insanity a statement
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he is a judge, and lastly the fourth holds a crystal ball that indicates a clairvoyant or a fortune
teller. We would associate these professions to a person with mental illness and what statement
they are telling the society about these professions having mental disorder because only normal
people or common people can acquire professions or skills like these.
According to nami.org on mental illness these are medical conditions that disrupt a
person's thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others and daily functioning. They cannot be
overcome through "will power" and are not related to a person's "character" or intelligence. It
tells us that the character of the four actors if we create each a background before they were
mental patients was not related when they acquired the mental illness they have. Having this kind
of illness may disrupt a person but what kind of disruption depends on the reason they are acting
insane. The disruption of the ability to relate to others can refer to the part when the actors start
to make deafening or irritating sounds and when they enter they start talking to the Duchess and
throw some lines at her. The four mental patients does not disrupt their relation to the Duchess
which defies the meaning of mental illness which tells us the idea that maybe mental patients do
tell a statement that is why they are associated with four professions.
Are the mentally ill violent? Are they more violent than people without mental illness?
Violence refers to acts of physical violence against others, since these are the most fear-inducing
for the public. According to nami.org again they cannot be overcome through will powerthis
means that mental patients do not use violence to hurt themselves just because they are suffering
from this disorder and therefore not using it to others to hurt them. This again defies the fact that
the four actors character is hurting the Duchess of Malfi till she totally snap and become insane.
Concluding that it is wrong to state that the four actors are mental patients and we really need to
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know the reason behind the four professions associated with them. They do not have mental
illness but we can consider them insane.
According to Wikipedia, the doctor is a word [that] is originally an agentive noun of the
Latin verb docreto teach. From the meaning itself to teach, the character of the first actor is
trying to teach a statement of what doctors really are. Teaching us how it is scary to carry this
profession because two options are indicated here for patients, either you live or die. There are
also fake doctors in which tells us the statement of their insanity, doing the same thing over and
over and expecting different results which is life or death. The character of the first actor as an
insane doctor tries to lead the Duchess to her death.
Doctors are mostly seen in hospitals and associating the location of their profession is
realizing what really lies in there and how they are associated with mental patients. Let us try to
define the hospital where mental patients are held, Psychiatric Hospitals. According to
Wikipedia, [these] are hospitals or wards specializing in the treatment of serious mental
disorders, such as clinical depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder. The idea focuses
more on mental patients but not doctors. Hospitals are a place for people with different kinds of
illness and disorders but it also a place where more people died rather than live because of
different reasons like cant cope up financially, facilities were not that great, etc. This just lives
to one thing, death.
The medium or the prop used by the first actor is a stethoscope. According to Wikipedia,
it is an acoustic medical device for auscultation, or listening to the internal sounds of an animal
or human body. Stethoscopes are often considered as a symbol of the doctor's profession, as
doctors are often seen or depicted with stethoscopes hanging around their necks. The
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Stethoscope tells a statement that we should listen to doctors but this is not the catch to the scene.
Stethoscopes are usually used to listen to lung and heart sounds. It clearly tells us to listen to our
deaths because a sudden stop to our breathing and beating of our heart leads us to dying.
A priest could be the kindest of all person to a normal person who sticks to his religion
but in this story it tells differently. A priest is a person authorized to perform the sacred rituals of
a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities according to
Wikipedia. The priest administers sacred rituals which can also include sacrifices for these rituals
that clearly tells us that the role of the second actor as an insane priest lets the Duchess be the
sacrifice for his ritual. It is a sacrifice that means death for the Duchess.
The place where a priest is seen is the church. The church is a place where usually used
for religious activities. The church can also be the place for rituals to be performed which many
sacrifices was already loss for the rituals to be finish and be successful. The church may be the
safest place for a person but to this it can be the scariest place because it will lead you to your
death just like what the second actor did to the Duchess. You may not be really into the place but
the priest will guide you to your death and be his sacrifice.
