/Border[0 0 0]/Contents()/Rect[72.0 612.5547 118.127 625.4453]/StructParent 2/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> I watched this film for Scavenger Hunt #43, Item 8. The next morning, she is to be taken, at last, to the Blackwell’s Island Lunatic Asylum. We would all promise because we knew the doctors would not help us, and we would do anything to escape the punishment… Among other beatings I got there, the nurses jumped on me once and broke two of my ribs. “Would you like to be a nurse for children and wear a nice white cap and apron?” she asked. She frames the premise in the preface: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the island I made no attempt to keep up the assumed role of insanity. In 1887, at 23, reporter Nellie Bly, working for Joseph Pulitzer, goes undercover in Blackwell's Island insane asylum to expose corruption, abuse and murder. Another woman shares her own story from the Retreat, where she was put on the “rope gang”: The beatings I got there were something dreadful. 218 0 obj x��WYo�F~ׯ�I��އ�# l ���!�-��tE*���;�C�R�,�P�P&g��f���ٲH�I�_��Ϗ1����lU�y�J��C9�`F��a`8��Zh����VoP�����)ʪ;���\F�I���ps��hm�|�0�9�K%>���J%��t0�b�t�~|?�K��� �%�:��6�e��I��3�/ϐ�P�b���'��roǕ�/���c�w�����~S�K��m��RjҘ�W�En�!�1$� \8X���0´��d����kբ�t�$XC�����UTY�8kE��L��߱�� ���`bW�\%�|�Km��i`�G?��p�"�g���}#L�t����gK���/w���1S;0c���º�VUv8#����Φ�"��>F�ښ�Xc�I���֦�$�4��LӍ��Ϸ��B1ۡHD���r^2%HZ"���x>�f{B�/�"�&��P�#M3g���N#�ݍȅ"FKVUaUDri[�|E I put my handkerchief up to my face to hide a smile and replied in a muffled tone, “I never worked; I don’t know how.”. Indeed, this is Bly’s first inkling that the line between the sane and the insane in those institutions, far from sharp, is drawn in a rather arbitrary and artificial manner by doctors who treat their patients as invisible and refuse to listen to their rational protestations. 4.8333333333333 (6 Reviews) Published: 1887. All would be left to roast to death. In the one building alone there are [around] 300 women. As if these assaults on basic human dignity weren’t enough to render the asylum abominable, Bly has by that point only experienced a fraction of the horrors. .�̓�.���{��Ç�!\�!,��r��r�yq-�{��f'U��tn�ϫUj�,d#�-��.��4�s�F�ǥ�f�ʄ�X;C(����L�"��U�7���LJ�yC(7|Qj�V���ֆ�~�-�T��:7WC2�5���xן9A��j�ӗ����O _�����{��s:��$ c@�@��*��c��ׅ��xJ`&� �2��r�Ë��l�$�=���A��ρ=�m�4F/�W� ;�I��`�c=�iɠx@=A���5LlL�Y*� �X,�-��|�A. Ten Days in a Mad-House. The dresses are seldom changed oftener than once a month. Downloads: 55,478. Several stiff-looking benches and a number of willow chairs were the only articles of furniture. 19 weeks in US theaters. 0000004433 00000 n She began by assuming the look of the insane — “they must have staring eyes, and so I opened mine as wide as possible and stared unblinkingly”; “I assumed the look which maidens wear in pictures entitled ‘Dreaming. endobj 224 0 obj How useless it all was. Yet strange to say, the more sanely I talked and acted the crazier I was thought to be by all except one physician, whose kindness and gentle ways I shall not soon forget. —. 4.8333333333333 (6 Reviews) Free Download. Repost of article from the North Hollywood theatrical run of 10 Days in a Madhouse, the first Oscar contender of 2017. I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God’s sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving. The bars were down and freedom was sweeter to me than ever. Although the system folds his kindness into its merciless machinery and Bly is ordered to be taken away by an ambulance, she finds herself grateful for the dignity the kindly judge affords her even as he hands her off to the ambulance driver: The Judge told him to take me and to be kind to me, and to tell the people at the hospital to be kind to me and to do all they could for me. 222 0 obj By Lauren Adams and Brent Bellah The 2015 film, 10 Days in a Madhouse, written and directed by Timothy Hines, follows the story of Nellie Blys time at Blackwells Island Asylum in New York. I shivered. 10 Days in a Madhouse Quotes. She claimed eighteen, and would grow very angry if told to the contrary. There I awaited the arrival of my hostess. Alas, she has already become invisible in that insidious way that befalls society’s least privileged members — the officer doesn’t recognize her but sees, instead, just a faceless insane woman before him. What follows is made all the more poignant by the fact that from the moment Bly arrives on the island, she stops making any attempt to feign insanity and behaves as her usual sane self, only to find that the doctors make no distinction — a detail that pulls into question whether a good portion of the other “insane” women belong there in the first place. At last everything was gone excepting one garment. Popular reviews More. In the rear of the hall were large iron doors fastened by a padlock. endobj They are locked, one to ten to a room. They began to undress me and one by one they pulled off my clothes. I rather feared I would not get the fate I sought because of the kindness I saw on every line of his face. I followed these not overkind or polite instructions and found myself in a dark, uncomfortable back parlor. “Urena,” said Miss Grady, “the doctors say that you are thirty-three instead of eighteen,” and the other nurses laughed. The nurses were not long in finding this out, and then they teased her. The healthy patients fight for a change of water, but they are compelled to submit to the dictates of the lazy, tyrannical nurses. <>stream drama. 