The Use of Force

"The Use of Force" by William Carlos William was an appealing story for me, it really has truth in it. The story tells us how people with authority use verbal and even sometimes physical force to control others without authority. In this case, a doctor is determined to find out an illness of a girl that is beautiful but fully ignorant and stubborn. The girl's attitude of not letting him do his job irritates him to the point he gets furious and starts to use physical force to open up her mouth so he could look at her throat and finally diagnose her sickness. Even though the doctor was angry and had pleasure attacking her, he was really worried about her health, but using physical force wasn't the right way to help her. The truth is, I think authority can't use force to make people do what they want. But as the author implies: "It is a social necessity" that when people are threat to authority or even to others, the use of force may be a last resolution.
Sometimes people are ignorant and don't reason. Like the child in the story, even though she knows she has a contagious illness that could kill her and affect others, she doesn't let the doctor, which has authority, diagnose nor help her. 

William Carlos William's "The Use of Force"