Lorrana bobbit essays

Lorrana bobbit essays The Lorena Bobbitt story is one that really points out some of Freuds theories no the id and ego battles that go on inside a person head. Lorena the battered, abused, and many times raped wife of John Wayne Bobbitt, had just had enough of the way she was being by her husband so one night following the impulses of her id she cut off her husbands penis, ignoring her ego that helps a person behave within social norms. She said that she was thinking about all the things that her husband had done to her and that it drove her temporally insane and so she cut it off so he would leave her alone. The jury bought her story and she was acquitted. Are there times in our life when we are truly not responsible for the things we do? Or did the jury in this case just think John Wayne was a jerk that deserved it? We may never know for sure but there or other storys where people have clamed the same as Lorena and been charged lets look at a few. How about the time told crime of Lizzy Borden who took an axe and gave her mother forty wakes, when she saw what she had done she gave her father forty-one. She was never convicted of the crime but what could have caused her to do such a thing, did she like Lorena Bobbitt just get feed up with the way she was being treated? Can the way someone treats you even justify a violent act? According to the Bobbitt case it can. But lets look at a local case in the same realm; but that the courts did not allow the perpetrator go free. Two young boys playing on their Sony Play station, one boy gets mad that the other keeps beating him so, that night he takes a knife from his mothers kitchen and stabs the other boy repeatedly while he sleeps. Does this young boy fall under the same temporary insanity that Lorena did? Yes, according to his lawyer but no, according to the Jury. Maybe it depends on whether people can see doing it them self ...