...Keesan P Pascal 1 Mr. Davis th PreAP Literature 11 11/11/2015 Sadists And Their Destruction Ken Kesey, Edith Wharton, and Tom Schulman all have created literary works involving the sadistic enforcer of conformity. These characters take pleasure in the terror and pain they instill in those who reside under them and have been also shown to go to quite drastic and destructive measures to ensure the conformity of the populace they command, even completely destroying someone’s life for “the good of all.” Within these works Kesey, Wharton, and Schulman use the sadistic Nurse Ratched, Zeena, and Headmaster Nolan to show their use of drastic methods to enforce conformity and the destruction of characters’ lives to show this. Nurse Ratched takes a certain sadistic motherly pleasure in her position of conformist enforcement on the ward. As soon as her entrance in the first scene Chief Bromden interprets her expression during her walk to her office as being “pleased and peaceful with the thought”(Kesey 4) of her duties for the day, which involve watching over the patients of the ward. She orders and controls the patients in a manner that diminishes their masculinity, and she takes pleasure in the fear that she causes and the power she commands. Another instance of this is when Nurse Ratched remembers the time when she had a patient named Taber (who she eventually made docile through electroshock therapy treatm...
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...The Psychological Causes and Effects of Masochism and Sadism Katelyn Mueller Florida Institute of Technology Human Sexuality December 6, 2015 Abstract Masochism and sadism are very alike in nature. Masochism is a sexual perversion characterized by pleasure in being subjected to pain or humiliation; especially by a loved object. Sadism is the pleasure in being abused or dominated. Sadists have a taste for suffering. Masochism could be a means of escaping from one’s self. It could be a temporally extended identity. The awareness of one’s self is replaced by the focus on immediate present and on bodily sensations. Psychologists have found that the principle feature of masochism such as pain, bondage, and humiliation help accomplish the escape from high-level self-awareness. There are several different theories about where sadism began. Freud believed that instead of deriving from the pleasure principle, it derives from the death instinct. Some researchers have even looked into whether sadism could be the result of hormonal or chromosomal abnormalities. Many psychologists have considered sadism and masochism as corresponding oddities and this is supported by the finding that individuals with masochistic fantasies often have sadistic fantasies as well. Masochism is a sexual perversion characterized by pleasure in being subjected to pain or humiliation; especially by a loved object. Sadism is the pleasure in being abused or dominated. Masochism and sadism are a lot alike in nature...
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...Case #2 Offences and Facts * An 18 year old sexual sadist has been charged and convicted of threatening bodily harm. * He had also been expelled from another school for sexual assault. * Judge De Filippis has forbidden the teen from accessing websites containing any bondage, necrophilia, sadism and masochism. * The judge also includes a prohibition against any websites wherein content’s “dominant characteristic is undue exploitation if sex, or sex and crime or cruelty and violence * Teen previously sought help through similar program for sexual offenders. The sadist was deemed ineligible because he hadn’t committed an offence. * The conviction of threatening bodily injury carries a sentence of a 3 year probationary period. He also will be required to receive 18 months of counseling, via an Intensive Support and Supervision program. * History of attempted suicide * Described as depressed, lonely, and harboring sick tendencies * Unhealthy obsessions that put both him and the public at risk Actus Reus and Mens Rea * The Mens Rea began when the teenager, wrote and drew images of sexual sadism into his notebook (defecated faces, broken limbs, dead bodies) these images suggest the intent and knowledge to commit such an act * Mens Rea is also found throughout his personal webpage, and throughout the various smut websites the teen visited. * The Actus Reus of threatening bodily injury happened when the teen went to Facebook...
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...Sex Offender Minority in Criminal Justice February 6, 2012 Submitted by: Sherry Gadson Instructor Shawnna Williams Abstract Growing up never knowing the different cases of sex offenders, became astonishing to me. I was surprise when I heard about A person that I grew up with was on television for committing a sexual assault on a minor. This same person grew up with my nephew Tory. Throughout the years, growing up this person became a problem with the law from teenage to adult years. He has been charge with several crimes. You would think having to be incarcerated for more than five years at a time one will learn what is best for them. However, it is hard to know what one goes through in their mind. It could have been something he has witness or even went through as a child. One thing for sure is we know he has a problem with society A sex offender (also sexual offender, sex abuser, or sexual abuser) is a person who committed a sex crime, although what constitutes a sex crime differs by culture and by legal jurisdiction. In most jurisdictions, offenses include child sexual abuse, downloading child pornography, rape, and statutory rape. In much of the United States, public urination, mooning, streaking, and the failure to prevent one's own teenage children from engaging in otherwise consensual sexual activity also, result being designated as a sex offender, requiring registration as such in publicly available, online lists. The term sexual predator is often used to...
