In a system that is based on racial prejudice and still largely prejudicial and ignorant of the effects of mental illness, she is stripped of her identity and treated like an animal. This is extremely comparable to the treatment of Caliban. He too is treated like an animal, since he is originally from the island and is not used to the European lifestyle of the time. Compared to Connie, she does not alienate herself from her culture and ethnicity, but rather from her freedom, for example she loudly proclaims "This island is mine, by Sycorax, my mother, that you take from me". ' but then submits to a fool: 'Please be my god. '. Connie's freedom is limited by her race, her gender, her lack of wealth, and her past. He beat his daughter while she was drunk and most likely depressed, the result is that his daughter was taken into care and she was institutionalized. Because of his past he now fit a profile and this was enough to justify the removal of his freedom and ultimately his humanity. At that point any attempt at reasoning with the medical staff was futile, as it is described: “The doctor's authority is undermined if the patient presumes to make a diagnostic statement.”