William Carlos Williams "The Use of Force"
William Carlos Williams "The Use of Force" deals with a variety of emotions felt by a doctor during a house call. The story begins when a physician is summoned to make a house call on a family with whom he has had no prior contact. He quickly sizes up the situation: the household is poor but clean; the patient is a female child whose parents are nervously concerned, dependent on and yet distrustful of the doctor. The child's beauty and penetrating stare make an immediate impression on him. Concerned that diphtheria may be the cause of illness, he uses his customary professional manner to determine whether the child has a sore throat. The girl, however, won't open her mouth. She fights him off and all attempts to cajole her into compliance fail. He forces the girl's father to hold her down, while he manages to pry open her mouth after a long battle. She does, in fact, have diphtheria. "The Use of Force" is a story that employs the use of connotative language to convey its socially relevant theme within a brief conflict. William Carlos Williams uses situational irony to support his theme as seen in the quote, "Then I grasped the child's head with my left hand and tried to get the wooden tongue depressor between her teeth. She foug
However the lack of quotation marks might imply that this battle between the doctor and the child is in the mind of the doctor rather then reality. This idea is clearly seen when the doctor say in response to the mothers threats "Oh yeah? I had to smile to myself. "The Use of Force" utilizes conflicts to encompass its message. This story's conflict can be summed up by the passage "My face was burning with it. William Carlos Williams "The Use of Force" is a compact insightful story that does not spend time on frivolous descriptions instead focusing on its message. After all, I had already fallen in love with the savage brat, the parents were contemptible to me. The splintered tongue depressor is a contextual symbol of the doctors tolerance level. Finally the main conflict consist of the doctor and the parents of the sick girl fighting their conscious and forcing her to open her mouth. This spoon represents the rage he feels towards this girl seen here, "I could have torn the child apart in my own fury and enjoyed it. " It is clear that no matter how the doctor felt about using force he had to do his job for the greater good. The theme in "The Use of Force" as stated earlier is the user of force loses his humanity in the minds of others. This 'man versus man' struggle is what is most apparent to the reader, since it relates to various situation on a global scale as well as to personal conflict. The damned little brat must be protected against her own idiocy, one says to one's self at such times.
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