Patty Hearst Analysis

At first Patty Hearst refused the fact that she was being both physically and psychologically abused by the SLA group. She announced the fact that she became part of the SLA group in her free will. The journalist Paul Krassner had an interview with Patty Hearst before Patty Hearst was captured by the FBI. Patty Hearst explained that she joined the SLA because she felt that the SLA could secure her freedom. She insisted that she was not being brainwashed; everything was only to find out who she really is.”She understood that she betrayed the society’s expectation on her ,but she does not regret any of it because she thinks she should not go against what she really is. She felt like the whole life before she became a part of SLA had been wasted.

It was her destiny that to believe in the thesis of the SLA. Patricia even participated into several crimes and escaped from the FBI’s searching for her. She reiterated that she was: “…a soldier of the people army.”("Patty Hearst Kidnapping." Crime Library: Patty Hearst. Web. 23 Mar. 2016.)In the mean time, people who are close to Patty Hearst are unconvinced that those are the true side of Patty Hearst due to the fact that Patty Hearst is totally different from the behavior she had before the abduction. “She dismissed her fiancee as a “clown”, “a sexist, agist pig”…”(American Quarterly. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania, 1965. Print. pg.640) It was believed by people that were close to Patty Hearst that her contradictory behavior compared to present suggested that the terrorists coerced and abused her by using inhumane approach to brainwash Patty Hearst to become part of the terrorists. Patty Hearst later admitted that she being forced to join the SLA terrorists. She came to a point that she thought no one could rescue her ,and she was constantly sexually abused by the members of the group. (Note)They used the theories from their gang to brainwash her and implanted messages to her. Patty Hearst is not a well-trained agent or people that suffered a lot of pain since the they were born. She was a little girl grew up in a perfect family as well as a rose in the greenhouse. It was destructive for her to receive such treatment from the dark side of the society due to the fact that no one had ever treated her like that. After suffering from ruthless treatment by the SLA terrorists, Patty Hearst finally collapsed when she felt desperate of hoping someone will rescue her and the urge of waiting turned to a hatred of the society. Patty Hearst lost control of keeping herself away from the information that the SLA tried to implant into her. While she lost control of her brain she lost control of her behavior as well. She lost her human dignity and commit crimes with the SLA which seemed like she became one of the criminals on her own record.
While the brutal experiences Patty Hearst suffered was startled, it is also important to point out that Patty Hearst received the informations the terrorists try to implant to her by the reason that it is stimulating and exciting。
Patty Hearst’s doubt on her planned live path and her struggling mind made she irresistible to the strongly controversial viewpoint compared to the point of view that she had been heard for 19 years since she was born.

The SLA group found the weak point of Patty Hearst the she has her own doubt on the social expectation on her. The terrorists utilized it and implanted their opinions to confuse Patty Hearst with her will to find her freedom. They convinced that the American society’s aim to stop women from getting their freedom but only live under a settled path. Women are like robots in the modern city without their free minds and has no right on deciding important life decisions for themselves. The theory frightened Patty Hearst; She believed that the society expectation on women had restricted their minds. As a result, Patty Hearst stated herself as a feminist who would devoted for the right of women’s and choose her own destiny. By joining the terrorists, Patty Hearst had recognized it as a way to live the live she wants and find the true freedom for herself as well as she thinks. This was the path she aimed to choose even it means she has to betray the whole society including her reputation, her family, her friends, her fiancee. The girl described being a part of the SLA group in her free will as being like a white nigro now. “Well, I’m a hippie now. I’m a white nigger now.”(“Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials” Paul Krassner ,2014/10/1) Yet She does not regret what she had chosen because she thinks this is who she is ,and she will never go against it. All of Patty Hearst’s approach seems to be using in finding out who she is for her, but after all, they are all results of the terrorists’ conspiracy. The poor girl was utilized by the SLA group as a chess piece for their organization

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Patty heart’s change was not because she is the granddaughter of American publishing magnet William Randolph Hearst. It could had happen to anyone. It was the result of the society’s restrain on with female. Patty Hearst said she felt trapped in her identity. How she latter become a political sociopath made her feel like it could secure her freedom. The social exception on white female had given a lot of pressure on them. FBI sent some professional psychologist to check if Patty Hearst has mental problem that she could not control her behavior. The result runs out that Patty Hearst had already been converted. She turned to the side of SLA’s. As Patty Hearst says, her grandfather wants her to die because she disgraced tho her family , and she turned to the opposite of what society expected her to be. Undoubtedly, Patty Hearst was a survivor. While the Symbionese Liberation Army treated her, insulted her, abused her brutally during her abduction, she would do anything. The SLA’s mission on Patty Hearst had accomplished that they did used Patty Hearst to caused a significant influence on the society. People questioned about which is the real Patty Hearst. It became more suspicious after the court found Patty Hearst gillty about committing crimes in robbing a bank and using firearms illegally. She spent 7 years in the prison. As though Patty Hearst ’s brainwash cannot be refuted, she still paid for the crimes she had committed. No one believes that Patty Hearst had become a sociopath in her free will because what Patty Hearst did was completely different than the one before the kidnappteon. Patty Hearst was a exemplary student in her school. Her parents had never concerned about Patty Hearst’s security problem. Patty Hearst experienced such a peaceful and stable life before her abduction that everything after the abduction must be a disaster for her. It could easily explained that why was Patty Hearst being brainwashed easily. She lost hope to the chance that she will survive ,and she stopped believing that anyone would save her. She became a sociopath due to the fact of losing hope and fallen into the field of desperate.
As a conclusion, the cause of the Patty Hearst event was only a part of process from the terrorists’ approach to their objectives. While Patty Hearst suffered brutally treatment during her kid nation and began to question about her life objectives against whether the society’s expectation restricted her freedom of finding out the true side of herself, she was only utilized by the SLA terrorists. The event finally leaded to a set of thinking about what was beneath the America society in the 1970s. What was behind the event and what was hidden under the truth? We may ever find out. As for Patty Hearst, as though the tragedy brought a terrible impact to her live, she was an absolute survivor and the most important of all, she saved herself.