10 Days in a Madhouse Eine Filmkritik von Silvy Pommerenke Ein Stoff, wie fürs große Kino gemacht: Die erste investigative Journalistin Nellie Bly wird im Jahr 1887 von keinem Geringeren als Joseph Pulitzer angeheuert, um sich undercover in eine psychiatrische Anstalt einweisen zu lassen und von den dortigen desaströsen Zuständen zu berichten. 10 Days in a Madhouse. I kept up my role until the assistant matron, Mrs. Stanard, came in. I felt a Quixotic desire to help them by sympathy and presence. Despite the general unfriendliness of the matron and her staff, Bly encounters at the shelter a kindly Boston proofreader named Mrs. Caine “who was as courageous as she was good-hearted.” Still, Bly proceeds with her plan and when probed about her circumstances and how she ended up at the shelter, she acts according to her strategy, all the while maintaining her humor about the absurd expectations for women at the time: “Everything is so sad,” I said in a haphazard way, which I had intended to reflect my craziness. Ten Days in a Mad-House is a book by American journalist Nellie Bly. Her plan was to feign a mental breakdown there, with no sign of family or friends, and have the matron commit her to the mental ward at the hospital, where she would convince the doctors that she belonged in a permanent asylum. Even as she begins to grasp the deep-seated neglect and even contempt with which the “poor unfortunates” are treated by the legal system and society at large, Bly doesn’t fail to note those oases of kindness she encounters along the way, as in the judge presiding over her case: Judge Duffy sat behind the high desk, wearing a look which seemed to indicate that he was dealing out the milk of human kindness by wholesale. I had less noble vermin to interest me. 0000015783 00000 n The remaining patients — those less visibly delusional or violent, Bly included — are forced to sit on benches from morning till night, scolded and beaten for moving or speaking, and generally treated as mindless automata unworthy of dignity or compassion. 229 0 obj A nurse in a black dress, white cap and apron and armed with a bunch of keys had charge of the hall. Near the entrance door, on the right-hand side, was a small sitting room for the nurses, and opposite it was a room where dinner was dished out. It’s a sad state of affairs when hugely important stories about historical women don’t get adequate attention on film or TV. Sie arbeitete unter einem vermeintlichen Namen, nahm sich ein Zimmer in einer Pension und machte sich auf den Weg, um sich als verrückt zu beweisen. You can beam some bit-love my way: 197usDS6AsL9wDKxtGM6xaWjmR5ejgqem7. What she witnessed there — cold baths, forced starvation, beatings, the hovering threat of sexual assault, and a general atmosphere more akin to a concentration camp than to a healthcare establishment — is a timelessly tragic parable for what happens when largely arbitrary circumstances render one group of people helpless and another in power, a heartbreaking real-life enactment of the Stanford Prison Study revealing just how much cruelty humans are capable of when they assume positions of authority, however minuscule, over those less fortunate. 0000001391 00000 n 227 0 obj Soon, Bly also has her first brush with the physical discomforts and outright pain inflicted by the negligent and often deliberately malicious personnel. Review by Lance ½ 1. They scampered up and down the pillow, came together, seemed to hold interesting converse and acted in every way as if they were puzzled by the absence of an appetizing breakfast. The door was thrown back with a vengeance and a short, yellow-haired girl of some thirteen summers stood before me. Did I protest? They kept this up until the simple creature began to yell and cry, saying she wanted to go home and that everybody treated her badly. “It’s rather a bad looking shawl,” I said. x��Vy~���}�͐�طF�0Ⱦ��N�13�`̠�&�p"I�9:tZ��"-ڎҦ������"�����}���]����{���~��~�x/ �c ���H��ƈ��f��E��؜�4���LJso��������wa-�n_���Վ��?B�����. To further enact her role of a “poor loon,” as the other women had quickly come to call her, she refused to go to sleep that first night, forcing herself to stay awake. I begged, at least, that the patients be made to go away, but was ordered to shut up. Then they tied my hands and feet and, throwing a sheet over my head, twisted it tightly around my throat, so I could not scream, and thus put me in a bathtub filled with cold water. 0000009308 00000 n Published May 5, 2014 I think I experienced some of the sensations of a drowning person as they dragged me, gasping, shivering and quaking, from the tub. I gave one glance at the group of patients gathered at the door watching the scene, and I jumped into the bathtub with more energy than grace. They held me under until I gave up every hope and became senseless. JUDGE DUFFY AND THE POLICE. 