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Thursday, March 29, 2018

Is this healthy grieving Martha?

In the episode "Be Right Back " Martha loses her husband as they were just about to move into a new home far from town. Suddenly, she loses her husband as he was suppose to be returning the van. Nevertheless she helps her grieving process by using an app to talk to " Ash" again. My personal thoughts on her actions has me tongue tied. The first point I want to make is that when you lose someone close to you, there's a reason. Martha may not have been mentally ready to lose Ash but sadly, it was his time and she has to respect that. Instead, she continues to force Ash back into her life which is unhealthy and hurts her even more. There are many people in society that lose someone close to them and wishes they could have them back, but they cant. Due to that, they have to face the fact that their loved ones are in their life spiritually and should stay that way. My question is, if Martha decided to spend the rest of her life with this replica of Ash, does her family know? Before her daughter was born, how long was she going to force Ash to come back. There's a certain extinct Martha should've went with Ash's replica. It would have been best for her to continue to remodel the house how she wanted to, and went out and found someone new. When she had her baby girl did she truthfully tell her why Ash's replica was in the attic? Did she tell her why she had him? If so, I would've have loved to see her families reaction, that's if she owned up to her doings and told them. If Martha would've told me she ordered someone online that looked like her dead husband, I understand the lesson we learned in class as if people who lived in the earlier time thought photographs were creepy, but you have to come to your senses with this situation. Can you touch someone in a picture? No, but you can with a replica. Can you talk to someone in  picture and get a response? No, but Martha surely did with Ash. Can you have sex or kiss someone for the last time in a picture? Lastly, no but we know who did. Pictures are to remind who of who that person was in one pose not in several, along with voice. How can I move on if I keep revisiting the past every morning? Martha knows what she is doing is unhealthy and I understand she's hurt, but she will continue to be hurt as long as she continues to put herself through what she's doing.

3 comments:

Ashcash said...

I agree with Brandi’s statement, because Martha only became corrupted by reintroducing Ash back in her life by ordering the robotic him. We all have our way of grieving and that was just one of the ways Martha dealt with the situation even though it was unhealthy for her . Martha had to face the fact that she could not bring the real him back even if she tried at the end with frustration . But now that you know that photographers were creepy to others in the past , and now that this robotic replica of Ash is creepy to us how do you know or not if it’s going to end up becoming a normal way of coping with a death?

Unknown said...

I agree. Martha's coping mechanisms were not so healthy. In regards to your second argument, I'm not sure that we can confidently say robots won't be normal in the future. I'm personally indifferent to technological advancement, so maybe that's why I feel that Martha's relationship with Ash2 wasn't so...bad.... I mean the sex thing was gross but other than that, we're repulsed by the idea only because robots aren't normal right now.

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