Sunday, 15 August 2010

Disorder in novel by MATH

From Quest page 176 (Hartmann, 2007), the fourth question is interested me most.
In my opinion, characters in novels are famous people, if I write about them, it will not deviate from this question purpose much.
There are many novel that have disorder character in them, in my opinion, the most famous novel is Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by Robert Louise Stevenson, first public in 1886 (so old!!!). The main character Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a multiple-personality disorder character, that is absolute separated. When he is Dr Jekyll, he is a good man, and when he is Hyde, he become an evil. This novel was made to films many times and the phase "Jekyll and Hyde" also means a person who is different in moral.
If you prefer more up-to-date novel, there are 2 characters from my favorite novel that have disorder, Ronald Bilius "Ron" Weasley from Harry Potter series, who is arachnophobia (spider-phobia) because of his unpleasant experience, and Thalia Grace from Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, daughter of Zeus, lord of the sky, is acrophobia (fear of heights).
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References
Hartmann, P. (2007). Quest 2 Reading and Writing, (2nd. ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. (2010, August 11). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 11:45, August 15, 2010, from http://en.wikipedia.or/w/index.php?title=Strange_Case_of_Dr_Jekyll_and_Mr_Hyde.

Thalia Grace. (2010, August 15). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 11:58, August 15, 2010, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thalia_Grace&oldid=378984927.

Ron Weasley. (2010, August 14). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 11:58, August 15, 2010, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Weasley&oldid=378882929.
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  1. Peter.AUA15 August 2010 at 18:52

    I've read and enjoyed the HP books, but only now realised that Ron's middle name is Bilius. It's a good example of a phobia. My mother doesn't like spiders either, but her reaction is more a normal sort of disgust than phobic: she is not paralysed or terrified, she just squashes them or reaches for a can of poisonous spray. I prefer to let the ones in my home alone to carry on catching and eating other bugs. If I thought that spiders could catch and eat cockroaches, I might actively encourage them.

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