The purpose of the rosary is to help keep in memory certain principal events or mysteries
in the history of our salvation and to thank and praise God for them According to How to Pray
the Rosary. The Rosary is the prop used by the second actor as an insane priest. A rosary has a
cross on its end and According to Wikipedia, the word cross comes ultimately from Latin crux,
a Roman torture device used for crucifixion. We can also say that a dagger looks like a cross,
the crucifixion and the dagger just leads us to one thing, someones death. It says that it is a
torture device; we can relate this to the scene and tell a statement where the second actor as an
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insane priest tries to torture the Duchess of Malfi till she snaps just by making deafening and
irritating sounds.
We now go to the judge. According to Wikipedia, a judge is an official who presides
over court proceedings, either alone or as part of a panel of judges. The judge hears all the
witnesses and any other evidence presented by the parties of the case, assesses the credibility and
arguments of the parties, and then issues a ruling on the matter at hand based on his or her
interpretation of the law and his or her own personal judgment. This refers the judge as a life
savior in some ways but also gives a statement of a death bringer in different ways. Just like
what he brought the Duchess of Malfi with him, death sentence.
The house of the judge or where we usually see them is the trial court in which most trials
are conducted. It is a place where both parties are waiting whether they live or die and even
battle it out who lives or who dies. In the case of the Duchess of Malfi, she do not have the
choice whether she lives or dies but the character of the third actor as an insane judge just leads
her to one thing, her death.
The medium or the prop used by the third actor as an insane judge is a weighing or
balancing scale, a two pan beam balance. According to Wikipedia, the scales are one of the
traditional symbols of justice, as wielded by statues of Lady Justice. This corresponds to the use
in metaphor of matters being "held in the balance". The symbol of justice but in the situation for
the Duchess of Malfi, no justice is seen and it says it should be held in the balance but it clearly
shows that death is heavier than life and there will be more deaths than there is to live.
Next is the fortune teller or the clairvoyant. According to Wikipedia, fortune-telling is the
practice of predicting information about a person's life. And a clairvoyant is one who has the
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ability of clairvoyance and clairvoyant means one who sees clearly. Two things that only tell us
one thing, that their prediction or vision is not exact and may also tell lies. There are five kinds
of clairvoyants in which they manage to tell prediction and these are clairsentience for feeling or
touching, clairaudience for hearing or listening, clairalience for smelling, claircognizance for
knowing, and clairgustance for tasting according to Wikipedia. In the scene the fourth actor uses
all of this to deaden the senses of the Duchess and can easily predict her future and it states that it
would be her death. How unfair the practice of this fortune teller or clairvoyant and clearly defies
the meaning of his profession or skill because he does not predict he tells and guides you to the
way he want to happen to you. It tells a statement that the Duchess is controlled that will
eventually lead to her death.
We could see fortune tellers in a fair in feasts. A fair is a place where all acts are amazing
but all lies and just there for the money and all rides are quite not enjoyable and scary to take for
a ride. It is a perfect place for con artists where they do it for the sake of profit and sales and not
for the happiness of their audience. Usually, fortune tellers are under a tent waiting for customers
to come in and quite ready for some tricks up their sleeves. The prediction here are all lies and
not a single one may come true but in the scene the prediction is to come true and will happen a
statement where the third actor as an insane fortune teller tells the Duchess and leads her to
death.
A crystal ball is a fortune tellers best friend. A crystal ball is a crystal or glass ball
believed by some people to aid in the performance of clairvoyance according to Wikipedia,
whereby images are claimed to be seen in crystals or in water. A crystal ball should be the first in
line if you survey what best suits a fortune teller on telling a lie to their customers but in the case
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of the scene for the Duchess of Malfi, the crystal ball that helped the fourth actor predicted the
death of the Duchess.
All the profession of the actors showed different meanings from their actual definition
and most of it are negative based on the scene of the Duchess of Malfi except for one, the
profession in which predicting the future is involved the fortune teller. Three out of four showed
the dark side of the profession but the fourth showed much what it really means regardless of
what we experience, the prediction of the death of the Duchess of Malfi. Regardless of it being
different from the three it just leads to one thing only, death. All four professions will directly
and happily guide you to your death. Will check your heartbeat and breathing if it stops, offer a
last prayer before your sacrifice, weighs you before your sentence, and sees you till your death.
