Shakespear- Understanding

Lateley we have been reading about people turning on one another. Actually that seems to be the theme of what we have been reading lately. This later part of the week we have been reading about a respectable fair General that has been outcast by some of his close friends. While he is in love with a senators daughter,  others are stabbing him in the back. Really when you look at this story, we've all seen it. It happens all the time within groups of friends, one friend has something against another and proceeds to ruining what makes the other friend happy. Along the way he picks up some followers by igniting some of the smallest dislikes others have for the friend. And I sat there asking myself, Will we ever grow up? I came to the conclusion that we won't. We've been at these petty games for over 400 years. So screw it, go stab your friends in the back! Jump on the bandwagon, everyone does it.

Societal Norms

While discussing "The Notes From The Underground" we brought up a discussion about the narrators sanity. While I was looking at him, the things he did, the things he said/ thought, I noticed I could compare him to people I have seen in my everyday life. I work in the Mental Health Services at St. Francis Hospital, so I see people that society may deem, "crazy". I see in this man many issues I would see with a patient, yet do we call him insane? Honestly I have no answer for this question, yet when we look at society we can see that it abuses such stigmas as crazy and insane. Society uses these stigmas as a way to classify those who's minds may be sick or may not think the way that the rest of it does. Yet, these people still have logical purpose, as we can see with the narrator, and still have emotion, and in some cases reason. So really, have we fallen into common misconceptions of society calling someone insane?