Blog 6

Brainwashing

An element I’ve found in this episode of Dollhouse is brainwashing. A parallel can be made between the Dollhouse boss, Adelle DeWitt, and the leader of the cult, Jonas Sparrow. DeWitt takes one of her empty-headed dolls and has the capability of putting any skill into them. Jonas Sparrow takes in strugglers and brainwashes them with this idea of cleansing through his own religious teachings. The ideas from both of these leaders can easily be considered morally wrong. Though there is completely nothing wrong with knowing and practicing beliefs, there is a problem when the corruption behind the operation exceeds the amount of good coming out of it. Once again, I’m thinking Sparrow is a character that’s trying to avoid his problems. He does this by making himself a religious leader. This can be shown in real life situations by seeing the priests that end up stealing from the church.

“Once any temptation is introduced, it will spread like a cancer and all will be infected.”

It’s interesting how DeWitt is trying to maintain a “pure” community by observing the “impurity” going on (aka what’s going on with Victor’s bottom half), but couldn’t care less about what she’s doing with the bodies of these people. She could back herself up and say how she’s helping these people get away from their problems, but really she only cares about the business and the money she gets out of it. What is the biggest thing that gets in the way of people’s morals? A lot of the time the answer is the immense amount of greed for money.