Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Hiding through Hallucinations
Maybe Chief uses his hallucinations as something to hide behind. on page 86 and 87 Chief says, "Right and left there are other things happening just as bad - crazy, horrible things too goofy and outlandish to cry about and too much true to laugh about - but the fog is getting thick enough I don't have to watch." In a way, he is using the mental hallucinations as a crutch to hide from the terrible reality of the mental ward. By living in a "fog" or fantasy world, he doesn't have to acknowledge the atrocities he witnesses every day.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
I completely agree. Chief generally only hallucinates with something traumatic is happening, so it's like his way of not fully grasping what is going on. He's hiding from things he doesn't want to have to deal with because they're too horrible for him to understand.
By doing this, though, I believe he makes himself even more vulnerable to manipulation by outside forces. Nurse Ratched, for example, can easily take advantage of him because he is unable to defend himself or fight back in any way.
I also agree. I feel that he doesn't understand or even know how to deal with his grief.Therefore, he is hiding from them and I feel that he is sometimes in denial when something traumatic happens. The way he deals with himself when something happens is only having hallucinations.
Post a Comment