The place where these professions are mostly seen are the places where most lies, deaths
and tricks are conducted but the scene does not indicate any of this which tells me that whether
the body that they are treating is not in their territory they can make their place come with them
wherever they are therefore the palace of the Duchess of Malfi became a place for a patient in his
last resting place, a sinner in his last prayer, an accused last stop in his journey, and a customer in
his last look in reality. One out four tells this that it is true through its meaning the fortune teller
in his place again. And it only tells us one thing again about the home of these professions,
sacrifice. Sacrificing the reality of life and entering the crucial process of death.
Black and white is the color of the costume of this mental patients with four different
professions. In Europe and America, black is the color most commonly associated with
mourning. A black day or week or month usually refers to tragic date. The term is often used to
remember massacres. It could be associated with the death of the Duchess of Malfi we could say
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that the death of the Duchess is the black day for Malfi. It may not be a massacre but it will feel
like it because the Duchess is one of the important person in Malfi. In western popular culture,
black has long been associated with evil and darkness. It is the traditional color of witchcraft and
black magic. We can refer this evil to the doings of the four actors as an insane professional on
how they are like using witchcraft and black magic to deaden the feelings of the Duchess and
lead her to death. Black is frequently used as a color of power, law and authority. The four
professions of the actors are mostly one who has the power, the law and the authority over things
just like the doctor in his patients, the priest in his followers, the judge in the law and the fortune
teller in his power over time. Black is definitely a powerful color and black is commonly
associated with secrecy. The color black for their costume tells it all the statement that they have
this secret that is yet to be revealed.
White is the color produced by reflection. As a symbol, white is the opposite of black and
often represents light in contrast with darkness. If we say it is the opposite of black and in
contrast with darkness that means that it is mostly associated with the good. In Biblical times,
lambs and other white animals were sacrificed to expiate sins. Therefore it is not as good after
all; the costume of the four actors has a touch of white that foreshadows the sacrifice of the
Duchess of Malfi. Concluding that the black of the four actors in their costume is dominant than
the white and you see a little of it but you still see some therefore tells that good and bad is
fighting inside the character of the professionals in the mental patients because it cannot be
overcome by will power.
In taoism, the two opposite natures of the universe, yin and yang, are often symbolized in
black and white. Therefore the costumes of the actors shows the opposite personalities of the
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character they are portraying one which is a mental patient and one of each is a doctor, a judge, a
priest, and a fortune teller or a clairvoyant.
It is starting to build in place the connection between the four with each other. For
Example the Doctor of the Church, In Roman Catholicism and several other Christian
denominations, a Doctor of the Church is an eminent theologian from whose teachings the whole
Church is held to have derived great advantage. The character of a priest and a doctor can be as
one in the scene and so is the judge and the priest because in the Biblical Book of Judges
revolves around a succession of leaders who were known as "Judges" but who - aside from their
judicial function - were also tribal war leaders, leading in war against threatening enemies. The
relation of these characters shows how powerful and effective they are as mental patients and as
one who brings death to the one they are treating.
But these four actors are not really mental patients if we consider the definition. They are
an insane person who keeps on doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different
results. The one thing that they are doing is to show, lead, and guide their victim to death. This
tell us one very special statement that what if mental patients are the ones who are showing us
the real stuff, giving us the truth, making us realize the things we do and helping us to embrace
life but we are just too busy staring at nothing and waiting for death. And the professionals are
the ones who are making us buy the fake ones, telling us lies, pursue us to the things we
shouldnt do and worst for us to enter death. Maybe the ones who are inside the mental hospital
should be outside and never be locked out and the ones outside should be inside because there
are the ones who keeps on talking and hypnotizing or confusing us with what to do with reality.
Maybe someday well get tired of their lies and go through with life and soothing sound of their
voices then will be the reason for the deafening and irritating sounds of morning.
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Insanity tells a statement, it test us on how we look on reality in which way we realize we
should not be controlled and should embrace life at its fullest and later have the courage to enter
death. We have to be insane sometimes in order for us to define reality and give it wonderful
meaning to us. Insanity hides this statement. We have to earn the right and be the one who sees
clearly because it is the reality.