Extra 'drop-in' Quotations Flashcards
1
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Definition of mental illness
A
“serious abnormality in a person’s thinking or behaviour…a psychiatric illness”
2
Q
Definition of a psychopath
A
able to “exploit, manipulate or violate”
lacking “concern, regret or remorse”
- enables a modern audience to characterise Iago as a psychopath
3
Q
Definition of a trance
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- a lethargy of the body
- “an unconscious or insensible condition”
4
Q
Definition of an epilepsy
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“violent paroxysms”
5
Q
Sonnet 45 - quotation showing the effect of extreme emotion on the body and potentially leading to death
A
“My life . . . Sinks down to death, oppressed with melancholy”