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...BEOWOLF Grendal is a sadistical monster. He survives by killing and eating his victims or shall we dare say prey. He is a sadist because only a sadist would say “they squeak, and I simile like exploding spring”. This leaves the impression that even though it’s a fight for food and his survival, he takes joy in their death. He revels in it. Grendal fought and killed for his food, which happened to be humans. At times you think he had some form of remorse with statements like “all at once I’m filled with gloom again”. He would lead one to believe he was convicted with the acts he made. As you look deeper into his character you begin to realize that it’s not conviction but regret that the event is over. When he makes the statement “all at once I’m filled with gloom again” he wants us to believe that he is can feel sadness and remorse. He wants us to believe his remorse was sincere and it overwhelmed him like an ocean of waves. Yet he leaves door open for speculation. There is neither remorse nor guilt in his ply. He sees his victims as toys and plays with them. He takes pride in others fear of him which makes him sound like a psychopathic creature with emotions like a demon. “I’m watching for potential victims and going to take to forest and eat you.” Overall, Grendal is a colorful person. The way he describes his victims before killing them is elegant but quite disturbing. His mannerisms are that of an enigmatic person. His choices...
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...Oh the Humanity Darwin once said that those who could best survive in the environment around them would influence the next generation of a given species. Nowhere in this idea did he talk about external forces acting on populations that change the survivability of a species. Darwin was well aware of the food chain, but he never discussed how human elitism could affect the food chain. As a result of mass production, human ignorance towards other forms of life proves their elitism. Humans believe that they are the top of the food chain, and therefore, they value their own life far above any other life. They have a biological elitism. With their biological elitism, humans begin developing a superiority complex, which, in result lends them to believe they are a step above “top of the food chain”. Finally, humans can get pleasure from watching the destruction of other life because the destruction reassures humans of their superiority complex. Although each has a unique setting, Super Sad True Love Story, “The People Pound”, and Heathers are all connected in their inherent values of life, each providing a satirical approach to biological elitism and proving the sadism of humanity. Biological elitism starts with the devaluing of other, inferior life forms, which leads to the construction of a biological dictatorship. In Hunter Breckonridge’s story, “The People Pound”, she satirizes the lack of value humans place on animals by paralleling animals with disabled humans, calling disabled...
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...about his hunting skills while at the same time having many advantages over his prey. Zaroff claims to make the hunt fair by “giv[ing] him a supply of food and an excellent hunting knife” (50) which is countered by the fact that Zaroff knows the entire layout of the island while the others know nothing about the island. He also claims that the hunt is fair because “they get plenty of food and exercise.” (50) even though Zaroff has a pack of dogs that he can use to find or kill the person. Irony is also shown by the fact that Zaroff is quite wealthy and educated yet a sadist. He has suits by a tailor who “cut and sewed for none below the rank of duke” (45) as well as a servant named Ivan. However, Zaroff is a sadist and is joyful at the thought of his quarry losing which happens when he finds and kills the person. Overall, General Zaroff displays irony through his chivalrous behavior, riches, and education yet sadist actions towards other human beings...
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...with the highest level of comorbidity to other types of psychopathological disorders. Studies have also found other types of illnesses, such as alcoholism, to have a high rate of comorbidity with sadistic personality disorder.To be more specific, Theodore Millon claimed there was four types of sadism. Although, the type that matches the most to the offender in Amanda's story, is the tyrannical sadistic personality which is brutalizing and menacing to others, forcing them to dread and truckle. It is also verbally caustic, abusive, inhumane and unmerciful. Also, according to Theodore the tyrannical sadists choose their victims quite carefully to make sure that they are not going to stand up and fight back when they are attacked. For example, Amanda as she was a 13-year-old child, of course she couldn't fight back and the defaulter for sure he expected that. As well, the tyrannical sadists normally have a low self-esteem and several inner insecurities that they try to conceal from the world and in order to feel superior, they often overwhelm others with their behavior. So, maybe the violator has this kind of personality and if this will be took into consideration, it will help a lot the research because the investigators will have to search for offenders with a sadistic profile. In addition the slayer can also be characterized as "lust murderer". According to researchers, the most critical component in the psychological development of a lust murderer is violent fantasy. Fantasies accompany...
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...Background on the killer Rex Allan Krebs had a shady past many years before he committed the murders of Rachel Newhouse and Aundria Crawford. Rex was from an abusive family. His childhood was very unstable. He suffered abuse from his real father, and then again from his step dad. One instance of clear abuse was when Rex was sent to school wearing a diaper when he was nearly six years old for wetting the bed the night before. In 1987 there was two brutal rapes. The victims had been attacked at night while they slept. Rex had crawled through a window at night to get to his prey. He was sent to prison in 1987 for these two rapes. He was released 10 years early for good behavior. It was found that he did not seek attention for his psycho impulses for fear the other imates would kill him. Krebs should never have been released from his sentence early, or possibly ever. Many residents of San Luis Obispo California were angered by the fact that two more ladies died at the hands of a repeat sex offender. How profiling helped in this case Profiling helped find Rex Allan Krebs guilty of the murder of the too young women. The man behind the profiling was an experienced FBI profiler by the name Marc Savard. Frist he retraced the first girls steps. Which led him to the bridge where blood was found. The investigation team found out that it was in fact the girl’s blood. Then at the bridge Mr. Savard toke a closer look at the blood splatter and came to the indication that Rachel had been...
