Force Feeding: Difference between revisions

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** Near the end of the book Paul lights his manuscript on fire. As a stunned Annie attempts to rescue the manuscript, Paul seizes the opportunity to throw the typewriter at her, knocking her down. He then stuffs several handfuls of the burning paper down her throat telling her to "eat it till you choke, you sick fuck!" This part was also used in the 1990 movie adaption.

* Appears in the [[Vorkosigan Saga]] book ''Mirror Dance'', but the victim, Mark Vorkosigan, is [[Too Kinky to Torture]] because of his [[Split Personality]].

{{quote| '''Technician''': I hate to be the one to tell you this, Baron, but your torture victim appears to be having a wonderful time.}}

{{quote|'''Technician''': I hate to be the one to tell you this, Baron, but your torture victim appears to be having a wonderful time.}}

* In ''The Last Knight'', a quasi-[[Mad Scientist]] character force-feeds the main character potions to give him magical powers. She also tests the potions on her mentally ill servants, but tries to justify it because, to her mind, they just don't understand that she's trying to help them. {{spoiler|At the end, the main character uses the same funnel to force her to drink a potion that will make her compliant long enough for the heroes to escape.}}

* Inverted? Subverted? in the book ''I Am Morgan Lefay''. When she goes mad with grief, (literally mad) and starves herself, Morgan's friends/servants with good intentions force feed her to keep her alive.

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* Force-feeding was allegedly practiced in Guantanamo Bay on prisoners who "refuse[d] to eat".

** There's [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/17/AR2005121700018.html an article] where a man recounts how he went on a hunger strike while in a Moscow prison, and it was decided that he would be force-fed through the nose to break his will.

{{quote| The feeding pipe was thick, thicker than my nostril, and would not go in. Blood came gushing out of my nose and tears down my cheeks, but they kept pushing until the cartilages cracked. I guess I would have screamed if I could, but I could not with the pipe in my throat. I could breathe neither in nor out at first; I wheezed like a drowning man -- my lungs felt ready to burst. The doctor also seemed ready to burst into tears, but she kept shoving the pipe farther and farther down. Only when it reached my stomach could I resume breathing, carefully. Then she poured some slop through a funnel into the pipe that would choke me if it came back up. They held me down for another half-hour so that the liquid was absorbed by my stomach and could not be vomited back, and then began to pull the pipe out bit by bit.}}

{{quote|The feeding pipe was thick, thicker than my nostril, and would not go in. Blood came gushing out of my nose and tears down my cheeks, but they kept pushing until the cartilages cracked. I guess I would have screamed if I could, but I could not with the pipe in my throat. I could breathe neither in nor out at first; I wheezed like a drowning man -- my lungs felt ready to burst. The doctor also seemed ready to burst into tears, but she kept shoving the pipe farther and farther down. Only when it reached my stomach could I resume breathing, carefully. Then she poured some slop through a funnel into the pipe that would choke me if it came back up. They held me down for another half-hour so that the liquid was absorbed by my stomach and could not be vomited back, and then began to pull the pipe out bit by bit.}}

* Force-feeding was also used on hunger-striking suffragettes in turn of the (twentieth) century England. It made pretty good publicity for the cause.