Beetlejuice: the Movie and Depression.
The story is thus: a wholesome, small town couple Adam and Barbara Maitland are killed in an auto accident and their ghosts are doomed to dwell in their house for 125 years. Soon after, the big city Deitz family (frazzled Charles, neurotic and narcissistic Delia and depressed Lydia) moves in and takes over. Adam and Barbara's carefully decorated house is gutted and transformed into Delia's idea of "art". Disgusted by the triple intrusion, Adam and Barbara try to haunt the family out of their home, but unfortunately, their cheap parlor tricks and hovering around in designer bed sheets are unsuccessful rookie efforts. They need a professional. Enter Betelgeuse, the afterlife's leading bio-exorcist. After summoning Betelgeuse, Adam and Barbara discover that he's a vile, dangerous creature that wants to escape the afterlife and raise hell in the land of the living. Now with two problems on their hands, Adam and Barbara must take care of their dilemma with the Deitzes and keep Betelgeuse confined to the afterlife.
Lydia is presented to the movie watcher as a young female wearing a black dress with a black veil covering her face as though in mourning. From the beginning of the movie Lydia presents herself as an outsider, a loner that no one, especially her parents, understands. Charles and Delia, Lydia's father and stepmother, add to this feeling by being so preoccupied with their own problems and needs that Lydia is left to fend for herself. Lydia describes herself as strange and unusual. She demonstrates some of the symptoms of adolescent depression; the feeling of being different, withdrawn, poor family relations, and the desire for attention. You can see Lydia's desire for attention from her parents in her mischievous nature, and gothic appearance. Childhood depression is most likely to be triggered by the trauma of loss, change or an otherwise negative life event during the formative years.
Lydia describes herself as strange and unusual. ... Lydia is obsessed with death and dying. ... In one line, Lydia writes," I am utterly alone". ... Lydia tells the Maitlands " I want to be dead, too." ... When Lydia receives attention, affection, and acceptance from the Maitlands you start to see the changes in Lydia. ...
Lydia never has to do any house workor even cook , everything is taken care of. ... Lydia thought that the nursery needed a change and it wasn't the same anymore. ... Wendy is the daughter of George and Lydia. ... The story starts out with George and Lydia going in the nursery. Lydia wants to go on a vacation and do house work. ...
While over-watching Lydia, Marco formally meets Beningo Martin. ... However Marco is exceedingly patient and treats Lydia well. ... In the beginning, when he first meets Lydia, Lydia has many doubts in regards to Marco's quality of character. ... It seems that even Lydia's husband respects him; even though Marco, at the time, is fairly "close " to Lydia. ... Marco Zuluaga is an honest man who has a true care for Lydia. ...
None of Lydia's boyfriends ever lasted ten minutes in this house. ... Lydia took the board exams and passed them. ... Besides, her mother couldn't bear to be separated from Lydia, her only child." ... After a dead look at her husband, Lydia obeyed. ... When Lydia took her oath as a physician, Cabading announced that only he and his wife would accompany Lydia to the ceremony. ...
Not only did the Collins's marriage satirize the society's immoral marriages, but also did the marriage between Lydia and Wickham show the inconsistencies of humans. Lydia's sole purpose of marrying is to show her four other sisters that she would be the first to marry. However, unlike Lydia, Wickham marries because Mr. Darcy would pay off his debts and in addition pay Wickham a yearly amount to stay with Lydia for the sake of Lydia's reputation, as well as her family's. ...
Aunt Lydia = sadistic, enjoys power at red centre. has as much power as a women is allowed with cattle prods though not guns. ... Aunt Lydia =exploits gilead for her own power Moira=V extreme and rebelius , possibly ends up the worst for this . ...
Lydia married Wickham as she believed he was one with large fortune and high social status. ... Wickham, however, married Lydia for her money and position in society. He saw Lydia to be good looking be never married her for love. For instance, "Wickham's affection of Lydia not equal to Lydia's for him." ... So when Lydia reveals her feeling towards him, he jumps at the chance to obtain a wife. ...
Lawrence's mother, Lydia Beardsall Lawrence, was a former schoolteacher who had grown up in a higher social class than what her husband , Arthur Lawrence, who was a coal miner ( Gale par. 7). Lydia's parents disapproved to her marriage to Arthur, because he was not in a higher social class. ...
Gardiner writes a letter to Elizabeth regarding her concern about Lydia and Wickham's marriage. ... To create the interest and form an intriguing situation in the novel, Jane Austen uses the device of misdirecting a letter: Jane's letter about the critical situation of Lydia reaches someone else instead of Elizabeth . ... He proves that he is not wrong in all his assumptions and he feels that as Lydia's sister, Elizabeth should know the factual status of Wickham's personality as well. ... How he is feeling now about Lydia's elopement is also a major part of the letter....