0000002309 00000 n 0000001803 00000 n Share. 0000002568 00000 n 10 Days In A Madhouse. *IIp}������"D(�{�����a\���Cܣf�$��WyI�e�� C$�2�2d��/AÊ�Qx;��:��S:�*f�2���[��!t��:߸��-'��o.��sȩ�n�wը�iӹ�â endobj Nellie Bly (1864-1922), born Elizabeth Jane Cochran, was an American pioneer in investigative journalism. d>� 1a�� A hint of the brutalities in store arrives almost immediately, as Bly is dragged to her first meal at the institution. Should the building burn the jailors or nurses would never think of releasing their crazy patients. Some of the women Bly encounters at the asylum are foreigners, completely sane, confined there for no other reason than speaking too little English to explain their situation to the doctors, policemen, judges, and other examiners along the hellish road from normal life to Blackwell’s Island. Ten Days in a Mad-House is well worth reading in its entirety, despite the excruciating discomfort — not only for Bly’s beautiful prose and sharp-witted observations, but also for the timeless reminder of how little it takes for power structures to mutate into abuse of marginalized groups and how crucial it is for us, as a society and as individuals, to find — to empower — to be — the Nellie Blys who … 0000001210 00000 n Another offering, spoiled beef, is served without utensils, forcing the women to gnaw the tough chunks like savages — one of the myriad practices at the asylum that inflicts upon even the sane women, of whom Bly is to meet a number, the behaviors of the insane, systematically chipping away at their psychoemotional resilience and turning even the false diagnoses of insanity into self-fulfilling prophesies. endobj <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents(scholarworks@csusb.edu)/Rect[183.5112 72.3516 286.5542 82.8984]/StructParent 8/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> 0000000016 00000 n She grew more hysterical every moment until they pounced upon her and slapped her face and knocked her head in a lively fashion. 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Ten Days in a Mad-House. The events depicted are sensitive and, in many cases, disturbing, but they have been unedited and presented here in their entirety. — At this I noticed one of the craziest women in the ward standing by the filled bathtub with a large discolored rag in her hands. trailer Well, I never grew so earnest in my life as when I tried to beg off. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that might give us something to think about as well as talk of. ��_��e� <> Wistfully, she notes how far removed that demonic world is from the reality we find conceivable in normal life: People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. (154) IMDb 6.2 1 h 49 min 2016 R. In 1887, at age 23, reporter Nellie Bly, working for Joseph Pulitzer, feigns mental illness to go undercover in notorious Blackwell's Island a woman's insane asylum to expose corruption, abuse and murder. They would hold patients under the water and threaten to leave them to die there if they did not promise not to tell the doctors. What follows is the full series that was the result of her investigation. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for 10 Days In A Madhouse at Amazon.com. The women are all dried with the same towel — those with healthy skin as well as those with extreme eruptions of rashes and infections — and combed with a “public comb.” The baths themselves are the most egregious atrocity of hygiene: On bathing day the tub is filled with water and the patients are washed, one after the other, without a change of water. Yes, actually choked her. Then they pulled my hair out by the roots so that it will never grow in again. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents(�� \n h t t p s : / / s c h o l a r w o r k s . 0000003378 00000 n I asked if I could go to bed. 217 0 obj A DELICATE MISSION. One woman Bly meets, Mrs. Cotter, was sent there for speaking to a man on the premises. 220 0 obj Ten Days in a Mad House is a quick and insightful read into the way the mentally ill were treated or should I say mist Ten Days in a Mad-House is a book by newspaper reporter Nellie Bly. As soon as she arrived at Bellevue Hospital, her third stop en route to the final destination of the Blackwell’s Island asylum, she was assigned to the “insane pavilion” — the mental ward at the hospital — and dragged there unceremoniously: A muscular man came forward and caught me so tightly by the arm that a pain ran clear through me. I experienced only kindness and the utmost consideration from her. startxref “But you must not allow that to worry you. <> This keeps up the appearance of careful and good management. You can also become a spontaneous supporter with a one-time donation in any amount: Partial to Bitcoin? 