An individual's negative historical experiences doesn't always motivate them to become evil, it sometimes causes a trauma so great that it generates mental illness within the victim and causes dissociation. This is evident within the characters Sanjay Singhania in the film Ghajini and the character Teddy Daniels within the film Shutter Island.
Sanjay Singhania was once one of the most wealthiest businessmen in India until an event left him mentally disabled. One night, Sanjay was going to his girlfriend, Kalpana's, apartment with a bouquet of flowers and a ring to propose to her, however, no one opened the door. After 15 minutes, Sanjay got a call from his girlfriend asking for help as there were a group of criminals trying to kill her after …show more content…
Marshall whose life was altered by his negative experiences so severely that he developed mental disorders. Teddy served the U.S military in World War II, he was one of the soldiers that liberated the prisoners of the Nazi concentration camp, Dachau. This negative experience of war left him traumatized as he was compelled to kill other human beings in service to his country and had to witness the horrendous accumulation of lifeless decomposing corpses of adults and children. A few years after the war, Teddy came home from work on a Saturday afternoon only to witness his wife sitting peacefully while his children’s corpses were floating face down lifelessly in the water. In a state of shock, grief, and anger, Teddy shot his deranged wife Dolores as she drowned their three children. These negative experiences of war, his children's death and his wife's death by his hands were so traumatic for Teddy, that he developed dissociative identity disorder as well as post-traumatic stress disorder. The post-traumatic stress disorder integrated with his dissociative identity disorder which ultimately altered Teddy’s thought process, Teddy constantly perceived vivid flashbacks of the snows of Dachau covered with masses of dead bodies including his daughter, he witnesses a combination of two realities in a single flashback due to the effect of his dissociative disorder. Because Teddy dissociated himself from the incident of his children’s death, he perceives his daughter in his war flashbacks and assumes she is a casualty of war in order to avoid the excruciating pain caused by the memory of his family’s death. Teddy couldn’t handle the fact that his children died, that he shot his wife and that he wasn't able to prevent both situations from occurring therefore as a coping mechanism he developed dissociative identity disorder in order to dissociate himself from the negative incident. As a result of his experiences, Teddy possessed two persona’s - in
Sanjay Singhania was once one of the most wealthiest businessmen in India until an event left him mentally disabled. One night, Sanjay was going to his girlfriend, Kalpana's, apartment with a bouquet of flowers and a ring to propose to her, however, no one opened the door. After 15 minutes, Sanjay got a call from his girlfriend asking for help as there were a group of criminals trying to kill her after …show more content…
Marshall whose life was altered by his negative experiences so severely that he developed mental disorders. Teddy served the U.S military in World War II, he was one of the soldiers that liberated the prisoners of the Nazi concentration camp, Dachau. This negative experience of war left him traumatized as he was compelled to kill other human beings in service to his country and had to witness the horrendous accumulation of lifeless decomposing corpses of adults and children. A few years after the war, Teddy came home from work on a Saturday afternoon only to witness his wife sitting peacefully while his children’s corpses were floating face down lifelessly in the water. In a state of shock, grief, and anger, Teddy shot his deranged wife Dolores as she drowned their three children. These negative experiences of war, his children's death and his wife's death by his hands were so traumatic for Teddy, that he developed dissociative identity disorder as well as post-traumatic stress disorder. The post-traumatic stress disorder integrated with his dissociative identity disorder which ultimately altered Teddy’s thought process, Teddy constantly perceived vivid flashbacks of the snows of Dachau covered with masses of dead bodies including his daughter, he witnesses a combination of two realities in a single flashback due to the effect of his dissociative disorder. Because Teddy dissociated himself from the incident of his children’s death, he perceives his daughter in his war flashbacks and assumes she is a casualty of war in order to avoid the excruciating pain caused by the memory of his family’s death. Teddy couldn’t handle the fact that his children died, that he shot his wife and that he wasn't able to prevent both situations from occurring therefore as a coping mechanism he developed dissociative identity disorder in order to dissociate himself from the negative incident. As a result of his experiences, Teddy possessed two persona’s - in