Thursday, September 3, 2015
The Easy Way Out?
I thought that "Escape from Spiderhead" was an interesting dystopian world short story, and I thought it was well written. It really immersed the reader in a new world, and its descriptive language greatly aided in this accomplishment. I also thought that the ending was intriguing. It made me think if the way Jeff chose to exit Spiderhead was really the easiest way to escape it. After he had just seen Heather go out by being injected with Darkenfloxx, he still chose that as the way to escape Spiderhead. It just shows how desperate Jeff was to escape.
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That's an interesting take on it. His grotesque and unceremonious nature of his death would make you think that the route he took was fraught with the most suffering. After more thought I see that Jeff may not only be doing what he believes to be morally good, but also avoiding, the arguably greater suffering, of witnessing the graphic demise of his innocent co-subjects.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with your insight on "Escape from Spiderhead" I had a similar opinion at the end of the story when Jeff chooses to kill himself instead of making one of his fellow prisoners suffer.
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ReplyDeleteJeff's demise was inevitable. Perhaps the experiment was even set up so this might happen, although it is somewhat nice to believe that Jeff had some control in this experiment.
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