Claudia Trapped & Inclosed

I began thinking after reading the poem how Claudia must feel being stuck in her room and flat all day just watching horror film after horror film. I decided to research about confinement and mental state:

'I began to research the effects of solitary confinement on prisoners' behavior while thinking about the ways in which we isolate ourselves from others, or are isolated by others in our daily lives. I cherish and am very protective of my own chosen moments of solitude, but I also know that long periods of time alone can send me into a depressive state, or make me feel like I'm going crazy. More specifically, a kind of panic sets in when I realize I'm alone with my thoughts with no one to affirm or deny the validity of what I'm thinking. When I'm by myself for too long, I start to question my own understanding of reality—of who I really am and what the world is really like. I need interactions with other people because they are such a significant part of how I understand and enjoy my life and my reason for living. All people seem to depend on varying amounts and intensities of social interaction to keep them happy, stable, and sane. This is not surprising given that human beings are social animals by nature.'

'In an environment with very minimal stimulation, such as a prison cell, the randomness with which the unconscious explores the environment continues, although it is unclear whether randomization increases when fewer stimuli are reaching the brain. Perhaps the brain attempts to compensate for stimuli it is missing by creating stimuli of its own, that is, by increasing random activity. Either way, when the brain is not receiving much input from the environment, there is little information based in reality that the unconscious can focus on or try to interpret. The story reported back to the "I"-function is more likely informed by more random connections than real facts about reality because reality is not offering enough stimuli to make a coherent story. This helps explain why people often experience mental and emotional breakdowns and psychotic episodes when in solitary confinement for extended periods of time.'

-Frinter, C. (2005). Lonely Madness: The Effects of Solitary Confinement and Social Isolation on Mental and Emotional Health | Serendip Studio. [online] Serendip.brynmawr.edu. Available at: http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1898 [Accessed 1 May. 2014].

This is an essay on Lonely Madness: The Effects of Solitary Confinement and Social Isolation on Mental and Emotional Health essay by Carly Frinter I found what she wrote very interesting it made me think how Claudia could develop such characters as Quentin and they can be real people in her head and very prominante within her life, furthermore how she almost uses films to escape and practically lives her life through these films and what the characters are doing within the films using the films as her stimuli to feed into her own life. 
This made me think everything about the styling of the character should be very committed to the film she is watching or genre, that the film is her life and she is living it within her own reality.