The investigation continues as Teddy and his partner Chuck search for Rachael Solando, the mental patient who has disappeared on the island. The storm outside is progressively becoming worse which means they will need to move fast if they want to find the patient in time. While Teddy is questioning Dr. Cawley about the treatments Rachael was receiving, he responds by asking, “Do you know the state of the mental health field these days, gentlemen?... War. The old school believes in surgical intervention. Psychosurgery. Procedures like the transorbital lobotomy.” He goes on to explain how the new school practices psychopharmachology, which uses drugs to calm the patients. However, Dr. Cawley has a “radical idea that if you treat a patient with
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The term scapegoat was adapted from biblical times where a priest would symbolically lay the sins of a community on a goat which would then be sent out into the woods. This idea of a scapegoat represented absolution of the community which still holds true today. In the article “Scapegoats and Redemption on Shutter Island,” Cari Myers compares several themes seen in the works of Rene Gerard (a French historian) to Scorsese’s film, Shutter Island. In Cari’s article she states, “the scapegoat must exhibit some weakness or vulnerability, or bear some marker that sets him or her apart from the rest of the culture” (4). She later emphasizes how Andrew Laeddis (Teddy Daniels) is distanced from society. Shutter Island takes in the mentally insane patients that nobody else wants to deal with. Also, on the island there is a third building, ward C, used to house only the most dangerous of these patients. On top of that, Andrew is considered to be the most dangerous of all the patients in ward C, making him the worst of the worst of the worst (11). She also says “the sacrifice must quell violence within the community to prevent conflicts from erupting” (4). By sacrificing himself through a lobotomy, Andrew Laeddis literally quelled the violence since he was the main danger to the guards, doctors, and other
The term scapegoat was adapted from biblical times where a priest would symbolically lay the sins of a community on a goat which would then be sent out into the woods. This idea of a scapegoat represented absolution of the community which still holds true today. In the article “Scapegoats and Redemption on Shutter Island,” Cari Myers compares several themes seen in the works of Rene Gerard (a French historian) to Scorsese’s film, Shutter Island. In Cari’s article she states, “the scapegoat must exhibit some weakness or vulnerability, or bear some marker that sets him or her apart from the rest of the culture” (4). She later emphasizes how Andrew Laeddis (Teddy Daniels) is distanced from society. Shutter Island takes in the mentally insane patients that nobody else wants to deal with. Also, on the island there is a third building, ward C, used to house only the most dangerous of these patients. On top of that, Andrew is considered to be the most dangerous of all the patients in ward C, making him the worst of the worst of the worst (11). She also says “the sacrifice must quell violence within the community to prevent conflicts from erupting” (4). By sacrificing himself through a lobotomy, Andrew Laeddis literally quelled the violence since he was the main danger to the guards, doctors, and other