10 days in a Madhouse is a 2015 American biographical film about undercover journalist Nellie Bly, a reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World who had herself committed to the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island to write an exposé on abuses in the institution. After the shock of the experience, Bly finds herself unable to sleep and keeps herself occupied by pondering the devastating consequences of the opposite element: the asylum is a monumental fire hazard that dooms the patients to certain and gruesome death should the place be set ablaze. Best Horror Movies. The water was ice-cold, and I again began to protest. But only for a moment. Not to be confined alone, but to be a companion, day and night, of senseless, chattering lunatics; to sleep with them, to eat with them, to be considered one of them, was an uncomfortable position. l i b . <>/MediaBox[0 0 612 792]/Parent 212 0 R/Resources<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageC]/XObject<>>>/Rotate 0/StructParents 0/Tabs/S/Type/Page>> The physical abuse is coupled with chemical manipulation — Bly notes that the nurses injected enough morphine and chloral into patients to make even the sane crazy. I was pulled around by the hair, held under the water until I strangled, and I was choked and kicked. They said “No!” At last Miss Scott got an old gray shawl and shaking some of the moths out of it told me to put it on. sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons category. It grew so cold indeed as to be almost unbearable, and I complained of it to [the nurses]. Here's an example. 0000006656 00000 n They are served thick slices of bread with rancid butter and five prunes each, along with bowls “filled with a pinkish-looking stuff which the patients called tea.” (“It had no sugar and it tasted as if it had been made in copper.”) Bly is flung her food by a hostile nurse, but it is so repugnantly inedible that, despite her two days of starvation, she is unable to swallow it. 10 DAYS IN A MADHOUSE Official Trailer (2017) Starring Caroline Barry, Christopher Lambert, Kelly Le Brock, Alexandra Callas, Julia Chantrey. Ten Days in a Mad-House is well worth reading in its entirety, despite the excruciating discomfort — not only for Bly’s beautiful prose and sharp-witted observations, but also for the timeless reminder of how little it takes for power structures to mutate into abuse of marginalized groups and how crucial it is for us, as a society and as individuals, to find — to empower — to be — the Nellie Blys who call attention to injustice, effect change for those less privileged, and perhaps, above all, find the soft beams of kindness, those expansive rays of the human spirit, even amid the harshest of realities. [���\ݣ�0�!����ف�K� �ȹ.4��M@�4W���4+P�v ���~�Hw10hl���eFY��u��C� We all have our troubles, but we get over them in good time. Still, she plows ahead with the plan. The crazy woman began to scrub me. Her exquisite writing and beautiful mind shine through, emanating Susan Sontag’s famous assertion that “a writer is someone who pays attention to the world… a professional observer” as Bly recounts how she occupied herself during that sleepless night with a blend of awake curiosity and unflinching humor: Robert Bruce in his captivity had won confidence in the future and passed his time as pleasantly as possible under the circumstances by watching the celebrated spider building his web. — <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents(Film and Media Studies Commons)/Rect[137.2383 212.4906 289.7676 224.2094]/StructParent 5/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> endstream Bly tells her inquisitors that she’s been having a terrible headache, which made her forget everything. They said if I did not they would use force and that it would not be very gentle. century America. It isn’t until she witnesses the actual “care” for the insane that she grasps the full scope of the institutionalized brutalities. As Bly’s ten-day stay in the inferno of insanity comes to an end, she leaves with unsettling awareness of the fate of those “poor unfortunates” confined to the asylum for good: The Insane Asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. <>/Metadata 213 0 R/Outlines 69 0 R/Pages 212 0 R/StructTreeRoot 74 0 R/Type/Catalog/ViewerPreferences<>>> I would like the expert physicians who are condemning me for my action, which has proven their ability, to take a perfectly sane and healthy woman, shut her up and make her sit from 6 A.M. until 8 P.M. on straight-back benches, do not allow her to talk or move during these hours, give her no reading and let her know nothing of the world or its doings, give her bad food and harsh treatment, and see how long it will take to make her insane. Bly¶s investigative story defined the history of the world of mental illness for women in 19. th. An air of helplessness and hopelessness envelops the women, aware that telling the doctors of the brutalities would only elicit more beatings from the inhumane nurses. It made me angry, and for a moment I forgot my role as I turned to him and said: “How dare you touch me?” At this he loosened his hold somewhat, and I shook him off with more strength than I thought I possessed. Brain Pickings participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn commissions by linking to Amazon. If this labor makes your life more livable in any way, please consider aiding its sustenance with a donation. Even if the nurses were kind, which they are not, it would