A Comparison of Freedom in Secrets and Lies, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, and Beloved :: comparison compare contrast essays

Freedom in Secrets and Lies, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, and Beloved The word freedom has a different meaning for everyone based on their individualistic circumstances. Websters Dictionary also provides many definitions for freedom, the most relevent to this paper being a) the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action b) liberation from slaveholding or restraint or from the power of another. I believe that Websters Dictionary explains freedom the best when it states that freedom has a broad range of application from list absence of restraint to merely a sense of not being unduly hampered or frustrated. Since it is really a philosophical question whether a totality absence of restraint is really possible, or even desirable, I think mine and most peoples general use of the word tends to be more on the side of not being unduly hampered or frustrated. The two movies Secrets and Lies and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, and Toni Morrisons novel Beloved all deal with different types and degrees of freedom and the escape on that point of. Secrets and Lies is about a middle-aged woman who had to grow up at a very young age and never had the freedom to enjoy, or even have, a childhood. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest is the story of a group of patients in a mental hospital whos routine lives are continuously changed by a newly committed patient whos life is anything but routine. Beloved follows the shattered lives of the family of an ex-slave brisk in Ohio after the end of the Civil war and the abolishment of slavery. Even though each deal with very different circumstances, by comparing the lives of each set of characters in these three stories many parallels seat be drawn between them. The freedom restrictions imposed in each story are all different, yet the characters actions are similar. The characters go to drastic lengths when there freedoms are infringed upon, the most drastic occuring when a ne wly achieved freedom is lost. Before understanding a new freedom the characters have no problem living without it. However once new freedoms are realized the characters are unrelenting in their fight to preserve them.