Writing
This episode deals with abusive relationships, particularly the types that involve teenagers, and how they sometimes end. The episode clearly reflects Battered Woman Syndrome, through cycles of violence, apologies, forgiveness, and repeated spirals of the behavior, leading to greater and greater physical harm.
References to the Incredible Hulk and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde are also apparent.
Read more about this topic: Beauty And The Beasts
Famous quotes containing the word writing:
“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“You may be used to a day that includes answering eleven phone calls, attending two meetings, and writing three reports; when you are at home with an infant you will feel you have accomplished quite a lot if you have a shower and a sit-down meal in the same day.”
—Anne C. Weisberg (20th century)
“The big toad sits in my writing room
preventing me from writing. I am a flower
who dries out under her hot breath.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)