require more presence of mind than women of their class possess to risk the flames and their own lives while they unlocked the hundred doors for the insane prisoners. Like? I had the opportunity of studying these interesting animals very thoroughly. O N the 22d of September I was asked by the World if I could have myself committed to one of the asylums for the insane in New York, with a view to writing a plain and unvarnished narrative of the treatment of the patients therein and the methods of management, etc. Subscribe to this free midweek pick-me-up for heart, mind, and spirit below — it is separate from the standard Sunday digest of new pieces: In 1887, two years after she launched her career with a response to a patronizing chauvinist and two years before she raced around the world in a quest to outpace Jules Verne’s fictional eighty-day itinerary, pioneering Victorian journalist Nellie Bly (May 5, 1864–January 27, 1922) pulled off one of the most courageous feats in the history of investigative reporting — posing as insane, she embedded herself at the Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island to bring public attention to the horrific brutality and neglect to which patients were subjected. Go here. Top 200 of all time 150 Essential Comedies. 0000017466 00000 n Worst acting ever. “People on charity should not expect anything and should not complain.” So I put the moth-eaten shawl with all its musty smell around me, and sat down on a wicker chair, wondering what would come next, whether I should freeze to death or survive. Privacy policy. 0000005933 00000 n 0000003022 00000 n “I will not remove it,” I said vehemently, but they took it off. The same towels are used on all the women, those with eruptions as well as those without. ���^��6�G�l�NRDyQ�cx�Ǒ��!�kh���o�Yŷ�dl�U~[3J_���|il.Z CHAPTER I. <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents(�� H i s t o r y \n i n t h e M a k i n g)/Rect[72.0 650.625 222.4375 669.375]/StructParent 1/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> “Yes, she’s in; she’s busy. 0000015967 00000 n Though able to remain amused at these initial discomforts, Bly soon finds herself in much less comical circumstances. It focuses on a kinder perspective of society's outcasts, which includes recovering mental patients. endobj “I do not know; it’s all so sad,” I replied. The most gruesome abuses, however, take place in a corner of the asylum deceptively called the Retreat. Financial analysis of 10 Days in a Madhouse (2015) including budget, domestic and international box office gross, DVD and Blu-ray sales reports, total earnings and profitability. This is done until the water is really thick, and then it is allowed to run out and the tub is refilled without being washed. Nellie Bly. e d u / h i s t o r y - i n - t h e - m a k i n g)/Rect[230.8867 233.3227 481.9121 245.0414]/StructParent 4/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> Pronounced insane by four expert doctors and shut up behind the unmerciful bolts and bars of a madhouse! 234 0 obj xref %%EOF 10 Days in a Madhouse. For 15 years, I have been spending hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars each month to keep Brain Pickings going. ‘Ten Days In A Mad-House’ by Nellie Bly. True to her unrelenting optimism, Bly is able to find goodness even in this grim environment, noting of an old Irishwoman doing maid work at the ward: I am glad to know that there is such a good-hearted woman in that place. Besides the physical and psychoemotional trauma of the cold baths and the imminent threat of a fiery death, Bly observes — and experiences — the institution’s gobsmacking failures of hygiene, which the nurses go to great lengths to hide from visitors and public officials. In 1887, at age 23, reporter Nellie Bly, working for Joseph Pulitzer, feigns mental illness to go undercover in notorious Blackwell's Island a woman's insane asylum to expose corruption, abuse and murder. I knew now what was to be done with me. Rub, rub, rub, went the old woman, chattering to herself. Ten Days in the Madhouse is an album, by Denise Ho, released on December 12, 2008. Her resulting exposé, titled Ten Days in a Mad-House and originally published as a series of articles in New York World, is now included in the altogether fantastic collection Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings (public library). e d u / h i s t o r y - i n - t h e - m a k i n g / v o l 9 / i s s 1 / 1 8)/Rect[128.1963 131.7406 439.6855 143.4594]/StructParent 7/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> In the yard, she is faced with a sight she’d never forget, the “rope gang” — a long rope onto which fifty-two women are strung together via wide leather belts locked around their waists; all are sobbing, crying, or screaming, each inhabiting her private delusion in public. endobj They had evidently come for breakfast, and were not a little disappointed to find that their principal plat was not there. In 1887, Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World tasked Nellie Bly, a yet unknown journalist, with investigating the insane asylum on New York’s Blackwell’s Island. Yet I believe