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Regeneration - Research Paper

Regeneration

Madness and insanity are delicate topics that nobody really wants to talk about. One doesn't want to offend somebody by saying something wrong or unjust. So most of the time it is a breakthrough for someone to talk about the subject. There is a lingering quote that really stands out in my mind from the movie Con Air.
What if I told you insane was working 50 hours a week in some office for 50 years, at the end of which, they tell you to piss off…ending up at some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time. Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?
That quote stands out in my mind because it is somewhat true. Whoever ...

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In the novel the so-called "insane" patients are sent to an institute called Craiglockhart. It is one of the top schools in the country, at that time, for curing insanity.
Officer Prior is inevitably an outcast in society because he is dubbed insane. Prior suffered from mutism and reoccurring nightmares. At a time when he was at the institute he leaves to go to a bar and pick up women. One needs to understand that when the patients leave the institute they are advised to wear a red ribbon around their arm so that society knows that they are "mad" patients at the institute. Wearing that ribbon on their sleeve dooms them from having any chance of being accepted in society because they are automatically ostracized and pronounced insane. When Prior went to the bar, he didn't wear the ribbon because of fear of rejection. He knew that society wouldn't accept him. They would think he is a disease or just some mad patient that will infect them. He didn't want to deal with ...

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Added: 5/2/2007 11:55:55 PM
Category: English
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