Mental Illness In The Euphoria Of A Ladder

The issue I chose to discuss was mental illness awareness and how a person who has one is treated within their society and I would argue that my fable effectively addresses this issue. For this to be effective, I decided to take a tactic that was used after the Middle Ages and apply it to a futuristic society to explain the devastating effects that treating someone with a mental illness has an outsider who is unfit to live in the society from which he or she resides can have. The strategy that was used was to remove the mentally ill person and place them in an asylums, which were meant as quiet retreats for the mentally ill and doubled as protection for the society but became inhumane prisons instead. Clementine goes to a place similar to this, but remembers it as a cold, dark cellar because there wasn’t a bed or cot to sleep on and it was intensely cold in the facility. During her stay, she is abused and neglected at a rate that is much more extreme than it was in the past. I did this to analogies how much power a government or ruling body has in the way that it treats its citizens and how even the tiniest change in treatment can …show more content…
Just like in Animal Farm, the animals are waiting patiently until it is their time to strike to rid themselves of the tyrant known as Jones and are thinking about Old Major’s words about how a revolution is to come: “..all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings…this is my message to you comrades: Rebellion…all men are enemies. All animals are comrades” (7-8). While in the cellar, Clementine is going over everything that has happened which has led her to the cellar again. She feels like a war is going on inside her as well as around her and the only thing she can do is fight back, emphasized by the way she acted when she was trying to be released from the cell to the moments when she ended her life