I made some valuable discoveries in natural history. It is impossible to get out unless these doors are unlocked. After several hours’ absence she returned to the sitting-room, and I plainly saw the marks of their fingers on her throat for the entire day. In an era when journalism was considered a ‘man’s world’, Bly went above and beyond what was expected in order to ‘get the story’. endobj Librivox - Ten Days in a Mad-House CHAPTER IV. 215 20 In more human terms, this means that whenever you buy a book on Amazon from a link on here, I receive a small percentage of its price, which goes straight back into my own colossal biblioexpenses. If we only had more such men as Judge Duffy the poor unfortunates would not find life all darkness. The film follows 23-year-old reporter Nellie Bly (Caroline Barry) as she embarks on her first undercover assignment for world-famous newspaper editor Joseph Pulitzer. My teeth chattered and my limbs were goosefleshed and blue with cold. 0000001720 00000 n Nellie Bly. 0000002056 00000 n I had been seated some twenty minutes at the least, when a slender woman, clad in a plain dark dress, entered and, stopping before me, ejaculated inquiringly, “Well?”. Here, Bly makes her most important point: What, excepting torture, would produce insanity quicker than this treatment? <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents(United States History Commons)/Rect[329.8262 212.4906 472.1504 224.2094]/StructParent 6/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> And therein lies the heartbreaking core of her exposé: However grotesque a caricature, Blackwell’s Island, which no doubt had its parallels in other such institutions, was emblematic of society’s treatment of its most vulnerable members, seeing every sign of weakness as an invitation to exploitation, every failing of privilege as an opening for the exertion of cruel power, every symptom of fragile humanity as a license for perpetrating inhumanity. 0000004226 00000 n 228 0 obj endobj Bly describes terror of the cold baths, to which the patients were routinely subjected: We were taken into a cold, wet bathroom and I was ordered to undress. I thought I heard something crawl and fall down upon the counterpane with an almost inaudible thud. LibriVox recording of Ten Days in a Madhouse, by Nellie Bly Read by Alice In 1887 Nellie Bly, one of the first female newspaper writers, and a young reporter who would soon go on to make a career for herself as an investigative journalist and "stunt" reporter, had herself committed to the Blackwell's Island Insane Asylum in New York. Literary Productivity, Visualized, 7 Life-Learnings from 7 Years of Brain Pickings, Illustrated, Anaïs Nin on Love, Hand-Lettered by Debbie Millman, Anaïs Nin on Real Love, Illustrated by Debbie Millman, Susan Sontag on Love: Illustrated Diary Excerpts, Susan Sontag on Art: Illustrated Diary Excerpts, Albert Camus on Happiness and Love, Illustrated by Wendy MacNaughton, The Silent Music of the Mind: Remembering Oliver Sacks, “a writer is someone who pays attention to the world… a professional observer”. Ten Days in a Mad-House. 216 0 obj <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents()/Rect[72.0 612.5547 118.127 625.4453]/StructParent 2/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> I watched this film for Scavenger Hunt #43, Item 8. The next morning, she is to be taken, at last, to the Blackwell’s Island Lunatic Asylum. We would all promise because we knew the doctors would not help us, and we would do anything to escape the punishment… Among other beatings I got there, the nurses jumped on me once and broke two of my ribs. “Would you like to be a nurse for children and wear a nice white cap and apron?” she asked. She frames the premise in the preface: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the island I made no attempt to keep up the assumed role of insanity. In 1887, at 23, reporter Nellie Bly, working for Joseph Pulitzer, goes undercover in Blackwell's Island insane asylum to expose corruption, abuse and murder. Another woman shares her own story from the Retreat, where she was put on the “rope gang”: The beatings I got there were something dreadful. 218 0 obj x��WYo�F~ׯ�I��އ�# l ���!�-��tE*���;�C�R�,�P�P&g��f���ٲH�I�_��Ϗ1����lU�y�J��C9�`F��a`8��Zh����VoP�����)ʪ;���\F�I���ps��hm�|�0�9�K%>���J%��t0�b�t�~|?�K��� �%�:��6�e��I��3�/ϐ�P�b���'��roǕ�/���c�w�����~S�K��m��RjҘ�W�En�!�1$� \8X���0´��d����kբ�t�$XC�����UTY�8kE��L��߱�� ���`bW�\%�|�Km��i`�G?��p�"�g���}#L�t����gK���/w���1S;0c���º�VUv8#����Φ�"��>F�ښ�Xc�I���֦�$�4��LӍ��Ϸ��B1ۡHD���r^2%HZ"���x>�f{B�/�"�&��P�#M3g���N#�ݍȅ"FKVUaUDri[�|E I put my handkerchief up to my face to hide a smile and replied in a muffled tone, “I never worked; I don’t know how.”. Indeed, this is Bly’s first inkling that the line between the sane and the insane in those institutions, far from sharp, is drawn in a rather arbitrary and artificial manner by doctors who treat their patients as invisible and refuse to listen to their rational protestations. 4.8333333333333 (6 Reviews) Published: 1887. All would be left to roast to death. In the one building alone there are [around] 300 women. As if these assaults on basic human dignity weren’t enough to render the asylum abominable, Bly has by that point only experienced a fraction of the horrors. .