I found myself fighting for Sybil and her sanity right to the very end. She is a teenage girl presented with some very interesting problems. Maybe she didn't handle them with grace and dignity, but this certainly doesn't count her as insane. I found myself feeling that her placement in the asylum could have made her insane. The letter she found backs this idea up, "If you are not already mad, you will be; I suspect you were sent here to be made so; for the air is poison, the solitude is fatal, and Karnac remorseless in his mania for prying into the mysteries of human minds. What devil sent you I may never know, but I long to warn you." (Pg. 238)
On the flip side, Sybil very well may have been insane. Her relationship with her uncle and going back and forth about Guy doesn't quite make her exactly all there. I am very torn on whether or not to think she is insane. I hope someone choses to do her for their Facebook profile, i think it would be very interesting and intriguing to look at!
I don't think Sybil was insane. I think she was put there so that she would become insane. The combination of being locked up, having experiments done on you, and having no one listen to you would make anyone go insane. Also, if she can be made insane, her uncle would get her father's fortune.
ReplyDeleteI also was fighting that Sybil was sane the whole story. I like how you brought up other instances where women were placed in insane asylums for reasons other than insanity. Asylum's during that time period were a place to put people that others didn't want to deal with. While Sybil's relationship with her uncle does seem rather weird, I still think that she was sane throughout the story.
ReplyDeleteI liked how you really got into the story and how you fought for Sybil and her sanity right to the very end. I liked Sybil but I just found myself not being able to trust her, while she was fighting her battle with insanity. But I do like how you put the other option out there that
ReplyDeleteSybil might be insane.