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PAUL BABIAK, PH.D., is a
​New York-based industrial and organizational psychologist specializing in helping executives deal with possible psychopaths hiding within their organizations. He and his collaborators have conducted the most influential original research on corporate psychopaths. Newspapers, business magazines, and documentaries have featured his work, and he has been a guest on many radio and television talk shows. His clients have included executives in business, academia, law enforcement, government, insurance, medicine, finance, and intelligence, and he speaks about the corporate psychopath at professional conferences and business meetings.

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PAUL BABIAK, PH.D., is a ​New York-based industrial and organizational psychologist specializing in helping executives deal with possible psychopaths hiding within their organizations. He and his collaborators have conducted the most influential original research on corporate psychopaths. Newspapers, business magazines, and documentaries have featured his work, and he has been a guest on many radio and television talk shows.

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It is worth noting that the traits that constitute a person filled with hurt are numerous. These traits build up over time and become increasingly complex. When faced with a person like this, it is careless to psychoanalyze moments of a character without understanding the full picture. Especially if the person in question doesn't understand it himself. The design of this padlet is to show the increasing complexities of the human mind. When it is hard to understand a person's motive behind their actions it is more supportive to not arrive at a certain conclusion that they are a monster first and then try and linearly piece facts together in order to support that conclusion. That is why this padlet is designed as a web rather than a linear connection of thoughts.

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The setting of the play very much reflects Violets mental state. There is no indication on set that this house is on the plains. The set is dimly lit especially the upper bedroom where Violet sleeps.

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August: Osage County Set Building TimeLapse

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August: Osage County Set Building TimeLapse

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August: Osage County Set Build Time-Lapse

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At the end of the play, we find out that Violet found a suicidal note and didn't do anything because she was under the influence of pills. Living with her actions the lockbox is Violet's proof to herself that she is indifferent to Beverly's death and yet she desperately tries to push her guilt onto her daughter Barbara. It is important to see the vulnerability of Violet in this scene. She is not a psychopath incapable of empathy or guilt. Although the act of blaming your daughter is despicable, Violet's human qualities still shine through and show that she is not a monster.

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"Psychopaths are relatively lacking in conscience and in the ability to experience empathy, guilt, or loyalty to anyone but themselves."(Babiak)

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"So stick the knife of judgement in me, go ahead, but make no mistake, his blood is just as much on your hands as it is on mine. He did this, though; this was his doing, not ours, Can you imagine anything more cruel, to make me responsible?" (Act II, Scene V)

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Many may believe that Violet's moral compass is compromised throughout the play. However, in Violet's moments of honesty we see the Guilt she feels for her actions.

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At the beginning of the play, Beverly claimed that he had a contractual relationship with Violet. However, we later learned that the pain the two shared in childhood was an important way the two could connect intimately.  Yet, when the contract was fulfilled it left Violet in a wreck. Beverly's death was not just contractual and Meryl Streep's portrayal allowed the reader to question if Violet truly meant all the cold things she would say. Violet is now left with her pills and cold humorous personality to cope with the loss of this "contractual" intimate relationship.

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When portraying Violet, Meryl Streep delivers a very confusing performance. On one hand, Meryl Streep portrays Violet as incoherent and not all there at times. On the other hand, she shows Violet's witty, intelligent personality. This polarizing performance leaves the audience in a gray area. Although, Violet's mind can be in a different dimension in some scenes her witty scenes shows that she is not stuck in psychosis. However, any credibility that is established in her triumphantly witty scenes is discredited by her low points. This performance by Meryl Streep conveys a sense of uneasiness because the audience doesn't know which Violet they are going to get next. The ups and downs of this personality give insight into Violet's mentality as she is probably not sure what is going with her. Meryl Streep's performance commands the audience in each scene and leaves the audience just as confused as Violet's family.   Meryl Streep's performance is outstanding because it immerses the audience almost as if they are one of the characters themselves.

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"You don't know! You do not know! None of you know, 'cept this women right here and that man we buried today!... if you think for a solitary second you can fathom the pain that man endured in his natural life, you got another think coming." (Act II)

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The play categorizes the relationship between Violet and Beverly as "contractual". However, there are honest moments in the play that show Violet's grief for her husband.

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The video describes loneliness as a mental state. Many of the metaphorical descriptions used in the video match the setting of Violet's closed curtain home. Although Violet is surrounded by her family, she feels desperately lonely. Loneliness has now become a characteristic of her narrative in her own mind. Being that her mind is in this survival state, she pushes people away in order to further the lonely anarrative of herself in her own mind.

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"I don't need your help. I've gotten myself through some.. I know how this goes: Once all the talking's through people go back to their own nonsense. I know that. So don't you worry about me. I'll manage. I get by." (Act III, Scene I)

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The loneliness that Violet feels is an emotion that Violet desperately tries to hide.

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Violet's childhood is filled with pain. She attributes her success to a lot of effort and sacrifices she exhibited before she had children. However, now that she has a better life, a positive response would be to show gratitude for the departure from her abusive lifestyle. Instead, she expresses disappointment in her children. The lack of gratitude shows the mental state that she is in and the negative perspectives she is plagued with about her own life.

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"It appears that participation in the gratitude condition led to substantial and consistent improvements in people’s assessments of the global well-being."(Davis)

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"We lived too hard then rose too high. We sacrificed everything and we did it all for you...Jesus, you worked as hard as us, you'd all be president. You never had real problems so you got to make all your problems yourselves." (Act II)

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Violet has matured in a harsh childhood experience. The perspective opinions that she holds on her daughter's lives are very much influenced by her own upbringing,

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The Web of a mind