Fishbowl 11/21
- "Maybe the combine wasn't all-powerful."(Molly's page 292)
- gain confidence
- McM: martyr to combine
- was it worth it for him to die? was his life worth it?
- men never in danger: just to lose personality, but McM suffers
- dangers= lobotomy, shock
- worthy sacrifice
- wakes up men
- Did McM know the consequences?
- resigned to the fact that he is going to stick up for the change he wants in the men
- Jesus: last supper
- Billy Bibbit not studder= confidence, but when he started talking to the Nurse- he stutters
- she takes away his confidence(intimidating)
- death= inevitable
- Nurse symbolizes romans, pharisees, and combine
- Enemy is combine!!
- Doctor and black boy: pharisees
- Jesus
- pays for sins of others, and to save us
- McM dies to save sins of society
- sacrificing himself for others
- Molly's page 304, page 318 for others
- Betrayal: men say he's winning, talking behind his back(let Nurse change their mind: they doubted him)
- McM purposely provokes fights: racial stereotypes, disrespects
- Japanese Nurse: understands them, sympathetic, understands being persecuted, feminine
- The black boys are bitter
- Harding: Molly's page 294, everyone's page 307/308
- shame: difference
- homosexual: can't satisfy wife
- he's intelligent: more feminine(hands)
- not stereotypical American man
- tries to conform
- makes him sick, the way he feels
- doesn't feel worth, fear, self-belittlement
- covers up who he is (wife)
- his hands vs. McM's hands
- feminine, masculine
- this is his coming out moment
- picked up by wife when he checks out: what happens?
- be more comfortable when he left: going back into society w/ new confidence
- Misidentification of men
- what makes someone mentally ill?
- society creates craziness
- most patients there voluntarily: Nurse manipulates them emotionally and psychologically
- Nurse belittles them: not good for them, she should make them feel better(makes them more sick)
- Video and pre-question: is everyone mentally ill?
- worse thing to do to a mentally ill is force
- Nurse Ratched had very negative effect
- McM helps them more: everyone gets better: teaches them how to come out of fog
- Nurse: oppression, makes them feel worthless
- put in there by society
- Nurse enforces this
- McM teaches them how to be proud of who they are
- Chief says thank you
- Killing of McM
- only body there: already dead
- knew McM wouldn't want that
- didn't want to give Nurse that satisfaction
- is it murder?
- expression is the same when he is murdered
- Is it ok?
- doing him a favor
- repaying him: thank you
- if he didn't: the nurse would've won
- pg 277 (290): Chief talks
- hypocrisy: put down for imperfections
- everyone has imperfections
- Nurse conceals that she is a woman
- Catholic Nurse: birthmark
- everyone is different
- insecurity: take it out on others
- Why does Bibbit kill himself?
- left on their own will: gained courage and confidence
- McM was uplifting figure that they never had
- McM and patients win
- change ward forever
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