Sunday, March 3, 2013

In Response to "American Horror Story Discussion"


I think the show American Horror Story is a good comparison to the two readings we discussed about “Sickness” especially in relation to women. Although I did not see the first season I have watched part of the second season and two of the main characters are women. The woman who was placed in the insane asylum by her husband is believed to be severely mentally ill but through out the story she proves that she can outsmart the head controllers of the asylum. The other main female character is the head nun who helps run the asylum, she helps promote all the tortures that happen in the asylum but she seems secretly to be against them. In one of the episodes the nun is basically stripped of her position and forced to become a patient in the asylum. As soon as this happens she immediately loses any control or respect she had over any of the patients, everyone sees her as a crazy person now and does not know how to react to her. After this happened I couldn’t help but think, what if this was the head master who is a male doctor, would things be treated the same way? I don’t think it would, one, because no one ever believed that he was torturing the patients because they had no proof, and two, because the patients would all still fear him and be afraid to disrespect him. Why do you think it is that the difference in characters would change the situation just because they are different gender and of different position? Considering they both took part in controlling the torture of the patients.

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