�̓�.���{��Ç�!\�!,��r��r�yq-�{��f'U��tn�ϫUj�,d#�-��.��4�s�F�ǥ�f�ʄ�X;C(����L�"��U�7���LJ�yC(7|Qj�V���ֆ�~�-�T��:7WC2�5���xן9A��j�ӗ����O _�����{��s:��$ c@�@��*��c��ׅ��xJ`&� �2��r�Ë��l�$�=���A��ρ=�m�4F/�W� ;�I��`�c=�iɠx@=A���5LlL�Y*� �X,�-��|�A. Ten Days in a Mad-House. The dresses are seldom changed oftener than once a month. Downloads: 55,478. Several stiff-looking benches and a number of willow chairs were the only articles of furniture. 19 weeks in US theaters. 0000004433 00000 n She began by assuming the look of the insane — “they must have staring eyes, and so I opened mine as wide as possible and stared unblinkingly”; “I assumed the look which maidens wear in pictures entitled ‘Dreaming. endobj 224 0 obj How useless it all was. Yet strange to say, the more sanely I talked and acted the crazier I was thought to be by all except one physician, whose kindness and gentle ways I shall not soon forget. —. 4.8333333333333 (6 Reviews) Free Download. Repost of article from the North Hollywood theatrical run of 10 Days in a Madhouse, the first Oscar contender of 2017. I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God’s sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving. The bars were down and freedom was sweeter to me than ever. Although the system folds his kindness into its merciless machinery and Bly is ordered to be taken away by an ambulance, she finds herself grateful for the dignity the kindly judge affords her even as he hands her off to the ambulance driver: The Judge told him to take me and to be kind to me, and to tell the people at the hospital to be kind to me and to do all they could for me. 222 0 obj By Lauren Adams and Brent Bellah The 2015 film, 10 Days in a Madhouse, written and directed by Timothy Hines, follows the story of Nellie Blys time at Blackwells Island Asylum in New York. I shivered. 10 Days in a Madhouse Quotes. She claimed eighteen, and would grow very angry if told to the contrary. There I awaited the arrival of my hostess. Alas, she has already become invisible in that insidious way that befalls society’s least privileged members — the officer doesn’t recognize her but sees, instead, just a faceless insane woman before him. What follows is made all the more poignant by the fact that from the moment Bly arrives on the island, she stops making any attempt to feign insanity and behaves as her usual sane self, only to find that the doctors make no distinction — a detail that pulls into question whether a good portion of the other “insane” women belong there in the first place. At last everything was gone excepting one garment. Popular reviews More. In the rear of the hall were large iron doors fastened by a padlock. endobj They are locked, one to ten to a room. They began to undress me and one by one they pulled off my clothes. I rather feared I would not get the fate I sought because of the kindness I saw on every line of his face. I followed these not overkind or polite instructions and found myself in a dark, uncomfortable back parlor. “Urena,” said Miss Grady, “the doctors say that you are thirty-three instead of eighteen,” and the other nurses laughed. The nurses were not long in finding this out, and then they teased her. The healthy patients fight for a change of water, but they are compelled to submit to the dictates of the lazy, tyrannical nurses. <>stream drama. 10 Days in a Madhouse Eine Filmkritik von Silvy Pommerenke Ein Stoff, wie fürs große Kino gemacht: Die erste investigative Journalistin Nellie Bly wird im Jahr 1887 von keinem Geringeren als Joseph Pulitzer angeheuert, um sich undercover in eine psychiatrische Anstalt einweisen zu lassen und von den dortigen desaströsen Zuständen zu berichten. 10 Days in a Madhouse. I kept up my role until the assistant matron, Mrs. Stanard, came in. I felt a Quixotic desire to help them by sympathy and presence. Despite the general unfriendliness of the matron and her staff, Bly encounters at the shelter a kindly Boston proofreader named Mrs. Caine “who was as courageous as she was good-hearted.” Still, Bly proceeds with her plan and when probed about her circumstances and how she ended up at the shelter, she acts according to her strategy, all the while maintaining her humor about the absurd expectations for women at the time: “Everything is so sad,” I said in a haphazard way, which I had intended to reflect my craziness. Ten Days in a Mad-House is a book by American journalist Nellie Bly. Her plan was to feign a mental breakdown there, with no sign of family or friends, and have the matron commit her to the mental ward at the hospital, where she would convince the doctors that she belonged in a permanent asylum. Even as she begins to grasp the deep-seated neglect and even contempt with which the “poor unfortunates” are treated by the legal system and society at large, Bly doesn’t fail to note those oases of kindness she encounters along the way, as in the judge presiding over her case: Judge Duffy sat behind the high desk, wearing a look which seemed to indicate that he was dealing out the milk of human kindness by wholesale. I had less noble vermin to interest me. 0000015783 00000 n The remaining patients — those less visibly delusional or violent, Bly included — are forced to sit on benches from morning till night, scolded and beaten for moving or speaking, and generally treated as mindless automata unworthy of dignity or compassion. 