Total_Institutions_In_Full_Metal_Jacket

Total Institutions In Full Metal Jacket Total institutions in Full Metal Jacket A total institution is a place in which people are cut off from the rest of society and are almost totally controlled by the officials who run the place. There are seven procedures that separate a total institution from a regular institution. The procedures are: initiation, creating the helplessness of infancy, destroying the person’s previous sense of identity and self respect, mortification and degradation, disorienting experiences, depersonalization, and powerlessness. Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket displays a perfect example of a total institution. The movie encompasses all of the characteristics of a total institution. The first is the initiation process, the process of initiation, is where the subjects are cut off from the outside world. In Full Metal Jacket the privates are taken to “the island,” where they have no contact with the outside world, only each other. This is evident because they all live together and do everything together; there is no contact with anyone other than their drill sergeant. The purpose of the initiation process is simply to setup the next procedure, creating the helplessness of infancy. When you create the helplessness of infancy, the people become totally dependant on those in charge. Since total, institution, sergeant, drill, metal, jacket, full, process, procedure, privates, privacy, people, marines, initiation, sense, respect, previous, place, person’s, off, next, infancy, helplessness, absolutely, world, while, treated, totally, together, things, tells, taken, step, simply, share, self