Do you think that at a random era of our life human beings show symptoms of insanity along with remaining traces of reason?
What can be the possible reasons that could be a trigger for madness?
Do people use insanity to remain cautious against evil deeds happening in their environment? Or can their madness be genuine, caused by all kinds of pressure from their environment that we can think about?
Last question for arousing the interest is, how can we possibly differ actual madness inside one's own soul from a well-acted, feigned, insanity? Does a human being bear both reason and bits of madness in his or her mind?
You might have noticed that from the various shapes that I used to show the issue I wanted to explore in this blog post that I wanted my readers to develop a curiosity and an interest when they see ,in their blogger dasboard, edmodo posts page or in twitter, my interest area which is Reason and Insanity. I particulary want my readers to enjoy the content of this post as well as make them think as they have, hopefully, a pleasent time when reading through this post.
As you can see that I produced three questions for my peers to ponder about before they engage in my blog post and state their opinions about these questions after reading my post. Let's start with scientific explanations and definitons of reason and insanity.
What is reasoning? The world does not give us every information we need so our intellectual capacity, in other words our reason, grants us a set of process that enables us go beyond information that is given to us. For example we can see balloons that are being set and we can assume that it would either be a wedding party or a birthday party. If you are interested to read more about reasoning you can consult this link
What is insanity? Dictionaries around the world define insanity as “the condition of someone who is senseless and extremely foolish.” However, The men have untypical but intelligent reasons as to why they are the way they are. All the reasons to the men’s problems however were brought on due to their distinctive ways and beliefs. It is unfortunate that mankind can label certain people as not good enough or too abnormal for society. For more information about insanity look at:
The definitions that I posed here are mere explanations that draw a distnictive line between reason, which is our intellectual capacity to understand our world beyond the knowledge we gained from environment, and insanity, as the source I found above states, is different ways of belief and understanding of our world that is unfortunately labeled as ''abnormal, extremely foolish'' by society.
***I wanted to show my readers that video clips from films and literary works as well as our childhood cartoons and animes to examplify the notions of reason and insanity and how they are portrayed in those works. I thought it would be fun to watch and as well as consider the questions I provided above.***
Here is our first guest!
Our favourite bunny from all times-
Bugs Bunny, this highly intelligent rabbit became one of the cartoon heros along with his jealous and quiet comical friend Daffy Duck and the poor hunter that wants a 'wabbit' but fails miserably everytime in catching Bugs, Elmer Fudd. To illustrate how Bugs Bunny outsmarts both Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd through his high intellectual capacity(reasoning) I want to show you two scenes:
Here, we can see that Elmer's desperate desire to kill Bugs Bunny
however, our favourite rabbit's clever tactics mocks the stupidity
of the hunter. Bugs Bunny here uses his reasonable thinking
ability to outsmart Elmer who only has 'wabbit, wabbit' in his mind.
Here is another video that shows the keen mind of Bugs Bunny
against Daffy Duck who is jealous of the fame the bunny has.
We can clearly say that by staying calm and playing around with words
(pointing the gun to himself and saying 'rabbit season' and causing Daffy
to point the gun at himself and say 'duck season')
Bugs Bunny benefits from the temper that the duck shows through
his actions
Let us now explore the notion of insanity from a play
that 3rd year students of EFL read in their Drama Analysis course
Death of a Salesman
Most of us are familiar with the play and the themes that are mainly explored through the tragedy. American dream and a critization of its illusion.
However, I want to explore Willy, the salesman, from the aspect of insanity.
From my own understanding as a student whom read this play I want
to state that Willy always lived in a world of dreams and hopes, constantly
thinking that despite the misfortunes that he faced with( being fired from
his job where he worked for 60 years, the problematic relationship he
had with his son Biff..)he continued to think that he could become a successful
salesman and bring his family an economical relief. Where do his insanity comes
from then? The way he began to see his dead brother's, Ben, presence and
hear his voice brought an insanity through which he could not differentiate
reality from his past anymore.
Let us continue with another play that is centered around
the notion of feigned madness and genuine insanity
William Shekspeare longest revenge tragedy
Hamlet
All of us know that Hamlet acted as though he was insane to find an evidence
that could give him signal for murdering his uncle, who became the new king of Denmark.
However, Ophelia, the woman Hamlet loves, shows the genuine madness when his father was accidentaly killed by Hamlet and the way Hamlet rejected her love.
The fact that the young prince educated in a way of reasonable thinking can be shown
through his speeches(his thinking process),
in this case soliloquies, even though he feigned madness. However, here is a
question for you all, was Hamlet only acting as though he was insane or did he in course
of the play actually became mad?
Here, is the scene where we can see Ophelia's behaviors and maddened actions. When compared
to Hamlet's intellectual speeches, Ophelia words seemed to sang through an appearant
insanity she was suffering from.
Let us now leave the tragic plays and
return to the world of anime characters-
And especially see how insanity is portrayed
in animes.
in animes.
I have one favourite anime, which is roughly Japanese cartoon,
that is adapted from a popular manga called Naruto Shippuden.
The stroy main components are unique fights of ninjas and ''bonds'' that are
created between friends and students/teachers.
I want your attention to be on the black haired boy in the picture I posted
who is named Sasuke and show how his insanity is depicted in the anime.
who is named Sasuke and show how his insanity is depicted in the anime.
In order to understand Sasuke's madness we need to look at the reasons that caused
such a violent outburst from him. The basic plot for his character is shaped like this:
He has a brother named Itachi who murdered whole clan, sparing only Sasuke.
Sasuke grew up with a hatred towards his brother,
when he actually killed he was given the truth that shedded
a light on why Itachi murdered whole clan, it was for the future of the village(Konoha) as the
the family were trying to take over Konoha, with the pain of killing his own brother( he
shared a mutual brotherly love between Itachi) and learning the truth, he became bloodthirsty
for the ones(village elders) who ordered Itachi for the massacre of his family.
