Themes in “Running Wild” are “how rich people who live in a total utopia can transform their children into monsters” and “how the society’s rules can alienate people”. These two themes are relevant, because there are too many comparable stories in our society today. There are many psychological aspects in the story, that is why it is a psychiatrist, Dr. Griffiths, who investigates this mysterious drama, to find an explanation for the death of thirty-two adults in a safety obsessed, affluent suburban community, with a formidable system of security and surveillance.
Children develop their identity in the family environment and sometimes it can transform them in an awfully bad way. Parents always want the best for their children, but sometimes, they can do too much about that, for example, let children under constant surveillance, control everything they do, almost stole their freedom, and make children feel in prison. And so, to go out from this prison, children who have developed so much bad feelings or a kind of unconventional pathology, can go into rebellion and behave like those children in “Running Wild”. Like Ballard said, “In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom” (p.62, l. 27). Through this expression, Ballard wants to show that it is better to let children run wild, plan their own lives, and make their own mistakes, that will give them the freedom they might otherwise kill for.
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