In society there is a standard to what is known as normal. When a person does not meet that expectation of the overall standard, the ideal is to conform to what is agreeable. It is not the people who conform to the norm that are seen as the problem, it is the people who cannot accept the standard. People who are criticized as abnormal are those who question the way of society and are seen as different compared to everyone else. These people become labeled as insane and get attacked and manipulated by the Combine of society. Some people will learn how to overcome the Combine and face the judgement and others will continue to be manipulated and forced out of their will because of their differences. The Combine is a machine that puts exertion
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In life, a person's punishment for being different is criticism and forced into solitary. In the ward if you disobey the rules or fall out of the ways of the Combine you become victimized by shock therapy or in the worse case scenario lobotomy. The two punishments in the ward are, “Electricity through the head.” (190), and “lobotomy, that’s chopping away part of the brain.” (191). These are two ways the the ward are manipulating the people who are labeled insane. They punish the patients until they are forced to conform to the criterion that the Combine of society …show more content…
In the Outside you are put through a Combine of judgement and ongoing, never ending criticism. It is a lot harder to figure out the rules and adjust to the Outside for it is an ever changing game. In the ward you have strict rules that don't change and your defaults are not criticised because those defaults are what got the patients the label of insane which is why they are in the institution. Chief is another volunteer in the ward who is not mentally insane he is only acting as though he is deaf and dumb. Chief like Billy could leave the ward whenever he wanted to but chooses not to. Chief wants to hear the secrets of the ward so he acts deaf and dumb and conforms to the way of the ward. He states, “I had to keep on acting deaf and dumb if I wanted to hear it all.” (209). He is listening to the secrets of the ward so he can learn more about the Combine and how it works. He learns that the Combine works and works on people to break them down and make them smaller. The Combine weakens you and then chooses where you
In life, a person's punishment for being different is criticism and forced into solitary. In the ward if you disobey the rules or fall out of the ways of the Combine you become victimized by shock therapy or in the worse case scenario lobotomy. The two punishments in the ward are, “Electricity through the head.” (190), and “lobotomy, that’s chopping away part of the brain.” (191). These are two ways the the ward are manipulating the people who are labeled insane. They punish the patients until they are forced to conform to the criterion that the Combine of society …show more content…
In the Outside you are put through a Combine of judgement and ongoing, never ending criticism. It is a lot harder to figure out the rules and adjust to the Outside for it is an ever changing game. In the ward you have strict rules that don't change and your defaults are not criticised because those defaults are what got the patients the label of insane which is why they are in the institution. Chief is another volunteer in the ward who is not mentally insane he is only acting as though he is deaf and dumb. Chief like Billy could leave the ward whenever he wanted to but chooses not to. Chief wants to hear the secrets of the ward so he acts deaf and dumb and conforms to the way of the ward. He states, “I had to keep on acting deaf and dumb if I wanted to hear it all.” (209). He is listening to the secrets of the ward so he can learn more about the Combine and how it works. He learns that the Combine works and works on people to break them down and make them smaller. The Combine weakens you and then chooses where you