First off in class we talked about how they put women in insane asylums because the husband could not deal with them anymore. Let’s face it nothing was wrong with here at all nothing that could be displayed as being insane Uncle and Dr. Karnac just teamed up and decided to put her in the insane asylum without her wanting to be put in there. The reason I could see is that she did not want to marry her uncle and out of his rage of her not doing what she wants he then therefore took matters into his own hands. So he could take all of her assets and all her money. I felt the best thing to summarize these events were "...for love of gain was as strong as love of science; both were amply gratified, and I, poor victim, was given up to be experimented upon, till by subtle means I was driven to the insanity which would give my uncle full control of my fortune and my fate." (p.246) Honestly I would have broke out and killed someone gave them a reason to call me crazy.
We see this absence of the mother and we see the importance of how important it is for a mother to be around to help with the growth of a child help her mature and develop into a women I fill Sybil never got that and also the protection. Sybil needed to be protected by men like her uncle but I wonder could her mother have even done that being a women of that time. I Really was appla