In literary analysis, there is the archetype of the noble savage.
I have seen some analysis in the media of current uses of autism in story lines that compares the autistic individual to the noble savage.
There is always this romantizaton
Keifer Sutherland tv series
Disability - "Flowers for Algernon"
Steinbeck
_Of Mice and Men_ : kills him at end [like in Beloved - would rather
slit their throats than have them taken to live in torture] I remember
Brenna spoke that before she knew the book ended that way. It's the same
as Brett's driving off a cliff scenario. And it's a fantasy that let's
him continue to fuel his quest for survival and more than that to live
this life.
Doc Ricketts - or Doc- let's the boy get arrestted finally, because he saw the boy couldn't live in the world.
Of
actual Ricketts, Steinbeck says that he hated cruelty for cruelty sake,
but for self preservation or to put another out of misery, he would
kill.
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
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