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How far do the main protagonists in Girl, Interrupted and Prozac Nation attribute their depression to wider problems in society?
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How far do the main protagonists in Girl, Interrupted and Prozac Nation attribute their depression to wider problems in society? In Girl, Interrupted author Susanna Kaysen recounts her two year stay at a Boston psychiatric hospital and her experience of what she calls the "parallel universe" of madness, she makes the reader consider how thin the line is between 'madness' and 'sanity'. Susanna describes herself as "sane in an insane world". It does seem like it may be an insane world when we look at how society reacts to something they do not understand, fear breeds prejudice, "possessed by the devil" "bad, and must be isolated and punished" We are forced to question what role Susanna's gender had in her diagnosis and hospitalisation. She is diagnosed with "Borderline personality disorder" to which the diagnosis states, " This disorder is more commonly diagnosed in women" Susanna is given the title "promiscuous" to which she points out, "how...
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