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...one’s self. This story takes place in Japan in a time where wealthy men would go to extensive lengths to impress and attract the young women such as geishas. It was a time where young delicate women could control any willing man by simply letting him indulge in her beauty. Men would decorate their bodies with ink to show their masculinity to these young women in hopes they would be so inclined to have the woman give them a glimpse of her sweet tenderness. There was an exquisite tattooer in the village named Seikichi. Seikichi was a unique painter and tattooer. However, Seikichi did not accept just anyone seeking a tattoo, nor did he accept payment, for Seikichi’s payment was giving the tattoo itself. Seikichi deems to be a form of a sadist. His pleasure came from the pain the people on the other end of the needle endured. The author declares “His pleasure lay in the agony men felt as he drove his needles into them, torturing their swollen, blood-red flesh; and the louder they groaned, the keener was Seikichi’s strange delight”( Tanizaki 80). To Seikichi this seemed to be a away to fulfill his own desires. On one hand, Seikichi appears to be a form of a narcissist. He would tattoo these men to make them more beautiful as if no one portrays any beauty without his art works on...
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...Riederer uses humor to humanize the narrator. It is not uncommon for people to cope with horrible accidents by joking about it. In fact, just the third sentence in, the narrator gives the reader a hint of humor immediately after the bus ran her over, “It is easy to be calm because I cannot really have been run over by a bus” (Riederer 2). The reader then sympathizes with the narrator because of all the ways to get hurt, being run over by a bus is seen as pretty funny and a little pathetic. It’s understandable that the narrator would also think that her situation is unfortunate, but still funny. When the narrator is being treated in the ER, she’s still in an incredible amount of pain, “…a beady-eyed nurse says that she put morphine into the...
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...A Jeffrey Dahmer Story Tyler Jones Understanding Criminal Minds December 2, 2014 Jeffrey Dahmer Fantasies can be strengthened by great amount of sex drive that assists in unusual behaviors; sexual murders are based on fantasies. The purposes of the fantasies are to take control of the victims; the killer wants the control because he/she has sought it since childhood. It is known that very few serial killers have healthy relation with their parents. “Jeffrey Dahmer was born on May 21,1960, in Milwaukee; his parents were Lionel and Joyce Dahmer. Joyce had problems during her pregnancy and started taking drugs to treat her sickness” (Fischoff, 1996). After Jeffrey was born he had difficulties with his legs and needed help with his legs for four months. Despite this problem he seemed to grow up as a healthy beautiful child, but at one point his mother started to refuse to breast-feed him. Since she could not handle breast-feeding, this increased her consumption of antidepressant and psychotropic drugs. “After a few years the couple moved six times in their first years of marriage. In 1962, the family moved to Iowa. Lionel had been accepted to a doctoral program in chemistry; in this period Jeffrey got sick very often and required several injections to treat the infections” (Fischoff, 1996). “When he started preschool his interest for insects and animals was starting to take form, in fact, he helped his father in nursing a owl they found. When Jeffrey was...
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...In each and every human being there is a beast within, it is only a matter of time before the inner evil is revealed. In William Golding’s novel “Lord of the Flies”, he demonstrates this theory very well; especially with the character named Roger.The other two characters who best portray this concept are Jack Merridew, the leader of the hunters, and Ralph who is in charge of assigning tasks to the little ones. Roger is a prime example of the beast within. Roger is a sadist who enjoys inflicting pain upon others. In the beginning, the boys still have the molding of society. For instance, Roger was throwing rocks at Henry,another child stranded on the island, and purposely misses.: “Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and...
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...A.Discuss the protagonist of Lord of the Flies in terms of flatness or roundness. What purposes are served by his flatness, if any? Discuss any two minor characters in similar terms. For each, justify the degree of flatness or roundness in terms of the character's contribution to Lord of the Flies. Ralph, a charismatic twelve year old boy is the protagonist in William Golding's Lord of the Flies. The author describes him as being "fair haired" with "the body and shoulders of a boxer" while still having a "mildness about his mouth and eyes that proclaimed no devil." These facts immediately tell the reader that Ralph represents good in this novel. Because of Ralph's positive qualities he is chosen leader of a group of boys on an uninhabited island. Ralph knows the difference between right and wrong and is willing to act as the absent adult figure. He knows that the children could not survive without rules so he makes up a list of rules based upon common sense. It is Ralph's job to lay down rules and organize some type of society on the island. Throughout the novel we see many changes in Ralph's character since he is always in conflict with Jack Merridew, the novel's antagonist. These many changes put Ralph into the category of a round character, one who is more human as opposed to a flat character who is one dimensional. Ralph's contribution to The Lord of the Flies is his representation of law and order or an organized society. Simon is an introverted boy who cannot speak in...
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