Research Paper on Sociopathic Personalities

A sociopath which is the name that superseded psychopath simply means an antisocial disorder in the personality of a person. Sociopathic personality can refer to a disorder in someones personality characterized by a lack of affect and amorality. Anyone capable of violent acts and incapable of having feelings of remorse or guilt is a sociopath.

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Patriarchal society refers to the societal form that recognizes the male as the family head and the title is traced through the male line. The man is the head of the family and to a high extent the final decision maker. Respect is deserved from his sub-ordinates the wife and children. These is the system that the society at large is accustomed to.

Medea was a sociopath for all the killings that she did. She had no love for anyone other than herself. She was a self-destructive person. If she was not happy no one could be happy killing her children and her husbands new wife. She was a sociopath and majorly because all she really didnt have remorse and the guilt for the murders she committed which is in itself abnormal.

Taken by her actions in the Greek drama, Medea can arguably be deemed a sociopath. Just because a human being is not happy or finds life unsatisfactory in their own sense it doesnt give them the authority or mind to go around killing those people who are. But for Medea because of her sociopathic nature and lack of amorality she did not have a better solution for any of her problems than killing because of her abnormality. For her problems made her life unsatisfactory and instead of looking for solutions to them she wanted to eliminate the possible highways from which problems would get to her. That is somehow the explanation why all the important people in her life she killed them and those that got in her way were also killed like the husbands wife got in her way when it came to point she wanted to get to the husband (Dimond, Diane)

The killings she did, her own children and the husbands new wife shade her character as a person who is self-destructive with the drive to border total insanity. These act of murder of her own children shows the level of madness she possesses. It also portrays the fact that she really is self-destructive as she would kill her own children to eliminate her attachments to anyone. Children form the strongest bond to the mother and therefore we expect a mother to be highly protective of her children and not the mother turning on the children.

Medea cares only about herself, thinking and therefore making her wants and needs a priority to any other persons involved even her own children (Tzoukimakis., and Raymond Corrado). We expect for especially mothers their children to come before them in terms of their priorities. Medea on the other hand is not subject to this kind of relation and shows no remorse by even being the one that is responsible for the death of her own children. She puts her desires and needs ahead of any other persons desires and needs and does not want to compromise in even the least way for any other persons benefit or gain.

A mothers instinct no matter which being, especially the homo-sapiens is to nurture and protect their offspring at all costs. For Medea this was not the case as she was even the one who was responsible for the death of her own children. For her she always wanted all the best for herself and never anything less. Wherever she did not get what she hoped for these led to the death of whoever she felt was deterring her from getting what she wants.

Though some academics may argue that her actions despite being severe and crude had a lacing of good will to them for her children debating that she was the type of mother that rather than see her children suffer or being raised by a less deserving woman than her though riddled with jealousy to an extent, she was trying in her messed up sort of way trying to protect her offspring. Honestly, isnt that kind of a long shot, trying to fish for something that isnt particularly present? A victim of patriarchal society, in my opinion, I dont think so.

On August 9th 2005, Caylee Anthony was born to a Casey Anthony. Roughly three years later, mother took her daughter from the grand -parents place they were staying and left for a whole 31 days not letting the grand-mother to see her grandchild despite her concern and overall persistence to. These shows a lack of emotion and also a sense of ownership by feeling that she owns her child and has the sole right and mandate to do anything with her child. Respect to the grandmother to the child is not there as she hides the child from the grandmother despite her attempts to know the whereabouts of the grandchild.

The mother claimed that her daughter was usually with her nanny, Zenaida "Zanny" Fernandez-Gonzalez. However when a letter came in from the tow yard to the grandparents house terming that Caseys car is there they left to go and check it out only to find it having a foul smell assuming its a dead body called the police and officially termed Caylee as a missing person. This brought about a lot of conspiracies as to how the child was lost which later uncovered that Casey had lied to the authorities giving some dodgy suspicious information about her childs disappearance which was later cleared up as death. This demonstrated the level of lack of emotion of the mother. She was insincere and did not care who she lied to just to keep herself safe and out of trouble. She also caused a lot of rumors and conspiracies as she just wanted to portray herself as a concerned mother and as a victim while she on the other hand is the perpetrator of the crime and the mastermind of all the injustices that were committed to her daughter.

This case can be utterly compared to the old case, the Medea case, as its happenings unfolded in 2008 in Orlando, Florida. Casey Anthony was indicted in October 14th 2008 on several ground charges which include aggravated child abuse, four counts of giving false information to the police and even first degree murder of her own daughter. Remorse was not a trait as she really did everything possible after killing her own daughter to hide her guilt. All she was interested in was her life even if it meant killing to keep it then that killing would be justified and that is exactly what she did. Deception was also not a thing that bothered her conscience as she lied on several counts to the police in the plan to evade from the law and from justice being served on her for actions that really were not justified.

The public was ultimately outraged after the verdict was ruled as not guilty. This was not fair to Caylee and the public as a whole as releasing a murderer who has no conscience or guilt to the society, who is a sociopath is a big threat as anytime such a person might end up killing again. The public needs protection from people like this and it should really be more than a priority to ensure they are eliminated from the publics midst.

Most people stated that Casey had just been tired of her old boring life shacked with the responsibility of mothering a child so young when she is so young herself and opted to find a shorter, faster way out. These shows the different and sociopathic way of thinking since instead of thinking of a way to solve the problem she is thinking of a way to eliminate the problem and that is what led her to the step of committing murder so as to eliminate the responsibilities in her life so as to regain her previous life which she deemed preferable.

Just like Medea, Casey can be termed as self-involved in so many ways and was actually termed as a pathological liar. The thought of her daughter even during the trial did not bring her to tears but when she was speaking about herself, she could burst into tears on a whim. Such behavior highly suggests that she killed her daughter as she doesnt seem to care a lot about her anyway, not even seeming to be fazed during the 31 day period where she had been missing. That is in every way a sociopathic behavior, killing ones child just because your life isnt going according to plan or to your personal satisfaction. This case affected the public in so many different ways, due to its unusual nature it caught the public eye so fast and due to the propaganda or the actual showcasing of the case as it unfolded, the public formed opinions about the case. Most sided with Casey being a murderer of her own child and when the verdict stated otherwise the disappointment in the judicial system was felt. Though some of the charges were overruled in 2011, this case benefited the public as it led to the creation of a law, Caseys law, which states that a parent has the legal obligation of reporting a missing child within the first forty-eight hours since disappearance to try and prevent a future case like this from happening ( )

The sociopaths are a danger to the society at large and should be not be in our midst. Though the above examples left the public very disappointed and enraged were also a positive as they led to the formulation of Casey law whose importance is to reduce the evading of criminal sociopaths from the law long after committing the crimes. The earlier the reporting is done the easier the investigation as the evidence can be easily be gotten as opposed to when the evidence has to start to be followed up much later in after the commitment of the crime.

Works cited

Tzoumakis, Stacy, Patrick L, Raymond C: Female Juvenile Delinquency, Motherhood and the Intergenerational Transmission of Aggressive and Antisocial Behavior. 30TH Vol.,

Dimond, Diane. Casey Anthonys Lies. Newsweek Web Exclusives, May 29, 2011.

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