Timothy Leary is a person who in the 1960’s displayed intellectual bravery while telling the rest of the world to “think for yourself, and question authority”(How to Operate Your Brain). President Nixon even called him “the most dangerous man in America”. Timothy Leary is largely famous for his sacramental use of LSD. However, Leary would first conduct experiments at Harvard University[->0] under the Harvard Psilocybin Project[->1] before being fired because of the controversy surrounding his research. Despite the negative reaction by mainstream America, Leary continued to pursue his research and experimentation with psycho- active compounds, writing several books including Exo-Psychology in 1977. Leary says “Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities, the political...
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...Charles Manson The trial of John Mason began in mid-June 1970. It was presided over by Judge Charles Older. The trial took place in the Hall of Justice in Los Angeles at the eighth floor. The judge appointed 2 jurors who would help in the case. Charles insisted on defending himself though he was assisted by a lawyer by the name Irving Kanarek. He was known for his frustration on witnesses and judges. The other lawyer who defended Charles was Ronald Hughes who was referred to as the hippie lawyer and was Leslie Van Houten’s lawyer. Kanarek may have found some kind of record for arguments in the Manson trial. He objected a total ofnine times in the prosecution's opening remarks. By the third day of trial, he had authorized more than 200 objections when the media ceased keeping track of them. Regularly, Kanarek's objections were created in "shotgun" type, such as many recommended reasons that were completely inapplicable: "Leading and suggestive; no foundation; summary and rumour." Other periods his arguments were designed to impact the judge. For instance, he objected to Linda Kasabian's testimony by announcing, "Object, Your Respect, on the reasons this observe is not qualified because she is insane!" Kanarek also flooded the judge with activities, many of them novel to say the least, such as a movement to have "Mr. Manson covered up from evidence" as the item of an unlawful look for. Kanarek brought up eye-brows for asking unusual concerns, such as when he requested Kasabian...
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...Family Few characters have gripped the eye of the American public as successfully as Charles Manson, and even fewer have ever been as effective as Manson in creating a cult following of eager people. Manson and his “Family” are the crowning achievement of a conservative America, rife with religious passion that merged with the heavy use of addictive drugs such as cocaine and LSD in order to synthesize a cult based on a skewed worldview. I argue that Manson, labeled as a social deviant from a young age, embraced this formal classification and successfully created a message that appealed to dysfunctional and otherwise outcast American youth. Manson and his Family originated in the turbulence of the 1960s, in which violence based on racial lines struck many American cities. Primarily focusing on the conflict between whites and blacks, the outbreak of racial violence in the latter part of the decade convinced Manson that an apocalyptic war between the two races was inevitable. Moreover, Manson believed that the war would end with the whites being defeated temporarily, though he and his Family would arise from their secure base of operations out of Spahn Movie Ranch to reclaim the land from the inferior blacks. Leading twenty followers to the Ranch, most of whom were female, Manson was a charismatic and appealing figure to the drug-driven and racist whites that dominated his cult of personality. Manson himself had “spent most of his 32 years in reformatories and jails by the spring...
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...Cults Cults are often seen as an alternative religion. “A cult is defined as a religious or secular group that employs unethical and extreme measures of manipulation to recruit, control and retain its members” (Study Resources). Most cults are started because someone doesn’t like the way the world is and want to create what they feel the perfect world is. Then this person strives to make others believe as they do so they will join. There are somewhere around 3,000 to 5,000 of these cults throughout the United States, but only 75 to 100 are documented (Study Resources). The most commonly known cults are Reverend Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple, Heavens Gate, and Charles Manson and the Family; these cults were able to drag people in and make them willing to do horrible things to themselves and others. In the early 20th century, Allistar Crowly, AKA “The Black Pope”, started modern Satanism (Satan Worship). It is said that Anton Lavey brought Satanism to the United States; Anton believed that he was the reincarnation of the “Black Pope”. He set his church up in San Francisco in 1966. By the end of the first year, Anton’s cult grew to more than 200,000 members (Satan Worship). Anton then went to Hollywood to help make movies about Satanism. The movies, such as Rosemary’s Baby, glamorized the Satanic lifestyle and drew people in. Satanism was the jumping point for the modern cult movement. Reverend Jim Jones was the leader of The Peoples Temple. Jim thought of himself...
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...Charles Manson was a man that had many issues in his life. From birth through his childhood growing up he was in and out of foster care and living with family members. This part in his life play a big deal in physiological state that made him into a psychopathy that harmed people to get revenge on the world because of his mental issues growing up. Charles Manson was born to a 16 year old girl named Kathleen Maddox. His mother ran away from home at the age of 15 years old and spent the next couple of decades doing drugs and drinking. Most of Charles Manson’s childhood he spent in jail. Charles bounced around from family members and often at reform schools and boys’ homes. Before the age of ten he had already stolen cars and added burglary and stealing to his list. Charles was sent to live with a strictly religious aunt a sadistic uncle. The uncle constantly berated Charles as a sissy, dressing him in girl’s clothing for first day of school, to help Charles effort to act like a man. When Charles mother made Parole she reclaimed her son but was an unfit mother. She was an alcoholic who would bring home lovers of both sexes; frequently his mother would leave Charles with neighbors, for hour at a time then disappeared for days or weeks on the end. On one occasion, she reportedly gave Charles to a barmaid, in payment for a pitcher of beer. Manson had an extremely traumatic childhood. The behavior theory would argue that since he did not have a mother in his life, was neglected...
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...Charles Manson Diana L. French Psychology 552 Instructor Jessica Ryan February 22, 2015 Charles Manson, better known as “Charlie”, “Manson Family Leader” was one of the most famous serial killers of our time. Interestingly he was tried and found guilty of murders that he himself did not commit yet he ordered his “family” to do so. The crimes that Charles was tried for took place in the late 1960’s and to this day Manson is still in prison. The following text will explore Manson’s life, the trial, where he is today and what psychological events were present to lead to this point in Manson’s life. Internal factors from Birth to Early 20’s November 12, 1934 Charles Manson was born in Cincinnati Ohio to Kathleen Maddox. Kathleen during this time was considered a promiscuous teen that drank alcohol and would end up in trouble of one kind or another regularly. Kathleen was briefly married to a man named William Manson who gave Charles his last name. Charles has never known his biological father. To better understand some of Manson’s thinking and behaviors it is helpful to look at some history regarding his mother and her life. This will help to explain how Charles was raised and socialized. Kathleen was...
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