Kesey’s One Flew Over Cuckoo’s Nest effectively presents powerless individuals mentally and physically imprisoned within a matriarchal system which ultimately dictates their identity. The norm of conformity and lack of comfort and ease is unravelled within the novel. The extreme conditions and barbaric treatment is present within the psychiatric hospital. The brutal nature is reinforced through the disabled chronic having ‘catheter tubes’ which ‘run direct from pant leg to the sewer under the floor’ . This reflects on 20th century America as it was ‘common to segregate disabled people from the rest of society’ . A high number of individuals had been classed as suffering from mental illness and therefore had been ‘put away in institutions’
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Therefore, highlighting the fact those suffering from a disability, had a lack of significance to society which had a profound effect on their identity. Hence the ironic use of a hospital setting as patients are neither provided medical or surgical treatment. The nurture therefore is not instilled within the regime as the prime reason for the institution is to emotionally and psychologically destruct the ‘patients’. Similarly, Sylvia Plath’s mental health condition is perceived as a form of disability as it evidently impacted her outlook on life. The clinical depression which she endured had led to her first suicide attempt and ‘regular insulin and electric shock under the care of Dr Ruth Beuscher’ . The reference to ‘I was supposed to be having the time of my life’ regarding her internship on a New York fashion magazine in ‘The Bell Jar’ emphasises her lack of happiness and contentment as she failed to fill the void with literature. ‘I felt very still and empty’ portrays the mental numbness Plath encountered as the novel is primarily based on her life. Following on from this, the fact that her depression therefore may have been considered society’s burden illustrates the lack of compassion and sincerity as her identity would have also been …show more content…
As Ellen Moers states, ‘no writer has meant more to the current feminist movement’ suggesting Sylvia Plath poetry is a voice and a mental escape for women. However, this is critiqued as Sheryl Meyering states ‘Sylvia Plath’s intense desire to be accepted by men and eventually marry and have a children was purely a product of the constrictive 1950s social mobility during which the author came to womanhood’ . Despite the fact that there is some truth to this statement, it is evident the unhappiness which occurred had resulted in both her clinical depression and suicide. ‘Tulips’ explores society’s lack of protection of the individuals suffering from depression and feeling ‘lost’ as Plath’s excruciating moments required assistance and attention. Despite using poetry as an escape for both herself and women who during the patriarchal society within the 1960s, it was clear through a substantial number of poems she strived for what was considered the passive housewife role. Women were imprisoned in a system which consisted of role allocation depending on gender. However, Enduring Love illustrates Clarissa’s dismissal and non-accepting nature in relation to traditional gender roles as her passion for ‘John Keates’ and ‘written work of ‘beauties’ allows her to pay limited attention to her dysfunctional
Therefore, highlighting the fact those suffering from a disability, had a lack of significance to society which had a profound effect on their identity. Hence the ironic use of a hospital setting as patients are neither provided medical or surgical treatment. The nurture therefore is not instilled within the regime as the prime reason for the institution is to emotionally and psychologically destruct the ‘patients’. Similarly, Sylvia Plath’s mental health condition is perceived as a form of disability as it evidently impacted her outlook on life. The clinical depression which she endured had led to her first suicide attempt and ‘regular insulin and electric shock under the care of Dr Ruth Beuscher’ . The reference to ‘I was supposed to be having the time of my life’ regarding her internship on a New York fashion magazine in ‘The Bell Jar’ emphasises her lack of happiness and contentment as she failed to fill the void with literature. ‘I felt very still and empty’ portrays the mental numbness Plath encountered as the novel is primarily based on her life. Following on from this, the fact that her depression therefore may have been considered society’s burden illustrates the lack of compassion and sincerity as her identity would have also been …show more content…
As Ellen Moers states, ‘no writer has meant more to the current feminist movement’ suggesting Sylvia Plath poetry is a voice and a mental escape for women. However, this is critiqued as Sheryl Meyering states ‘Sylvia Plath’s intense desire to be accepted by men and eventually marry and have a children was purely a product of the constrictive 1950s social mobility during which the author came to womanhood’ . Despite the fact that there is some truth to this statement, it is evident the unhappiness which occurred had resulted in both her clinical depression and suicide. ‘Tulips’ explores society’s lack of protection of the individuals suffering from depression and feeling ‘lost’ as Plath’s excruciating moments required assistance and attention. Despite using poetry as an escape for both herself and women who during the patriarchal society within the 1960s, it was clear through a substantial number of poems she strived for what was considered the passive housewife role. Women were imprisoned in a system which consisted of role allocation depending on gender. However, Enduring Love illustrates Clarissa’s dismissal and non-accepting nature in relation to traditional gender roles as her passion for ‘John Keates’ and ‘written work of ‘beauties’ allows her to pay limited attention to her dysfunctional