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How Far Do You Think ?Whose Life Is It Anyway Is A Play About The Individual Versus Authority And Bu Essay, Research Paper

Whose

life is it Anyway? is about Ken Harrison, a paralysed patient in hospital, and

his battle to end his own life. The problem here is that he is incapable of

committing suicide and has to turn to euthanasia. The hospital is against this.

They cannot conscion deliberately letting a conscious person die. In this essay

I will tackle the question above, of whether this play is purely about the

ethical and moral issues involved, or whether it is also about the man versus

the system. For

these purposes, Ken Harrison, the patient, is the individual and the hospital

the bureaucracy and authority. ??????????????? The title of the play, ?Whose

life is it anyway?? announces the issue. It is evidently Ken?s life, but the

amount of choice and free will he now has in it is minimal. Nowadays, human

rights are accepted as being inalienable, so the absence of freedom and choice

makes you wonder just how much of a life he is now in possession of. Of course,

as well, despite the fact it is his life he isn?t running it. Hence the title.

This starts the play with a question and all further events are in answer to

it. This shows it is meant to be, partly, a battle of wills between two sides

over his life. ??????????????? Ken is very much alone in that

his disability makes him different and distances him from the people he

encounters. For example, he says to Dr. Scott, ?It?s surprising how relaxed a

woman can be when she is not in the presence of man.? He is saying very plainly

he doesn?t feel he is a man any longer. Dr. Scott feels sorry for him, and he

likes her, maybe even loves her – but he feels her pity as an insult. It also

disturbs him. He feels himself changing, doing things he wouldn?t normally do,

and not being in control is unsettling for him. This isolates him and shows him

as standing on his own as a result of an accident, not by choice as is usual in

cases of rebellion against bureaucracy ??????????????? No close friends come and see

him – he sent them away. He is alone by choice ,as well as because of his

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