So at the beginning of the book I saw Nurse Ratched as a horrible person and the ward as a torture facility. I thought about how inhuman the nurse was because of what she does to the patients and how she lets the Black Boys treat them. Because of her cruel treatment I thought the patients lived in fear of the authority. The patients' unideal way of living shows how inhumane the facility is. The hospital is supposed to help patients go back Outside to their normal lives, but it is preparing them through torture instead of help and learning. If the hospital is actually helping the patients, it is understandable to treat them rough at first, but I do not believe the cruel treatment is necessary.
So my questions for you guys are:
What causes what? Is Nurse Ratched's inhuman way of treating her patients causing the ward to be inhumane? Or, does the ward have to be inhumane (in order to help the patients) and that is what makes Nurse Ratched's actions inhuman?
I think it's more of a matter of perspective. I think the Big Nurse would say that she needs to act in a certain way to help these people who are insane. She wouldn't describe her way of acting as inhumane, she would say it was therapeutic. However, the patients would say this environment is inhumane.
ReplyDeleteBased on the recent fishing trip that the members of the ward participated in, I would say that the way the patients are being treated cause most of them to behave in the ways that they do. On the fishing trip, being in society seemed to change how they acted. To me, this transformation was necessary for the members of the ward in order to possibly begin healing, or at least start to get better.
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