1. Andrew Laeddis in Shutter Island
... was nine years after the German unconditional surrender, putting an end to the Second World War; the year when the first hydrogen bomb test was announced to be conducted successfully in the U.S.; and the year when the conflict between two schools of psychiatric treatment, transorbital lobotomy operation ... the final confrontation. Face to face, eye to eye, Dr. Cawley breaks through Laeddis' heroic fantasy and enforces him to look straight at reality, his love, guilt, trauma and sin. The therapy measure of role play is a success. Laeddis eventually wakes up from the dream. Nevertheless, p...
- Word Count: 2674
- Approx Pages: 11
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: High School