229 0 obj A nurse in a black dress, white cap and apron and armed with a bunch of keys had charge of the hall. Near the entrance door, on the right-hand side, was a small sitting room for the nurses, and opposite it was a room where dinner was dished out. It’s a sad state of affairs when hugely important stories about historical women don’t get adequate attention on film or TV. Sie arbeitete unter einem vermeintlichen Namen, nahm sich ein Zimmer in einer Pension und machte sich auf den Weg, um sich als verrückt zu beweisen. You can beam some bit-love my way: 197usDS6AsL9wDKxtGM6xaWjmR5ejgqem7. What she witnessed there — cold baths, forced starvation, beatings, the hovering threat of sexual assault, and a general atmosphere more akin to a concentration camp than to a healthcare establishment — is a timelessly tragic parable for what happens when largely arbitrary circumstances render one group of people helpless and another in power, a heartbreaking real-life enactment of the Stanford Prison Study revealing just how much cruelty humans are capable of when they assume positions of authority, however minuscule, over those less fortunate. 0000001391 00000 n 227 0 obj Soon, Bly also has her first brush with the physical discomforts and outright pain inflicted by the negligent and often deliberately malicious personnel. Review by Lance ½ 1. They scampered up and down the pillow, came together, seemed to hold interesting converse and acted in every way as if they were puzzled by the absence of an appetizing breakfast. The door was thrown back with a vengeance and a short, yellow-haired girl of some thirteen summers stood before me. Did I protest? They kept this up until the simple creature began to yell and cry, saying she wanted to go home and that everybody treated her badly. “It’s rather a bad looking shawl,” I said. x��Vy~���}�͐�طF�0Ⱦ��N�13�`̠�&�p"I�9:tZ��"-ڎҦ������"�����}���]����{���~��~�x/ �c ���H��ƈ��f��E��؜�4���LJso��������wa-�n_���Վ��?B�����. To further enact her role of a “poor loon,” as the other women had quickly come to call her, she refused to go to sleep that first night, forcing herself to stay awake. I begged, at least, that the patients be made to go away, but was ordered to shut up. Then they tied my hands and feet and, throwing a sheet over my head, twisted it tightly around my throat, so I could not scream, and thus put me in a bathtub filled with cold water. 0000009308 00000 n Published May 5, 2014 I think I experienced some of the sensations of a drowning person as they dragged me, gasping, shivering and quaking, from the tub. I gave one glance at the group of patients gathered at the door watching the scene, and I jumped into the bathtub with more energy than grace. They held me under until I gave up every hope and became senseless. JUDGE DUFFY AND THE POLICE. 0000002309 00000 n 0000001803 00000 n Share. 0000002568 00000 n 10 Days In A Madhouse. *IIp}������"D(�{�����a\���Cܣf�$��WyI�e�� C$�2�2d��/AÊ�Qx;��:��S:�*f�2���[��!t��:߸��-'��o.��sȩ�n�wը�iӹ�â endobj Nellie Bly (1864-1922), born Elizabeth Jane Cochran, was an American pioneer in investigative journalism. d>� 1a�� A hint of the brutalities in store arrives almost immediately, as Bly is dragged to her first meal at the institution. Should the building burn the jailors or nurses would never think of releasing their crazy patients. Some of the women Bly encounters at the asylum are foreigners, completely sane, confined there for no other reason than speaking too little English to explain their situation to the doctors, policemen, judges, and other examiners along the hellish road from normal life to Blackwell’s Island. Ten Days in a Mad-House is well worth reading in its entirety, despite the excruciating discomfort — not only for Bly’s beautiful prose and sharp-witted observations, but also for the timeless reminder of how little it takes for power structures to mutate into abuse of marginalized groups and how crucial it is for us, as a society and as individuals, to find — to empower — to be — the Nellie Blys who … 0000001210 00000 n Another offering, spoiled beef, is served without utensils, forcing the women to gnaw the tough chunks like savages — one of the myriad practices at the asylum that inflicts upon even the sane women, of whom Bly is to meet a number, the behaviors of the insane, systematically chipping away at their psychoemotional resilience and turning even the false diagnoses of insanity into self-fulfilling prophesies. endobj <>/Border[0 0 0]/Contents(scholarworks@csusb.edu)/Rect[183.5112 72.3516 286.5542 82.8984]/StructParent 8/Subtype/Link/Type/Annot>> 0000000016 00000 n She grew more hysterical every moment until they pounced upon her and slapped her face and knocked her head in a lively fashion. 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