1. Bauby’s experience was similar yet different to Robert Murphy’s experience of quadriplegia. Bauby had a stroke which life he unable to move his limbs or talk. On the other hand Murphy had a tumor in his spine. Bauby had no control over any part of his body other than his eyes whereas Murphy was still able to talk, but he could not use his legs or arms. Bauby had to live in the hospital where his doctors and therapists took care of him. Murphy was still able to teach and study the social relations of the handicapped. These are some of the ways this two men’s situations were different, but there were also way that their situations were similar. There were limitations of what each of them could do and they were still able to overcome them.
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The diving bell is an open-bottomed chamber supplied with oxygen, to allow a person to go underwater. The diving bell is also old-fashioned diving suit. In the movie Bauby has visions of himself in a diving bell in the middle of an ocean. He is trapped in his body just as someone is trapped in a diving bell. On only difference is that when a person is in a diving bell it is to keep them alive under the water whereas Bauby wanted everything to go back to normal. There were several references to butterflies throughout the movie. The doctor said the therapists who would be working with him were beautiful butterflies. After Bauby decided that he was not going to have pity for himself he imagined a butterfly coming out of its cocoon. The woman who was writing his book for him also called Bauby her butterfly while they were on the boat. The final specific reference to butterflies in the movie was at the end. This was when Bauby was starting to grunt and sing. He said that he could hear his heart beat and pretended that it was butterfly wings. I think that the butterfly symbolized the change that Bauby went through after his stroke. Bauby said that he wished he could apologize to the people he loved for the way he had treated them, but he would never get the chance. His prospective changed while he was in the hospital. At first he just wanted to die and by the end of the movie he was coming to peace with
The diving bell is an open-bottomed chamber supplied with oxygen, to allow a person to go underwater. The diving bell is also old-fashioned diving suit. In the movie Bauby has visions of himself in a diving bell in the middle of an ocean. He is trapped in his body just as someone is trapped in a diving bell. On only difference is that when a person is in a diving bell it is to keep them alive under the water whereas Bauby wanted everything to go back to normal. There were several references to butterflies throughout the movie. The doctor said the therapists who would be working with him were beautiful butterflies. After Bauby decided that he was not going to have pity for himself he imagined a butterfly coming out of its cocoon. The woman who was writing his book for him also called Bauby her butterfly while they were on the boat. The final specific reference to butterflies in the movie was at the end. This was when Bauby was starting to grunt and sing. He said that he could hear his heart beat and pretended that it was butterfly wings. I think that the butterfly symbolized the change that Bauby went through after his stroke. Bauby said that he wished he could apologize to the people he loved for the way he had treated them, but he would never get the chance. His prospective changed while he was in the hospital. At first he just wanted to die and by the end of the movie he was coming to peace with