Creative Response One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

I chose to respond creatively to the task with an eight-square comic because I felt it would be the most effective way to convey my understanding of the change of status of the patients in the asylum and the narrator from The Yellow Wall Paper. The theme of my creative response is to show the change of mental states of a patient staying in an asylum. The comic criticises the documentary ‘BBC: A History of Madhouse’ (2010), the film ‘One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest’ (1975) and the story, The Yellow Wall Paper written by Charlotte Perkins Stetson as they depict the importance of the patients’ living environment. This shows that a restricted environment may drive someone from being mentally ill to full blown .

The purpose of psychiatric hospitals is to assess people who suffer from mental illness and provide mental health treatment. However, through the documentary and the story, it is significant to note that the mistreatment of patients who suffered mental illness, is not significantly changed since the 20th century. Some inhumane treatments are the Electroconvulsive Therapy and brain surgery that cut off parts of the human brain. The horrible side effects are permanent damage to

Due to her lack of communication skills, she has no friends, therefore, when stress about her study builds on top of her loneliness, she collapses. Coincidently, she killed a peer, although she was scared and felt vulnerable in the first place, at the same time, she felt hints of excitement from the process of killing. She realised this could be a way of releasing stress, therefore, she began to kill everyone in her classroom. At the end of the story, the girl’s action triggered disturbing violence in the students and a massacre occurred. At the end of the comic, it shows that through brutally killing others she felt a sense of satisfaction or even more